BOOKS BY DR. JEFFERSON QUIET TALKS WITH THE FAMILY QUIET TALKS WITH EARNEST PEOPLE QUIET HINTS TO GROWING PREACHERS THE MINISTER AS PROPHET THE MINISTER AS SHEPHERD CHRISTIANITY AND INTERNATIONAL PEACE DOCTRINE AND DEED THINGS FUNDAMENTAL THE CHARACTER OF JESUS THE NEW CRUSADE BUILDING OF THE CHURCH WHY WE MAY BELIEVE IN LIFE AFTER Death TALKS ON HIGH THEMES THE CAUSE OF THE WAR A FIRE IN THE SNOW THE LAND OF ENOUGH CONGREGATIONALISM WHAT THE WAR IS TEACHING SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE FORE-FATHERS' DAY SERMON UNDER TWENTY THE FRIENDSHIP INDISPENSABLE THE CHARACTER OF PAUL THE CHARACTER OF PAUL BY CHARLES EDWARD JEFFERSON PASTOR OF BROADWAY TABERNACLE NEW YORK CITY New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY All rights reserved PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published December, 1923. THIS is a book of sermons, although the sermons have never been preached. I find that my mind, as I grow older, can create more sermons than it is possible for me to preach. Ever since the appearance of my volume of sermons on "The Character of Jesus" some fifteen years ago, it has been my intention to publish, sometime, a companion volume on "The Character of Paul." For over thirty years, Paul has been one of my favorite heroes. Through all that time, I have lived with him almost constantly. For thirteen years of my life, I made it my practice each succeeding year to carry away with me for the summer one of his letters and make it my special study. Through my vacation months he was my daily companion. I read the letter again and again. I read everything of value on the letter which I could find, meditated on its contents, pondered the problems it suggested, communed with the spirit of the man who wrote it, prepared a sermon on it, and finally made out a list of a hundred questions for the assistance of my people in their study of it through the following year. In this way Paul became to me more and more a living man. I |