Christ the Great Want of the Soul: A Discourse Preached Before the American and Foreign Bible Society, at Its Annual Meeting Held in the Tabernacle Baptist Church, Philadelphia, May 13th, 1858 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Christ the Great Want of the Soul: A Discourse Preached Before the American and Foreign Bible Society, at Its Annual Meeting Held in the Tabernacle Baptist Church, Philadelphia, May 13th, 1858

Sublime beyond description were the scenes amid which these' words were uttered. The last day of the Feast of the Tabernacles had come. It was a day of peculiar interest, of which the Jews were wont to say, that he who had not seen that day had seen no rejoicing. It is termed by the evangelist that great day of the feast great, because of the solemn assembly and the closing cere monies. For seven days, the people attending this feast in J erasa lem, had dwelt in their tabernacles, or arbors of shady branches and sweet-smelling flowers, in commemoration of the dwelling of their forefathers in tents, in passing through the wilderness. Now, however, on this the eighth day - the day of holy convocation - they were all assembled in the Temple. Every heart was beating with animation. Many there gathered had come from distant places. The good Lord had kept them in their journey up hither, and their feet once more had stood within the Holy City. Now they were about to retraverse, with songs of deliverance and cheerful hope their beautiful country, drink in again the delicious air of this September month, and receive the greetings awaiting them on reaching their homes.

The final ceremonies were at hand. The special sacrifice, o ered - not as those preceding, for the heathen as well as for the Jews - but for themselves only, had, as we may suppose, been pre sented. The reading of the law - which was commenced at the beginning of the feast - had been finished; and the singular cere mony, to which our Lord probably here refers, was already taking place.

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