Excerpt from Socialism of Christ: Or Attitude of Early Christians, Toward Modern Problems Such being the desires of the people, Christ, when He first declared His views, and His cause when launched on the public, were interpreted in this interest, and expected to further these ends; so that to the common people in their misery Christ appeared as a Savior, to the ideal/ Republicans as a Deliverer, and to the mon archical Jews as a King; and to them all His new community, or republic, or kingdom seemed like a guaranty of their political ideals. I propose, in this essay, to present the social and political aspects of Christ's teachings and of early Christianity, as drawn from the Gospels and from contemporaneous sources. 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.