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EASTERTIDE SERMONS 
 
 PREACHED BEFOEE THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE 
 OX FOUR SUNDAYS AFTER EASTER, 1S66 
 
 By HENRY ALFORD, d.d. 
 
 DEAN OF CANTEKEURY 
 
 LONDON: ALEXANDER STRAHAN. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE : DEIGHTON, BELL, & CO. 
 
 1866 
 
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CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 I. The Fact of the Kesurrection . . 1 
 
 " Their words seemed to them as idle tales, and 
 they believed them not." — Luke xxiv. 11. 
 
 " This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all 
 are witnesses.'* — Acts ii. 32. 
 
 II. The Great Shepherd . . . .32 
 
 "The God of peace, that brought again from the 
 dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of 
 the sheep." — Hebrews xiii. 20. 
 
 III. The Shepherd and His Sheep . . 62 
 
 " My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and 
 they follow me : and I give unto them eternal 
 life; and they shall never perish, neither 
 shall any man pluck them out of my hand." 
 —John x. 27, 28. 
 
IV CONTEXTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 IV. Expediency of the Lord's Eemoval . 92 
 
 " It is expedient for you that I go away : for if I 
 go not away, the Comforter will not come unto 
 you." — John xvi. 7. 
 
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 jftrst SunUag after faster. 
 
 THE FACT OF THE RESURRECTION. 
 
 " Their words seemed to them 
 as idle tales, and, they be- 
 lieved them not.''' — Litre 
 xxiv. 11. 
 
 "This Jesus hath God raised 
 up, whereof we all are wit- 
 nesses." — Acts ii. 32. 
 
 fTlHE words spoken of in the former 
 of these texts were of no common 
 character. They formed, it is true, the 
 report of the women who had returned 
 from the sepulchre of the Lord, and this 
 
2 THE FACT OF THE RESURRECTION. 
 
 report might be regarded as tinged with 
 mental excitement, and with feminine 
 credulity. Yet the import of the words 
 themselves deserved more consideration 
 than that they should be treated as idle 
 tales. The tidings, that the Lord was 
 risen, purported to have been received 
 from two men in shining garments, who 
 had called to remembrance how He Him- 
 self had said, while He was yet in Galilee, 
 that He should be crucified, and rise 
 again the third day. Now the disciples 
 had heard these words from the lips of 
 Jesus : and if they were disposed to 
 treat lightly the calling of them to re- 
 membrance, it may serve to show to 
 what an extent their faith in Him as 
 the Christ had been shaken. It would 
 
THE FACT OF THE RESURRECTION. o 
 
 appear, that the frame of mind indi- 
 cated by one of them this same day, was 
 common to them all : " We trusted it 
 had been He which . should have re- 
 deemed Israel." Their past following of 
 Jesus must have seemed to them a mis- 
 take, of which they were now ashamed. 
 We know how it is with ourselves, when 
 some long-cherished scheme, wrought out 
 with sanguine expectation, has been 
 broken in upon by stern reality, and has 
 passed out of the region of our earnest 
 thoughts. What convinced us before, 
 convinces no longer now. The sunlight 
 colours have faded away ; the combina- 
 tions of words which called up en- 
 thusiasm have lost their power ; we try- 
 to silence self-reproach in forgetfulness, 
 
4 THE FACT OF THE RESURRECTION. 
 
 and count ourselves happy if other men 
 betray not their knowledge how deeply 
 we stood committed. Even so had the 
 dread realities of the cross and the 
 sepulchre broken down the fair fabric of 
 the disciples' hopes. What would they 
 not now give never to have made the sad 
 admission, " We believe and are sure 
 that Thou art the Christ, the Son of the 
 living God!" How would they wish to 
 conceal from themselves that they had 
 once spoken the w r ords ! All His say- 
 ings, all His deeds of power — better 
 bury them in His grave, and let the mys- 
 teries which must surround them rest 
 unmoved ; all that is now uppermost in 
 their minds is, the bitter confession that 
 they had been deceived, and the deter- 
 
THE FACT OF THE RESURRECTION. O 
 
 mination to return to their common life, 
 made sadder and wiser. 
 
 We can hardly conceive that had the 
 cross and the sepulchre been the end of 
 the course of Jesus, His followers would 
 have held together many months. It 
 was possible, and lias not been without 
 example in analogous cases, that the 
 more ardent among them might have 
 waited long for Him to rise again, or 
 to come from heaven ; and that some, 
 like baffled interpreters of prophecy, 
 might have shifted on the fulfilment of 
 His words from each disappointment to 
 another and another future chance. But 
 of these resources of deferred hope we do 
 not find any even anticipatory indica- 
 tion. The rumours of the resurrection 
 
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 were idle tales ; the words of promise on 
 which they rested, were idle words. He, 
 who had uttered them, though His me- 
 mory might still be foudly cherished, 
 had been proved, by the sternest of all 
 proofs, to have been at least weak and self- 
 deceived. Their confidence was utterly 
 gone ; their hearts had fainted ; their 
 spirits were prostrate. 
 
 That such men should knit up again 
 their ravelled and scattered expectations ; 
 that these disciples, being what we know 
 them to have been, should have recovered 
 heart, as the narrative tells us, and as 
 the worlds history shows us they did, 
 is simply inconceivable, supposing that 
 nothing more happened after the deposi- 
 tion in the tomb. We cannot imagine 
 
THE FACT OF THE RESURRECTION. i 
 
 them, crushed, disappointed, deceived 
 men, standing up before the victorious 
 enemies of their disgraced Master, and 
 proclaiming Him a Prince and a Savi- 
 our. Mere strength of love for Him 
 would not suffice for this. They had all 
 declared themselves ready to go with 
 Him to prison and to death, and had 
 failed and fled away in the hour of His 
 trial. That which they would not do 
 when He was present and suffering be- 
 fore their eyes, would they be likely to 
 do, now that He was dead, and fading out 
 of their memories day by day ? What 
 they dared not face when they were 
 still buoyed up with hopes that He 
 might achieve supernatural victory, were 
 they likely to stand against, now that 
 
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 defeat had branded Him an impostor 
 and a criminal ? Can men like these, 
 without any intervening change of cir- 
 cumstances, persuade themselves in good 
 faith to proclaim Him as the Son of 
 God \ It surely is not in human nature 
 to operate on itself such a change, as we 
 must suppose to have passed upon them 
 before this could be the case. And if it 
 be said that they counselled together, 
 and put before the world the concerted 
 fiction of His resurrection, then is the 
 matter, if possible, still more difficult 
 to conceive. Up to the very moment 
 of His betrayal, their expectations had 
 all tended one way, — to the establish- 
 ment of an outward earthly kingdom, 
 in which they were to reign as His 
 
THE FACT OF THE RESURRECTION. 9 
 
 assessors. Those expectations are baf- 
 fled ; and, according to this hypothesis, 
 in the midst of the bewilderment of their 
 disappointment, they come forward, as- 
 serting facts to have happened to Him 
 of a nature far surpassing all that they 
 had ever conceived before, and preach- 
 ing a kingdom, the very mention of the 
 character of which would before have been 
 to them gall and bitterness. It were 
 indeed a strange way of dishonestly con- 
 spiring on behalf of their Master and 
 themselves, to change ambition into self- 
 denial, proud hopes into the loss of all 
 things, the carnal into the spiritual. 
 
 Against these insufficient solutions, let 
 us set the facts of the history. At one 
 great feast of the Jews, when Jerusalem 
 
10 THE FACT OF THE RESURRECTION. 
 
 was crowded with strangers from all parts, 
 Jesus of Nazareth was crucified, and the 
 hopes of His followers were crushed. 
 At the next great festival, six weeks 
 after, we find those same followers stand- 
 ing together in a body, with one who had 
 denied Jesus in the hour of His trial 
 acting as their spokesman, and proclaim- 
 ing, as in the second of my texts, " This 
 Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all 
 are witnesses." We find them maintain- 
 ing this in spite of prohibitions, in spite 
 of stripes, in spite of threatenings. They 
 say they cannot but speak the things 
 which they have seen and heard. The 
 presence of the council which had con- 
 demned their Master does not deter them 
 from thus testifying of Him. The very 
 
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 servants of the high priest terrified Peter 
 before ; but the high priest himself, and 
 the assembled Sanhedrim, have no terrors 
 for him now. 
 
 How are we to account for these things, 
 my brethren ? Here are cowards become 
 brave men ; disowners of a persecuted 
 Friend when He was in danger, become 
 His witnesses and upholders now that 
 He is crushed beneath contempt. And 
 this they carry on not one nor two years, 
 not against threats and stripes only, but 
 through long lives spent in this testi- 
 mony, and even unto death, sealing their 
 witness with their blood. 
 
 These last words may perhaps remind 
 you of a well-known argument regarding 
 one portion of Christian evidence. But 
 
12 THE FACT OF THE RESURRECTION. 
 
 I am not at present on common ground 
 with that argument. What I am aiming 
 at is, not the conclusion that credit is due 
 to them as honest men, but the supply- 
 ing of something between their two re- 
 corded states of mind, which shall recon- 
 cile the change with probability, and 
 make the whole into a connected his- 
 tory. 
 
 And I submit to you, my brethren, 
 that there is one way, and but one way, 
 of accounting for this change. And that 
 one way is, that the Resurrection really 
 took place, as we are told it did. I 
 submit to you that, unless Jesus actually 
 rose from the dead, the history of Chris- 
 tianity would have been impossible ; that 
 could not have happened which has hap- 
 
THE FACT OF THE RESURRECTION. 13 
 
 pened, and the results of which we see 
 at this day. Considering the story of the 
 life and death of Jesus, its progress from 
 pretension to defeat, from popularity to 
 rejection, from glory to shame, — the only 
 solution of the question, How comes it 
 that there is a Christian in the world at 
 the present day, is, that " we are wit- 
 nesses of His resurrection." 
 
 And as regards the change which came 
 upon the disciples, this does resolve all 
 its circumstances, easily and naturally. 
 As we have seen, their hearts and hopes 
 had died within them. The past had 
 been a deplorable mistake. Each one, 
 we may well imagine, was beginning to 
 form his plan, how best to bear his bitter 
 disappointment, and they were scheming 
 
14 THE FACT OF THE EESUREECTIOX. 
 
 how with least public notice to return to 
 Galilee, and to fall back into the common 
 life of the Jews around them : — when lo, 
 there arises the strange rumour, that 
 He that was dead is alive again. At 
 first it is treated as an idle tale. But 
 one and then another is not content 
 without a visit to the sepulchre. There 
 some of them see, and believe. The 
 Scripture, and the Lord's own often 
 repeated words, are carried for the first 
 time into their hearts. And now mes- 
 sages of plainer import begin to thicken 
 around them. The Lord has been seen 
 — seen and heard by one and another — 
 not an empty apparition, but the well- 
 known form and voice of Him who had 
 been taken from them. And upon this, 
 
THE FACT OF THE RESURRECTION. 15 
 
 strange revulsions of feeling pass through 
 their minds. Half believing, half doubt- 
 ing, the little band collect together to 
 await what may happen. More and 
 more certain, as the day wears on, come 
 the repeated tidings. Again and again, 
 we may well believe, the evidence of His 
 appearance is given to eager inquirers. 
 Some, who would not believe before, can- 
 not hear too often now. One at least 
 whom we know of, remains wholly in- 
 credulous, and refuses to entertain the 
 thought, nay, even to join the assembling 
 of themselves together. Meanwhile the 
 risen Saviour has been seen by one whose 
 word carries general conviction : " The 
 Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared 
 unto Simon." 
 
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 Such is the joyful news which is pass- 
 ing from mouth to mouth, as the shades 
 of evening fall around them, when two 
 of their number arrive, eager with fresh 
 and certain intelligence. A traveller had 
 walked with them by the way, and had 
 discoursed of their broken hopes ; had 
 reproached them with unbelief of the 
 prophets, and in words which made their 
 hearts glow within them, set forth what 
 Christ ought to have suffered, and to 
 enter into His glory. And when at their 
 request He went with them into their 
 lodging, the stranger took bread, and 
 blessed and brake as He had been wont- 
 to do : and behold, it was the Lord. The 
 tale had hardly been told, when the risen 
 one Himself stood in the midst of them, 
 
THE FACT OF THE RESURRECTION. 17 
 
 seen and heard by all. * Peace be with 
 you/' are His solemn words of greeting : 
 " peace upon your troubled spirits ; the 
 peace of blessed assurance and tranquil 
 certainty, after the fierce storm which 
 had shattered your hopes." " Then/' adds 
 the beloved disciple, in his majestic sim- 
 plicity, — "then were the disciples glad 
 when they saw the Lord/' 
 
 What power is there, my brethren, in 
 these few words ! From what grief to 
 what exultation do they take us ! From 
 what defeat to what triumph ! There 
 have been many strange days in this 
 world's history, but there was never a 
 day so strange as this one of the Resur- 
 rection, because never one that resembled 
 it in that which had happened. Only 
 c 
 
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 that once has the human spirit thus been 
 touched ; only once transported from so 
 great a sorrow to so great a joy. It is 
 a day much to be remembered, when a 
 beloved life has been hanging in doubt, 
 and the crisis passes, and sleep succeeds 
 to fever, and thankfulness to harassing 
 anxiety. It was a day to be remembered, 
 when one was reading that sentence of 
 death in the forum at Mytilene, and the 
 ship of mercy came in, and wailing was 
 turned into mirth."" It was a day of 
 light and gladness, when Lazarus came 
 back from his tomb, and the sisters eyes 
 once more rested on the form they had 
 never again hoped to see. But none of 
 those days was like this one. For no such 
 
 * See Thucydides, iii. 49. 
 
THE FACT OF THE RESURRECTION. 19 
 
 venture had ever been cast on one life 
 before. It was not love, it was not 
 admiration, it was not trust, as we use 
 these words between man and man : God 
 had looked forth in the midst of them; 
 God had been manifest in the flesh ; a 
 voice had sounded from heaven ; one had 
 gone in and out among them who had 
 gathered all thoughts and all hopes upon 
 Himself, and lifted them above them- 
 selves, and above man, and above the 
 world, into other regions of love, and 
 trust, and wonder, than man with man 
 ever dwells in. And when that life sank 
 down, and that adorable Form was marred, 
 — great in proportion, great beyond hu- 
 man measure was their woe ; heaven 
 itself was blotted, and darkness had 
 
20 THE FACT OF THE RESURRECTION. 
 
 fallen upon the earth ; because no face 
 looked on them as that Face, no voice 
 spoke as that Voice ; and all was void 
 and silent. And now what has risen up 
 in that void — what sound has broken 
 that silence ? No human comforter — no 
 voice of empty admonition, or fruitless 
 persuasion. As the loss had been, so is 
 the gain ; as the sorrow, so the joy. It 
 is He Himself : it is not the sorrow 
 healed, — not the past made up for ; no, 
 it is infinitely more than all this. A new 
 order of things has begun, a new life 
 has sprung up ; His resurrection is also 
 their resurrection ; they are not com- 
 forted mourners, but they are new-born 
 fellow- workers ; the harvest which seemed 
 to have been but an heap in the day 
 
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 of desperate sorrow, is become precious 
 seed, for another and an endless sowing. 
 
 And with joy comes responsibility. 
 We do not, at this distance of time, and 
 with our long-accustomed handling of 
 Christian evidence, feel one-half of that 
 which is implied in the Acts of the 
 Apostles and in the writings of St. John 
 by that word M witness," — "the bearing 
 of witness." But we too know some- 
 thing of the great and sudden investiture 
 of responsibility, how it solemnizes men, 
 how it strengthens men, how it trans- 
 forms men. Look at the stripling left 
 by the dread stroke of bereavement, at 
 the head of an orphan family. See him 
 crushed by the snapping of his love, left 
 guideless, counselless, prostrate in his 
 
22 THE FACT OF THE EESUEEECTIOX. 
 
 tears, needing support as he looks into 
 the closing grave. But see him again, 
 rising with unwonted strength, endowed 
 with faculties unsuspected before, having 
 at once put on the balanced wisdom of 
 manhood, having changed passion for 
 deliberation, negligence for watchfulness, 
 no repute, or ill repute, for good fame 
 daily increasing, and all deserved. And 
 some such change, but greater, because 
 all life and all thoughts were involved in 
 it, passed on these men from that day 
 forward. " They could not but speak of 
 those things which they had seen and 
 heard." This testimony of witnessed fact 
 had become a necessity of their lives ; 
 they went about invested with its re- 
 sponsibility. Before few, before many, 
 
THE FACT OF THE BESUEKECTION. 23 
 
 before small and great, captains and pre- 
 fects, priests and princes, they gave their 
 witness of the Resurrection. 
 
 And with joy and responsibility came 
 also strength. In proportion to the 
 greatness of the event, in proportion to 
 the vastness of the change, in propor- 
 tion to the working of that Spirit, who, 
 granting to each man severally as He 
 will, yet grants not without preparation, 
 grants not out of measure with circum- 
 stances, — in these proportions was their 
 testimony given with power, so that it 
 bore down all opposition. Between Peter 
 . disclaiming Jesus, Peter weeping bitterly 
 for his faithlessness, Peter returning from 
 the sepulchre, wondering in himself, and 
 Peter standing before the Council and pro- 
 
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 claiming that there is none other name 
 given under heaven among men whereby 
 we must be saved, there needs no link 
 supplied, if this joy gave responsibility, 
 and strength followed : but otherwise I 
 see not how the weakness and the power 
 are to belong to the same : how the same 
 man is to utter in a few short days some 
 of the weakest and basest, and also some 
 of the boldest and grandest words in the 
 world's history. 
 
 And thus, my brethren, the void left 
 by disappointment was filled up by His 
 form who had taught them, and led them, 
 and loved them, and made to them great 
 and precious promises of future glory. 
 But when we say this, we are not perhaps 
 aware how much our words imply. What, 
 
for example, was our Lord's death to them 
 before ? That which we have seen it to 
 be : even defeat, disgrace and shame. What 
 is it now ? Simply the most glorious 
 thing which could occupy the thought 
 or the affections. He is risen as He had 
 said. Then He had power all the while 
 — power over His enemies, power over 
 death ; then every smart of the scourge, 
 every fainting step up that Via dolorosa, 
 every pang on the cruel cross, was His 
 own voluntary act ; then is it strictly 
 true, not that, in the ordinary sense, He 
 gave up the ghost, but that He delivered 
 up His spirit, dying as none else have 
 died — having power to lay down His life, 
 as He had also power to take it again. 
 And thus His crown of thorns has be- 
 
26 THE FACT OF THE KESUBBECTIOX. 
 
 come a diadem of victory ; thus the whole 
 character of that eventful day is changed 
 — its memory has passed from the side of 
 deprivation and shame, to the side of 
 beauty and glory. And yet again, What 
 was our Lord Himself to them before ? 
 Doubtless, a dearly loved friend whom 
 they could never forget ; a master who 
 had long led them. And what are the 
 sayings and acts of such dear friends 
 when death has taken them from us \ 
 Things altogether of the past : fading, or 
 sometimes unfading memories, but still 
 memories. They may have been solemn 
 injunctions which were to bring forth 
 fruit in the future. Still, their root is in 
 the past ; they are bound to the dying 
 look of one now no more with us, and the 
 
THE FACT OF THE KESURKECTIOS. 2/ 
 
 tone of a voice which we have long ceased 
 to hear. But far other has our Lord be- 
 come to them, and have His sayings and 
 acts become to them. Now this is of 
 immense importance as regards their re- 
 membrance and reproduction of the words 
 and deeds of His life. He is not a friend, 
 a master, departed, and taken from them ; 
 He and His words are not things of the 
 past : He is restored to them, not as be- 
 longing to the present, but to the future. 
 All that He said, all that He did while 
 He was with them, is not only dear to 
 memory, but has become a seed of hope, 
 a source of life, a warrant for action, a 
 safeguard in suffering. And He himself 
 is not " He who should have redeemed 
 Israel," but the Father of the age to 
 
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 come, the ever-present, and also the ever 
 looked-for. 
 
 And again, it seems to me that thus 
 much, and no less than this, is a postulate 
 required for the acknowledged facts of 
 the disciples' conduct and writings re- 
 garding our Lord. We all know the 
 mighty difference made in the power and 
 grasp of memory, by a change having 
 come over any certain period that is past, 
 when a particular space of time, from 
 having been regarded as not worth re- 
 membering, has been shown to have been 
 important, and its recollection to be preg- 
 nant with solemn consequences. We have 
 all known what it is to sit down and look 
 back over a certain number of days or 
 hours, catching at the floating threads of 
 
THE FACT OF THE RESURRECTION. 29 
 
 suggestion, and from them following up 
 words and acts that had seemed for ever 
 gone from us. And though we believe that 
 the holy Apostles were specially enabled 
 by the Spirit of Truth to set down what 
 Jesus had said and done, yet we are no less 
 convinced that whatever is received must 
 be according to the mode of the receiver ; 
 and we know this to have been so much 
 the case with them, that while three of 
 them have given us reports of our Lord's 
 life and words mainly the same, with cer- 
 tain characteristic differences, the fourth 
 has composed a representation of it so 
 entirely his own, that unbelievers have 
 even denied its compatibility with them. 
 May we not then suppose that the 
 Spirit's help came to them mainly by 
 
30 THE FACT OF THE RESURRECTION. 
 
 means of, and as intensifying, this re- 
 surrection of the memory of Him and 
 His words, brought about by His 
 altered place in their thoughts, con- 
 sequent on the fact of His own Resur- 
 rection % 
 
 And thus, my brethren, it is that, while 
 we search in vain for any explanation 
 of their conduct and of the subsequent 
 history of Christianity on the hypothesis 
 of His having remained in the tomb, the 
 simple belief of the facts as the Gospels 
 relate them to us, easily and entirely 
 accounts for all that happened then — for 
 all that has happened since. 
 
 The rumour was to them as an idle 
 tale. And so it would ever have remained, 
 if indeed it had been remembered at all, 
 
THE FACT OF THE RESURRECTION. 31 
 
 unless Jesus had risen : nothing but the 
 fact believed because seen, could have 
 made them proclaim themselves its wit- 
 nesses : could have continued that testi- 
 mony down to this distant day : could 
 have assembled us, and the great 
 Christian multitude of all nations 
 kindreds and tongues, on this the 
 weekly festival, in this the triumphant 
 season, of the Resurrection of the Lord. 
 
II. 
 
 SeconU iSuntJag after lEaster. 
 
 THE GKEAT SHEPHERD. 
 
 ' ' The God of peaee, that brought 
 again from the dead our 
 Lord Jesus, that great 
 Shepherd of the sheep." — 
 Heb. xiii. 20. 
 
 TN these words, we have the main 
 theme of the Easter season bound on 
 to the special subject of this one of its 
 Sundays. To-days Gospel brings before 
 us our Blessed Lord's description of 
 Himself as the Good Shepherd : and in 
 
THE GREAT SHEPHERD. 33 
 
 the Epistle we are reminded that we 
 were as sheep going astray, but are 
 now returned to the Shepherd and 
 Bishop of our souls. In parts of Western 
 Christendom, the day is named the " Sun- 
 day of the Good Shepherd." The Writer 
 of the Epistle to the Hebrews, in con- 
 cluding with a solemn prayer for his 
 readers, joins, in my text, the resurrec- 
 tion of the Lord with His pastoral office. 
 So that we may be sure the Church had 
 a purpose, in introducing Him to us as 
 the Shepherd of our souls, on this first 
 Sunday after the eight days' festival of 
 the Resurrection. 
 
 No similitude was so obvious, as ap- 
 plying to the Redeemer and His Church, 
 — none was so ancient. In the primitive 
 
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 days of the earth, and of man, the first 
 keeper of sheep had fallen down slain in 
 the midst of his flock. The whole history 
 of the patriarchs was associated with 
 pastoral life. " Thy servants are shep- 
 herds/' was the confession of the sons of 
 Jacob to the Egyptian king, who hated 
 the name. Their descendants had been 
 led through the wilderness by one who 
 had for forty years fed his flock in that 
 very desert of Sinai : led, as we had it in 
 the Psalms of this morning, " like sheep 
 by the hand of Moses and Aaron." The 
 poet-king, the central figure in the sacred 
 history, had tended his father s sheep on 
 the rocky heights of Bethlehem, and 
 there had sung those sweet strains by 
 which Jehovah, as the Shepherd, had 
 
THE GREAT SHEPHERD. 35 
 
 been for ever borne into the praises of 
 Israel. And in the prophets, God had 
 taken up the same strain, and swelled 
 it onward into tones of reproach and 
 threatening, till it rang shrill through 
 the ears of Israel in denunciation of 
 false shepherds, and assertion of Himself 
 as the true searcher out and leader of 
 His flock. So that when He came, in 
 whom all types centred, and all pro- 
 phecy was fulfilled, none need be sur- 
 prised at His taking unto Himself the 
 great similitude in all its fulness of 
 meaning — at His standing and proclaim- 
 ing, "I am the Good Shepherd f at His 
 saying of His death of love, " The Good 
 Shepherd layeth down his life for the 
 sheep;" at His designating that night 
 
36 THE GREAT SHEPHERD. 
 
 of terror by the prophetic words, " I will 
 smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall 
 be scattered ; " and His own act after 
 His resurrection, by the pastoral promise, 
 "After that I am risen I will go before 
 you into Galilee." None need wonder 
 that the threefold terms of reinstatement 
 of the penitent Apostle should speak of 
 tending my sheep and feeding my lambs ; 
 nor that the farewell address of Paul at 
 Miletus should put on the same form ; 
 nor that Peter should exhort the elders 
 to feed the flock of God which was 
 among them, in expectation of the day 
 when the chief Shepherd should appear. 
 Only in the closing apocalyptic visions, 
 anticipating the day when the media- 
 torial course shall have past, do we find 
 
THE GREAT SHEPHERD. 37 
 
 this character apparently laid aside or 
 transferred : there our Blessed Lord is 
 the Lamb as it had been slain, and He 
 that sitteth on the throne is the Shep- 
 herd, guiding His flock, and leading them 
 to the fountains of the water of life. 
 
 It is to this office of our risen Lord 
 that I would now direct your attention ; 
 speaking of it throughout more as a 
 matter for the individual Christian life, 
 than as belonging to the whole Church. 
 I would beg of each of you to enter into 
 his soul's chamber and shut his doors 
 about him, while we enquire what this 
 pastoral office of Christ is ; what it 
 requires us to believe in the depths of 
 our hearts respecting Him ; what en- 
 couragements it holds forth to us ; what 
 
38 THE GREAT SHEPHERD. 
 
 consolation it pours on our spirits when 
 they are perplexed, or wounded, or faint- 
 ing within us. 
 
 The thought of Christ as the Shepherd 
 of our souls touches us in many points. 
 The first seems to be, our need of one 
 superior to ourselves to rely upon. This 
 feeling of reliance is almost a necessity 
 to us. We are not happy as our own 
 masters. We cannot face the dark fu- 
 ture, we cannot meet the difficulties of 
 the tangled present, we cannot contem- 
 plate the sins and errors and short- 
 comings of the terrible past, all alone. 
 The soul yearns and seeks about for one 
 to stand between it and danger, between 
 it and uncertainty, between it and guilt. 
 And herein lies the account of men 
 
THE GREAT SHEPHERD. 39 
 
 giving their consciences to others to 
 keep, and accepting difficult beliefs with- 
 out question, and setting up over them- 
 selves a guide esteemed infallible, — that 
 they cannot bear to be entrusted with 
 the keeping of themselves ; anxiety, 
 restlessness, morbid scruples, mental pro- 
 stration, are the consequences of their 
 having to fulfil unaided so solemn a 
 responsibility. Now Christ, by declaring 
 Himself the Good Shepherd, by distin- 
 guishing Himself from all other shep- 
 herds, assumes, and warrants us in assert- 
 ing of Him, the Headship over and the 
 superiority to His whole flock, and every 
 soul in it. And when I thus think of Him, 
 it is as that superior being on whom, as 
 regards His own character and position, 
 
40 THE GREAT SHEPHERD. 
 
 I can unreservedly lean. He is, by the 
 very terms of this designation of Himself, 
 not one of my fellow-creatures, but one 
 above me and above all of us, my Lord 
 and my God. Any men, any body of 
 men, any ordinance of man, is limited, is 
 fallible : will not cover the extent of my 
 need of reliance, will not by enactment, 
 or by any other kind of foresight, have 
 provided for my ten thousand individual 
 wants and difficulties. But this great 
 Shepherd, who is over all His flock, and 
 over me, lies under no such disadvantage. 
 I need not fear any fallibility, or any 
 lack of power, when I look up to Him, 
 when I trust Him, when I rely on His 
 all-knowledge and all-mightiness. For it 
 is impossible that He should have used 
 
THE GREAT SHEPHERD. 41 
 
 this language with psalm and prophecy 
 before Him, and intended it to imply less 
 than His Divinity. He was speaking 
 among those who were familiar with such 
 addresses as, " Thou that dwellest be- 
 tween the cherubim, Thou that leadest 
 Joseph like a sheep :" with such words 
 as " Jehovah is my Shepherd : I shall not 
 want :" those who had not forgotten the 
 chapter of Ezekiel above referred to, 
 where the God of Israel draws the same 
 distinction between Himself and the false 
 shepherds ; who had in their minds the 
 direct prophecy of Isaiah, " Behold the 
 Lord God cometh, and His reward is 
 with Him : He shall feed His flock like 
 a shepherd." He could not have thus 
 spoken, without having in view the whole 
 
42 THE GREAT SHEPHERD. 
 
 course of accomplished redemption : when 
 He described His exercising of this His 
 pastoral office, He looked not on Himself 
 as a Teacher with His disciples, lead- 
 ing them in circuits round Galilee, but 
 as exalted by God's right hand to be a 
 Prince and a Saviour : as having all 
 power given to Him in heaven and in 
 earth. So that, and this is surely a 
 weighty point in our soul's regarding of 
 the matter, we begin with the assurance 
 that in all that requires power, wisdom, 
 goodness, our Shepherd, He on whom we 
 are to rely and cast our. being and our 
 hopes, is not limited but infinite ; not 
 man but God. Less than this will not 
 suffice, if the reliance is to be entire and 
 unbroken. Even when, in this matter of 
 
THE GEEAT SHEPHEED. 43 
 
 the souls welfare, man casts himself on 
 man, or on a body of men, or on a human 
 ordinance or polity, there is always divine 
 presence, authorization, or guidance, sup- 
 plied in the background, so that the ulti- 
 mate stay is not man but God. 
 
 Now it might be supposed, that the 
 soul having such a Shepherd as this, in- 
 finite in power, wisdom, and goodness, 
 would desire no more ; would also on its 
 part be perfect and unbroken in its re- 
 liance. And if our inward feeliogs fol- 
 lowed the law of our reason, — if the man, 
 compounded of various affections and 
 sympathies, answered always to the helm 
 of his convictions, this miofht be so. But 
 as it is, our convictions dwell as it were 
 in one part of us, and our feelings and 
 
44 THE GREAT SHEPHEED. 
 
 affections are evoked in another. We 
 are fragmentary and inconsequent. The 
 steersman may turn the helm according 
 to rule, but the course of the ship is 
 erratic. The Shepherd may be almighty, 
 but the sheep do not obey Him ; all-wise, 
 but they do not believe Him ; all-good, 
 but they do not trust Him. The region 
 of conviction must be connected with the 
 region of sympathy. The sterner ma- 
 terial of the one needs knitting on and 
 combining with the tender and delicate 
 fabric of the other. If I am to cast my- 
 self on this my Shepherd, I must have 
 more data respecting Him, than that He 
 is Lord and God. The more worthily I 
 conceive of Him as being this, the less 
 shall I feel warranted in the casting my- 
 
THE GREAT SHEPHERD. 45 
 
 self upon Him in full, constant, familiar 
 reliance. On the one hand will expand 
 the majesty and symmetry of His per- 
 fections : on the other will dwindle into 
 insignificance, or only assert its presence 
 by its unworthiness and incongruity, my 
 own contemptible littleness, wayward- 
 ness, selfishness. Shall such an one as 
 He ever reach out His crook to reclaim 
 such an one as me ? Can my loathsome 
 wounds ever be touched or bound up by 
 His pure and heavenly hand ? And if 
 not, where is my soul's reliance ? where is 
 the comfort I want, where the guidance ? 
 So that our weak and suffering hu- 
 manity wants more than the conviction 
 that Jehovah is our Shepherd. More 
 is needed by the entire requirements 
 
46 THE GREAT SHEPHERD. 
 
 of the very similitude itself. What 
 were the shepherd, infinitely removed 
 from the sheep % Some great owner of 
 flocks, reigning elsewhere in unapproach- 
 able majesty 1 How could He thus be a 
 shepherd at all \ They look for Him in 
 their midst, reclining with them in their 
 green pastures, buffeting with the storm 
 that blinds them, caring daily and 
 nightly for their safety ; their danger 
 must be His danger, their lot His lot. 
 In one sense, as they are, so must He 
 be : of the same suffering flesh, of the 
 same feeling heart. Conviction of His 
 existence is not enough : even sight of 
 Him is not enough : reliance needs touch 
 for its assurance ; He must lay hold of 
 them, not merely by what He is, but 
 
THE GEEAT SHEPHERD. 
 
 also by what they are. And here is the 
 mystery of your inner being and of 
 mine, which the Incarnation and the Re- 
 surrection of the Son of God have solved 
 for us : solved, it is true, by a greater 
 mystery ; but raised us to the height of 
 that greater mystery by solving. Before 
 it was solved the two lay over against 
 one another, — Jehovah in His perfection, 
 the soul in her weakness, and un worthi- 
 ness, and sorrows. How is one to touch 
 the other ? Rather, how is the weaker 
 ever to regard the stronger without 
 shrinking and terror % But what if the 
 divine Shepherd have been Himself a 
 man of sorrows, and acquainted with 
 griefs What, if having Himself been 
 tempted, He know how to succour them 
 
48 THE GEEAT SHEPHERD. 
 
 that are tempted'? If He looks upon 
 the dark passages of trial and the peril- 
 ous footsteps of doubt and difficulty, not 
 from the infinite height of divine Omni- 
 science, but from the depths of His own 
 humiliation, His own dejection, His own 
 agony ? Will not God thus (strange to 
 say) have gained by becoming man that 
 knowledge of personal experience which 
 is the most powerful source of sympa- 
 thy % What encouragement would thus 
 be given to every fainting, every doubt- 
 ing, every unworthy and sinful soul in 
 the flock to pour out its griefs to the 
 Shepherd, to reach out the wounded 
 limb, and lay open the unwelcome sore, 
 for Him to bind up and to solace ! 
 And even so it is, my brethren. This 
 
THE GKEAT SHEPHEED. 49 
 
 further requisite than even divine per- 
 fection itself: this asking of the flock 
 for one to rely on who shares their 
 weaknesses, hath our Shepherd, in the 
 greatness of His love, provided for. He 
 is one of ourselves. All that man 
 feels as man, He hath felt likewise. The 
 avenues of temptation which were open 
 in Adam, were open in Him. All the 
 sinking of the burdened spirit, all the 
 shrinking from pain and suffering, all the 
 struggle of the human will against the 
 superior resolve of resigned obedience, 
 He has undergone in His own person. 
 So that when these, or the like of these, 
 are laid open to Him, He receives them. 
 He treats them, not only as God looking 
 down on His creatures with pity, but as 
 
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50 THE GREAT SHEPHERD. 
 
 man, yearning for them with sympathy. 
 Nor have His triumph and His passage 
 through the tomb endangered this part- 
 nership, or quenched these sympathies ; 
 nay, it is by virtue of this very victory 
 that He has put them on in their com- 
 pleteness. On that glorious Easter 
 morning, when He had but now assumed 
 the majesty of His resurrection- triumph, 
 and from the yonder bank of the river of 
 death, bright with immortal day and 
 unfading flowers, looked back on those 
 who had fled from Him in His hour 
 of trial, it was in no words of estrange- 
 ment or repudiation that He clothed His 
 message : " Go to my brethren, and say 
 unto them, that I ascend to my Father 
 and to your Father, to my God and 
 
THE GREAT SHEPHERD. 51 
 
 your God." He is still our Brother ; 
 His Father, still our Father ; His God, 
 still our God. 
 
 But even to this requisite one more par- 
 ticular is needful. What warrant have 
 I for knowing that the sympathy of this 
 Good Shepherd extends to me, — extends, 
 that is, to all His flock of mankind ? 
 His own griefs He has borne, His own 
 trials He has passed through, His own 
 temptations He has overcome ; but how 
 does this ensure that He can feel those of 
 all our race ? He, as man, was without 
 sin ; how do I know that He embraces 
 in His sympathy those who are carnal, 
 sold under sin ? The comparatively up- 
 right and pure, these may have a right 
 to come and claim His compassion for 
 
52 THE GREAT SHEPHEED. 
 
 their failings ; or His heart may be 
 larger than this, and having come to 
 seek and to save the lost, He may receive 
 many unworthy, many that are impure : 
 but how am I to be sure that He re- 
 ceives all ? And, if one of all mankind 
 be excluded, where is our claim to be 
 His, and to rely on Him % for may not 
 that excluded one be myself? Such a 
 matter as the soul's reliance must not 
 be imperilled on the uncertainty of 
 an inference, nor left to be accepted 
 or rejected on the mere surmise of 
 a greater or less degree of sympathy 
 and love. We are very weak and 
 very wayward in this matter of inward 
 trust, and no points will bear being left 
 unassured. The reason may have pro- 
 
THE GREAT SHEPHERD. 53 
 
 nounced all impregnable, but the heart 
 may still tremble with fatal misgiving. 
 That the Shepherd receives the guilty 
 and unworthy, may be held for a truth, 
 may be maintained against impugners, 
 may be proclaimed to others in their 
 doubt, while the very holder himself 
 lays not the truth to his own soul, — 
 has his own faithless escape from it. 
 " The guilty and the unworthy 1 Doubt- 
 less ; yet not such as I am." 
 
 And here, brethren, comes in the im- 
 portance of apprehending rightly the 
 great doctrine of the Lord's incarnation, 
 in all those particulars in which the 
 creeds of the Church have set it forth 
 and asserted it. It is the fashion of 
 our day to use much rhetoric and much 
 
54 THE GREAT SHEPHERD. 
 
 pathos respecting the love and gentle- 
 ness of our Blessed Lord, and to give 
 but a vague and hazy account of the 
 great doctrines on which rest our share 
 in His sympathy, and our claim to all 
 that He has done. Never was there a 
 time when these doctrines more required 
 distinct statement, and substantiating 
 by Scripture, by evidence, by the reason 
 of the case. It has become our duty to 
 reassert the objective reality of the cove- 
 nant which God has made with man in 
 Christ ; to secure once more the anchor- 
 age-ground for men's souls and hopes ; to 
 re-edify, if it may be, that temple which 
 foes are combining to attack and feeble 
 friends not scrupling to betray. I know 
 that the Lord Jesus is not only the good 
 
THE GREAT SHEPHEKD. 00 
 
 Shepherd, but that He is my Shepherd, 
 not only that there are some who may 
 cast themselves upon Him, but that I 
 may cast myself upon Him : — I know 
 this, because He took the manhood, our 
 whole nature, into Himself, into God. 
 Had He as God been pleased to dwell 
 in the person of an individual man, and 
 thus to be tempted and suffer and 
 triumph, — had such a thing as this been 
 conceivable, then would the righteous- 
 ness which He wrought out, and the 
 merit of His sacrifice in death, and the 
 triumph which he achieved over death, 
 have belonged to Himself alone. Every 
 mans personal being is insulated from 
 that of every other man ; and neither 
 the responsibilities, nor the trials, nor 
 
56 THE GKEAT SHEPHEKD. 
 
 the victories, of one man in his own 
 person can be transferred as personal 
 perfections to another. But the Son 
 of God did not this. He, remaining 
 one and the same divine Person, took 
 into that Divinity of His, not a distinct 
 human personality, but the human 
 nature, thus becoming its righteous 
 Head, and the seed of righteousness and 
 life and love in the whole of our man- 
 hood. So that when He obeyed, when 
 He was smitten for sin, when He over- 
 came death, it was not for Himself, it 
 was not for us as a personal human sub- 
 stitute : His humanity was not limited, 
 but included all of us : His obedience 
 is ours, His satisfaction for sin is our 
 redemption, His victory over death is 
 
THE GREAT SHEPHERD. 57 
 
 life and immortality to us : so that " as 
 in Adam all die, even so/' in the same 
 inclusive manner, "in Christ shall all be 
 made alive." And if I ask now what 
 warrant have I for looking upon Christ 
 as my Shepherd — what warrant for 
 knowing that His divine power, that 
 His human sympathies, are mine \ the 
 question is answered, the doubt is set 
 at rest, with the reception of the true 
 doctrine of the Lord's incarnation and 
 the Lord's resurrection in our human- 
 ity. God made of one blood all nations 
 on the earth. That one blood flowed in 
 the veins of the Son of God : that one 
 blood was shed for sin on the cross : that 
 one blood beat with our pulses, throbbed 
 with our anguish, is His and ours in its 
 
58 THE GREAT SHEPHERD. 
 
 oneness. Therefore in Christ there is 
 neither Jew nor Greek, neither bond nor 
 free, neither male nor female, but in Him 
 all are one. Here then is my warrant 
 for knowing that all that temptation, 
 all that suffering, all that purchasing of 
 peace by His sacrifice, and sealing it by 
 His triumph, extends to me, extends to 
 every one who, with the poison of sin 
 tainting him, shall turn and look on the 
 Son of God. And my brethren, what 
 strong consolation again is here! My 
 warrant for committing myself to this 
 good Shepherd is not the degree of my 
 apprehension of His power, or of His 
 love, or of His sympathy ; is nothing 
 that I have gone through, nothing that 
 I have attained unto, nothing that, un- 
 
THE GREAT SHEPHERD. 59 
 
 less I reject Him against myself, I can 
 lose : it is not an individual conformity, 
 but it is the taking up of a covenant 
 right, the entering into and becoming 
 possessed of a purchased inheritance. 
 
 And, being all this to us, to every 
 one of us,, being Jehovah our Shepherd, 
 being man as we are, having taken into 
 Himself, and bearing upon Him, our 
 whole humanity, He acquired us as His 
 flock, He purchased every one of us with 
 the price of His own blood ; He shed it, 
 not as a mere example of love, but to 
 bring us out of ruin and guilt into the 
 favour of God and a standing in His 
 accepted righteousness. Here again is 
 a doctrine which it is in our day the 
 fashion to speak of, if at all, vaguely and 
 
60 THE GREAT SHEPHERD. 
 
 obscurely : to cover up with flowers of 
 rhetoric, so that it may or may not be 
 recognized beneath them. Christ's Death 
 is in our time much treated and well, 
 but far too often timidly, in a half satis- 
 fied and shrinking manner. But, my 
 brethren, unless His death were this sacri- 
 fice, unless the Good Shepherd thus laid 
 down His life on behalf of the sheep, 
 unless His resurrection testified to our 
 acceptance, I submit to you that this 
 Christianity of ours is a delusion ; we are 
 not His flock, nor the sheep of His 
 pasture. It is by His Death that He 
 has purchased us, by His Resurrection 
 that the purchase is declared complete 
 and the Surety released ; it is by bring- 
 ing again from the dead the great 
 
THE GEEAT SHEPHERD. 61 
 
 Shepherd of the sheep, that God hath 
 become to us the God of peace. 
 
 I have spoken to-day entirely of that 
 which our Shepherd is to each of us in 
 His own person : of what He is, rather 
 than of that which He does, in His 
 pastoral office : of what we are to believe 
 of Him, rather than of that which we are 
 to seek in Him. The wants and weak- 
 ness of our various characters, and how 
 they may be supplied and strengthened 
 by the having Him for our Shepherd, — 
 this, the larger and more varied portion 
 of our subject, yet remains. 
 
 May God prepare us for the fitting 
 consideration of it, by impressing on us, 
 and carrying into our hearts, that which 
 we have already heard. 
 
III. 
 
 2Tf)trtr Stmtiajj after faster, 
 
 THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEER 
 
 i ■ My sheep hear my voice, and I 
 know them, and they follow 
 me : and I give unto them 
 eternal life ; and they shall 
 never perish, neither shall 
 any man pluck them out of 
 my hand." — John x. 27,28. 
 
 llTE considered last Sunday the 
 pastoral office of our risen Lord, 
 treating it mainly with reference to the 
 individual Christian life. And we had 
 advanced thus far. Premising that yearn- 
 
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP. 63 
 
 ing for reliance, guidance, sympathy, 
 which is natural to all of us, we saw that 
 our Shepherd is one on whom our souls 
 may unreservedly lean, for He has all 
 power, and wisdom, and goodness, being 
 by the very terms of His declaration of 
 Himself as the Good Shepherd, our Lord 
 and God. We saw too, that He is one 
 not infinitely removed from us, but be- 
 tween whom and ourselves subsist the 
 tender sympathies of our common 
 humanity, being Himself man. And we 
 insisted, as a result of the true doctrine of 
 His incarnation, that He is not confined 
 in these sympathies, or in the work that 
 He has wrought for us, to the limits of 
 His own personal being, for He took not 
 the person of a man, but our whole man- 
 
64 THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP. 
 
 hood, into His personal Godhead, so that 
 we all have a claim and a share in Him. 
 And lastly, we saw that His possession of 
 us as His flock is not of mere antecedent 
 right, in that He hath made us, but one 
 of right resulting from a definite act of 
 His, by which He hath purchased us out 
 of the possession of another into His own : 
 viz., His Death for our redemption. 
 
 So far we seem to have been laying the 
 foundations and setting out the great 
 constituent truths, of this His office, and 
 of our standing as the sheep of His 
 pasture. We shall to-day be employed in 
 following out some of the practical results 
 of these truths, and in raising the 
 building of our personal lives on those 
 foundations. 
 
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP. 65 
 
 A preliminary remark is needed on a 
 very common defect in our thoughts of 
 our Blessed Lord : I mean, the confining 
 them too much to the past and the future, 
 to the neglect of what is present. What 
 He was, and said, and did, in His mani- 
 festation upon earth, cannot be too much 
 studied by us, for on this depends all we 
 know of Him, and on this our trust is 
 grounded. What He will be in His 
 future coming and our gathering together 
 to Him, and completion in Him, should 
 be ever kept in our view, for it is the 
 substance of our hopes, the fruit of our 
 labours, the consolation of our disappoint- 
 ments and sorrows. But both these, the 
 thought of Him in the past, and the 
 thought of Him in the future, only then 
 
66 THE SHEPHEED AND HIS SHEEP. 
 
 become real powers influencing our hearts 
 and lives, when they are bound together, 
 and animated, by regard to Him as He is 
 in the present. If this be, as so often it 
 is, omitted, our knowledge of Him is con- 
 fined to the region of speculation, and 
 does not spread into that of action. What 
 He is to us now, where He is now, what 
 He is at this moment doing, what we 
 ought to be doing and feeling towards 
 Him, in the present, and as present, these 
 are the really profitable inquiries for the 
 Christian man, and without these in some 
 measure subsisting, we cannot be, in any 
 worthy sense, His disciples. Happy is he, 
 whose current conception of the world and 
 all that is therein, is never without Him in 
 whom the universe is gathered together, 
 
 
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP. 67 
 
 and by whom all tilings consist ; lie in 
 whose inward world of passing ideas and 
 images shaped by thought, sits ever su- 
 preme that human glorified Form, which 
 in some blessed place even now shares the 
 throne of the Father. For that man best 
 enters into, that man only in truth makes 
 real to himself, the fact on which we would 
 dwell first to-day, that this good Shepherd 
 is ever present with His flock, and with 
 every member of it. " Lo I am with you 
 alway, all the days, even until the con- 
 summation of the world/' The particular 
 method of this presence should, of course, 
 come into consideration in its place : but 
 meantime we all should be infinite gainers 
 in our inward lives by accepting the say- 
 ing in its simplicity as He uttered it ; 
 
68 THE SHEPHEKD AND HIS SHEEP. 
 
 that, be the manner and method what 
 it may, He, He Himself, is ever present : 
 the Shepherd, always with His flock. 
 " Where two or three are gathered 
 in His name, there is He in the midst 
 of them/' When we seek our soli- 
 tude, we escape not from Him ; when 
 we walk by the way, He is our com- 
 panion ; ever standing by, ever looking 
 into our face with His, approvingly, re- 
 proachingly, as we in thought, in word, 
 in deed, confess Him or deny Him. But 
 more, far more. He is not a mute inactive 
 witness, as He stands by us, as He walks 
 with us ; He is our ever present Shepherd : 
 tending us, feeding us, reclaiming us ; not 
 there to be ministered unto, but to 
 minister. Blessed are they who hourly 
 
THE SHEPHERD AXD HIS SHEEP. 69 
 
 look for His ministrations : blessed, who 
 in the haunts of men, and in the secret 
 chamber, listen for His gentle whisper, rise 
 up and sit down at His reminding touch, 
 feed upon Him by faith in His abiding 
 Sacrifice, go out and come in with Him 
 to lead them. 
 
 And thus we pass to our main subject: 
 the acts of the Good Shepherd in His 
 present dealing with the individual soul ; 
 and the attitude of the soul towards her 
 Shepherd. These are summed up for us 
 by Himself in my text, but have been 
 given now in detail in the discourse of 
 which these words form the close. 
 
 The most comprehensive of these His 
 acts is, guiding. "My sheep hear my 
 voice, and I know them, and they follow 
 
70 THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP. 
 
 * 
 
 me." They hear His voice. But what 
 has that voice uttered ? How has it 
 addressed them ? " He calleth His sheep 
 by name." " By name." The name of 
 each one of us is, when we come to think 
 of it, a strange and mysterious thing. 
 One of those words which we hear the 
 oftenest, but which carries us into the 
 depth of our personality. By its utter- 
 ance, we grasp the very person himself. 
 " Jesus stood and said, Mary. She an- 
 swered to Him, Rabboni." If with any 
 of you, in the midst of carelessness or 
 dissipation, of the pouring forth of un- 
 hallowed words, or the revelling in for- 
 bidden thoughts, a soft voice from the 
 home fireside were to whisper the accus- 
 tomed name, how would sin start up as 
 
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP. 71 
 
 at the touch of the spear-point; how 
 would the gentle waters of affection re- 
 turn and murmur again over their bed 
 which the waster had scorched ! And 
 we further characterize that which is our 
 closest and most personal name, — we call 
 it our Christian name. Its sound tells 
 us that we are His, brings with it the 
 covenant in which we stand with Him : 
 lets us not forget, that we are sheep of His 
 pasture. Observe how this individual- 
 izes His regard for His flock : how again 
 it puts each of us into a relation with 
 Him of intimate knowledge, and as it 
 were daily and hourly love. He calls us, 
 as a mother calls her child : as a man 
 calls his friend. He has a voice which 
 cannot be mistaken by any one of 
 
72 THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP. 
 
 us : a voice whose sound tells of our 
 own character and of our own wants : 
 a tone of love stirring our love in 
 return. 
 
 And what says this voice to every one 
 of us, my brethren ? When we hear 
 our own name pronounced, when we can- 
 not but turn and look, when the attitude 
 of our souls is, " Speak, Lord, for thy 
 servant heareth," what command has He 
 for each of us ? Simply this, " Follow 
 Me." " He goeth before, and the sheep 
 follow Him, for they know His voice." 
 Very various are our paths in life ; but 
 in front of every one of His sheep is the 
 Shepherd, leading the way. Is our life 
 active business, unremitting study, self- 
 denying obedience ? He goeth before. 
 
THE SHEPHEKD AXD HIS SHEEP. 73 
 
 Thirty unobserved years were spent by 
 Him in diligent subjection to ordinary 
 duties. Follow Him. Is it patient suf- 
 fering 1 Behold Him on the road, bow- 
 ing under His cross. Is it to bear neg- 
 lect and scorn ; to endure being under- 
 valued and set aside ? See, where the 
 proud and self-asserting are thronging 
 thickest, a tender plant springing up, 
 crushed and trodden by their feet : that 
 is He ; be thou content to be as He 
 was. Is thy lot, to wait patiently the 
 hour of dismissal, — earth receding and 
 fading away, — eternity closer and larger 
 each hour \ Look up, and thou shalt still 
 see the well-known Form passing into 
 the dark valley before thee. The same 
 words, "Follow Me," have ten thousand 
 
74 THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP. 
 
 varying tones, according as they are 
 spoken to the varieties of human charac- 
 ter and calling. The sheep follow Him ; 
 for they know His voice. 
 
 And this going before them is not 
 for encouragement only ; it is also for 
 guidance : for pointing out to us, and 
 conducting us to, the green pastures and 
 the waters of comfort : for teaching us 
 what to seek and what to avoid. But 
 we need wisdom, and trust, and patience, 
 to discriminate, and to lean upon, and to 
 wait for, this guidance of our Shepherd. 
 For though it is ever present, we do not 
 always perceive it : though it is unerring, 
 we do not always trust it : though it is 
 never delayed beyond its time, we are 
 not disposed always to be patient till 
 
THE SHEPHEED AND HIS SHEEP. 75 
 
 it is vouchsafed. " My sheep hear my 
 voice/' So they do, in the main, and 
 when they bethink themselves, and when 
 they are faithful to Him, and when they 
 are listening for Him : but very often in 
 our course we forget ourselves, and our 
 ears are inattentive, and we are unfaith- 
 ful, and listening for any voice rather 
 than His guiding call. And then we 
 mistake the deceiver s voice for His : or 
 He speaks, and we perceive it not, and 
 rise not up to follow. His guidance 
 again may not come exactly when, nor 
 exactly as, we expect it. In our weak- 
 ness, we may then feel most bewildered, 
 when we are going safest and surest. 
 It is not always a straight nor an easy 
 path along which our Shepherd leads 
 
76 THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP. 
 
 us. Our feet may be cut by the rocks, 
 our limbs may be torn by the brambles : 
 His were, who goes before us : and why 
 should we think it strange ? But we do 
 think it strange : and often, when closest 
 to His guiding hand, if we become weary, 
 or if obstacles meet us, or if the path 
 take unexpected turns, we fancy our- 
 selves abandoned, and His guidance with- 
 drawn. And there are errors the other 
 way also. Many an one of Christ's flock 
 has believed himself to be under His 
 special guidance, when he was not so : 
 has gone out of the way, and fallen into 
 mischief, for want of better discerning 
 the signs of the Shepherd's presence. 
 
 Nor again does He always guide us 
 as we expected. We lay down rules 
 
THE SHEPHEED AND HIS SHEEP. Ti 
 
 for His action : but His ways are not 
 our ways. We expect Him ever to be 
 seen in the direction where we are look- 
 ing, to be heard in the quarter to which 
 our ear is directed. But where would 
 be our growth and ripening in wis- 
 dom, if we were never left to learn the 
 way for ourselves ? There are circum- 
 stances, where no apparent guidance is 
 the very best guidance. And He knows 
 when these occur, and guides us, but 
 not as we expect. And thus His voice 
 oftentimes speaks under disguise, and we 
 are in danger of missing it. When we 
 stray from Him and He would guide 
 us back, He does not always meet us 
 in His own person, nor speak in His 
 own tone. There is for us no special 
 
78 THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP. 
 
 recognition of Him : no "Domine quo 
 vadis" encountering of Him. Some 
 casual sound penetrated thy soul and 
 raised questioning : some wayside sight 
 recalled thy better thoughts : some faith- 
 ful word of a friend, or some malicious 
 word of a foe, made thee for a moment 
 to stand and ponder : some pictured in- 
 cident, or some book in a street window, 
 threw a flitting line of change across 
 thy thoughts : it was the Lord : it was 
 thy Shepherd guiding thee, not as thou 
 lookedst for Him, but none the less 
 certainly, none the less safely. Blessed 
 are they who, in life's difficulties and 
 life's temptations, are patient to listen for 
 His guidance, wise to discern His voice ; 
 who have the energy to arise when He 
 
THE SHEPHEKD AXD HIS SHEEP. 79 
 
 calls, and the endurance to follow whither- 
 soever He goeth. 
 
 Again; this going before His sheep is 
 not only for example, not only for guid- 
 ance, but also for defence. Our Shep- 
 herd is our Captain. He guides us into 
 our promised pastures : but He goes 
 before us armed. The perils of the 
 wilderness pastures w^ere in His mind 
 when He said of His sheep, "They 
 shall never perish, neither shall any 
 pluck them out of mine hand." What- 
 ever dangers, whatever enemies beset 
 each of us, He is sufficient for all. Day 
 by day He is fighting for us. We know 
 
 not how often His arm protects us. We 
 
 ft 
 
 attribute to our own strength deliver- 
 ances which He alone has wrought. All 
 
80 THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP. 
 
 our weak points are open to Him : at 
 each of them He sets His watch, though 
 we may relax our vigilance : and He 
 takes care to remind us of them, though 
 in our self-confidence we may forget 
 them. 
 
 But here again let us take good heed, 
 that we understand well against what 
 enemies He defends us. It is part of our 
 weakness, to mistake friends for foes, and 
 foes for friends. Only the unerring eye of 
 our Shepherd can discern the one from 
 the other. Our sight is perverted by self- 
 interest and earthly passions. We think it 
 hard that we are not allowed to embrace 
 the very weapons of the enemy, and we 
 fret and chafe at the faithful words of 
 our best friends. Against tribulations, 
 
THE SHEPHERD AXD HIS SHEEP. 81 
 
 against crosses, against bereavements, thy 
 Shepherd and Captain will not defend 
 thee. For these are not thine enemies : 
 these are his messengers : the drawings of 
 His crook, and the admonitions of His rod. 
 It will be often against prosperity, against 
 ease and comfort, against self-reliance, 
 against thine own good opinion, against 
 the praise and honour that come from 
 men, that thy Shepherd will rise up and 
 defend thee. When all seems smoothest, 
 when thou hast achieved thy success, 
 when thou hast entered into thy Paradise, 
 and walkest up and down in thy Babylon, 
 then shall come a blow, whence thou least 
 expected it, from a hand unrevealed to 
 thee. Be not terrified : it was not dealt 
 on thee, but for thee ; not by one coming 
 
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82 THE SHEPHEKD AND HIS SHEEP. 
 
 against thee, but by one who fights by 
 thy side. The crash that carried thee to 
 the ground with it, was not thy ruin, but 
 the enemy's : was the shivering of the 
 sword which was lifted against thee, the 
 snapping of the chain which the foe was 
 casting round thee. Look up — the sky is 
 clear, and thou art free. We load our- 
 selves with things which are not for our 
 good, and gird on us unproved armour 
 and fancy that our bane is our treasure : 
 but He knows what is the real immortal 
 gem within us, — how much of us is His, 
 and will endure unto the end : and that 
 it is which He preserves, and fences about, 
 and keeps as the apple of His eye. All else 
 in his sight is cumbrous and superfluous : 
 and therefore, in his defence of us, He 
 
THE SHEPHERD AXD HIS SHEEP. 83 
 
 strips us down to our real selves : pulls off 
 all the untried armour, all the tinsel which 
 we have fastened on : leaves us alone, yet 
 not alone, — for He is with us, and under 
 us are His everlasting arms. 
 
 And on the other hand, who shall deny, 
 that there are times when there can be 
 no mistaking the enemy, — when the 
 battle rages fiercely, — when we and our 
 soul's adversaries are standing foot to 
 foot, and our strength fails, because the 
 foe is too much for us % Times when not 
 temper only but faith itself is tried ! 
 when not our comfort, but our life is in 
 danger : not our good report, but His 
 holy name is imperilled ? Here again, let 
 us not be mistaken. If He permits such 
 assaults, it is not because He has aban- 
 
84 THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP. 
 
 doned our defence, but because He 
 knows best how to conduct it. If He is 
 a Captain, He must have soldiers. By 
 these passages of arms, He is training us ; 
 He is proving our part in Him, He is 
 preparing us for triumph and honour. He 
 • knows how much we can bear, and when 
 to lift His arm in our behalf. 
 
 Then again, besides guiding, besides 
 defending, He governs His flock. He is 
 our Master whom we serve ; our King 
 whom we obey. In the heart of each one 
 of His flock is the inquiry ever being made, 
 " What saith my Lord 2 " And in this 
 matter of seeking out and doing His will, 
 we are perhaps in more danger of care- 
 lessness and forgetfulness at a time, and 
 in a land, where His words have become 
 
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP. 85 
 
 the rules and maxims of Christian public 
 opinion, than we should have been, where 
 those words were as vet scorned and 
 laughed at. When His voice rang loud 
 and clear in men's consciences as a testi- 
 mony against prevalent moral abomina- 
 tions, the appeal to His laws as King of His 
 people was more direct and obvious than it 
 is now. Are we to some extent living in 
 purity and peace \ We are in danger of 
 ascribing it to mere human progress, and 
 leaving Him out. And thus we become 
 careless about obeying Him in cases where 
 the world still knows Him not, — cases 
 where He has commanded things with 
 which it has no sympathy, or forbidden 
 what it still practises. AVe, who are the 
 sheep of His pasture, should remember, 
 
86 THE SHEPHEED AND HIS SHEET. 
 
 that all human progress is measured simply 
 by how best men obey Him : morality 
 advances, in proportion as His pure words 
 are observed : science advances, in pro- 
 portion as men search after God aright, 
 in proportion as they are patient and 
 diligent, and fearless and true, after the 
 example and command of Him who is 
 Truth itself. We shall then be in the 
 central line of true human progress, when 
 we are found in the way of His command- 
 ments. 
 
 There is one remaining particular in 
 the Good Shepherd's declaration of Him- 
 self, and dealing with His flock, coming 
 closer perhaps to the individual heart 
 than any yet considered. " I know them." 
 Not one of them escapes His notice or 
 
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP. 87 
 
 His remembrance. Not only does He 
 
 ■ 
 
 know them in the sense of the words, " the 
 Lord knoweth them that are His;' but 
 their whole being in all its depths lies 
 open to Him. " I know my sheep and 
 am known of mine, even as the Father 
 knoweth me and I am known of the 
 Father/' It is ever a drawback to our 
 trust and reliance in any fellow- creature, 
 that we are not and cannot be thoroughly 
 known. However close the accord, how- 
 ever warm the sympathy, still in some 
 measure the heart is a fountain closed, 
 a garden sealed. And all through 
 our wider intercourse with mankind 
 prevails the fear of being misunder- 
 stood ; of having wrong motives as- 
 cribed to us ; of our disinterestedness 
 
88 THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP. 
 
 being read as intrigue, kindness as self- 
 seeking, clear conscience as hypocrisy. 
 But in our inward dealings with our 
 Shepherd, we have the strong consola- 
 tion that all such apprehension is abso- 
 lutely precluded. It is a charm, and if 
 I may so say, a luxury of the intercourse 
 of the soul with Him, that while of its 
 weaknesses and sins none can be held 
 back or concealed, all its truth, and love, 
 and tenderness, and generous emotions 
 may be taken for granted, and, though 
 humbly, yet boldly asserted. " Lord, 
 Thou knowest all things : Thou knowest 
 that I love Thee." And it adds to this 
 entireness of confidence, when we reflect 
 that He who now thus knows us, shall 
 one day in the fulness of this knowledge, 
 
THE SHEPHERD AXD HIS SHEEP. 89 
 
 judge us ; that He who has guided and 
 defended and ruled us, shall also appor- 
 tion our final doom. For thus our trust 
 is one and unbroken throughout time 
 and eternity : is unbounded as His power, 
 unlimited as His knowledge, uncon- 
 strained as His love. 
 
 Compare for one moment, for I know 
 not how better to conclude our medita- 
 tions on our Good Shepherd, the recent 
 language of one who was formerly among 
 ourselves, but now from other and less 
 pure pastures vainly calls to us to join 
 him.* Maintaining, strange to say, that 
 mans confidence in the Mother of our 
 Lord may be greater and more unre- 
 served than that reposed on our Lord 
 # Newman, Letter to Dr. Pusey on his " Eirenicon." 
 
90 THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP. 
 
 Himself, " We look to her," he writes, 
 " without any fear, any remorse, any con- 
 sciousness that she is able to read us, 
 judge us, punish us." 
 
 O vain and limited confidence ! 
 treacherous and unworthy reliance! 
 rash and suicidal confession ! For does 
 not every word here supply its own refu- 
 tation in the fulness and blessedness of 
 our trust in our Divine Shepherd, and 
 in none beside Him ? 
 
 We look to Him, it is true, with fear : 
 but with that fear, which should ever 
 temper unreserved reliance ; and with 
 fear out of which He hath taken the 
 terror ; fear which keeps us mindful that 
 our Shepherd is our God. We look to 
 Him with remorse, it is true : but the 
 
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 fountain opened on His Cross has turned 
 its knawing bitterness into the whole- 
 some tears of loving penitence : we 
 look to Him with, and because of, con- 
 sciousness that He is able to read us : 
 that there is no bar between our souls 
 and Him : that His infinite compassion 
 only is the measure of His infinite 
 knowledge. We look to Him the more 
 earnestly, the more lovingly, because we 
 believe that He shall come to be our 
 Judge, He who has led us, and fed us 
 with Himself, and fought for us with 
 His sheltering hand : and finally we look 
 to Him though He is able to punish us, 
 without dread of that His power • for 
 " there is no condemnation to them that 
 are in Christ Jesus" 
 
IV. 
 
 JFourtfj Stmtias after faster. 
 
 EXPEDIENCY OF THE LOKD's REMOVAL. 
 
 " It is expedient for you that I 
 go away: for if I go not 
 away, the Comforter will 
 not come unto you." — 
 John xvi. 7. 
 
 TTTHILE insisting last Sunday on the 
 importance of accepting as a simple 
 truth the constant presence of the Good 
 Shepherd with His flock, I observed, that 
 the particular method of this presence 
 must of course come into consideration in 
 
THE LOED S REMOVAL. 
 
 its order. And as we are now approach- 
 ing the Festival of the Ascension, it will 
 not be out of place to inquire into this 
 matter, and so to prepare our minds for 
 rightly celebrating that joyful commemo- 
 ration. 
 
 Our blessed Lord came upon earth, and 
 suffered, and triumphed, that He might 
 prepare to Himself and for His glory a 
 flock whom He was to lead, and defend, 
 and govern. It now appears (for we are 
 fully justified in interpreting His pur- 
 poses by the light of experience and 
 history) that He intended this His flock 
 to continue many centuries in the state 
 of trial before He should come to take it 
 to Himself. And as regards His imme- 
 diate disciples whom He left behind 
 
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 Him, it appears to have been His inten- 
 tion not only that an entire change 
 should take place in their thoughts of 
 Him and of themselves, but that by 
 means of them should be begun a far 
 greater change, to be wrought on the 
 entire mass of mankind ; gradual in- 
 deed and imperceptible in its progress, 
 but working onward until it embraced 
 all within its operation. And this change 
 was to advance according to the laws 
 of the spirit of man which was to be 
 influenced by it. Not by might, not by 
 power, not by external force of any kind, 
 but, so to speak, taking its chance in the 
 crowd of influences ; trusting to persua- 
 sion, winning its way by gaining mens 
 hearts ; content to be opposed, baffled, 
 
lord's removal. 95 
 
 put down, then springing up through the 
 gates of its prison, twining round and 
 concealing the very obstacles which 
 barred its path : still in its main and 
 most successful careeer, unseen, unboasted 
 of; then surest to be corrupted when 
 made the vaunt or the rallying-cry of 
 men, then certain to become firm and 
 fresh and vigorous when despised and 
 persecuted and put down. And if in the 
 long course of the ages, this influence 
 needed men for its fellow- workers, and 
 the pulses of human hearts to carry on 
 its great harmonies from generation to 
 generation, they were those of the deeper 
 and quieter kind, of whom the world hears 
 not, or hears but seldom. Just as in the 
 outskirts of the grove in spring the shade 
 
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 is restless and dazzling, and the odours 
 are scattered, and the songs of the birds 
 come fitfully on the ear, because the 
 winds are lashing the plains ; but in the 
 deep recesses of the forest, the shadows 
 are massed in calm, and the odours lie 
 about us as a dream, and the nightin- 
 gale's song sounds like the power that 
 hushes the breeze, and the heart com- 
 munes with nature and is still : even so 
 is it with the trees of the garden where 
 the Lord God walketh. Still and deep 
 are the retreats in man's spirit where 
 He possesses all by His presence. Men 
 vaunt before the world, but He is not in 
 their hearts : men lift the arm in zeal, 
 but the sword of the Lord deals not the 
 stroke : men run to and fro and fret them- 
 
lord's removal. 97 
 
 selves, but their wrath worketh not His 
 righteousness. Clamour, and controversy, 
 and excitement, ravel out the web of His 
 seamless garment, ruffle the wings of 
 His sweet messengers of peace, wreck the 
 odours from the fields of heaven on their 
 way to us. Not by rapid and visible 
 courses, not by world-famed and blazoned 
 victories, not mainly by decisions of courts 
 and decrees of councils, have the churches 
 grown in grace, and the flock in know- 
 ledge of its Shepherd ; but by centuries 
 of living experience and loving sacrifice, 
 by the blessed testimonies of despised 
 lives and unknown deaths, by the accu- 
 mulating force of irresistible persuasion, 
 the hollowing of the great rock by the 
 — gentle rain from heaven. The matters 
 
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98 EXPEDIENCY OF THE 
 
 that men boast of, they it is that fall 
 away, that perish, that pass out of mind : 
 the matters that God conceals, they it 
 is that grow onward, that endure, that 
 shall be had in everlasting remem- 
 brance. 
 
 "It is expedient for you that I go 
 away." His bodily presence in the flesh 
 was necessary for them, for us. But as 
 long as He was with them in the flesh, 
 man talking with man, it was a dispen- 
 sation of sense, and not of spirit. Eye 
 reflected eye, mouth spoke to mouth, 
 hand was laid upon hand ; and such in- 
 ward emotions as the evidence of the 
 senses generates at its highest and best, 
 these were doubtless theirs : but the 
 Lord Himself, the Lord God, He that was 
 
lord's removal. 99 
 
 begotten of God from eternity, touched 
 them not, till He was ascended to His 
 Father and their Father, and His God 
 and their God. There was no contact 
 of spirit with spirit : and when you and 
 I kneel in our chambers and call in our 
 thoughts after the turmoil of the day, 
 and the sweet sense of His presence 
 spreads over our souls like balm over the 
 pangs of a wound, and our spirit speaks 
 and His Spirit answers, we have nearer 
 communion with Him than the multi- 
 tude that thronged Him of old, — nearer 
 than the Twelve who were His friends, — 
 nearer than that one of the Twelve, who 
 lay upon His breast, and whispered to 
 Him. None of the great events of His 
 course and of our redemption drew down 
 
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 what the lispiog prayer of a Christian 
 child can draw down now. The sun hid 
 his face when the cross was lifted on 
 Calvary, and the earth trembled ; but 
 the Spirit was not in the darkness — the 
 Comforter came not in the earthquake. 
 The raiment of angels gleamed round 
 about Jerusalem on the resurrection 
 morning, and the Lord looked forth once 
 and again from the hiding-place of His 
 majesty : but the Spirit came not with 
 the Resurrection : the Comforter entered 
 not at the closed doors when He stood in 
 the midst of them. Gradually, as the 
 Lord withdrew, like tint on tint when 
 the glorious sun is departing, came forth 
 the blessed influence : then hearts began 
 to burn as He talked by the way, and 
 
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 understandings opened and took in the 
 things concerning the kingdom of God, 
 and the preliminary earnest and symbol 
 of the Spirit was breathed on them in a 
 stream of life by His breath. Would 
 we know what those forty days wrought ? 
 At the beginning of them, because He 
 announced His departure, sorrow filled 
 the disciples' heart : at the end of them, 
 when they had seen the cloud receive 
 Him out of their sight, they returned 
 to Jerusalem with great joy, and were in 
 the temple, blessing and praising God. 
 What new seeds of knowledge, what 
 fresh springs of love, what forgetfulness 
 of themselves, what concentration of 
 thought and feeling upon Him, must 
 have supervened ! 
 
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 And on another account it was best 
 that He should be withdrawn. By 
 human agency, visible and palpable, it 
 was the will of the Lord to spread 
 the knowledge of Himself and the 
 faith over the world ; by the feeble- 
 ness of human energy, by the foolishness 
 of human preaching. Not the voice that 
 stilled the waves, not the voice that 
 called Lazarus out of his tomb, not the 
 voice whose confession of Himself struck 
 the adversaries to the ground, was to 
 wrangle with the contradictors in the 
 synagogues, and argue down the blas- 
 phemers in the market-places ; but those 
 faltering voices that cried " Save Lord, 
 we perish ;" that voice of one who thrice 
 called out "I know not the man :" the 
 
lord's removal. 103 
 
 voice of another, whose bodily presence 
 was weak and his speech contemptible : 
 not a preacher of whom it should be 
 said, " Never man spake like this man," 
 but one of whom men should question, 
 " What will this babbler say ?" And, my 
 brethren, we may carry on this thought 
 yet further. The religion which was first 
 grounded on things seen and heard, the 
 religion whose early struggles were 
 helped by vision and voice divine, must 
 yet, for its progress and the perfection 
 of its work, be thoroughly weaned from 
 things seen and heard : must learn to look 
 for no vision, to listen for no oracle from 
 above. If Spirit is to speak to spirit, if 
 God is to dwell with man, then it must 
 be no still lingering sign from the glori- 
 
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 fied Person of the Redeemer, which must 
 either summon, or retain, or encourage, or 
 perfect, the sheep of His flock : no appa- 
 rition of Himself, no manifest token of 
 His will, must stand between our spirit 
 and His Spirit : He will not have us super- 
 stitious, He will not have us decoyed by 
 sense, He will not have our thoughts in- 
 tent on His accidents, but on His sub- 
 stance. And therefore as years went on, 
 and the faith in Him became established, 
 His Spirit left off to work by outward gifts 
 in apostles and holy men; He called in His 
 provisional forces, and set up His assured 
 and final reign in the hearts of mankind. 
 It was no longer the shadow of Peter 
 passing by, but the stirring up by Peter 
 of the pure minds by way of remem- 
 
lord's removal. 105 
 
 brance ; no longer handkerchiefs from 
 the body of Paul, but his beseeching by 
 the meekness and gentleness of Christ. 
 And thus it was expedient for us 
 that He should entirely go away : that 
 not only He himself should be with- 
 drawn, but also those who had seen 
 Him, and those that wrought miracles 
 in His name : expedient, that the Church 
 which had known Christ after the flesh, 
 should know Him so no longer : that 
 every tint of that glory, which rose over 
 the pastures of Bethlehem, should fade 
 away behind the brow of the Mount 
 of Olives : that the Lord, and His glit- 
 tering retinue, should pass into the 
 cloud, and be received out of our sight, 
 — and the disciples of the Lord through 
 
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 all the ages should walk not by sense 
 but by faith. 
 
 And if it was thus expedient that He 
 should be removed away, and that the 
 work He did among us should be left so 
 to speak in charge of another, another to 
 strengthen and teach and console us, let 
 us not lose the lesson which this would 
 teach us, nor be slow to perceive its bear- 
 ing on the time in which our lot is cast. 
 He is gone from us, and with Him the 
 whole class of influences are gone 
 which He exerted when present and 
 as present, and have given place to 
 others. The eternal verities which He 
 uttered and lived, these indeed have not 
 departed, these can never depart : once 
 sown on earth, they grow, they spread, 
 
lord's removal. 107 
 
 and the nations take shelter in their 
 branches ; but they are described for us, 
 they are not spoken to us. We have 
 lost from them the sweet tone of His 
 voice, the loving light of His eye, the 
 winning charm of His present example. 
 All that purely personal trust is gone, 
 which asserted itself when Peter vaunted, 
 and betrayed itself when Peter denied. 
 We have passed, as we said, into a re- 
 gion of higher trust, and of closer con- 
 tact. Let us then at least be consis- 
 tent. Let us not show ourselves un- 
 worthy of our preferment by despising 
 it ; by hankering after the lower state 
 of sensuous evidence and manifestation. 
 Hitherto, of what we have lost : and 
 now let us bestow some further words 
 
108 EXPEDIENCY OF THE 
 
 on it, but as compared with that which 
 we have gained. " If I go not away, the 
 Comforter will not come unto you." The 
 eye and the ear and the touch and the 
 taste — through these the Comforter comes 
 not : these may be His aids when present, 
 but they are not His avenues of ap- 
 proach ; even though the Lord Himself 
 were their object. So then, this price we 
 have paid for whatever privilege has been 
 won for us : the withdrawal of the Lord : 
 ages upon ages, and no sign of His per- 
 sonal presence ; " No more talk with God 
 or angel guest :" silence, and the dreary 
 round of common things, and the world 
 buying and selling about us, and hope 
 deferred, and the scoff of the unbeliever, 
 " Where is the promise of His coming V 
 
lord's removal. 109 
 
 But He also said, " If I go away, I 
 will send Him unto you." In the 
 midst of all this apparent discourage- 
 ment, the still small voice : no age with- 
 out it, no age utterly disregardful of it : 
 mens spirits irresistibly softened by its 
 pleading whispers : the change of our 
 human into His divine gradually carried 
 on, even unto the end. And of all this, 
 the Lord's withdrawal from among us is 
 the necessary condition. 
 
 Let us illustrate this in some of the 
 chief departments of the work of the 
 Comforter. And first, as to His teach- 
 ing office. We are apt to think that 
 no teaching could ever equal that of 
 our Blessed Lord in His own per- 
 son. To have seen that mild and 
 
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 gracious countenance : to have hung 
 upon those lips, while the voice sweeter 
 than honey distilled the clearness of 
 truth : to have remembered being on 
 that mount and hearing those beati- 
 tudes ; to have possessed, not their beauty 
 and purity only, but, as a crowning charm, 
 the loving majesty of their first utter- 
 ance : to have had that tale of the prodi- 
 gal carried down deep into the heart by 
 all the tenderest tones of Him who came 
 to seek and to save that which was lost : 
 what teaching could be like this 1 And 
 yet let us remember that whatever the 
 Lord's present teaching may have been 
 in itself, it was in its effect as teaching 
 necessarily compounded of the power of 
 the speaker and the infirmities of the 
 
lord's removal. Ill 
 
 hearer. " He that hath ears to hear, let 
 him hear/' After all, if we had heard it, 
 it might not have been what we expected, 
 nor what would exactly have touched 
 our spirits. Our weakness, our caprice, 
 would have marred its effect. "Is this 
 the great Teacher of mankind ? this, He 
 who leads about multitudes after Him \ n 
 And as matter of fact, it was so. Men 
 were offended at Him, and rejected His 
 teaching. And here also, He withdrew 
 Himself from them by degrees. Having 
 begun with open speaking, He retired 
 behind the veil of the parable, and con- 
 veyed holy truth in the familiar words 
 of household life. And -after all, even if 
 received, even if delighted in, His out- 
 ward teaching could be only, so to speak, 
 
112 EXPEDIENCY OF THE 
 
 the material, on which inward ponder- 
 ings and questionings and self-search ings, 
 among which the Spirit is busy, were to 
 be wrought. We have the same ma- 
 terial, laid up for us in the storehouse 
 of the written word : shall we murmur, 
 if we possess it freed from the admixture 
 of the lower and less trustworthy in- 
 fluence of our capricious senses % The 
 Comforter, acting through our thoughts 
 and affections, takes of these things of 
 Christ, and shows them to us : opening 
 within us the living wells of yearning 
 and sympathy, kindling light where we 
 were dark : teaching, as no present out- 
 ward voice, not* even Gods own voice 
 dwelling in our flesh, could possibly teach 
 us. 
 
lord's removal. 113 
 
 Then again as to the Comforter's 
 office of guidance. What guidance, we 
 may be disposed to think, could have 
 been like His, who could not err, nor 
 lead His flock astray ? that I might 
 have clung to the hem of His garment, 
 might have gone away into the moun- 
 tain which He appointed — might have 
 followed His glorified Form about the 
 world, visited with the favour of His 
 chosen ones ! But after all, such guid- 
 ance could be but the leading of sense. 
 His glorified form partakes of the quali- 
 ties and accidents of human form in 
 general. It was thus that He proved 
 His identity to His disciples; "Behold 
 me and handle me, that it is I myself." 
 It is thus that the Church lays down 
 
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 the doctrine respecting His corporeal 
 presence : " It is against the truth of 
 Christ's natural body to be at one time 
 in more places than one." Such leading 
 then would not suffice for all at all times. 
 Besides, no guidance from without can 
 do the Comforter s work. Watch but a 
 Christian man betrayed into hard words 
 and violent acts in headstrong passion. 
 Approach such an one : try to lead him, 
 try to dissuade him. All outward plead- 
 ing but adds fuel, and serves further to 
 envenom and irritate. But leave him 
 to commune with his thoughts — in other 
 words, let the inward guidings of the 
 blessed Comforter have space to whisper 
 within him, and you shall see sober- 
 mindedness and gentleness return, and 
 
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 shall hear the wholesome words of regret 
 and penitence. 
 
 But here, as ever in dealing with this 
 subject, care must be taken that in our 
 very maintaining of an inward guidance 
 we be not inconsistent with ourselves. 
 They who hold inward guidance, and 
 wait for it to be made manifest to them, 
 are making inward into outward. If 
 the Lord is to speak sensibly within us, 
 the Lord is not gone away, the Com- 
 forter is not come. In all I have before 
 said of the Shepherd calling His sheep 
 by name, in all that I have said of their 
 hearing His word and following Him, 
 there has been no such meaning as this, 
 nay rather the negative of any such 
 meaning, and caution against being mis- 
 
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 led by it. The more we are under di- 
 vine guidance, the more we are changed 
 into the divine image, the less notably 
 marked, the less prepense, the more 
 natural and spontaneous, will be our 
 following of Christ and our guidance 
 by the Comforter. Saul, blinded by 
 the dazzling glow of the Lord's pre- 
 sence on the hostile errand to Damascus, 
 differed not more from Paul exclaiming, 
 " It is not I, but Christ that liveth in 
 me/' than one who waits for visible and 
 sensible manifestation of divine guidance 
 differs from the humble and sober- 
 minded Christian, living his ordinary 
 life and thinking his ordinary thoughts 
 in the light of Christ's love, and under 
 the teaching of the Blessed Comforter. 
 
117 
 
 Then again, the Comforter could not 
 have performed His work of consolation, 
 if Christ had not gone away. For con- 
 solation to have place, the need of con- 
 solation must be felt. Many a man 
 says, "It is good for us to be here/' 
 not knowing what he is saying. While 
 the disciples had the Lord with them, 
 they were disposed to rest in a lower 
 and unworthy kind of contentment, from 
 which they needed to be weaned, and 
 taught their need of higher and more 
 blessed contentment. During the time 
 of His bodily presence among them, their 
 state was of necessity imperfect and un- 
 developed : their true wants were as 
 yet unknown ; their deepest need of a 
 Comforter was as yet unrevealed to 
 
118 EXPEDIENCY OF THE 
 
 them. There wanted sorrow, and be- 
 reavement, and conflict, and disappoint- 
 ment, and persecution, to raise them step 
 by step into the thirst for and apprecia- 
 tion of the consolations of the Comforter. 
 That state of which the poet sings, — 
 
 " A soul by force of sorrows high 
 Uplifted to the purest sky 
 Of undisturbed humanity," — 
 
 they had to win for themselves by 
 passing through much tribulation. And 
 the Lord's bodily presence operated as 
 a barrier against and absolutely pre- 
 vented such elevation, by means of the 
 need of consolation, into the blessed- 
 ness of consolation. " Can the children 
 of the bridechamber mourn, as long 
 as the bridegroom is with them? But 
 the days will come when the Bride- 
 
loed's eemoval. 119 
 
 groom shall be taken from them, and 
 then shall they mourn in those days." 
 
 And we may confirm these views by 
 consideration of the general analogy 
 of God's dealings with us. Every good 
 and every perfect gift is from Him : is 
 in its place and degree, though those 
 may not be the highest, the bestowal of 
 His good Spirit, the Comforter. What 
 is His method in these every-day 
 bestowals, these acquirements and en- 
 joyments common to us all ? Is it not 
 evermore this, that they are rather the 
 after results, than the present effects 
 of impressions made on us through the 
 senses 1 It is not in the presence of na- 
 tural beauty, not when we stand before 
 exquisite works of art, not when we hear 
 
120 EXPEDIENCY OF THE 
 
 of noble examples of virtue, that the soul 
 lays up her stores of knowledge, and of 
 pleasure, and of high ambition to go and 
 do likewise. The teaching does not 
 come till the sense has ceased to be 
 affected, and the mind returns upon 
 itself in solitude. Its best thoughts 
 and words and resolves accrue to it not 
 in the dust and glare of life, but amidst 
 the silent dews, and under the pure 
 star of evening. God deals with us 
 face to face, and brings us through con- 
 flict, and wearies us with active duty, 
 and then His hand is withdrawn, and 
 we sit alone, and His Spirit begins to 
 plead within us. And so doubtless it 
 will be, my brethren, not only with this 
 and that thing in our lives, but with all 
 
lord's removal. 121 
 
 our life collected up into one. How 
 many have said that, when death has 
 been expected, all past time appeared 
 gathered up into an instant. Why was 
 this, but because it seemed to have come 
 to an end, and the spirit began to con- 
 template it at a distance 1 And will 
 this be less so when it is really at an 
 end ? Will it not be then first that the 
 Divine Spirit will pour back light over 
 all its dark places, and meaning into all 
 its unfathomable enigmas ? And is it 
 not true here also, that unless the teach- 
 ing of sense, and the actuality of Gods 
 •dealings with us, be withdrawn, the Com- 
 forter will not come to us — at least in 
 His most intimate fulness and His most 
 glorious power? 
 
122 EXPEDIENCY OF THE 
 
 The sum of all is. that our Blessed 
 Lord, by His withdrawal from us, has in 
 fact fulfilled the indispensable condition 
 for that to be granted us, to confer 
 which on the sons of men He was born, 
 and lived, and died, — even the indwelling 
 influence of God's Holy Spirit. We are 
 not left alone : we are not forgotten : we 
 are not thought unworthy of privileges 
 which the first ages of the Gospel pos- 
 sessed : but God hath reserved a better 
 thing for us, that they without us should 
 not be made perfect. We are in the 
 broad path of God's providential dealings 
 with His people : taught, guided, and 
 consoled by that Spirit, of whom our 
 Master told us that, unless He went away, 
 the Comforter would not come unto us. 
 
lord's removal. 123 
 
 I have thus endeavoured, my brethren, 
 to use my allotted time in this place 
 in speaking to you, not of matters of 
 present controversy or distracting out- 
 ward interest, but rather of those that 
 concern the individual Christian life ; — 
 the reality for us of the Lord's resurrec- 
 tion, — the relation to us of the Shepherd 
 of our souls, — the expediency of our pre- 
 sent state of widowhood from His glori- 
 fied presence. It was hardly possible but 
 that my words must have tended to 
 remind you of some matters now at issue. 
 We are not unacquainted in these days 
 with some who deny that there is or ever 
 was a Resurrection : we know something 
 of a view of Christianity which tells only 
 of an example in the past, and acknow- 
 
124 THE loed's eemoval. 
 
 ledges not a present glorified Saviour 
 and Shepherd of His people : and we too 
 are called upon to listen to men who 
 would bring us back to a sensuous wor- 
 ship and a corporeal presence, in virtual 
 denial of the work of that Comforter, 
 who, unless these be withdrawn, cannot 
 come to us. 
 
 May the words which have been 
 spoken mainly in direct exposition of the 
 matters treated, act also as warnings to 
 preserve the unwary from error, and the 
 unstable from being shaken in the faith. 
 
 J. AND W. RIDER, PRINTERS, LONDON. 
 
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 DIVINE ORDER OF THE UKIYERSE, AND ITS 
 
 RELATIONS WITH THE WORLD. 
 
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 THE PATHWAY OF PROMISE. 
 
 Preparation for the Jour- 
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 Promised Blessing. 
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 J ehovah, 
 
 Contentment. 
 
 Diligence. 
 
 Daily Strength. 
 
 Progress. 
 
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 Gratitude. 
 
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 MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND PHILANTHROPIC LABOURS OF 
 ANDREW REED, D.D., 
 
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 With Portrait and Woodcuts. Second Edition. Demy 8vo., 12s. 
 
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 biography."— Weekly Messenger. good work in publishing this memorial 
 
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 British Standard. 
 
 STORY OF THE LIVES OF CAREY, MARSHMAN, 
 
 AND WARD. 
 
 (A Popular Edition of the large Two-volume Work.) 
 
 By JOHN C. MARSHMAN. 
 
 Sixth Thousand. Crown 8vo., 3s. 6d. 
 
PUBLISHED BY ALEXANDEK STRAHAN. 
 
 17 
 
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 By the Rev. W. FLEMING STEVENS ON. 
 
 Fifteenth Thousand. Crown 8vo., 3s. 6d. 
 
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 delineated give bright and powerful illus- 
 tration to the relation of devotion and faith 
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 elements and unfoldings of character, is 
 evident in almost every page in his work ; 
 and that he has been guided by a simply 
 spiritual purpose, both very noble and very 
 
 practical, is the secret of the power and 
 persuasiveness with which he has written . " 
 — Nonconform ist. 
 
 " This record of men's faith in God's help 
 and guidance will be read with interest 
 and sympathy.'' — Athencpum, 
 
 " The work is instructive in material, 
 discriminating in judgment, healthy in 
 spirit, and thoroughly useful in its ten- 
 dency." — Homilist. 
 
 HEADS AND HANDS IN THE WORLD OF LABOUR. 
 
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 gestions, and the exceedingly attractive 
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 leave nothing to be desired, but that 
 every buyer and seller of labour- in the 
 country had a copy of it, and imbibed its 
 spirit."— Extract from a Letter of the Rev. 
 Or. (xuthric. 
 
 i " It bristles everywhere with facts, and 
 ! is rich with sage "remarks and pregnant 
 
 principles. If our readers will only coin- 
 ! mit themselves to the author's guidance, 
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 BEING HISTOKICAL NOTES ON DEACONESSES AND 
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 By JOHN MALCOLM LUDLOW. 
 
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 ful study of all who are anxious for the 
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 qualified to write it." — London Review. 
 
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 LIST OF BOOKS 
 
 BLIND BARTIMEUS, AND HIS GREAT 
 
 PHYSICIAN. 
 
 By the Eev. J. HOGE. 
 
 In neat cloth, Is. 
 
 LIFE THOUGHTS. 
 By HENRY WARD BEECHER. 
 
 Cloth antique, 2s. 6d. 
 
 "Every page is covered with sentences shrewdness, and piety are admirably blend 
 
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 You will search in it vainly for au . it that's only say the like of it will not soon occur 
 
 dull. The facility of illustration manifested again, unless we have more of Beecher's 
 
 is marvellous. Knowledge, imagination, 'Life Thoughts.' " — Evangelical Magazine. 
 
 PLAIN WORDS ON HEALTH. 
 
 By JOHN BROWN, M.D., 
 
 Author of "Rab and his Friends," &c. 
 Small 8vo., 6d. 
 
 "A racy, eloquent, colloquial talk to 
 working people about the doctor, the man- 
 agement of children, and the preservation 
 of health, worthy of being put side by 
 side with Miss Nightingale's 'Notes on 
 Nursing.' ''—Patriot. 
 
 "In his powerful and clear and beauti- 
 fully simple way, the Doctor gives the 
 people much valuable counsel on the 
 question of health and its preservation. 
 It is surprising how much wisdom he puts 
 
 into so little room, and with what words of 
 kindness and what telling anecdotes— these 
 drawn from his own experience— he makes 
 this little medical work as interesting as 
 if it were a powerfully written romance. 
 Need we say more to commend the book to 
 our readers'? Not we. The Doctor's name 
 is a household word, and this, his latest 
 volume, will soon be in the hands of the 
 tens of thousands of the admirers of ' Kab 
 and his Friends.' "—Dundee Advertiser. 
 
PUBLISHED BY ALEXANDER STRAHAN. 19 
 
 A DUTCHMAN'S DIFFICULTIES WITH THE 
 ENGLISH LANGUAGE. 
 
 Fancy cover, 6d. 
 
 LESSONS FROM A SHOEMAKER'S STOOL. 
 By JOHN KERR, 
 
 Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools. 
 Fancy cover, 6d. 
 
 THE STILL HOUR. 
 
 By AUSTIN PHELPS. 
 
 Cheap Edition, sewed, 4d. 
 
 ON BEING ILL. 
 By the Rev. A. W. THOROLD, M.A. 
 
 Sewed, 2d. 
 
 ON THE LOSS OF FRIENDS. 
 By the Rev. A. W. THOROLD, M.A. 
 
 Sewed, 3d. By Post, 4d. 
 
 WHEN OUR CHILDREN ARE ABOUT US. 
 
 By ALEXANDER RALEIGH, D.D. 
 
 Sewed, 2d. 
 
 THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE. 
 By W. G. BLAIKIE, D.D., 
 
 Author of "Better Days for "Working People," &c, &c. 
 Sewed, 2d. 
 
20 
 
 LIST OF BOOKS 
 
 A YEAR AT THE SHORE. 
 
 A COMPANION BOOK FOR THE SEA-SIDE. 
 
 By PHILIP HENRY GOSSE, F.R.S. 
 
 With Thirty-six Illustrations by the Author, printed in Colours by 
 Leighto^ Brothers. 
 
 Crown 8vo., 9s. 
 
 " Tarious and interesting as are the books j 
 devoted to the sea and its inhabitants, we | 
 do not remember to hare read one more i 
 
 complete than this Observing | 
 
 with an intelligent eye, Mr. Gosse writes 
 
 The study of natural history is always in- 
 teresting, and Mr. Gosse is a genial and 
 enthusiastic instructor." — Illustrated Lon- 
 don Neics. 
 
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 in a natural and graphic manner of his I new book of Mr. Gosses will now be the 
 marine acquaintances." — Literary Gazette. | most frequently asked for." — Publishers' 
 " A delicious book deliciously illustrated. I Circular. 
 
 THE REGULAR SWISS ROUND. 
 
 IN THEEE TRIPS. 
 
 By the Eev. HARRY JONES, M.A. 
 
 With Illustrations by Edwaed Whtmpee. Second Edition, small 8vo., 5s. 
 
 " Contains much valuable information | 
 
 for the inexperienced tourist." — Patriot. \ 
 
 " Mr. Jones's book will no doubt find and 
 
 please many readers ; the brisk and pointed 
 stvle of the book will give pleasure in 
 itself."— Pall Hall Gazette. 
 
 A SUMMER IN SKYE. 
 By ALEXANDER SMITH. 
 
 Popular Edition, with Coloured Frontispiece, Crown 8vo.,6s. 
 
 "Mr. Smith has great command of 
 language. Every page displays ingenious 
 expressions, highly wrought comparisons, 
 minute descriptions. ' A Summer in Skye ' 
 is to us very interesting indeed." — Saturday 
 Review. 
 
 " Eor the future let no tourist visit the 
 Hebrides without these volumes in his 
 portmanteau. Mr. Alexander Smith speaks 
 of Boswell's Journal as ' delicious reading ; ' 
 his own work , though after a very different 
 fashion, affords delicious reading also. 
 The food provided is unlike that provided 
 by the guide writer. Here you Avill gain 
 more wisdom than knowledge, more sug 
 gestions than facts, more of what is felici- 
 tous in expression, than of what is precise 
 in detail. Mr. Smith can , when he pleases, 
 describe Highland life and Highland sce- 
 
 ' nery with considerable felicity, but he 
 
 s likes best to relate the impression made 
 
 upon his own mind by what he heard or 
 
 saw. His egotism is never offensive ; it is 
 
 often very charming. If the traveller is 
 
 1 sometimes lost in the essayist, who will 
 
 i not prefer an Elia to a Pennant ? " — 
 
 Daily Xeivs. 
 
 " There is in this work so much excellent 
 
 i writing, good thought, and picturesque 
 
 ; description, that it must rank among the 
 
 I very best books of the season. . . Since 
 
 ' the great Professor Christopher North's 
 
 time, there has been no greater landscape 
 
 | painter in words than Mr. Smith, and the 
 
 I ' Summer in Skye ' is by far his best effort 
 
 j in this branch of literature."— Inverness 
 
 Courier. 
 i 
 
PUBLISHED BY ALEXANDER STRAHAN. 
 
 DREAMTHORP. 
 A BOOK OF ESSAYS WRITTEN m THE COUNTRY. 
 
 By ALEXANDER SMITH, 
 Author of "A Summer in Skye," &c. 
 
 Sixth Thousand. Crown 8vo., 3s. 6d. 
 
 u These essays are characterised by force 
 of expression and a tenderness of feeling 
 rarely to be met with. Mr. Alexander 
 Smith is remarkable for his love of nature, 
 and for the pleasing language in which he 
 describes the beauties of the common earth. 
 He has now given us a book full of noble 
 thoughts."— DaUy News. 
 
 " Mr. Alexander Smith comes to us with 
 more natural vitality, with a culture that is 
 
 rarer, and with a broader, deeper range of 
 sympathy than any one who has attempted 
 essay writing, in the proper sense, in his 
 own day." — Nonconformist. 
 
 " . ". . A book to be read in the spirit 
 of lazy leisure to the sound of bubbling 
 brooks and whispering woods. It is exqui- 
 sitely printed, handy, handsome, and 
 cheap." — Athenceum. 
 
 THE NEAR AND THE HEAVENLY HORIZONS. 
 By the COUNTESS DE GASPARIN. 
 
 Twenty-seventh Thousand. Crown 8vo., gilt cloth antique, 3s. 6d. 
 
 " This is a charming book. Madame de i '" The Xearandthe Heavenly Horizons 
 Gasparin has the touch of genius which is a book full of beauty and" pathos."— 
 has the stranse gift of speaking to every ' British Quarterly Review. 
 one ' in their own tongue.' "—Athenceum. 1 
 
 HUMAN SADNESS. 
 
 By the COUNTESS DE GASPARIN, 
 
 Author of "The Near and the Heavenly Horizons." 
 
 Fourth Thousand. Small 8vo., 5s. 
 
 " There are times when the soul craves to these desires, and has done so in beauti- 
 an utterance for its deeper longings. The ful and affecting language.' —London JRe- 
 Countess de Gasparin has given expression view. 
 
 ESSAYS ON WOMAN'S WORK. 
 
 By BESSIE RAYNER PARKES. 
 
 Small Svo., -is. 
 ' Every woman ought to read Miss Parkes's little volume on Woman's Work."'— Times. 
 
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 LIST OF BOOKS 
 
 THE RECREATIONS OF A COUNTRY PARSON. 
 
 First Series. Popular Edition. 
 Twenty-fourth Thousand. Crown 8vo., 3s. 6d. 
 
 " It is impossible not to be pleased with 
 the ' Recreations of a Country Parson,' or 
 to feel otherwise than on the best pos- 
 sible terms with the Author."— Saturday 
 Review. 
 
 " These delightful papers are full of the 
 best qualities of the best essayists ; they 
 show close observation, clear insight, wit, 
 humour, fancy, feeling, and humanity."— 
 Inverness Courier. 
 
 THE GRAVER THOUGHTS OF A COUNTRY PARSON. 
 
 By the Author of " Recreations of a Country Parson." 
 
 Thirty-second Thousand. Crown 8vo., 3s. 6d. 
 
 " This volume will be a permanent source 
 of recreation and refreshment. There is, 
 throughout these? papers, a genial, cheer- 
 ing, manly, and healthy spirit, which acts 
 as a tonic to mind and body."— English 
 Churchman. 
 
 " Many of them are exquisite essays on 
 the subjects of which they treat ; and in all 
 there is a clearness and a simplicity, com- 
 bined with the evidence of an original 
 genius, which cannot fail to delight and 
 instruct the reader." — Morning Post. 
 
 COUNSEL AND COMFORT, SPOKEN FROM A 
 CITY PULPIT. 
 
 By the Author of "Recreations of a Country Parson." 
 
 Fifteenth Thousand. Crown 8vo., 3s. 6d. 
 
 PERSONAL NAMES IN THE BIBLE. 
 
 By the Rev. W. F. WILKINSON, M.A., 
 
 Yicar of St. Werburgh's, Derby, and Joint-Editor of "Webster and 
 
 Wilkinson's Greek Testament." 
 
 Small 8vo., 6s. 
 
 "Mr. Wilkinson's illustration of the 
 ' Personal Names in the Hible ' will be 
 found useful and interesting by many 
 readers. . . . No names cf importance 
 appear to have been omitted, and there is 
 subjoined a useful, and indeed absolutely 
 necessary index."— Westminster Review. 
 
 " This is a book for all who would wisely, 
 justly, and usefully study the sacred vol- 
 ume." — llomilist. 
 
 " This is a valuable book in many ways : 
 learned, laborious, and interesting; full of 
 matter in a small compass, which will be 
 especially acceptable to the clergy. It will 
 no doubt have, as it fully deserves, a large 
 circulation." — Union Review. 
 
 " ' Personal Names,' by Mr. Wilkinson, 
 of Derby, exhibits much scholarship and 
 research." — Christian Remembrancer. 
 
PUBLISHED BY ALEXANDEE STEAHAIS". 
 
 23 
 
 OUR INHERITANCE IN THE GREAT PYRAMID. 
 
 By PEOFESSOE C. PIAZZI S^ITTH, F.E.SS.L. and E., 
 
 Astronomer Royal for Scotland. 
 With Photographs and Plates. Square 8vo., 12s. 
 
 " This handsome volume is "well worthy " There can be no question as to the 
 of a careful perusal."— Glasgow Herald. ' extraordinaiy research aud ingenuity 
 
 " No hook which we hare seen contains j which this book displays." — Daily Re- 
 so full an account of this wonderful monu- view. 
 ment." — Morning Journal. 
 
 GOD'S GLORY IN THE HEAVENS. 
 
 Br WILLIAM LEITCH, D.D., 
 Late Principal of Queen's College, Canada. 
 
 Third Edition. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo., cloth extra, 6s. 
 
 " "We cannot conclude our notice of Dr. practical observations and the highest and 
 Leitch's book without dwelling upon the ; most ennobling sentiments. It is thus that 
 admirable manner in which the astronomi- books on popular science ahould ever be 
 oal facts contained in it are blended with written." — Header. 
 
 MY MINISTERIAL EXPERIENCES. 
 
 By the Eev. Dr. BUCHSEL, Berlin. 
 
 Crown 8vo., 3s. 6d. 
 
 " Dr. Buchsel is not only a ' man of the 
 time,' but one of the men who are for ail 
 time. . . Had we a friend with a spare 
 half-hour, we scarcely know any book that 
 we could put into his'hand with more con- 
 fidence, assured that, open it where he 
 might, he could not fail to alight on some - 
 thing that would make the half-hour 
 memorable." — Daily Review. 
 
 " This is an interesting volume. It con- 
 tains very interesting accounts of the Ger- 
 man Pietists, amongst whom Dr. Buchsel 
 
 was constantly thrown, and who main- 
 tained the pure gospel in the midst of 
 abounding rationalism. The book is writ- 
 ten in an entertaining style. It is full of 
 anecdotes, which curiously illustrate a pas- 
 tor's life in Germany." — Record. 
 
 " "We heartily commend this little book 
 as alike full of the interest of another 
 religious life than ours, and of wise and 
 holy counsels for theirs and ours alike.' — 
 Patriot. 
 
 WORK AND PLAY. 
 
 A BOOK OF ESSAYS. 
 
 By HOEACE BUSHNELL, D.D. 
 
 Crown 8vo., 3s. 6d. 
 
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 LIST OF BOOKS 
 
 OUTLINES OF THEOLOGY. 
 By ALEXANDER VINET. 
 
 Post 8vo., 8s. 
 
 " The great field of theology can scarcely 
 be said to be outlined in this book. Rather 
 is it a collection of aphorisms, pensees, 
 clustering round, and flashing gleams of 
 light upon, the great theme of the relations 
 -which subsist bet-ween God and man. And 
 
 of the French original have been wonder- 
 fully preserved in the English translation. 
 But there is more than point, than the 
 rhythm of melodious sentences, than the 
 sparkle of illustration as of diamonds 
 chased in gold, than the dexterity of 
 if we accept it thus, -without seeking in it antithesis ; there is also the profundity, 
 for the definiteness of a system, we shall the masculine strength of Pascalline 
 find it profound, suggestive, eminently thought." — Daily Review. 
 beautiful. The brilliancy and agile grace \ 
 
 OUTLINES OF PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE. 
 By ALEXANDER VINET. 
 
 Post 8vo., 8s. 
 
 " We need scarcely say that Yinet is an I a lucidity of expression that renders all he 
 author with whose mind we have much | writes obvious at once to his readers. In 
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 independent, generally suggestive, and 
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 " Yinet seemed to" us to possess a closer 
 resemblance to Pascal in point of piquancy, . 
 and to the late celebrated Dr. "Wardlaw for I 
 
 highest elements of cultivated thought, 
 and are baptized into the spirit of the most 
 profound reverence for the Word of God." 
 — Morning Star. 
 
 THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR FAITH: 
 
 TEN PAPERS RECENTLY READ BEFORE A MIXED AUDIENCE OF MEN. 
 
 By Professors AUBERLEN, GESS, and others. 
 Second Edition. Crown 8vo., 6s. 
 
 " We know nothing that can compare 
 with this work for completeness, wisdom, 
 an d po wer . ' ' — Non conform ist. 
 
 " A series of very able essays on the 
 
 main points of Christian theology, by men 
 who know how to sustain the truth 
 against the more subtle forms of specu- 
 lation." — British Quarterly Revieiv. 
 
 ALFRED HAGART'S HOUSEHOLD. 
 
 By ALEXANDER SMITH, 
 
 Author of "A Life Drama," &c., &c. 
 Two Volumes. Small 8vo., 12s. 
 
 11 It is a sort of prose idyl, as dramatic in 
 its details as ' Hermann and Dorothea.' " 
 — Athenaeum. 
 
 ' This is a most interesting and delight- 
 
 tating human life." — Caledonian Mer- 
 cury. 
 
 " No one can read ' Alfred Hasart's 
 Household ' without a sense of keen en- 
 
 ful novel— a bit of real, genuine, palpi joyment."— Guardian, 
 
PUBLISHED BY ALEXANDEE STEAHAN. 
 
 THE LIFE OF OUR LORD. 
 
 IX ITS HISTORICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, AND GENEALOGICAL 
 RELATIONS. 
 
 By the Eev. SAMUEL J. ANDEEWS. 
 
 Second Thousand. Crown 8vo,, cloth, 63. 6d. 
 
 " Mr. Andrews has explored the evangelic 
 histories with great critical keenness and 
 sasaeity, and has brought a large amount 
 of patient care and various learning to 
 bear upon their exposition. The various 
 points raised have been, of course, often 
 discussed j but we know not where, in our 
 language, we could find any work which 
 treats them all in so copious and generally 
 satisfactory a manner." — Freeman. 
 
 " In college and school libraries, as well 
 
 as in Christian families, this work must be 
 both acceptable and useful." —Morni nq 
 Star. 
 
 " A sensible, thorough, and impartially 
 written Harmony of the Gospels. . . . 
 Will be found very useful to divinity stu- 
 dents."— Guardian. 
 
 "The author has laid the Christian 
 student under deep obligation by this 
 scholarly contribution to Scripture truth." 
 — Witness. 
 
 THE PATIENCE OF HOPE. 
 
 By DOEA GEEEISTWELL. 
 
 Third Edition. Small 8vo., 2s. 6d. 
 
 "This is the most thoughtful and sugges- I 'thoughts that wander through eternity,' 
 tive book of our day."— Witness. i increases every time we take up this won- 
 
 " Our admiration of the searching, fear- ; derful little book."— North British Review. 
 less speculation, the wonderful power of j " A work of singular philosophic power, 
 speaking clearly upon dark and all but as well as poetic beauty." — Family 
 unspeakable subjects, the rich outcome of I Treasury. 
 
 PRESENT HEAVEN. 
 
 By DOEA GEEENWELL. 
 Third Edition. Small 8vo., 2s. 6d. 
 
 "The production of a thoughtful, cul 
 tivated CI 
 
 great fulness and beauty the present privi- 
 nristian mind, setting forth in | leges of the believer."— Baptist Magazine. 
 
 TWO FRIENDS. 
 
 By DOEA GEEENWELL. 
 
 Small 8vo., 3s. 6d. 
 
 " We cannot read these pages without I thoushtful and earnest mind.' 
 seeing that they are the production of a j Review. 
 
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 LIST OF BOOKS 
 
 jsfttxialrk ^xtBtntntian Woxks 
 
 FOR THE YOUNG. 
 
 IN ELEGANT CLOTH BINDINGS. 
 
 STORIES TOLD TO A CHILD. 
 
 By the Author of " Studies for Stories." 
 Illustrated, 3s. 6d. 
 ' For the very young it is one of the hest gift-books yet published."— Patriot. 
 
 WORDSWORTH'S POEMS FOR THE YOUNG. 
 
 Illustrated by John Macwhiktee and John Pettie, with a Vignette by 
 J. E. Millais. 3s. 6d. 
 
 "A very elegant volume, full of charm- 
 ma: -woodcuts." These poems are for the 
 better moments, the quiet hours of boys 
 ;md girls. The illustrations are full of 
 cleverness, sweetness, and truth." — Scots- 
 man. 
 
 "A perfectly charming book for the 
 young." — Reader. 
 
 " One of the prettiest books imaginable 
 as a present for the young it can scarcely 
 be surpassed." — Morning Journal. 
 
 STUDIES FOR STORIES, FROM GIRLS' LIVES. 
 
 Popular Edition, with Illustrations by J. E. Millais and others. 
 Crown Svo., 6s. 
 
 "Simple in style, -warm -with human 
 affection, and -written in faultless English, 
 these five stories are studies for the artist, 
 sermons for the thoughtful, and a rare 
 source of delight for all who can find plea - 
 sure in really good -works of fiction. . . 
 They are prose poems, carefully meditated 
 and exquisitely touched in by a teacher 
 ready to sympathize with every joy and 
 sorrow. 1 ' — Athencenm. 
 
 " There could not be a better book to put 
 into the hands of young ladies." — Specta- 
 tor. 
 
 " Each of these studies is a drama in 
 itself, illustrative of the operation of some 
 particular passion— such as envy, misplaced 
 ambition, sentimentalism, indolence, jea- 
 lousy. In all of them the actors are young 
 girls, and we cannot imagine a better book 
 for young ladies."— Pall Mall Gazette. 
 
 THE MAGIC MIRROR: 
 
 A ROUND OF TALES FOR OLD AND YOUNG. 
 
 By WILLIAM GILBERT. 
 
 With Illustrations. Crown 8vo., 5s. 
 
 " The stories are well told in the best j ing an unhackneyed mode of treatment." 
 style for children, and the little woodcuts — Times. 
 to illustrate them have the merit of show- I 
 
PUBLISHED BY ALEXANDER STEAHAN. 
 
 2:7 
 
 PAPERS FOR THOUGHTFUL GIRLS; 
 
 WITH ILLUSTKATIYE SKETCHES OF SOME GIRLS' LIVES. 
 
 By SARAH TYTLEE. 
 
 With Illustrations by J. E. Millais, RA. Crown 8vo., 
 
 " We cordially advise those who have 
 girls to put Miss Tytler's 'Papers' into 
 their hands." — London Review. 
 
 " One of the most charming books of its 
 class that we have ever read. It is even 
 superior to Miss Mulock's well-known 
 work, ' A Woman's Thoughts about Wo- 
 men.' . . . Miss Tytler has produced a 
 
 work which will be popular in many a 
 home when her name has become among 
 her own friends nothing more than a 
 memory." — Morning Herald. 
 
 " We* wish that half the novels of the day 
 were as wholesome and suggestive as these 
 ' Papers for Thoughtful Girls.' " — Econo- 
 mist. 
 
 BEGINNING LIFE. 
 
 A BOOK FOR YOUNG MEN. 
 
 By PRINCIPAL TULLOCH. 
 
 Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. 
 
 " Principal Tulloch's excellent book for 
 young men." — Edinburgh Recicir. 
 
 " Principal Tulloch speaks as a friend to 
 friends, with hearty sympathy for every 
 difficulty, and with "a clear insight of the 
 truth that will resolve the difficulty."— 
 Scotsnict7i. 
 
 "We hope that our wealthier readers 
 will put this volume into the hands of 
 many young men who could not otherwise 
 procure it. It is a book that will well 
 sustain the reputation of its author." — 
 Baptist Magazine. 
 
 THE POSTMAN'S BAG. 
 
 A STORY-BOOK FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. 
 
 By JOHN DE LIEFDE. 
 
 New Edition, Crown 8vo., 3s. 6d. 
 
 " John de Liefde is a man whom to 
 know is to admire and love. This little 
 volume is simple, artless, and Christian. 
 We kn. w several little children who are 
 never a eary of these little stories, and 
 we ar? i ure that they can learn from them 
 nothin: but what is good." London Review. 
 
 " Co- mend us to Mr. Liefde for a plea- 
 sant Sv.ory, whether in the parlour or on 
 
 the printed page. He is himself a story- 
 book, full of infectious humour, racy 
 anecdote, youthful freshness, and warm- 
 hearted religion. In this pretty little 
 volume we do not get any of his more 
 elaborate tales ; it is professedly a book 
 'for boys and girls,' and is made up of 
 short stories and fables, the very things to 
 win children's hearts.'" — Patriot. 
 
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 LIST OF BOOKS. 
 
 IDYLS AND LEGENDS OF 1NVERBURN. 
 
 By EOBEET BUCHANAN, 
 Author of " Undertones." 
 
 Second Edition. Small 8vo., 5s. 
 
 " A volume of genuine poetry of distin- I modern poetry so rich in tenderly told story, 
 guished merit." — Pall Jlall Gazette. \ beautifully painted picture, and abundant 
 
 " We do not call to mind any volume of | spontaneous music." — Illustrated Times. 
 
 UNDERTONES. 
 By EOBEET BUCHANAN. 
 
 Second Edition. Eevised and Enlarged. Small 8vo., 5s. 
 
 " The offspring of a true poet's heart and 
 brain, they are full of imagination, fancy, 
 thought, and feeling ; of subtle perception 
 
 of beauty, and harmonious expression."— 
 Daily News. 
 " Poetry, and of a noble kind."— Athe- 
 
 DUCHESS AGNES, Etc. 
 By ISA CEAIGL 
 
 Second Edition. Small 8vo., cloth, 5s. 
 
 " In Miss Craig's poems we feel through- | ment which renders like wax the living 
 nut a genuine harmony of conception, a I impressions made upon it." — Spectator. 
 musical feeling, a soft receptive tempera- [ 
 
 CHRISTINA, AND OTHER POEMS. 
 By DOEA GEEENWELL. 
 
 Small 8vo., 6s. 
 
 " Miss Greenwell is specially endowed as 
 a writer of sacred poetry ; and it is the 
 rarest realm of all, with the fewest com- 
 petitors for its crown. She seems to us to 
 be peculiarly fitted with natural gifts for 
 entering into the chambers of the human 
 
 heart, and to be spiritually endowed to 
 walk there, with a brightening influence, 
 cheering, soothing, exalting, with words 
 of comfort and looks of love, as a kind of 
 Florence Nightingale walking the hospital 
 of ailing souls." — Athenaeum. 
 
 ALEXANDEE STEAHAN, LONDON AND NEW YOEK.