Orders and Unity (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Orders and Unity Various interpretations have been put upon the fact, and we shall have to consider them. But I will take it as historically true at start ing that Christ did, in some sense, as Christians of all kinds have admitted, train men to be put in charge of their fellow-men in His name, and that He took the risks of this method of action. I think this fundamental fact needs a good deal more consideration than is commonly given it. We will begin our inquiry by recalling to memory a passage in the Gospels in which, as clearly as anywhere, our Lord indicated His fundamental motive and principle in deal ing with the moral needs of men, and that in special connexion with the mission of the Twelve. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.