The World And the Kingdom
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" Blessed are the peacemakers." Is that word an echo from the Senate-Chamber or the shouting Forum .'' "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant." " The Son of man came not to be served, but to serve." Can one imagine words more utterly against every Roman concep- tion of human life and fitting human opinion } And the manner of the life, and the end of the no THE CHILD IN THE MANGER.
life, both outrage every Roman sentiment of duty, fitness, and human dignity.
By the law of the case,... there must be cause sufficient to explain every man. He is what he is, from sufficient power to make him so. He is a product. Heredity, environment, and the rest make him. But when you try the law on this Man, it fails. The human intellect is challenged to explain Him by the known methods of making men. He has no race-mark. He bears no birth- mark. Intellectually, morally, he is like his shadowy type in the elder day, — Melchizedek, " without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days nor end of life." He stands in lonely majesty a Man, simply the Son of man as He called Himself, the type of the race as it should be, with no narrower character upon Him than manhood ;'so infinite a manhood, that Jew and Greek and Roman accept him as their Brother and their Kmg, that savage man and civilized man, black man and white, the man of Jerusalem and the man of New York, alike recog- nize Him as their vision of human perfection, of human beauty, wisdom, goodness, and jiower.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" Blessed are the peacemakers." Is that word an echo from the Senate-Chamber or the shouting Forum .'' "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant." " The Son of man came not to be served, but to serve." Can one imagine words more utterly against every Roman concep- tion of human life and fitting human opinion } And the manner of the life, and the end of the no THE CHILD IN THE MANGER.
life, both outrage every Roman sentiment of duty, fitness, and human dignity.
By the law of the case,... there must be cause sufficient to explain every man. He is what he is, from sufficient power to make him so. He is a product. Heredity, environment, and the rest make him. But when you try the law on this Man, it fails. The human intellect is challenged to explain Him by the known methods of making men. He has no race-mark. He bears no birth- mark. Intellectually, morally, he is like his shadowy type in the elder day, — Melchizedek, " without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days nor end of life." He stands in lonely majesty a Man, simply the Son of man as He called Himself, the type of the race as it should be, with no narrower character upon Him than manhood ;'so infinite a manhood, that Jew and Greek and Roman accept him as their Brother and their Kmg, that savage man and civilized man, black man and white, the man of Jerusalem and the man of New York, alike recog- nize Him as their vision of human perfection, of human beauty, wisdom, goodness, and jiower.
What to read after The World And the Kingdom?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Hugh Miller Thompson to read onlineMoreLess
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