When
Jesus said to his disciples, "Condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned," he stated a proposition and its corollary which, when understood and demonstrated, will do away with all the disagreements among men.
Carlyle
once said, "The wealth of man is the number of things which he loves and blesses;" while Henry Ward Beecher declared, "In this world it is not what we take, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Every
student of the teachings of Christ Jesus is deeply impressed with his profound assurance of the presence of God, the Father, and the availability of His power in meeting the needs of mankind.
Sometimes
people speak as if the days of inspiration had passed, just as they refer to the age of miracles as long gone by, when neither statement is true.
No one who studies the life of Christ Jesus, as it is narrated in the gospels of the New Testament, can possibly fail to perceive that the effort of the great Nazarene was to reconcile man to God, good, and so to establish health, harmony, and peace among mankind.