. The life of our Saviour Jesus Christ : three hundred and sixty-five compositions from the four Gospels. I have tried as faras possible to combine the two. I wished my Christ to be a true Christ, that is to say, a God-Man as truly Man as He is God, and, again, not a mere ordinary man, but just the Man andno other revealed in the Gospel to every one who reads it with an unprejudiced mind. Inthus treating my subject, in so far at least as I have succeeded in mv endeavour, I couldnot miss the ideal, for the true Christ is the realization of the ideal : what good would ithave been, then, to disto
. The life of our Saviour Jesus Christ : three hundred and sixty-five compositions from the four Gospels. I have tried as faras possible to combine the two. I wished my Christ to be a true Christ, that is to say, a God-Man as truly Man as He is God, and, again, not a mere ordinary man, but just the Man andno other revealed in the Gospel to every one who reads it with an unprejudiced mind. Inthus treating my subject, in so far at least as I have succeeded in mv endeavour, I couldnot miss the ideal, for the true Christ is the realization of the ideal : what good would ithave been, then, to distort facts with a view to giving them a kind of factitious ideality veryinferior to that which is already innate in them? According to my idea, it was far better toconfine myself strictly to the truth as far as that truth is accessible, and this is the kind ofideal which it has ever been my aim to attain. Whether I have or have not attained it, itis not for me to determine. I make but one claim : that my intention was good, and. if theresult is not approved of, the blame must be laid on my hand Antique cornice let into the -wall of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem.
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