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The Life of Our Lord Upon the Earth: Considered in Its Historical, Chronological, and Geographical Relations is unavailable, but you can change that!

The author states in his preface, "The simple purpose of this book is to arrange the events of the Lord's life, as given us by the Evangelists, so far as possible, in a chronological order." That goal is clearly achieved because of the author's ability to blend historical accuracy and spiritual insight.

regards as unimportant. To him the Gospels are as a fine poem of which Jesus is the hero; and as we do not care whether the heroes of Homer had any actual existence, so is it here. The world may be as much blessed through the ideal Jesus as through the real. But let not such language deceive us. Christianity is a religion of facts, not of ideas. It rests upon the being of a personal God. It stands or falls with the reality of the statements in the Apostle’s creed. Its doctrines are only the explanations
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