CHAPTER 24
THE WATCH IN GETHSEMANE.
HITHERTO the life of Jesus has been comparatively free from sorrow and
from pain. With the exception of the narrow strip of wilderness which
fell between the Baptism and His inaugural miracle, the Divine Life
has lain for the most part in the sunshine, above the... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 18:1
CHAPTER 11
CONCERNING PRAYER.
WHEN the Greeks called man ό ανθρωπος, or the "uplooking
one," they did but crystallize in a word what is a universal fact, the
religious instinct of humanity. Everywhere, and through all times, man
has felt, as by a sort of intuition, that earth was no Ult... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 25
THE PASSION.
Luke 22:47 - Luke 23:1
WHILE Jesus kept His sad watch in Gethsemane, treading the winepress
alone, His enemies kept theirs in the city. The step of Judas, as he
passed out into the night, went verberating within the house of the
high priest, and onwards into the palace of P... [ Continue Reading ]