



Produced by Keith G. Richardson




Christ, Christianity and the Bible


BY

I. M. HALDEMAN, D.D.

Pastor First Baptist Church, New York City


_Author of_

How to Study the Bible, The Coming of Christ, The Signs of the
Times, Christian Science in the Light of Holy Scripture, etc., etc.


NEW YORK

CHARLES C. COOK

150 Nassau Street


Copyright, 1912,

By Charles C. Cook


CONTENTS


Christ

Christianity

The Bible



Christ


IF NOT GOD--NOT GOOD


BY I. M. HALDEMAN, D.D.


"Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is God"
(Matthew 9:17).


THE world has accepted Jesus Christ as a good man.

The evidences of his goodness are manifold.

He was full of compassion.

He never looked upon the people as a crowd. He never thought of them
as a mass. He saw them always as individuals. His heart went out to
them. All his impulses were to pity them, sympathize with, and help
them.

He went among them. He entered into all conditions, accepted all
situations. He was present at a wedding, he ate with publicans and
sinners and, anon, was guest at a rich man's table.

He saw the ravages of disease, the shame of sin, the tragedies in
life.

He knew there was torture in body and anguish in spirit.

He took the mystery of pain and laid it upon his heart, until tears
were his meat and his drink, by day and by night. He became a man of
sorrows and an expert in grief. He took upon him the woes of the
world till he was bowed and bent, as with the weight of years. The
tears of sympathy grooved his cheeks, as when streams carve