My brethren, this is the last time this season that I shall be able to
speak to you from this pulpit; and, perhaps, the last time altogether.
But, if it so turns out, I shall not repent that the last time I spoke to
you, and that, too, immediately after the communion table, the burden of
my message was the burden of my Master's message after the first
communion table. 'If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. A
new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another. By this shall
all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, so shall ye be My
disciples. These things have I spoken unto you that in Me ye might have
peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I
have overcome the world. Know ye what I have done unto you? Ye call Me
Master and Lord, and ye say well, for so I am.'
BY-ENDS
'Ye seek Me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat
of the loaves.'--Our Lord.
In no part of John Bunyan's ingenious book is his strong sense and his
sarcastic and humorous vein better displayed than just in his description
of By-ends, and in the full and particular account he gives of the
kinsfolk and affinity of By-ends.
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