Robert Traill was endowed with a first-class mind and had enjoyed a very complete theological education
his long and frustrating courtship of Sally Jones
At times there seems to be no way to turn
In part this was because he left no denomination
and stimulating to this present generation as they were to Smeaton’s own
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, Volume 2: Mark W. Ross Blackburn Robert Traill was endowed withFirst published in 1857, Mark was the second book to appear in J. C. Ryles series of Expository Thoughts on the Gospels. The earliest of the Gospel narratives to be written, Mark, says Ryle, is singularly full of precious facts about the Lord Jesus, narrated in a simple, terse, pithy, and condensed style. Those last four adjectives could well be used to describe Ryles own comments on the Gospel! In one of the occasional explanatory notes, he quotes