Last Sheaves Sermons Author:Alexander Maclaren General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1903 Original Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton Subjects: Baptists Sermons, English Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christianity / Baptist Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing tex... more »t. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Cannot and Can Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek Me ; and as I said unto the Jews, whither I go ye cannot come ; so now say to you. -- John xiii. 33. WE. have seen, in previous sermons on the preceding context, how large and black the Cross loomed before Jesus now, and how radiant the glory beyond shone out to Him. But it was only for a moment that either of these two absorbed His thoughts; and with wonderful self-forgetfulness and self-command, He turned away at once from the consideration of how the near future was to affect Him, to the thought of how it was to affect the handful of helpless disciples who had to be left alone. Impending separation breaks up the fountains of the heart, and we all know the instinct that desires to crowd all the often hidden love into some one last token. So here our Lord addresses His disciples by a name that is never used except this once, " little children," a fond diminutive that not only reveals an unusual depth of tender emotion, but also breathes apitying sense of their defencelessness when they are to be left alone. So might a dying mother look at her little ones. But the words that follow, at first sight, are dark with the sense of a final and complete separation. " Ye shall seek Me " -- and not only so, but He seems to put back His humble friends into the same place as had been occupied by His bitter foes -- " as I said to the Jews, whither I go ye cannot come; so now I say to you." T...« less