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throne in heaven, and as tie doors of
the eternal palace are swung open may
the question Ct the text sound in her
enraptured cars, "What wilt thou,
Queen Esther
Another Coronation.
But as ali of us will lie denied attend
ance On that sixtieth anniversary coro-
nation invite you not to the anniver-
sary of a coronation, but to corona
ton itself-aye, to two coronations.
Brought up as we are, to love as no 9TH
er form of government that which is
republican and democratic, we, living
Oh this side of the sea, cannot SO easily
as those living OIL the other side of the
sea appreciate the two coronations to
which all up and down the Bible you
and I are urgently invited. Some of you
have such morbid ideas of religion that
you think of it as going down into
dark cellar, or out on barren COM
mon, or as a hagellation, when, so far
from a dark cellar, it is palace, and
instead of barren common it is
garden, atoss with the brightest foun-
tains that were ever rainbowed, and
instead of fagellation it is coronation,
but coronation utterly eclipsing the
one whose sixtieth anniversary is now
being celebrated. 1t was great day
when David, the little king who was
large enough to thrash Goliath, took
Al POL, i,nl plub-
ing talent of gold and encircled with
precious stones-and the people shout
ed, Long live the kingn' 1t was
great day when Petrarch, surrounded
by 10 patrician youths clothed in scar
let, received from a senator the laurel
crown, and the people shouted, "Long
live the poet"
1t was a great day when Mark An
tony put upon Caesar the mightiest tiara
of all the earth, and in honor of divine
authority Caesar had it placed after
ward on the head Of the statue of Jupiter
Olympus. 1t was great day which the
greatest of Frenchmen took the diadem
of Charlemagne and put it on his own
brow. 1t was great day when, about
an eighth of mile from the gate Of Je-
rusalem, under sky pallid with thick
est darkness and on mountain tram
meled of earthquake, and the air on
fire with the blasphemies of mob,
crown of spikes was put upon the pal
lid and agonized brow Of our Jesus
But that particular coronation, amid
tears and blood and groans and SILVER
ing cataclysms. made your own corona
ton possible. Paul was not man to
lose his equilibrium, but when that old
missionary, with crooked back and in
famed eyes, got glimpse of the crown
coming to him, and coming to you, If
you will by repentance and faith accept
it, he went into ecstasies, and his poor
eyes flashed and his crooked back
Strengthened as he cried to Timothy,
"There is laid up for me crown Of
righteousness, and to the Corinthians,
"These athletes run to obtain a cor
ruptible, we an incorruptible, crown.'
And to the Thessalonians he speaks of
1.-THE crown of glory, y and to the Philip
plans he says, My JOY and crown"
The apostle Peter catches the inspira-
ton and cries out, "Ye shall receive Il
crown of glory that fadeth not away,
and st. John joins in the rapture and
says, Faithful to death, and I will
give thee crown of life, and else
where exclaims, Hold fast that no
man take thy CROWN" Crowns, crowns,
crowns You did not expect in coming
here today to be invited to corona
ton. You can scarcely believe your own
ears, but in the name of a pardoning
God and sacrificing Christ and an ON
nipotent Holy Spirit and triumphant
heaven offer each one a crown for the
asking. Crowns, crowns! How to get
the crown? The way Victoria got her
crown. on her knees. Although eight
duchesses and marquises, all in cloth of
silver, carried her train and the Win
dows and arches and roof of the abbey
shook with the "Te Deum'' of the organ
in full djapason, she had to kneel, she
had to come down. To get the crown of
pardon and eternal life, you will have
to kneel, you will have to come down.
Yea. History says that at her corona
ton not only the entire assembly wept
with profound emotion, but Victoria
was in tears So you will have to have
your dry eyes moistened with tears, Ill
your case tea1s of repentance, tears of
Joy, tears of coronation, and you will
feel like crying out with jeremiah,
"Oh, that my head were waters and
mine eyes fountains of tears. "
Yes, she was during the ceremony
seated for awhile on a lowly stone called
the Liza Fail, which, as remember it,
as 1 have seen it again and again, was
rough and not foot high, a lowly and
humble place i'll which to be seated. and
if you are to be crowned king or queen
to God forever you must be seated on
the Liza Fail of profound humiliation.
After all that she was ready for the
throne, and let me say that Gcd is not
going to leave your oxidation half done.
There are thrones as we'll as CROWDS
awaiting you. ST. John shouted, Il
saw thrones, and again he said, "They
shall reign forever and ever. Thrones
Thrones Get ready for the coronation.
But invite you not only to your own
coronation, but to mightier and the
mightiest In all the ages of time no
one ever had such a hard time as Christ
while he was Gil earth. Brambles for
his brow, expectoration for his cheek,
whips for his back, spears for his side,
spikes for his feet. contumely for his
name, and even in our time how many
say he is no Christ at all, and there are
tens of thousands Of hands trying to
push him back and keep him down.
But, oh, the human and satanic impo-
tencyi Can spider stop an albatross?
Can the hole which the toy shovel of
child digs in the sand at Cape May
swallow the Atlantic? Can the breath Of
a summer fan drive back the Mediter-
ranean euroclydon? Yes, when all the
combined forces of earth and hell can
keep Christ from ascending the throne
Of universal dominion. David the
psalmist foresaw that coronation and
cried out in regard to the Messiah,