The Good Tree and Its Fruit ~ Paperback ~ Thatcher Thayer

Excerpt from The Good Tree and Its Fruit: A Memorial Sermon on the Life and Services of the Late Professor George Ide Chace This is so, of course; for it is according to God's established order. Whatever appearances may be, only good trees bear good fruit. Thus it is known what they are as trees. So we reason from the good fruit in a man's life to what he is as a man. Not self, nicely balanced for good or bad fruit, but fully determined for good. Thus our Lord, who saw such moral significance in nature, used a fruitful tree as a type of a good man. The Bible, true to our necessary conceptions and their expression, deals with ideals. So when we speak of the good man we must speak as John writes in his epistle. Briefly, then, the good man who bears fruit is one born of God, united to Christ by faith, living a new life in Him and conformed to His image. Thus the good man is the Christ-like man, and hence his relation to God is one of consciousness of God's love as manifested in Christ; is one of awe, of humble penitence and child-like confidence, and willing obedience. 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.