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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Agents wanted for the great work entitled <persName><foreName full="yes">Jesus</foreName></persName>. (search)
cholarly, patient, and exhaustive analysis of the life, words, and character of Jesus, at least rationally, if not rationalistically considered—bestowing, in fact, the same treatment, the same laws of evidence and methods of deduction adopted by Strauss and Renan, but widely differing from those writers in the conclusions arrived at. It is bold, for the reason that Infidelity in all ages has relied and boasted its reliance upon the application of pure reason for controverting the truths held moChrist, it must be considered as the product of his reasoning, and not an assumption ignoring the very pith of the controversy between Infidelity and Christianity. It is a work the want of which has been sorely felt since the books of Renan and Strauss, to complete the bulwark of Christian defence from its new and most dangerous foe, insidiously clothed in the garb of philosophy, and seductively disguised in the language of reason. No Christian can afford to be without a copy, as a perusal of