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Channing on the Character of Jesus in the Gospels

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 9, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 16.

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Channing on the Character of Jesus in the Gospels

No books astonish me like the Gospels. Jesus, the hero of the story, is a more extraordinary being than imagination has feigned, and yet his character has an impress of nature, consistency, and truth, never surpassed. You have all seen portraits, which, as soon as seen, you felt to be likenesses, so living were they, so natural, so true. Such is the impression made on my mind by the Gospels. I believe that you or I could lift mountains or create a world as easily as fanaticism or imposture could have created such a character and history as that of Jesus Christ.—Channing.