Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON III, 1888 "and Who is My Neighbor?" But he, willing to justify himself said unto Jesus —" And viho is my neighbor?"—Luke lo: 29. RATIONALISTIC interpreters are accustomed to speak of Jesus as a " wonderful genius," whose clear seer-like insight into truth and men awakens their fervent admiration. While we recognize in Him something infinitely more than they find — words as well as acts that are Divine, we may admire with them the brilliant answers, the matchless skill of the man Christ Jesus. We read the simple, unadorned story of his encounter with the Pharisees and Sadducees and Herodians who came to entangle him in their talk (Math. 22). We see him foil their attack at every point of approach. The Sadducees came with a poser concerning the resurrection; but to the astonishment of the multitude he put them to silence by arguments they could not gainsay. Then the Pharisees learning nothing from the discomfiture of their old time foes pressed forward to the attack. But so quickly and authoritatively came the answer to their test-question, an answer so obviously complete and true that they too were driven back into a state of quiescence. Then turning upon them Jesus pressed his advantage with a question they could not even attempt to answer. Their rout was so complete and overwhelming that " No man was able to answer him a word; neither durst any man from that day forward ask him any more questions." Who can restrain admiration of the man as we see him thus calmly and effectively disposing of his assailants one by one, without bitterness and yet without coming short of their entire vanquishment. We have a somewhat similar feeling as we read this account of the interview of a certain lawyer with Jesus. What wondrous tact the Saviour shows! What freedom from assum...