Copyright 1908 Entered at Stationers' Hall ANDOVER-HARVARD JAN 13 1912 ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY a62,623 Printed in U. S. A. INTRODUCTION The object of this book is twofold. First, to bring into prominence the Manliness of Jesus, to give point and emphasis to that saying of Paul's which declares that Jesus was in all points tempted like as we are; and second, to fill up that gap in the record of Jesus' life which includes and shuts us out from all its formative period, and which, in large part, must necessarily be the source and basis of whatever he said and did. That there are other important phases of Jesus' life may be freely admitted. Very properly, there is a theology of Jesus, and also a psychology of him. These will neither be ignored nor treated separately. They will appear as fundamental and inseparable outgrowths of character and of life. Whatever may be said of Jesus' divinity, the most partial Trinitarian must admit that he is to be studied first of all as a man. His outward and daily life was that of a man. To the very last, his most intimate friends, even his mother and brethren, so regarded him. Though it be admitted that Jesus was and is God, to many devout and pious souls it seems presumption to study him as God; for it is asked, What do we know about God? If we are to find God in Jesus, we must find Him as the summing up, the expressed essence, of that incomparable human life. But here, too, we are much in the dark. If we accept as inspired the stories of the evangelists, they are still mere fragments, the minutest shards of a priceless vase. Even if we restore the vase in any way yet attempted, our bewilderment is but the more increased, and we are forced to inquire the secret of its origin. Whence such clay, such form, such tempering in long-drawn furnace-fire? There are no inquiries that we more ardently "press upon the silence of history" than these: and it is |