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Excerpt from Sabbath Evening Readings on the New Testament
Simplest habits, - clothed with camel's hair; and it is said that he ate, -not to indicate his taste, but the place of his habitation, - locusts and wild honey. He did not eat locusts and wild honey as a monk eats black bread, as an expiatory duty, but because he could find nothing else in the place in which he was constrained to live.
He preached, not himself, but, like a faithful min ister, his Master. He detached the people's thoughts from the herald, and tried to teach them of One who came after him, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose Shoes I am not worthy to steep down and unloose. When a traveller came to an eastern house, his Shoes or san dals were unloosed and removed by the servant, that the dusty feet might be washed, and the weary traveller thus refreshed. Well, John says, The gap between me, the pioneer, and my great Master is so great, that I am not worthy to do the humblest office for him - SO great is his glory, and so lowly is my function.
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