Jeremiah – the Man and His Message by Alexander Stewart

Alexander Stewart [1870-1937], Jeremiah: the Man and his Message.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
  1. The Making of a Prophet
  2. The Spring-Time of the Religious Life
  3. The Fountain and the Cisterns
  4. An Appeal to the Heart
  5. The Likeness of a Man
  6. A Barrier of Sand
  7. The Goodness of God and the Fear of God
  8. At the Cross-Roads
  9. Lost Opportunity and Changeless Mercy
  10. The Longing for Escape
  11. False and True Glorying
  12. The Lesson of the Easier Test
  13. A Problem in Black and White
  14. Wheat and Chaff
  15. The Two Voices
  16. The New Covenant
  17. The Mediator of the New Covenant
  18. The Sign of the Purchased Field
  19. The Two Rolls
  20. The Snare of Ambition
  21. On the Way to Zion
  22. 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]

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