Good Tidings

The Good Tidings by William Sidney, Published by Farrar, Straus & Co., Inc. The Good Tidings is a story dealing with the time of Christ’s birth and early teaching. Very little is said concerning the activities and teaching of Jesus as the story tells primarily of the life of John the Baptist. In the days of Augustus and Tiberius, the Jewish people, suffering under the double yoke of imperial Rome and the tyrant Herods, and inwardly strangled by the teachings of the Sadducees and Pharisees,...