Giving Jesus a Pulpit

Friday. Luke 5: 1-11.

A boat for a pulpit! Who would have thought it? How glad Peter must have been! Probably he never forgot it. The old boat never seemed quite the same again. But that’s a way Jesus has, using our common things in his uncommon task of helping and winning men: patched-up fishing-nets, a carpenter’s bench, the curb of an old wll, waterjugs. He’ll use our kitchen and shop, store and office, to help men today, if he may.

Open in the reader The Bent-Knee Time

Restored from a scan of the 1918 edition, with page headers and numbers removed and words rejoined across line breaks. Scan-derived text, still being proofread; compare the original scan before quoting.