HIS LIFE THE STORY OF JESUS IN THE WORDS OF THE FOUR GOSPELS Paper covers, single copy 15 cents. 10 copies 12+ Presentation Edition De Luxe, on heavier paper in HIS FRIENDS THE STORY OF THE IMMEDIATE DISCIPLES Styles and prices uniform with "His Life." HIS GREAT APOSTLE THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF PAUL IN THE Styles and prices uniform with "His Life." HIS LAST WEEK THE GOSPEL STORY OF THE PASSION AND Paper covers, single copy 7 cents. 10 to 49 copies 6 cents. HOPE PUBLISHING COMPANY Copyright, 1906, by the Pastors' Publishing Union. 226 B47E bara PREFACE. The four Gospels, each telling in its own way the story of the Life of Jesus, are the rich heritage of Christians. No one of the Gospels could be spared. But in reading any one of the four we miss some of the familiar words and incidents we love. Almost from the days of the Apostles there have been attempts to unite the Gospels in a single narrative. The first of these efforts, so far as we know, was undertaken by the devout scholar Tatian, soon after 173 A. D. His book served a useful purpose in his own and later generations, and is now a valuable witness to the antiquity and early acceptance of our four Gospels. There have been many harmonies of the Gospel from the second century to the present; and they are all but indispensable to the scholar. Almost every minister keeps one at his elbow. But these, for the most part, are made for purposes of scholarly comparison, and not for general reading. Moreover, they are expensive. The editors of this little book have undertaken to prepare an interwoven story of the Life of Jesus from the four Gospels for popular reading. A booklet that may be carried in the pocket, and may be sold, in paper binding, for ten cents, has been their ambition. They have been led to this undertaking by the large demand for copies of their booklet, "HIS LAST WEEK," which comprises the last third of this volume, whose use at Easter time has brought them many requests 5 488101 |