THE MAN OF GALILEE BY ATTICUS G. HAYGOOD Lord, to whom shall we go but unto thee? Thou hast the words of eternal life.--_Simon Peter._ _NEW YORK: HUNT & EATON CINCINNATI: CRANSTON & STOWE_ 1889 Copyright, 1889, by ATTICUS G. HAYGOOD, NEW YORK. TO THE “EMORY BOYS,” WHO WERE WITH ME IN THE OLD COLLEGE IN 1876-84, THIS LITTLE BOOK IS Dedicated BY ONE WHO LOVES THEM ALL. THE AUTHOR. DECATUR, GA., _April 9, 1889_. PREFATORY. DECATUR, GA., _April 9, 1889_. MY DEAR LUNDY: You and many others of my students at Emory of the years 1876-1884 have often asked me to put into permanent form the thoughts concerning “The Man of Galilee”--“Jesus of Nazareth”--I brought before you when we were together at the old college in Oxford. In this little book I have had the boys in mind all the way through, as if they were before me in my lecture-room in “Seney Hall.” Many times the very faces of the boys seemed to be about me as I have written, and I could almost hear them ask me questions as they used to do. Scattered about the world now--not a few of them in distant mission fields--my heart follows them every one, and these pages, which would never have appeared but for them, bear them the assurance of an interest in them that can never die. Your friend, ATTICUS G. HAYGOOD. The REV. LUNDY H. HARRIS, _Professor in Emory College, Oxford, Ga._ CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Did the Evangelists Invent Jesus? 9 CHAPTER II. “No Dramatist Can Draw Taller Men than Himself” 18 CHAPTER III. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John Neither Good nor Great Enough 24 CHAPTER IV. Is Jesus an Ideal Jew of the Time of Tiberius? 35 CHAPTER V. Jesus and Myths 42 CHAPTER VI. Jesus and Hebrew Human Nature 51 CHAPTER VII. His Method of Thought Differences Him from Men 60 CHAPTER VIII. “Never Man Spake Like this Man” 68 CHAPTER IX. The Son of Man and Sin 80 CHAPTER X. The Magnitude of the End He Proposed and Set About 92 CHAPTER XI. Never Man Planned Like this Man 97 CHAPTER XII. Jesus Neither Theologian nor Ecclesiastic 109 CHAPTER XIII. “Jesus Christ Took the Way of Perishing” 116 CHAPTER XIV. His Grasp upon Mankind 123 CHAPTER XV. What Jesus Claims and Demands 133 CHAPTER XVI. Jesus the One Universal Character 141