For those who may be interested, I’ve started a new blog featuring quotations from the works of Alexander Maclaren (1826-1910). Since May 5, 2010 will be the centenary of his death, I thought having him represented somewhere on the Internet would be a good idea. The blog is called Triumphant Certainties, and you can find [...]
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New Blog Plug
Posted in Alexander Maclaren, Plug on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mary, on Resurrection Morning
Posted in "Expositions of Holy Scripture", Alexander Maclaren, Gospel of John, Resurrection of Christ on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The presence of angels was a trifle to Mary, who had only one thought – the absence of her Lord. Surely, that touch in her unmoved answer, as if speaking to men, is beyond the reach of art. She says “My Lord” now, and “I know not,” but, otherwise, repeats her former words, unmoved by [...]
A Loving Tribute to a Wife
Posted in Alexander Maclaren on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My Dear Nicholl,
I suppose that you are back at work again, and so I wish a word with you as to this month’s British Monthly. I am very much obliged to you for planning and to your contributor for executing it, and I hope the readers will allow for kindly exaggeration, which makes me rather [...]
Forgetfulness of Blessings
Posted in "Expositions of Holy Scripture", Alexander Maclaren, Book of Exodus on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Unbelief has a short memory. The Red Sea is forgotten in a month. The Israelites could strike their timbrels and sing their lyric of praise, but they could not believe that today’s hunger could be satisfied. Discontent has a slippery memory. They wish to get back to the flesh-pots, of which the savor is in [...]
On Alexander Maclaren
Posted in Alexander Maclaren on December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The most remarkable of Alexander Maclaren’s gifts – or, if you please, disciplined capacities – was his power of almost perfect “spoken composition.” It was noted that he was one of the few preachers who spoke better than he wrote. These sermons, whose stenographic reports needed and received so little correction, read as if they [...]
Alexander Maclaren Week – 6
Posted in Alexander Maclaren on July 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Job is put in the place of intercessor for the three – a profound humiliation for them and an honor for him. They obeyed at once, showing that they have learned their lesson, as well as Job, his. An incidental lesson from that final picture of the sufferer-become-the-priest requiting accusations with intercession is the duty [...]
Alexander Maclaren Week – 5
Posted in Alexander Maclaren on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
And what does the Lord’s Supper mean? Why did Jesus Christ select that one point of His life as the point to be remembered? Why did He institute the double memorial, the body parted from the blood being a sign of a violent death? I know of no explanation that makes the Lord’s Supper an [...]
Alexander Maclaren Week – 4
Posted in Alexander Maclaren on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We have, in this psalm, the record of the Psalmist’s struggle with the great standing difficulty of how to reconcile the unequal distribution of worldly prosperity with the wisdom and providence of God. That difficulty pressed more acutely upon men of the Old Dispensation than even upon us because the very promise of that stage [...]
Alexander Maclaren Week – 3
Posted in Alexander Maclaren on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
That is the true ground of our unity, and of our obligation to love all who are begotten of Him. You cannot safely put them on any other footing. All else – identity of opinion, similarity of practice and ceremonial, local or national ties, and the like – all else is insufficient. It may be [...]
Alexander Maclaren Week – 2
Posted in Alexander Maclaren on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In considering the Jewish sacrificial system, it is important to distinguish the symbolical from the typical value of the sacrifices. The former could scarcely be quite unnoticed by the offerers; but the latter was only gradually made plain, was probably never very generally seen, and is a great deal clearer to us, in the light [...]
