Excerpt from Studies of the Portrait of Christ, Vol. 1 IN these pages I have endeavoured to trace the spiritual development, not of the life, but of the work, of Jesus exhibited in the Gospel narrative. Necessarily, therefore, I have fixed my attention not on the Divine or miraculous, but on the human, side of Christ. There can be no development in miracles; it is as wonderful to be an inc/z above nature as to be a mile. Being a study of development, the chapters, though very short, are rigidly connected and cannot be read in isolation. The book is not an abstract essay with footnotes and references; it is semi-devotional; each chapter ends either with an invocation or a prayer. Having completed the first part of the studies I ofl'er it by way of instalment and by way of experiment. Should it meet with general sympathy I should like to pursue the nar. 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.