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Gleanings from the Life and Teachings of Christ
Gleanings from the Life and Teachings of Christ Author:Jesus Christ, Henry H. Bourn General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1879 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: PREFACE. Having once more undertaken the responsibility of employing the press, I may be pardoned in making reference to the peculiar circumstances under which the following pages have been prepared. Being no longer able to engage in the much-loved work of preaching Jesus Christ crucified, raised, and exalted to the Father's right hand, and coming again in glory, through an illness which commenced in 1875, I have felt anxious to serve Him in another way who has, during my enforced retirement, manifested Himself to be the ever-present and all-sufficient One. The reader will observe that occasionally the same truths are repeated. My excuse for this, and the phraseology at times employed, is, that the substance of each chapter was originally delivered as an exposition at some period of my ministry. The Appendix, in a briefer form, was read and discussed at a numerously attended meeting of ministers. Since then it has been spoken of in appreciative terms by some literary friends, who have expressed a desire for its publication. It will be seen that I have availed myself of the assistance of several eminent writers, and gladly acknowledge my obligations. If in anycase I have omitted to do so, it must be attributed to inadvertence or ignorance. I may add, that although I have had much pleasure in passing the work through the press, in consequence of having Christ and His teaching brought most prominently before my mind, it has not been accomplished without intensifying both my mental and physical sufferings; so much, indeed, has this been the case, that I have feared at times I should not be able to compl...« less