Jesus- A Brief Life by Dr. James
A. Francis
Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, child of a peasant woman.
He grew up in another obscure village.
He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty, and
then for three years was an itinerant preacher.
He never wrote a book.
He never held an office.
He never owned a home He never had a family.
He never went to college. He never put his foot inside a
big city.
He never traveled two hundred miles from the place where
He was born.
He never did one of the things that usually accompany
greatness.
He had no credentials but himself.
He had nothing to do
with this world except the naked power of His divine manhood."
While still a young man the tide of popular opinion
turned against Him.
His friends ran away.
One of them denied Him.
Another betrayed Him.
He was turned over to His enemies.
He went through the mockery of a trial.
He was nailed upon the cross between two thieves.
His executioners gambled for the only piece of property
He had on earth while He was dying, and that was His coat.
When He was dead, He was taken down and laid in a
borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.
Nineteen wide centuries have come and gone and today He
is the center of the human race and the leader of the column of progress.
I am far within the mark when I say that all the armies
that ever marched, and all the navies that were ever built, and all the
parliaments that ever sat and all the kings that ever reigned, put together,
have not affected the life of man upon the earth as powerfully as has this one
solitary life."
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