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Title: Personal Friendships of Jesus

Author: J. R. Miller

Release Date: November 28, 2008 [EBook #27349]

Language: English

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Produced by Al Haines

Personal Friendships

of Jesus

BY

J. R. MILLER, D. D.

AUTHOR OF "SILENT TIMES," "MAKING THE MOST OF LIFE,"
"THINGS TO LIVE FOR," "BLESSING OF CHEERFULNESS," ETC.

One friend in that path shall be,
To secure my steps from wrong;
One to count night day for me,
Patient through the watches long,
Serving most with none to see.
BROWNING.

New York

THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.

PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1897,

BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL & COMPANY.

EIGHTH THOUSAND

PREFACE.

George MacDonald said in an address, "The longer I live, the more I am
assured that the business of life is to understand the Lord Christ."
If this be true, whatever sheds even a little light on the character or
life of Christ is worth while.

Nothing reveals a man's heart better than his friendships. The kind of
friend he is, tells the kind of man he is. The personal friendships of
Jesus reveal many tender and beautiful things in his character. They
show us also what is possible for us in divine friendship; for the
heart of Jesus is the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever.

These chapters are only suggestive, not exhaustive. If they make the
way into close personal friendship with Jesus any plainer for those who
hunger for such blessed intimacy, that will be reward enough.

J. R. M.

PHILADELPHIA.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

I. THE HUMANHEARTEDNESS OF JESUS
II. JESUS AND HIS MOTHER
III. JESUS AND HIS FORERUNNER
IV. JESUS' CONDITIONS OF FRIENDSHIP
V. JESUS CHOOSING HIS FRIENDS
VI. JESUS AND THE BELOVED DISCIPLE
VII. JESUS AND PETER
VIII. JESUS AND THOMAS
IX. JESUS' UNREQUITED FRIENDSHIPS
X. JESUS AND THE BETHANY SISTERS
XI. JESUS COMFORTING HIS FRIENDS
XII. JESUS AND HIS SECRET FRIENDS
XIII.