Article October 23, 1902 Issue

Religious Items

with contributions from Frederic J. Gould, C. W. Biddle, Joseph May, William M. Taylor, C. W. Eliot

Rev. Frederic J. Gould says in The Christian Register:—

"When we really seek to understand the perennial influence of Jesus upon the soul of man, when we would find the secret of his unrivalled supremacy, his pre-eminence of moral leadership in human society, we shall discover it, not in the goodness or greatness of achievement which makes him an object of religious faith, but in the principle or method of that goodness, which makes him the Author, the Inspirer, of a like goodness in ourselves. It is the way in which he has won his leadership. . . . which reveals to us the secret of his spiritual mastery.

"We may search hundreds of Christian commentaries of every age, and find no satisfying, convincing portraiture of the life of Jesus. But if we go back two millenniums and a half, we shall find this life was better understood by an enlightened and spiritual Hebrew, five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, than it has been by innumerable unspiritual Christians five hundred or eighteen hundred years after his death."

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