Excerpt from Our Brother of Joy, the Christian Enrichment of Life The evangel of Calvary and the gospel of Cana are in essence one. Unhappily an emphasis has occasionally been placed on suffering as an ingredient in Christian experience in such wise as to distort the features of the evangel and to obscure the genuine glory of the life of faith. Against the gospel of joy men have preached a gospel of pain, pain as a price of blessed ness and the key of heaven. So stern and ascetic a view of life has no right place in the Christian programme, yet it has played a part in the history of the church from the beginning until now. 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.