Rejected of Men

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Говард Пайл. Rejected of Men

I. THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS

II. HEROD THE TETRARCH

III. THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES

IV. WHAT WENT YE DOWN FOR TO SEE?

V. THE BEGINNING OF THE WORKS

VI. THE YOUNG MAN WITH GREAT POSSESSIONS

VII. AMONG THE ROMANS

VIII. ONE OF THEM NAMED CAIAPHAS BEING HIGH-PRIEST THAT SAME YEAR

IX. THE MAN BLIND FROM BIRTH

X. A VOICE FROM THE DEAD

XI. NOTHING BUT LEAVES

XII. THE ONE THING WE LACK

XIII. THE SHADOW OF DEATH

XIV. VERITAS DIVINIS, VERITAS MUNDI

XV. JUDAS

XVI. A GLIMPSE OF AGONY

XVII. THE END OF THE WORLD

XVIII. THE SPIRIT AND THE FLESH

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WHEN John the Baptist began preaching none of us of the more intelligent classes believed him to be really a prophet forerunning the coming of the Messiah. Indeed, the better part of the world knew in the beginning nothing of his presence in its midst; nor until we began to be aware that great streams of ignorant people were pouring out of the cities and towns and descending to listen to his preaching and to receive his baptism, were we aware that such a man was in existence.

Then the public journals, those echoes of current thought and opinion, began to take the matter up, publishing longer and longer reports concerning him; commenting upon the growing excitement, the cause of which nobody seemed exactly to understand. People read what was printed and wondered what it all meant.

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The idea of the committee had been proposed in jest, but before the meeting closed it was considered seriously, and was finally adopted. There was still a general feeling of half-repressed jocularity about it all, but, nevertheless, the committee was duly appointed. Mr. Munjoy, as the proposer of the committee, was nominated for chairman, but he declined in a very witty and amusing speech, proposing Dr. Caiaphas in his stead. Dr. Caiaphas was not at all pleased with the sense of levity that pervaded the meeting. It seemed to him that the subject was very serious, and he replied to what Mr. Munjoy had said in a very serious manner. He wished, he said, that some younger man had been chosen. Without at all desiring to shift the burden from his own shoulders, he must say that he really felt that his time was so much taken up with the work of the investigation committee appointed to examine into the police department that it would be almost impossible for him to give to this matter that consideration which it seemed to him to deserve. Nevertheless, if it was the will of those present that he should act as chairman, he would so act to the best of his poor powers.

“Oh, that’s all right,” said Mr. Munjoy, laughing. “This time to-morrow we’ll have ceased to think anything about the inconveniences of to-day. I am sure many of us have squandered a half-day ever so much more uselessly than this.”

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