Thou Preparest a Table
Out of a Simple Supper Jesus Makes a Sublime Sacrament.
William C. Skeath, Author
Abingdon-Cokesbury Press
Copyright © 1947 by Stone & Pierce
128 pages
Original price: $1.25
Reviewed by Mary Katherine May of QualityMusicandBooks.com.
In Thou Preparest a Table, Pastor William C. Skeath has written thought provoking commentary on subjects drawn from the story of the last Passover meal Jesus celebrated, accompanied and enhanced by well-chosen of various authors.
He begins with Judas Iscariot bartering with Roman officials over payment for turning over Jesus, and ends with the walk to the Mount of Olives where Jesus would sweat drops of blood as He prayed.
I thought that Skeath’s scene descriptions were a vivid aid in bringing the dramatic events that occurred, thus making them real and not just a story about something that happened a long time ago.
Particularly relatable to every Christian of any era was the description of the relationship between Judas Iscariot and Jesus: The close relationship between great and base action, that both can exist in one person, the fact that Jesus was betrayed by a close friend, not a stranger or acquaintance, and Jesus tries to block us from sinning, yet our human desires prevail
Judas
I doe not here impute this deede of shame
On Judas, because Judas was his name.
For of that name there have been men of might
Who the great battles of the Lord did fight,
And others more, But sure this impure blot
Sticks to him, as he’s named Iskarriott
For in an anagram Iskarriott is,
By letters’ transposition, Traitor Kis.
--- John Taylor (1578-1653)
Poets: Kate H Robison, Merab Eberle, Jessie Gray Sherman, Joseph J Share, W M Vories, Edwin Markham, George Klingle, Charles Wesley, Willard Parker, Clare MacDermott, John Taylor, Horatius Bonar, Clarence E Flynn
Contents: 128 pages
The Scriptural Story
The Setting
The Sanctuary
The Strife
The Service
The Startling Statement
The Searching
The Silver
The Sop
The Supper
The First Symbol
The Second Symbol
The Saying of Fellowship
The Saying of Comfort
The Saying of Hope
The Supplication
The Song
References and Acknowledgments
From the dustjacket flap: William C. Skeath is (was) pastor of Haws Avenue Methodist Church in Norristown, Pennsylvania. He received his education at Williamsport Dickinson Seminary and Dickinson College. A large portion of his ministry has been given to serving important congregaions in the city of Philadelphia.
He is author of His Last Words, a volume of meditations on the words of Christ from the cross, and The Joyful Mystery, a volume of meditations on the incarnation.
Haws Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Norristown’s Sunday school was organized June 20, 1875, by Rev. M. D. Kurtz and a committee which had been appointed by the Oak Street Methodist Episcopal Quarterly Conference at the house of Mrs. Janette Richards.
Out of a Simple Supper Jesus Makes a Sublime Sacrament.
William C. Skeath, Author
Abingdon-Cokesbury Press
Copyright © 1947 by Stone & Pierce
128 pages
Original price: $1.25
Reviewed by Mary Katherine May of QualityMusicandBooks.com.
In Thou Preparest a Table, Pastor William C. Skeath has written thought provoking commentary on subjects drawn from the story of the last Passover meal Jesus celebrated, accompanied and enhanced by well-chosen of various authors.
He begins with Judas Iscariot bartering with Roman officials over payment for turning over Jesus, and ends with the walk to the Mount of Olives where Jesus would sweat drops of blood as He prayed.
I thought that Skeath’s scene descriptions were a vivid aid in bringing the dramatic events that occurred, thus making them real and not just a story about something that happened a long time ago.
Particularly relatable to every Christian of any era was the description of the relationship between Judas Iscariot and Jesus: The close relationship between great and base action, that both can exist in one person, the fact that Jesus was betrayed by a close friend, not a stranger or acquaintance, and Jesus tries to block us from sinning, yet our human desires prevail
Judas
I doe not here impute this deede of shame
On Judas, because Judas was his name.
For of that name there have been men of might
Who the great battles of the Lord did fight,
And others more, But sure this impure blot
Sticks to him, as he’s named Iskarriott
For in an anagram Iskarriott is,
By letters’ transposition, Traitor Kis.
--- John Taylor (1578-1653)
Poets: Kate H Robison, Merab Eberle, Jessie Gray Sherman, Joseph J Share, W M Vories, Edwin Markham, George Klingle, Charles Wesley, Willard Parker, Clare MacDermott, John Taylor, Horatius Bonar, Clarence E Flynn
Contents: 128 pages
The Scriptural Story
The Setting
The Sanctuary
The Strife
The Service
The Startling Statement
The Searching
The Silver
The Sop
The Supper
The First Symbol
The Second Symbol
The Saying of Fellowship
The Saying of Comfort
The Saying of Hope
The Supplication
The Song
References and Acknowledgments
From the dustjacket flap: William C. Skeath is (was) pastor of Haws Avenue Methodist Church in Norristown, Pennsylvania. He received his education at Williamsport Dickinson Seminary and Dickinson College. A large portion of his ministry has been given to serving important congregaions in the city of Philadelphia.
He is author of His Last Words, a volume of meditations on the words of Christ from the cross, and The Joyful Mystery, a volume of meditations on the incarnation.
Haws Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Norristown’s Sunday school was organized June 20, 1875, by Rev. M. D. Kurtz and a committee which had been appointed by the Oak Street Methodist Episcopal Quarterly Conference at the house of Mrs. Janette Richards.
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