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Title: Christ, Christianity and the Bible

Author: I. M. Haldeman

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHRIST, CHRISTIANITY AND THE BIBLE ***

Produced by Keith G. Richardson

Christ, Christianity and the Bible

BY

I. M. HALDEMAN, D.D.

Pastor First Baptist Church, New York City

_Author of_

How to Study the Bible, The Coming of Christ, The Signs of the
Times, Christian Science in the Light of Holy Scripture, etc., etc.

NEW YORK

CHARLES C. COOK

150 Nassau Street

Copyright, 1912,

By Charles C. Cook

CONTENTS

Christ

Christianity

The Bible

Christ

IF NOT GOD--NOT GOOD

BY I. M. HALDEMAN, D.D.

"Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is God"
(Matthew 9:17).

THE world has accepted Jesus Christ as a good man.

The evidences of his goodness are manifold.

He was full of compassion.

He never looked upon the people as a crowd. He never thought of them
as a mass. He saw them always as individuals. His heart went out to
them. All his impulses were to pity them, sympathize with, and help
them.

He went among them. He entered into all conditions, accepted all
situations. He was present at a wedding, he ate with publicans and
sinners and, anon, was guest at a rich man's table.

He saw the ravages of disease, the shame of sin, the tragedies in
life.

He knew there was torture in body and anguish in spirit.

He took the mystery of pain and laid it upon his heart, until tears
were his meat and his drink, by day and by night. He became a man of
sorrows and an expert in grief. He took upon him the woes of the
world till he was bowed and bent, as with the weight of years. The
tears of sympathy grooved his cheeks, as when streams carve their
way down mountain sides. Because of this men looked at him and saw
neither form nor comeliness; neither was there any beauty in him
that they should desire him.

He was a beneficent man.

Multitudes of men are benevolent, but not beneficent.

Benevolence is w