Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1897 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV DISCIPLESHIP "Then are ye My disciples indeed."--John viii. 31. It was in the early days of the Church that "the disciples were called Christians" (Acts xi. 26): but in these later days there is much need that the Christians should come to be called disciples. For it seems to have passed out of the ordinary estimate of Christianity, that "Christian" and "disciple " are meant to be interchangeable terms; and that those who lay claim to the former title should naturally vindicate their claim, by the witness of the latter title as stamped upon their lives. The steps by which these names became attached to the early believers are plain enough. Men listened to the teaching and believed in the message of the Gospel; on profession of their belief they and their households were baptized in the name of Christ; and then as learners in His Disciples, school they were at once called "disciples." Probably the constant use of the name of Christ among disciples; their perpetual reference to that 4" name in prayer and praise, in preaching and converse; their appeal to that name as the title of their Saviour, Guide, Euler, Master, and Friend; caused them soon to be known as Christ's men, and made it most natural that others should call them "Christians." It is possible however that Christians, others outside the Church only adopted a name, which had been given to them by divine authority; and that the title of Christians was affixed by God, and only then recognised as fitting and brought into general use. This is the inference drawn from the peculiar word translated "called" in Acts xi. 26 (Greek chrematizd); for in every other passage where it occurs in the New Testament, it is used of a divine communication imparted to man. In Matt. ii. 12, 22; Acts x. 22; Heb....
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