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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt:...him. Third, as a young man Jesus must have often been in prayer and meditation, else his mature life of prayer is something more than fulfillment of his early years. Finally, never think less of one because he works; Jesus' own example has stamped all honest work as clean and honorable. Never despise true service. Jesus taught by precept and example that only one who truly serves is truly great. And let no one forget the importance, for one's own life, of prayer and religious thoughtfulness. "More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of." THE WILDEENESS TEMPTATIONS; A KEY TO THE INTEEPEETATION OF THE LIFE OF JESUS. Temptation comes to all. To be tempted is not sin. To yield to temptation is sin. The gospel writers say that Jesus was tempted, yet without sin. There are those who find it difficult to think of Jesus as being tempted. Would the fact that Jesus was a holy being have any bearing upon the question of his being tempted? No and yes. No,--since the possibility of being tempted depends not upon the fact of one's being holy or unholy, but rather upon the fact of an individual's having appetites and desires, and avenues of pleasure and of pain; yes,--since the holier one is, the more one can appreciate the desirability of the good thing which, it is suggested and promised by the tempter, may be, by the unholy means suggested, secured, and further, yes,--since, as Wescott well observes, "sympathy with the sinner in his trial does not depend on the experience of sin, but on the experience of the strength of the temptation to sin, which only the sinless can know in its full intensity. He who falls, yields before the last strain." Therefore, it is written: "For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the...