Testimonial for “The Desire of Ages”
THOSE who are canvassing for “The Desire of Ages” will be glad to secure the following recommendation of the book from one who is so well known as Dr. Lyman Abbott. It was secured by Brother J. L. McGee:— UNIVERSITY CLUB, SAN FRANCISCO,
April 30, 1904. I have examined with much care “The Desire of Ages.” It is the story of the life of Christ, woven out of a comparative study of the four Gospels. Their historical truthfulness is taken for granted. Critical and theological discussions are avoided; the simple truths of the spiritual life which they illustrate are expounded and enforced. The writing is notably free from sensationalism, sentimentalism, and exuberant rhetoric. The spirit is admirable. The book is a fine specimen, mechanically, of book-making. The illustrations are good, and the series will not only be serviceable to those who read them, by giving a connected life of Jesus Christ, and interpreting it as the life of the Saviour of the world, but will attract to its perusal those who would be repelled by a scholastic and dogmatic treatment.