Wellington: a Lecture

the prophets were being read in the synagogue, the reader always stood, and the people with him; but when the preacher addressed the people by way of explanation of the chapter he had read, he sat down, and all the people sat down also. We shall find an instance of this in a subsequent Gospel-that Jesus read from the Prophet Isaiah, then sat down and addressed the people. And it is remarkable, if you will notice the precedents of preaching in the New Testament, that rarely is a single verse taken-most frequently a large mass of Scripture; and hence I think it so important and so useful that the lessons that we read in constant and regular succession from the Bible at every service. should be explained, as far as one is able to cast light upon them, so that in your homes you may read the Scriptures, not as a penance, not as a mere duty, but with profit, and with understanding, and with delight. The origin of texts, I may explain to you, was in the scholastic ages, when the plan was to try how much meaning could be extorted from the least possible portion of Scripture. Sometimes a text is most proper, because it is so replete with instructive meaning; but the best way is, in most cases, to take a large mass of Scripture, and from it to enlighten the hearers.

He also healed all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. Jesus, wherever he conferred spiritual, conferred temporal blessings; and when he thus healed diseases, he gave an earnest and a foreshadow of that blessed era, when all diseases shall be healed, when all sickness shall be ended, when man shall be restored to more than his pristine health, and beauty, and perfection; and all things made good at the beginning shall be made vastly better in the

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