A Sermon Preached by Rev. T. W. Lister in Union Church on Sunday Evening, November 1
Matt. 16.18-16. "Whom do men say that I, the Son of Man, int.... Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
All modern teachers believe in the virtue of examinations. A college that had no examinations would stand discredited.
"Here is the greatest of all teachers conducting an examination land He is delighted with the result.
Very different from modern ex-laminations which involve hard think. ting and quick writing for hours together, and which test whether the student has remembered or similared the course of lectures through whioh he has sat. No. set course of lectures has been given to the disciples; they had been taught in a way quite different from that of ancient schools or modern.
Jesus was s diferent from. the Rabbis of His own time as from the theological professors of to-day. The purpose of His examination was to discover whether they had arrived at conclusions concerning Himself.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.