Excerpt from The Blessed Life: Being a Series of Meditations on Manhood and Womanhood in Christ Here is Christianity's point Of power, the individual. He is basilar. Out of individuals you can build church, society, governments, as out of stones you can build cathedrals, bridges, Cities. Christ begins at the basis of society. This looks like statesmanship, and is what it looks like. A consideration of this generic method will prove profitable. Through the gos pel we have become so familiarized with this process as to feel no wonder on looking at it, though the wonder is still there Christianity, taught of Christ, has a gospel for a man; not for society as such. Nothing in Christ's method amazes and stimulates me more, nor more moves me to supreme passion for the gospel's Christ. Christ - in his birth, growth, tempta tion, struggle, mastery, miracles of goodness and teaching, Gethsemane, Golgotha, grave. 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.