Excerpt from The Teaching of Jesus, Concerning the Christian Life There is nothing plainer in the teach ing of Jesus than that religion is worthy Of being the principal thing and that He wanted men to make it such - that He desired them to give to the Christian life the place Of supreme importance. He said, Seek ye first His (god's) king dom, and His righteousness (matt. Vi. And, Work not for the food which perisheth, but for the food which abideth unto eternal life (john vi. TO one who came running and kneeling and in quiring Of Him the way Of life, but who would not definitely enter upon it when told what to do, Jesus said, One thing thou lackest (mark X. The thing he lacked was plainly the principal thing. Jesus SO regarded it. The young man was very rich, but plainly he was not rich toward God. Well did Jesus, on another occasion, ask, For what doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? For what should a man give in exchange for his life? 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.