Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Anglican Pulpit Library, Vol. 12: Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-First, Twenty-Second, Twenty-Third, Twenty-Fourth, and Twenty-Fifth Sundays After Trinity Holy Days; Indexes of Texts and Sermons; List of Contributors They were all of them cleansed - all the ten; but, like Naaman, the Syrian leper, returning with his blessing for the man of God, one of them thought that something was due to the author of so signal a deliverance. He left the others to pursue their onward course. He left them to claim, at the hands of the priests, their restoration to the civil and religious life of Israel. He left them: He could not do otherwise. He left them. He turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, and then he threw himself at the feet of his deliverer to thank Him for this act of mercy and of power. And our Lord blessed him once more in another and a higher way. A greater possession far, than that even of freedom from leprosy, was assured to this poor Samaritan in the parting words, 'thy faith hath made thee whole.' But ere He did this our Lord uttered the exclamation, 'were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.