Repton School Sermons; Studies in the Religion of the Incarnation; Being the Sermons Preached in Repton School Chapel Between September 1910 and July

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... school-affection July 28, 1912. S. Luke, xxiv. 32.--" Was not our heart burning within us, while he spake to us in the way, while he opened to us the scriptures?" Few stories in the New Testament have laid hold of the Christian imagination so strongly as that of the two disciples who walked out to Emmaus on the evening of the first Easter Day. We see them walkingtogether across the lengthening shadows, talking over the strange things that had happened in the last few days. Their Master--probably they never knew till then how they had loved Him--their Master had been killed. They had lost their dearest Friend; and they felt that in Him the world had lost its Saviour, for they "hoped it was He which should redeem Israel." Moreover it was reported that His tomb had been found empty and that angels had declared Him to be alive. Of course they did not believe it; and yet--yet were there not strange sayings of His in those dear days now gone for ever, sayings of how the Son of Man should suffer and the third day rise again? And that very day was the third day. They had not known what He meant; they did not know now. Anyhow, He had died; they had lost Him; and we watch them walking on as the evening darkens, with a sadness in their soul which holds down the tumult of joy surging up against it. Then a Stranger joins them. They do not ask where He comes from; nor do we. In that dreamy sadness it is appropriate that He should come from nowhere in particular. He "drew near," the story says, "and went with them." He asks what they are speaking so earnestly about. "And they stood still, looking sad." Then one of them explains, and draws from Him the rebuke, "0 foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken. Behoved it...