Article June 8, 1907 Issue

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with contributions from Samuel Z. Batten, James Buckham

[Samuel Z. Batten in The Standard.]

Turning to the Gospels we find that Jesus of Nazareth in the beginning accepted the Messianic ideals of the law and the prophets, and began announcing the presence of the kingdom. The idea of the kingdom was the center and circumference of all his teaching and preaching. The nature of the kingdom, the conditions of entrance, the laws for its members, make up the substance of his teaching. With hardly an exception his parables set forth some aspect of the kingdom, its nature, its conditions of growth, the attitude of men toward it, its requirements, its rewards, and its retributions. He assumes the future, but the kingdom of God as a good to be realized here and now in this world fills all the foreground of his teaching and interest. The prayer which the Master gives as the model for our petitions indicates plainly the nature and location of the kingdom.

[James Buckham in The Christian Work and Evangelist.]

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