The late Dr. Jowett is reported to have once said to Mrs. Humphry
Ward: "We shall come in the future to teach almost entirely by
biography. We shall begin with the life that is most familiar to
us, 'The Life of Christ,' and we shall more and more put before our
children the great examples of persons' lives so that they shall have
from the beginning heroes and friends in their thoughts."
The editors of this magazine thoroughly agree with Dr. Jowett. It has
been, for a long time, their great desire to publish in these pages
a "Life of Christ" which shall be, to quote Mr. Hall Caine's words in
the December MCCLURE'S, "as vivid and as personal from the standpoint
of belief as Renan's was from the standpoint of unbelief."