Excerpt from The Life of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ: Written Especially for Children and Youth If there were so little wisdom and piety in God's chosen people, to whom he had given his revealed laws, and on whom he had bestowed so many favors, we cannot expect that heathen nations, who had forgotten him, and made for themselves other gods, setting up images carved in wood and stone, or made of silver and gold, should be pious and virtuous. They were generally very wicked, introducing wickedness even into their relig ion. A few of them were righteous men; but they were like lamps shining in a dark place; and, though they tried, they were not able to do much good to those among whom they lived. 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.