Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, Volume 2: Mark W. Ross Blackburn No biography of Charles has

No biography of Charles has been published in English or Welsh since 1908—this is the first for over a hundred years

At times there seems to be no way to turn

” was always in his mind’

Robert Traill was endowed with a first-class mind and had enjoyed a very complete theological education

he appears successively as schoolboy

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, Volume 2: Mark W. Ross Blackburn No biography of Charles hasFirst 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