The Empire of Love
Forgotten Books | June 9, 2010 | ISBN-10: 145101063X | PDF | 6MB
Forgotten Books | June 9, 2010 | ISBN-10: 145101063X | PDF | 6MB
I THE GENIUS TO BE LorED I N the history of the last two thousand years there is but one Person who has been, and is supremely loved. Many have been loved by indi viduals, by groups of persons, or by communities; some have received the pliant idolatries of nations, such as heroes and national deliverers; but in every instance the sense of love thus excited has been intimately associated with some triumph of intellect, or some resounding achievement in the world of action. In this there is nothing unusual, for man is a natural worshipper of heroes. But in Jesus Christ we discover something very different; He possessed the genius to be 10ved in so transcendent a degree that it appears His sole . genIus.