The grand design of this volume is to exhibit, under the beautiful symbol of the Star of Bethlehem, the Savior in His personal and mediatorial glory; and to guide the reader to Him as the Lamb of God, who alone can take away sin. While dwelling on the beauty, excellence, and amiableness of Christ, His great atoning work on Calvary has been solicitously held forth, in its all-sufficiency, and as the only hope of a lost world as bringing glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will towards men. It has been the author's aim to present the subject in a scriptural point of view,...

This work is not designed as a systematic treatise, but as a humble essay on the great, the inexhaustible subject of the love of Christ, as manifested to a lost world. It was composed during a long period of recovery front a chronic disease, which brought the author to the gates of death, and well near terminated his life. In the present essay the author has endeavored to notice a few ways in which Christ has manifested his great love to sinners. His object in writing this work is to do good; and should this volume be the means of leading any sinner to the blessed Jesus, or of kindling a...