Excerpt from A Year's Ministry: Second Series This name of witness bears likewise strongly upon the characteristic and remarkable manner of our Lord's testimony. The task of a Witness is to affirm; his business is to tell his story - notto argue about it, simply to state it. And there is nothing more characteristic of our Lord's words than the way in which, without attempt at proof or argumentation, He makes them stand on their own evi dence or, rather, depend upon His veracity. All His teaching is characterised by what would be insane pre sumption in any of us, and would at once rule us out of court as unfit to be listened to on any grave subject, most of all on religious truth. For His method is this a - Verily, verily, I say to you Take it on My word. You ask Me for proof of My saying: I am the proof of it; I assert it. That is enough for you Not so do men speak. So does the faithful Witness speak; and instead of the conscience and common sense of the world rising up and saying, This is the presumption of a religious madman and dic tator, they have bowed before Him and said, Thou art fairer than the children of men Grace is poured into Thy lips. He is the faithful Witness, Who lays His own character and veracity as the basis of what He has to say, and has no mightier word by which to back His testimony than His own sovereign Verily! Verily! 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.