When I watch the working of my own heart... this is what I am compelled to write: I am Jonah. In the matter of my own reputation as a preacher that is. For I used to say, Let me die first before I am eclipsed by another in my pulpit and among my people. I fought with a Jonah-like fierceness against the remotest thought of my reputation ever passing over, in my day at any rate, to another.
-Alexander Whyte in Bible Characters: Ahithophel to Nehemiah
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
I am Jonah
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