The Following of Christ in Four Books [antikvár]

Foreword B Y all Christians throughout the world, "The Following of Christ" has been praised as the most beautiful book that ever came from the hands of man: the Bible alone transcends it, the Bible being divine. It has been not only admired, but loved by all classes of thinkers and all shades of creeds. Doctor Johnson used to speak of it as "a book to receive which the world opened its arms." Matthew Arnold calls it "the most exquisite document after those of the New Testament, of all the documents the Christian spirit has ever inspired." We all know by heart the eloquent tribute which George Eliot paid to it in her "Mill on the Floss." Writing to Erasmus in March 1526, Saint Thomas More, then Chancellor of England, said that "the book, if read, would secure the nation's happiness." It is our conviction that if read today, the book would secure -3-