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Excerpt from The Gentleness of Jesus This then is the meaning of the words, The bruised reed Shall He not break, the smoking flax shall He not quench, till He send forth judgment unto victory. He would not put forth His power against His foes. This was the method of His life. This was the way in which He should conquer the world; not by strife nor cry, but by an infinite and unfailing gentleness. Look at it all along His life. If He would uplift the world, the first thing is to make life sacred, the very beginning Of it. Infanticide was scarcely a crime at His coming anywhere but in Palestine, and even there without any ado or great horror, Herod, to quiet his uneasy fear, can send out his sol diers and slay all the young children through the coasts. Here, then, is the problem, - How Shall He make childhood sacred? How uplift and hallow the world's Opinion of the little child? How bring all the world's tenderness and pity about the babe, and gather all the world's might for the protection of the little one? Shall He go forth and tell with sweet words of their charms, a champion of their claims? Shall He go forth with fiery indignation against their wrongs and hurl angry threats at all that de graded and dishonored them? Come and see how it is done. He Himself comes as the lit tle Babe of Bethlehem, wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid in a manger. Controversy, conflict, terror, destruction, ' - where are they? He cannot break a bruised reed, He cannot quench a smoking flax, He who lies as the Babe upon the mother's bosom. Thus He up lifted and hallowed the little child and made it a thing almost divine, - Of such is the King dom Of Heaven. Thus He made motherhood sacred, and left it the mightiest power to soften and ennoble men in all the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.