HARVARD Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by HENRY M. GOODWIN, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. ΤΟ HORACE BUSHNELL, MY REVERED FRIEND AND TEACHER, WHOSE PROFOUND AND SANCTIFIED GENIUS HAS MADE THE WORLD HIS DEBTOR, AND WHOSE EMINENT SERVICES TO CHRISTIANITY IN THE RECONCILIATION OF FAITH AND REASON AWAIT THE VERDICT OF THE FUTURE AGES, THESE LATER STUDIES OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE ARE FILIALLY AND AFFECTIONATELY Inscribed BY THE AUTHOR. Jom his coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said, therefore, Let us not rend it. John xix, 23. PREFACE. Ir apology were necessary for the appearance of a new volume on so old a theme as the Person of Christ, it might be found in the fact that the old has become the new-as it will ever be the grand centre of regard and interest to all Christian minds. The thought of the Christian world is being turned, as never before, to this central Person of history, with the feeling that here, in this wonderful Life and Character, is contained the secret that will explain the riddle of the world, as well as the power that alone can cure its evils. The numberless Lives of Christ which are multiplying every year are a significant token of this revived interest in the greatest of all subjects. They are so many studies, or portraitures, of this one Character, each bringing out some new, or newly discovered, feature or lineament or aspect from the inexhaustible Gospel history. But these discoveries only make more urgent and emphatic the inquiry-Who and what is this wonderful Being that |