JESUS CHRIST AND THE

SOCIAL QUESTION

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SOCIAL QUESTION

AN EXAMINATION OF THE TEACHING OF JESUS IN

ITS RELATION TO SOME OF THE PROBLEMS

OF MODERN SOCIAL LIFE

BY

FRANCIS GREENWOOD PEABODY

PLUMMER PROFESSOR OF CHRISTIAN MORALS
IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

1904

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COPYRIGHT, 1900,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped November, 1900. Reprinted March,
1901; April, 1901; August, October, 1901; August, 1902; February,
1903; March, 1904.

Norwood Press

J. 8. Cushing & Co. - Berwick & Smith

Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

THROUGH SUNNY DAYS AND ON THROUGH STORMY WEATHER,

YET EVER HAND IN HAND, BELOVED WIFE,

WE TWO HAVE WALKED OUR QUIET WAY TOGETHER
ALONG THE DUSTY ROAD OF COMMON LIFE.

BRIGHT WERE THE VISTAS ON OUR JOURNEY SEEN,
AND DARK THE VALLEYS OF THE SHADOW LAY,
BUT YOUR DEAR LOVE, LIKE ISRAEL'S GOD, HAS BEEN
MY LIGHT IN DARKNESS AND MY SHADE BY DAY.

I CANNOT GIVE YOU WHAT A SCHOLAR OUGHT,
LEARNING OR WIT OR INSIGHT FOR THE TRUE;

I BUT TRANSCRIBE WHAT YOU HAVE DAILY TAUGHT, –
THE SPIRIT OF THE MASTER SEEN IN YOU.