Louis Matthews Sweet’s volume discusses the legitimacy and significance of the Gospel accounts of Jesus birth and infancy. Sweet argues that the introductory chapters of Matthew and Luke have been, and continue to be crucial in developing “feelings of tenderness for childhood and respect for womanhood which are distinctly Christian.” Sweet answers early twentieth-century attacks on these passages and discusses how they are vital to establishing the validity of the Gospels and a right understanding of Christ’s divinity and humanity.