OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
“These fresh volumes are marked throughout by a humane and devout spirit. The work is sure to make for itself a place in popular literature.”—New York Times.
“In Dr. Geikie’s volumes the person and works of Christ receive the chief attention, of course; but the background is so faithfully and vividly drawn, that the reader is given a fresher idea of the central figure.”—New York Independent.
“A monument of industry and a mine of learning. The students of our theological colleges, ministers, and others, will find much of the information here given of great worth and novelty.”—Nonconformist.
“Dr. Geikie’s paraphrases are generally most excellent commentaries.
“An encyclopædia upon the life and times of Jesus Christ, but an encyclopædia which has an organic unity, pulsating with a true and devout spirituality of thought and feeling.”—London Christian World.
“His style is always clear, rising sometimes into majestic beauty. His most steady point of view is the relation of Christ to the elevation of the race, and he struggles to make clear the amazing richness of Christ’s new things—the profound character of his philosophy, and the practical humanity that wells up out of these great deeps.”—New York Methodist.
“The ‘Life of Christ’ may be fitly compared to a diamond with many facets. From every point of view, the light that streams forth upon us is beneficent. No two observers will probable ever catch precisely the same ray, but, for all who look with unclouded eye (whatever their angle of vision may be), there shines forth ‘the light of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.’ Without disparaging in any sense the noble labors of his predecessors, we think Dr. Geikie has caught a new ray from the ‘Mountain of Light,’ and has added a new page to our Christology which many will delight to read.”—New York Evangelist.
“The chief merit of Dr. Geikie’s volumes lies in the attention paid to the surroundings of our Saviour’s earthly life; so that the reader is presented with a picture of the Jewish people, national characteristics, social customs, and religious belief and ritual.
“It is with reluctance that we take leave of these splendid volumes, for it is an enjoyment to examine and a pleasant duty and privilege to commend them. We feel sure we could desire no more valuable and useful addition to Christian libraries.”—Episcopal Recorder (Philadelphia).