Excerpt from Our LegacyThe human heart so naturally reaches out to find and feel responsive life in the world, that loneliness stands for its greatest sorrow. The sense of solitude, of isolation from other life and love, - worse still, the doubt whether after all there be any other life and love to find, - means despair and death. And He who came that we might have life more abundantly has given us in these two words, Our F ather, a foundation on which we may build secure. That God is in spirit and in truth a Father, not to me alone or to you alone, but to all men everywhere, - this is the key-note Of the glad tidings that the Christ brought to the waiting world. Men had known that the Lord was a great and mighty King, that nothing could withstand His power or defy His judgments, they knew that He was wise, they tremblingly declared that He was good, and they paid His awful name the homage of humble reverence. But only in frag mentary phrases of prophetic hope had they ever called Him Father. It was only as our Elder Brother taught us that we learned this truest name. Not by chance was the name given to us just as it stands, Onr Father. It means that from Que.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.