Excerpt from Great Characters of the Old Testament "To know Jesus Christ, and him crucified." There is no knowledge so important, so lofty, so profound, so transforming, so enduring as this, both for this world and for the next. To gain this knowledge we must apply first to the New Testament, then to the witness of the saints, then to our own personal experience sought in prayer and perfected in meditation and in the doing of the Lord's commands. The Christian life is founded in and rests upon this knowledge. To know Jesus Christ is in its beginnings the simplest and easiest of all forms of knowledge. He makes himself known to all who seek him in truth, nor turns any away. Other forms of knowledge are often difficult and sometimes impossible to secure. If we go to an astronomer to ask knowledge of astronomy he may question our fitness to acquire it.

He may learn by questioning that we lack the preliminary knowledge of, or aptness for, mathematics, without which we should never attain a grasp of the intricate movements in the starry heavens, and then he may shake his head and say, "Astronomy is not for you." 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.