Walks and Words of Jesus: A Paragraph Harmony of the Four Evangelists

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The Adoring Shepherds.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY REV. BISHOP FOSTER, D.D.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, By M. N. OLMSTED, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.



The happy thought of this volume was suggested by the incidental reading of this fact, in the life of John Quincy Adams: He was one day engaged in his usual study of the New Testament, (a practice he kept up daily throughout life, even amid the most urgent State duties,) when being particularly impressed by some words of Jesus, he conceived the idea of abstracting all his words from the body of the sacred text, that he might see them in their unity and wholeness. He immediately procured a suitable blank book, and beginning with the first Gospel, wrote down every word of Christ, as given by each of the Evangelists. This most precious excerpta he continued to read and devoutly study with great profit and comfort.
If the publisher had done nothing else but carry out this idea, he would have performed a good service, for many devout students of the Word of God; but he has done much more and I doubt not, by a very simple method, will become the instrument of good to thousands.
The several things aimed at and accomplished, in the plan of the book, are these