Excerpt from The Lost Found: And the Wanderer Welcomed Them that disposed them to flock around Him. The solemn purists of the land held them at a distance. They passed them by, like the priest and Levite in the parable, on the other side. They acted as if they would be polluted by he most cursory intercourse with them. They seemed to think that all their duty toward them was dis charged, ii they simply held aloof from them.i But here was One whose character was unsal lied, and whose life was blameless, who yet did ...
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Excerpt from The Lost Found: And the Wanderer Welcomed Them that disposed them to flock around Him. The solemn purists of the land held them at a distance. They passed them by, like the priest and Levite in the parable, on the other side. They acted as if they would be polluted by he most cursory intercourse with them. They seemed to think that all their duty toward them was dis charged, ii they simply held aloof from them.i But here was One whose character was unsal lied, and whose life was blameless, who yet did not think it beneath Him to put Himself, for the time, on a level with them, by receiving them into His company, and sitting down with them at table; and such was the effect of His fellow ship upon them, that they were elevated and en nobled by its influence, and left His presence more drawn to holiness and heaven than they had ever felt before. Others had driven them downwards, but Jesus had lifted them up. He made them feel their importance as immortal be ings. He opened up to them the way to hap piness and to God, and helped them to enter Upon it. He taught them to respect themselves by showing them that they were the Objects of the Divine compassion, ) and by telling them that He had come to seek and save them; and so it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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