Jeremiah – the Man and His Message by Alexander Stewart
Alexander Stewart was a renowned Scottish preacher and the served as Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland. This introduction to and exposition of the book of Jeremiah was originally published in 1936. My thanks to Book Aid’s London bookshop for providing me a copy available for scanning. This title is in the public domain.
Alexander Stewart [1870-1937], Jeremiah: the Man and his Message. Edinburgh: Know Press, [1936]. Hbk. pp.276. [Click to download complete book in PDF]
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Making of a Prophet
- The Spring-Time of the Religious Life
- The Fountain and the Cisterns
- An Appeal to the Heart
- The Likeness of a Man
- A Barrier of Sand
- The Goodness of God and the Fear of God
- At the Cross-Roads
- Lost Opportunity and Changeless Mercy
- The Longing for Escape
- False and True Glorying
- The Lesson of the Easier Test
- A Problem in Black and White
- Wheat and Chaff
- The Two Voices
- The New Covenant
- The Mediator of the New Covenant
- The Sign of the Purchased Field
- The Two Rolls
- The Snare of Ambition
- On the Way to Zion
- Remembering Jerusalem
- Index
Preface
This volume has had its origin in an article which I contributed some years ago to The Princeton Theological Review, and which – with considerable additions here and there, and especially in its closing section – forms the Introduction to the present work. In the paragraphs which make up this Preface, I trust that the frequent occurrence of the pronoun “I” may not be set down to mere egotism, but that the reader in his charity may regard the direct form of speech as more or less inevitable in the expression of what is a kind of personal testimony.
Before the time when the task referred to was undertaken, I acknowledge frankly that the Book of Jeremiah had made no special appeal to me. I can at least understand the confession of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in his work On the Art of Reading, when, in the notable passage in which he commends the duty of reading the Bible, he declares that he found Jeremiah ‘ the contributor least to his mind,’ the reason assigned for this distaste being that he was “not constitutionally disposed to lamentation.” [Continue reading]