I never rightly understood before why she came, but I see it now. They said, "He is beside Himself." And then His mother came. A man often takes one day a week from business to look after his garden or to enjoy himself with his children but if when you knocked at his office door and were told he was absent on that occasion - as he always devoted one day a week to the care of the poorest of the poor - you would say, "Dear me, how very extraordinary! There must be some little softening of the brain." No, no, sir! softening of the heart and would to God you would catch the complaint and die of it. People are always needed elsewhere when Christ wants them. It is only for Jesus Christ that people invent these excuses. When a man goes to the ends of the earth to collect beetles, or catch fish, or shoot big beasts, who ever hears of self-sacrifice? But the moment he sets out on this long journey in order to help his neighbour, he is at once said to be demented. We never hear of self-sacrifice except for Jesus Christ. Self-sacrifice! Oh! in some cases the word becomes damnable. When Livingstone was in Central Africa he tells us that he met some Englishmen who had gone there to shoot big game, and that these fellows talked about their self-sacrifice in exposing themselves to the same perils with himself. The very word "enthusiasm" means God in the man. But all the great and noble deeds done in this world have been wrought by those who have been branded as madmen, and until we go mad too I do not think we are likely to do much good among our fellows.
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When His friends heard of this they said, "He is out of His mind." They always say that whenever a man begins to be enthusiastic about the welfare of his neighbour they are sure to think he is mad. He had spent the whole day in preaching then He had gone away and spent the night in prayer the next morning He ordained the twelve, and before there was any time for breakfast the multitude came back again.
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Ah, how tired He is! Look at that face, so white, with the lines so deeply graven, the hands stretched out in utter helplessness.
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Now, I want you to come and see Jesus lying there upon the deck of the ship. Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a ship with his disciples: and he said to them…