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Excerpt from Paul of Tarsus
This Life of Paul of Tarsus is written with a fresh aim, and on a new plan. It is intended to be read with the interest of biography and the accuracy of history, in which thoughts, scenes, and events are woven into one.
Children love Jesus, but they do not understand Paul. The figure of Jesus has come down through the ages, clear cut as on a gem, so that artists can paint and authors picture Him; but it is not so with His greatest apostle. His figure is blurred and lost, amid white mists and black shadows. Much has been written about his writings, not much about himself. N 0 artist has ever made of Paul a great picture. A controversialist and theologian by long training, his outline is difficult to draw; and yet his travels and writings are half the New Testament. No one has left his stamp more deeply upon Christianity, or spread it farther; and his missionary work is the model for all. Jesus lit the torch; Paul ran with it into dark lands.' And yet to many he is little better than a theological abstraction.
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