Excerpt from Jesus Christ: His Times, Life and Work
It might seem almost an impertinence in these days to offer to the public a translation of a French book; but there are still among us readers, to whom the English language is so emphatically "the king's highway," that they reluctantly turn aside into other paths of literature. Their feet move uneasily over the stones of a foreign language, and in picking their way they pass by the flowers and lose the prospect. To such this translation will need no apology.
The character of M. Pressense's work itself is, no doubt, adapted to make a more direct appeal to the religious mind of France than of England, as the book to which it is, at least in part, an answer, has excited a degree and kind of interest in that country, which it would hardly have awakened in our own. It cannot, however, be an idle study to any Christian mind, to observe attentively the progress and issues of an intellectual movement, by which the spiritual life of a neighbouring nation has been stirred to its depths, and apathetic indifference turned into a living interest in the character, person, and work of a living Saviour.
It is unnecessary to enlarge upon the remarkable impulse given to religious thought and enquiry in France by M. Renan's Vie de Jesus, with its finely-wrought tissue of ingenious error. M. Pressense comes forward to arrest the newly-awakened attention, and to direct it into healthier channels, by presenting from his point of view, the old Gospel of Jesus Christ in its true, natural, and historical setting, and in all its human and Divine simplicity.
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