The creed of Christ : a study in the Gospels

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Preface

The Chinese have a beautiful custom. On their mountain roads, at important turns in the way, or near the hardest places, they erect shelters of rest, where the weary traveller may enjoy the prospect and refresh himself for climbing still further upward.

Something like this is my justification for sending forth this little book. It is not claimed that a new Christ is here set forth, or that startlingly new truths have been discovered concerning the Christ already known. The claim is simply that at a turn in the arduous way I have caught a glimpse of Jesus from what, to me, is a fresh viewpoint. And on the spot I set up this wayside shrine, that others, also, in passing may look and see and be refreshed.

I pray God that this view of Christ may be a

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real help to many a weary traveller, and that, seeing him afresh, there may spring up in their hearts a fresh love for him — a love which shall grow until they love him better than they love anything else in the world.

R. V. Lancaster.

Abingdon, Va., July, 1905.

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