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YOUNG MEN’S CORNER.

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tist is one of self-abnegation.

Witnessing to the Lord Jesus Christ he says " I am the voice " I am not 0

worthy, yet the Lord said of this man, among them that are born of women there is none greater than John.

Luke 7. 28.  How great then was the Lord.

Mark 1. 9-11. -- The Lord’s baptism is recounted by each Gospel writer.

In Mark and Luke the Voice from heaven is addressing the Lord Himself " Thou art My

beloved Son, in Thee I am well pleased, " but in Matthew the words are " This is My beloved S o n . . . "

This gave rise to the question whether or not the Voice and the descent of the Holy Spirit as a dove was a witness to others who may have been present as well as to John the Baptist.  In John 1, 31-33 we see the descent of the Spirit as a dove was the token by which John had been instructed of God to confirm his recognition of the One who would baptise in the Holy Spirit, although John un-doubtedly knew the Lord before His baptism, which is evident by the humble effort to deter the Lord which Mat chew mentions in chapter 3. 14. [Does John say the Lord was actually baptised?]

Mark 1. 12, 13. --The Lord’s temptation in the wilderness is told by Mark in two verses, the details of the three classes of temptations as recorded by Matthew and Luke being omitted.  It is suggested the temptation is recorded by Mark because the Lord, as a Servant, eing found in fashion as a man, was subjected to temp-tation in all points like as we are, yet without sin (Phil-lipians 2. 8, and Hebrews 4. 15).  Perhaps the omission of details by Mark may be something after the principle of Romans 14. 4 concerning a servant (to his own lord he standeth or faileth) the manner of the temptation being secondary to the Fact that He did endure the temptation.

John does not mention the temptation in the wilderness probably for the same reason that he omits the narrative of the birth.  " God cannot be tempted with evil. " (See James 1. 13-15).

N. G. ADKINS.

From GLASGOW. --We find small fragments of the ; h story of Mark scattered through the Book of Acts and the Epistles.  We do not know to what extent he walked as a disciple during the Lord’s sojourn on earth but it seems evident from Acts 12. 12, and Colossians 4. 10, that he was closely related to those who were the Master’s dearest friends. * His life we conclude from the com-mendation of the apostles Paul and Peter, was spent as