Excerpt from Deep Calleth Unto Deep: A Popular Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society for the Year 1916-17 Which our life is fashioned; and the aged turn back to brood over them, and to feel that in such things as these lie the real problems after all. The New Testament never describes itself as a simple and easy book. It tells us about the common salvation: but common does not mean what is cheap or paltry or vulgar; it means what is universal. Now the universal instincts are also the profoundest. The commonest events - like birth and marriage and death - are the most sacred and tragic Of all. Our most precious possessions are those simple, elemental things which belong to the texture and fabric Of man's being; they form part and parcel of our common nature: but they go down to the roots of the world. The common mind, as a living writer has said, does not mean the inferior mind; it means the mind of all the artists and heroes, or else it would not be common. Plato had the common mind; Dante had the common mind. Commonness means the quality common to the sinner and the saint, to the philosopher and the fool - the quality in which God sees something to love. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.