Regardless of which Evangelist is the particular focus in the three-year Sunday cycle of readings ... focus on the person and work of St. John the Baptist, the prophet par excellence of Advent.

To-day the Baptist Sunday School Union will commemorate its anniversary at the Cooper Institute, at 2 o'clock P.M. In the evening there will be supplementary exercises at the First Baptist Church.

Last week and this week, the Gospel has us make the acquaintance of John the Baptist. Last week ... John anticipates it. Indeed, Sunday’s reading concludes by saying John “preached the ...