The morning star, shining amid the brightening glow of dawn, is the fittest emblem that Nature can supply of the herald who proclaimed the rising of the Sun of Righteousness-answering across the gulf of three hundred years to his brother prophet, Malachi, who had foretold that Sunrise and the healing in His wings. Every sign attests the unique and singular glory of the Baptist. Not that his career was signalized by the blaze of prodigy and wonder,...