Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1867 Excerpt: ... XIII. MARY THE MOTHER OF JOHN MARK. ACTS XII. jHE first thing to which I would call attention in Mary is, that she appears to have been a Christian disciple of considerable social position in Jerusalem.,--We conceive of her as having belonged to the ranks of those 'honourable women not a few who, in the beginning of Christianity, did not fear to declare themselves on the Lord's side. She was a near relative of Barnabas, who, having rich possessions in the isle of Cyprus, had sold them and laid the money at the apostles' feet in order to meet the great exigencies of the infant church. And there are scattered hints which favour the conclusion that there were not only natural but strong moral affinities between herself and her kinsman; for she appears to have exercised a generous hospitality to the apostles and other friends of the gospel in Jerusalem. We think of her as one of those holy ministering women of whom Paul wrote at a later period, who 'lodged strangers, washed the saints' feet, relieved the afflicted, and diligently followed every good work.' II. And this leads me to point to her, in the second place, as a Christian disciple blessed by a Christian kindred.--Barnabas, her brother, stands prominent in the primitive church as a man of munificent liberality, who, in the cause of Christ and His suffering people, 'said not that any of the things which he possessed were his own,'--whose genial kindliness of spirit gave a double charm and enhancement to everything that he either spake or gave, and who became the missionary companion of Paul in many a circuit of evangelism over the sunny regions of Asia Minor, and against some of the mightiest strongholds of superstition and idolatry. We do not read of her husband, for it is likely that, by this time, she ...
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