HOW CHRIST PREACHED

The Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · December 18, 1879

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 25

HOW CHRIST PREACHED.

How did Christ preach the gospel? He forbade family quarrels. He warned his hearers against the evil practices of the scribes and Pharisees. He bade no one dare to come up to the temple to worship until he had paid his just debts. He not only enjoined upon them not to commit adultery, but told them what was the first step in adultery, that they might shun it. He talked to them

about their families and their lawsuits, and their habits of borrowing. He told them how they should accost people in the streets, when they should give away, and how they should give it; how they should keep fast-day. He told them just how religion bore upon their business and associations. He bade them not to backbite or slander. He warned them against preachers who came preaching false doctrine. Common things he discussed in common language, enlivened his discourse with pungent questioning, illustrating it with numerous narratives, and garnishing it with vivid and beautiful pictures drawn from summer fields and humble homes. Through it all sang the tender tone of love—pity for the suffering, strength for the weak, trust and comfort for the poor. No wonder the people were astonished at his doctrines, and that when he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.—Selected.