Report of the Kansas Board of World's Fair Managers (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: APPENDIX B Year after year, in the very likeness of what are regarded now as dreary lives, was He thus quietly, sedulously occupied with dull, monotonous work, which had nothing to commend it except the claims of duty and of faithfulness. And He steadfastly adhered to His purpose, notwithstanding all inducements to abandon it. Amidst the most trying intercourse with uncongenial companions through all those years, He "did not His own will, but the will of the Father Who had sent Him," sus- v?. 38.3' tained throughout by the principle which He expressed, with reference to this, as to the after-part of His course, in those memorable words, " Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business ? " i. T . ' Luke -li. 50. I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how am I straitened till it is accomplished ? " With this view, however, of His " functional service," as man amongst mankind, regarding Himself as having been stationed in an appointed place amongst the - t u ifr j c if .. Matt. H. 19. armies of the Lord of hosts, and realising His corporate existence in this largest sphere of it?we must not associate 70 Appendix B aught of gloom and weariness. None of the moroseness, the sullenly hard persistence, which we sometimes recognise in such cases, could be discerned in His steadfast perseverance in His work during His years in Nazareth, any more than it was seen in the labours of His public ministry afterwards. The supposition that He ever manifested any spirit of that kind is indeed expressly negatived by that mention of the " fa- Luke n.52. . . ., ., TT vour with man, in which He habitually grew. Nor, indeed, could such a demeanour in any wise coexist with that true view of His corporate Life which we know He entertained from the beginning, and ...