Excerpt from The Face of Jesus<br><br>Of all the vanished faces, once loved by men, two only have been imaged on the Christian heart of the world - the face of Mary and the face of her divine Son.<br><br>The face of Mary is not always the same face, but it is always hers, revealing, in its many changes, every phase of virgin purity and every outgoing of mother-love. It has become humanity's ideal. The face of jesus, whose emotions in mani fold human experiences from the cradle to the cross, genius endeavors to portray, has been wrought into Christian memories as closely as color into the rose or fragrance into the lily.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.