Category: Biographies
In the original book, each right-hand page had its own header. In this e-book, each chapter's headers have been collected into an introductory paragraph immediately following that chapter's introductory poem. (The left-hand pages' header was the chapter's title.)
In the original book, each right-hand page had its own header. In this e-book, each chapter's headers have been collected into an introductory paragraph immediately following th...
2. Chapter 2But this attitude of spirit, which dwells in the unseen and eternal, which counts on the indwelling of the Son of God by faith, and which ponders deeply over the sins and sorrow...
3. Chapter 3What is it to be "strong in spirit"? The man who carries everything before him with the impetuous rush of his nature, before whose outbursts men tremble, and who insists in all...
4. Chapter 4Thirty years had left their mark on the Forerunner. The aged priest and his wife Elisabeth had been carried to their grave by other hands than those of the young Nazarite. The s...
5. Chapter 5I. THE SUMMONS TO REPENT.--John has a ministry with all men. In other words, he represents a phase of teaching and influence through which we must needs pass if we are properly...
6. Chapter 6John said, "I knew Him not" (John i. 31); but this need not be interpreted as indicating that he had no acquaintance whatever with his blameless relative. Such may have been the...
7. Chapter 7At the end of the six weeks, the interview with the deputation from the Sanhedrim took place, which we have already described; and on the day after, when his confession of infer...
8. Chapter 8John saw, beneath the illuminating ray of the Holy Spirit, that this was the Divine Ideal; that the Redeemer could not contradict the Creator; that the Kingdom was consistent wi...
9. Chapter 9John could do no other; but it was a sublime act of devotion to God and Truth. He had no thought for himself at all, and thought only of the choice and destiny of that guilty pa...
10. Chapter 10Then we have the chance of inheriting a new beatitude. By refusing to bend under the mighty hand of God--questioning, chafing, murmuring--we miss the door which would admit us i...
11. Chapter 11Yes, there is more to be had by the humble heart than John possessed or taught. The passive as well as the active; the glen equally with the bare mountain peak; the feminine wit...
12. Chapter 12It is not difficult to imagine that sumptuous and splendid retinue. Roman soldiers and officials in all the splendour of their accoutrements and mounting; carriages conveying th...
13. Chapter 13The headless body was then borne to a grave, either in the grim, gaunt hills of Moab, or in that little village, away on the southern slopes of the Judaean hills, where, some th...
14. Chapter 14I. LIFE WITHOUT MIRACLES.--The people were inclined to disparage the life of John because there was no miracle in it. But surely his whole life was a miracle; from first to last...
15. Chapter 15How distinctly, also, in each case there was the consciousness of the presence of God. One of the greatest words which man has ever uttered was that in which Elijah affirmed, in...