| › Preface - Quiet Talks on John's Gospel
By
S. D. Gordon
Author of "Quiet Talks on Power,"
and "Quiet Talks on Prayer"
1915
Contents
Pre ...read |
| › 1 - John's Story - "I fled Him, down the nights and down the days;
I fled Him, down the arches of the years;
I fled Him down the labyrinthine ways
Of my own mind; and ...read |
| › 2 - The Wooing Lover - part 1 - Who it Was that Came
"But with unhurrying chase,
And unperturbed pace,
Deliberate speed, majestic instancy,
They beat--and a Voice beat
More in ...read |
| › 2 - The Wooing Lover - part 2 - The Forgotten Preacher.
With a simplicity in sticking to his main point, John goes quietly on: "that he might be a witness of the light." That's ra ...read |
| › 2 - The Wooing Lover - part 3 - The Oldest Family.
"But," John goes on. That was a steadying "but." It was hard on John to recall how they treated his Friend and Master. But there ...read |
| › 3 - The Lover Wooing - part 1 - "Still with unhurrying chase,
And unperturbed pace,
Deliberate speed, majestic instancy
Came the following Feet,
And a Voice above their beat--
N ...read |
| › 3 - The Lover Wooing - part 2 - Way-marks in John's Narrative.
Out of this simple running account several things sift themselves, and stand out to our eyes. The action of the stor ...read |
| › 3 - The Lover Wooing - part 3 - The Glory-Coloured Thread.
It is a relief to turn now to the chief figure in this tapestried picture of John's weaving. Here are glory-coloured thr ...read |
| › 4 - Closer Wooing - An Evening with Opening Hearts: the Story of a Supper and a Walk in the Moonlight and the Shadows
Nigh and nigh draws the chase,
With unperturbed ...read |
| › 5 - The Greatest Wooing - A Night and a Day With Hardening Hearts: the Story of Tender Passion and of a Terrible Tragedy
"Now of that long pursuit
Comes on at hand the brui ...read |
| › 6 - An Appointed Tryst Unexpectedly Kept - A Day of Startling Joyous Surprises
"Halts by me that footfall:
Is my gloom, after all,
Shade of His hand outstretched caressingly?
'Ah, fondest ...read |
| › 7 - Another Tryst - A Story of Fishing, of Guests at Breakfast, and of a Walk and Talk by the Edge of Blue Galilee
"I come unto you."--John xiv. 18.
"Lo, I am with ...read |
| › 8 - Footnotes - [1] John i. 35-42.
[2] i. 1-18.
[3] i. 19-xii. 50.
[4] Chapters xiii.-xvii.
[5] Chapters xviii.-xix.
[6] Chapters xx.-xxi.
[7] Colossians i. 15- ...read |
