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Jesus Tempted in the Wilderness
Jesus Tempted in the Wilderness
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MY DEAR FRIENDS,
The lectures that I now publish were delivered for the first time at Montauban at the commencement of a series of discourses, the subject of which was Jesus Christ as our example. Speaking in the Chapel of the Faculté, in your presence, addressing myself especially to you, I made frequent allusions to your future calling, which I of course suppressed in the pulpit in Paris: before sending them to press, I have restored them to their original form. I should have felt as if I had been wanting in faithfulness to you, had I changed their primitive destination---so great was my desire to resume my intercourse with you, which has been too long interrupted by the vicissitudes of time and distance, and also, alas! by my own infirmity. But neither time nor space, nor even my failings, can weaken my recollection" of you, nor loosen the tie that binds me to you in the Lord. And preaching to you is, in fact, preaching to your churches; for the warnings given to the pastor cannot be indifferent to his flock: without an apostleship there can be no disciples. Should any of those who may read this little book become, through its means, more childlike in their faith, more holy in their life, or more faithful in their ministry, my joy will be equaled only by my gratitude towards the Author of every good gift; especially if it is to you that He has done good by my means. . . . Oh my friends, for every one of us "the day is at hand, the night is far spent;" but for the Church it is "the night that advances, and the day that is drawing near: let us awake!"
Vester in nostro,
A. M.
PARIS, November, 1853.
The lectures that I now publish were delivered for the first time at Montauban at the commencement of a series of discourses, the subject of which was Jesus Christ as our example. Speaking in the Chapel of the Faculté, in your presence, addressing myself especially to you, I made frequent allusions to your future calling, which I of course suppressed in the pulpit in Paris: before sending them to press, I have restored them to their original form. I should have felt as if I had been wanting in faithfulness to you, had I changed their primitive destination---so great was my desire to resume my intercourse with you, which has been too long interrupted by the vicissitudes of time and distance, and also, alas! by my own infirmity. But neither time nor space, nor even my failings, can weaken my recollection" of you, nor loosen the tie that binds me to you in the Lord. And preaching to you is, in fact, preaching to your churches; for the warnings given to the pastor cannot be indifferent to his flock: without an apostleship there can be no disciples. Should any of those who may read this little book become, through its means, more childlike in their faith, more holy in their life, or more faithful in their ministry, my joy will be equaled only by my gratitude towards the Author of every good gift; especially if it is to you that He has done good by my means. . . . Oh my friends, for every one of us "the day is at hand, the night is far spent;" but for the Church it is "the night that advances, and the day that is drawing near: let us awake!"
Vester in nostro,
A. M.
PARIS, November, 1853.
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