Sinopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ... impressed with the mighty works of the Master. How strange for that Lake of theirs, with which they were so familiar, to have its furious billows stayed at a word! No Prophet since Moses had ever so ruled the stormy sea. And yet, too, there was much about this God-Man, this ManGod, they could not understand. So great, yet so humble,--so mighty, yet so weak,--stilling storms and tempests, and yet a weary sleeper, glad of rest in a fisherman's boat! They had yet to learn the full meaning of that ' mystery of His holy incarnation," so comforting to His Church and people in all coming ages.--" Our God, yet our Brother--our Brother, yet our God." XXXII. %t eures the ©aucdjter of Saints. While Jesus was welcomed by the people lining the beach, there is one who is more anxious to get near Him than all the others. Jairus was a well-known person, what we would call "a leading man," in the town of Capernaum; for, as we have before noted, he was one of the rulers or chiefs of the synagogue. When he was observed by the crowd, there is at once an opening made to let him pass through. From his pale face, and the tear on his cheek, it is evident that there is some great trouble oppressing him; and that he is bringing his grief, whatever it was, to the Man of Sorrows. The Saviour could not fail to be well known to him. As I previously remarked, it is not unlikely the Ruler was seated in his chair of honour in the synagogue, on the occasion of Christ casting out the devils from the man who was possessed; also that he was one of those who went to plead in behalf of the good centurion's dying servant. As a fellow-townsman he could not be ignorant of the cure wrought on the nobleman's son. In these, and perhaps other cases, he had seen what the p...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ... impressed with the mighty works of the Master. How strange for that Lake of theirs, with which they were so familiar, to have its furious billows stayed at a word! No Prophet since Moses had ever so ruled the stormy sea. And yet, too, there was much about this God-Man, this ManGod, they could not understand. So great, yet so humble,--so mighty, yet so weak,--stilling storms and tempests, and yet a weary sleeper, glad of rest in a fisherman's boat! They had yet to learn the full meaning of that ' mystery of His holy incarnation," so comforting to His Church and people in all coming ages.--" Our God, yet our Brother--our Brother, yet our God." XXXII. %t eures the ©aucdjter of Saints. While Jesus was welcomed by the people lining the beach, there is one who is more anxious to get near Him than all the others. Jairus was a well-known person, what we would call "a leading man," in the town of Capernaum; for, as we have before noted, he was one of the rulers or chiefs of the synagogue. When he was observed by the crowd, there is at once an opening made to let him pass through. From his pale face, and the tear on his cheek, it is evident that there is some great trouble oppressing him; and that he is bringing his grief, whatever it was, to the Man of Sorrows. The Saviour could not fail to be well known to him. As I previously remarked, it is not unlikely the Ruler was seated in his chair of honour in the synagogue, on the occasion of Christ casting out the devils from the man who was possessed; also that he was one of those who went to plead in behalf of the good centurion's dying servant. As a fellow-townsman he could not be ignorant of the cure wrought on the nobleman's son. In these, and perhaps other cases, he had seen what the p...
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