Word: peter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Henry Van Dyke, of Princeton University preached in Appleton Chapel last night, taking as his text the twenty-first verse of the second chapter of St. Peter's first epistle: Leaving us an example that we should follow His steps...
This occasion of the "draught of fishes" was not the first time Jesus had met Simon Peter and his companions. There on the shore of Galilee he had found them before and talked with them, but they, never realizing the scope and meaning of his message, had heard, and gone back, as though nothing had happened, to their old way of life. "Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught," he said...
...Simon Peter:" -- About these two words are twined the suggestive memories of a wonderful life, a life full of stress and storm and change but firm and victorious in the end. There comes before one the picture of Simon, the Galilean fisherman, fickle and untrue, known among the sailors of the lake as a man in whom no sure confidence could be placed. Again there rises before one the scene on that day when Christ first met the humble fisherman and gave to the weak Simon the name of Peter,--that is to say at last the old fickleness...
...significant fact that Peter called himself in his letter by both names. He realized the weakness of character that the old name "Simon" connoted, and yet he was not ashamed to use it. There was no sting in the old memories, no rankling of the old faults and failures, because he had made them the stepping stones "to brighter things." Old sins, if they have been conquered, need never cause remorse...
...Peter was a "servant and an apostle." The paradox in this phrase is only seeming. Men must be obedient servants to God before they can be the friends, the apostles of the master; men must serve God's world and not themselves before they can reach the truest rewards. He that would follow me." Christ said to learn His love and be His Apostle, "Let him take up his cross and follow...