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OUR SAVIOUR'S PERSON, MISSION,

AND SPIRIT

FROM THE FRENCH OF THE

REVEREND FATHER DIDON, O. P.

EDITED BY

RIGHT REVEREND BERNARD O'REILLY, D. D.; D. Lit. (Laval)

DOMESTIC PRELATE OF HIS HOLINESS

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

HIS EMINENCE JAMES, CARDINAL GIBBONS

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PREFACE.

THE new Life of Christ, by the distinguished Dominican, Père Didon, has already-in the original Frenchreached within a few months its twentieth edition.

So unprecedented a success is the best justification for presenting it in these volumes to the English-reading public, and we are satisfied that it will be welcomed in this country by Christians of all denominations as a valuable addition to the religious literature of the day.

It is a remarkable fact that the last fifty years have witnessed more attempts to portray the person and life of the Redeemer of mankind than all the other Christian ages put together. This is doubtless due in a great measure to the historical spirit which forms one of the most prominent mental characteristics of the century. But its principal cause is to be looked for elsewhere, and we shall find it in the variety of beliefs which claim to represent true Christianity amongst us, each one being naturally led to give a presentation of the life and doctrine of the Founder in harmony with its own teachings. Even those who have ceased to believe in the supernatural character of Christianity are confronted with the person and work of Christ as the greatest factors of history, and some attempt must be made to account for them. Hence the numbers of "Lives of Christ" which come to us from abroad or take

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