Elmer Willis Serl
Published: 2018-01-20
Total Pages: 114
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Excerpt from The Laughter of Jesus The half conception is due, as always, to half knowledge. It is an observation of Jesus at one point in his life, taking one episode and filling out his character from that limited view. I am not satisfied to have Jesus depicted as the man of tears only, for I cannot believe that he was such. Why should Jesus have been a sad dened man? It is said that he saw the sin of the world. I reply that he had power to recover from sin. It is said that he felt the sorrow of the world. I reply that his business was to wipe away tears, rather than add his own. A man with the faith of Jesus, one who knew God and his love, could not have had other than a joyous nature. Therefore I believe that laughter ran down his life as the brook dances over the rocks in the sunlight. He was not a sickly child, but a strong, youthful man, who in laughing, sing ing mood called his disciples no longer servants of sorrow, but friends of gladness. 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.