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One Solitary Life
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. He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman.
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He grew up in another village, where he worked in a carpenter shop
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until he was thirty. Then for three years he was an itinerant
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preacher.
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. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never
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traveled more than two hundred miles from the place where he was born.
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He did none of the things one usually associates with greatness.
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. He was only thirty-three when the tide of public opinion turned
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against him. He was turned over to his enemies and went through the
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mockery of a trial. He was nailed to a cross between two thieves.
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When he was dead, he was laid in a borrowed grave.
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. Nineteen centuries have come and gone, and today he is a central
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figure of the human race and leader of mankind's progress.
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. All the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever
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sailed, all the kings that ever reigned have not affected the life of
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man as much as that One Solitary Life.
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Computers for Christ - Chicago
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