El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-10-17

lamplight and you can find people who
Will barter their souls for its posses
sion. Hold up silver dollar and you
can shut out heaven from the vision OF
many soul. The religion Of Jesus de-
msnds q life of humility and sacrifice
but the world is so full of pride and
covetOusness that many of its devotees
say, "We will not live the Christ life:
we will not have this man to reign
over us.''
Second, the rule OF moral conduct
that must obtain in the reign of King
Jesus is too straight. Many people do
not like to walk straight. The leaders
among the Jews made great preten-
sion to righ teousn ess, but Jesus de-
clared like sepulehres they were in
wardly rotten to the core. The re-
ligion of Jesus demands a heart &C.
ceptance of truth and Righteousness,
4nd at least a strong effort to attain to
purity of life. To accept such re-
ligion means for men to give up their
secret sins. This many men are deter
mined not to do; and 80, they cay,
I'VE will not have this man to rule
over U.s."
Friend, what is your attitude towards
Jesus today? Do you accept him rs
lord and king to reign and rule in your
heart. or do you with the Jews OF old
say, I'VE will not have this man to
rule over us?'' There is but one alter
native; you must either receive Christ
IS king. or seek to destroy him. The
Jews, rejecting him, sought at once to
destroy him, nor stopped till they had
done their worst. Every time you, in
word or act, refuse Jesus
place in your hear
you leau m again 10 the Judgement
1all: you spit in his face: you press up
~
'harpest thorns; you lead him again
through the sorrowful way; you lay
n IN once more uUou the cross of pain :,
pierce his hands and his feet with
rails and drive a poisoned spear to
his heart of hearts: while upon his
ross you write this superscriptioD,
This is Jesus of Nazareth, the son of
God, who is willing and able to save
all men who come to him; but we will
not have this man to reign over u.s."
o man of the worlf let me press this
question on your heart tonight: Will
you con tinue thus to b-uise and wound
and cruelty afresh the Christ who has
already tasted death and hell for you?
Will you continue to refuse him a reign
ia your heart? If so, then the dsy
Will come when thou shalt be forever
doomed. Jesus went to Jerusalem, of
erred himself once more to the Jews,
aud was again rejected. Then it was
hat with broken heart and weeping
yes he uttered those sad aud fearful
declars tiODs against the Jews, "Behold
your house is l. it unto you desolat-.
For | say unto you, henceforth We shall
not see me until We shall say, blessed
is he that .cometh in the name of the
Lord"
Go ard view the destruction of Jer-
usalem by Titus, fifty years after these
prophecies were uttered: see how fear
full the suffering of the people, and how
complete and final the destruction of
he city; study the history of the Jews
from that day to this; note their
rational decline and their absolute
blindness to spiritual perception OF the
truths revealed in Christ Jesus: and
you will have a scene before you black
anough to make a demon weep. Why
This fearful scene? Because the
Jews persisted in saying, 1--WE
will not have this man to reign over
rs. Go on in your rejection of Jesus,
ny friend, and the Judgment of God
will just as surely fall on you. Your
conscience will become scared: your
spiritual emotion and perception will
be destroy ed Til that blessed, though
fearful, day when every knee shall
bow and every tongue confess that
Jesus is the blessed.Christ. But then,
. fearful thought, it will long since
have been too late. Too late Why?
Because, when time was and when the
neart was tender and responsive, thou
lost persist in saying, I'VE will not
have this man to reign over u.s.