Navy cloth binding with gilt title and black design on the spine and front board.

F.B.A. provides an in-depth photographic presentation of this item to stimulate your feel and touch. More traditional book descriptions are immediately available

A rare book, but not one of my favourites, hence the price.

. Excerpt: …coasts of Decapolis the Gadarene demoniac had published how great things the Lord had done for him. Here crowds gathered about Him, as they had done elsewhere, bringing the sick and feeble with them (Matt. xv. 30). The lame and blind, the fever smitten and the deformed, all kinds of human suffering were to be found in the vast concourse which clustered at our Saviour’s feet. But scenes of such general affliction do not awaken that tender sympathy which is occasioned by a scene of individual calamity. This feature, however, is supplied in the narrative of St. Mark. He draws forth from the motley crowd of misfortune, which St. Matthew has pictured, a case of peculiar and individual suffering. He shows us one who had come that day with the rest to the Saviour’s feet, but whose infirmities rendered him an object of special compassion. “They bring unto Him one that was deaf and had an impediment in his speech.’ The life of one so troubled ‘must have been a shaded one. If he sat by the family board, it was as a silent and perplexed spectator of the home joys. As he watched those dear faces glowing with happiness, sparkling with merriment, or darkened with sorrow, he must often and often have failed to perceive the causes of their joy, or the sources of their sorrow; and if he tried to give expression to the loving emotions which thrilled and throbbed in his bosom, the awkward and rebellious tongue only mocked his meaning with broken syllables or senseless wandering words. If he walked along the open beach, the thunder of the in-rolling sea made no music in his ears, but the awful and mysterious waves tumbled noiselessly about his feet. He looked upon the birds floating in the open sky, or skimming the lake’s surface, or gathering in…

William Boyd Carpenter KCVO (26 March 1841, Liverpool – 26 October 1918, Westminster) was a Church of England cleric who became Bishop of Ripon and Royal Chaplain to Queen Victoria.