Excerpt from Footprints of the Son of Man as Traced by Saint Mark: Being Eighty Portions for Private Study, Family Reading, and Instructions in Church The Bishop of Ely has explained in the Introduction the main object which I have had in view in publishing these volumes on S. Mark's Gospel. I have long felt that in an age when purely subjective and hortatory preaching has become so popular, there is danger of the Church forgetting that she has an authoritative commission to teach as well as to admonish not only to point out the way of salvation (though of necessity this must always be her highest duty), but also to make the Sacred History intellectually as well as spiritually edifying. In days when works of secular instruction are made so attractive, it seems most desirable not to lose sight of the fact that the Bible is a storehouse for the literary student, as well as a guide to eternal life. Whenever it has been my privilege to give addresses at the early Cathedral Service on week-days, I have endeavoured, according to my ability, to offer to the congregation instruction rather than exhortation at the same time I have sought to maintain their religious character by briefly suggesting at the close, in what way the immediate subject may be practically applied, leaving the fuller consideration for subsequent medita tion in private. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.