The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-04-04
WONDERS OF CHRIST'S LIFE
CONTINUED From the Ninth Page.)


which our lord had forecast of His inn
pending future; days in which He must
have longed to prove the prophecy con-
corning Him.
Christ now energies from the desert,
and His public ministry becomes a Sc
ries Of surprises. Words and works
alike attract, amaze, bewilder all. At the
wedding feast in Cana where He turns
water into wine: in the temple from
which He drives the traders, before
Nicodemus, who marvels at His an
nouncement of the mystery of the new
birth; in the presence Of proud Phari-
sees, whose heartless formalities He
scathingly condemns; stopping to rest
at Jacobs well where He uncovers the
life of the lone Samaritan woman;
needing the pietous plea of the noble
man for the life of his boy; making His
way to the pool of Bethesda, and sing
ling out a sufferer there whom he COM
mands to take up his bed and walk"
rejected at Nazareth, and making his
way to Caperneum, where He healed
the leper and the paralytic; calling His
apostles and causing them to follow
Him; hating the funeral procession
coming out of the village Main, where
He raised to life the widows son; sit
ting at Simon's feast where Mary, call
ed the Magdalene, found her deliverer;
crossing the sea of Galilee, whose wild
waves He stilled by the word of COM
mand, and thus on. All was wonder,
and yet only what was to be expected,
II Christ be the Son of God.
The same Of the TRANSPORTATION
when Moses and Elias appeared-com-
Ing from the dim and distant past
glorified saints-and where that confer
ence was had concerning his decease.
The same of blind men, who had their
eyes opened; Of deaf men who had
their ears unstopped; of the dumb who
were made to speak: Of lepers who
were cleansed; Of mothers who brought
their children for his blessing: all,
everywhere and always, was amazing
wonder piled on wonder, until we cease
to wonder.
I have called your attention to these
events in the life of Christ which may
seem to you wholly foreign to our text,
but which prepare us for the scene sug-
A gested by it, in that they are part and
parcel Of that strange life approaching
3 it's tragic end, when Hozannas rent the
! sky and palm branches became carpet
n tor his way-worn feet.
Did Christ know He was to have that
day Of dazzling splendor? Was it re-
vealed to Him that He should be met
by such crowd c1amoring for His cor
onation? 1t was not necessary for Him
to attend that Passover feast, for He
had been outlawed by the ruling pow
ers.
But, as if all was well, or as if car
ing not whether it were well or i'll, He
chose to face every danger and fulfill
every hope concerning Him.
That royal entry into the Jerusalem
OF prophecy, and of the crucifixion, was
an integral and essential part of the
Z life of Christ. The history would not
y be complete or consistent without it
He must enter Jerusalem, confessed as
King, because He was King.
Just as when He was led up there
when a boy, so now uncounted thou.
sands throng the road. f,he name Of
Jesus of Nazareth had come to be or
Il every lip, for rumor had it that HI
would be at the feast.
Some thought that He was to defy
the Roman power and head an insur
rection. 1t was no longer a secret tina
the Sanhedrin had condemned Him a:
81 hereto. At the feast in Bethany III,
4 had limited of His near betrayal anC
crucifixion. From her temple to Hi
gates Jerusalem was watching for Him
At last the hereto, the so-called bias
phemer, the revolutionist, appears
without arms or armor, surrounded b.
fishermen and common folk-his heat
bare, his hand holding no sceptre, hi
voice proclaiming no commission.
But-and here comes the wonder
Men and women strip the palms o
their branches and fling them at hi
feet. Ten thousand tongues burst int
song, until Hozannas roll up the side
Of Olivet and down into the rocky vale
a mighty burst of song-"Blessed is h
that cometh In the name of the LORD
Jesus being ''borne on the love of thos
who knew Him best and the trust o
those who knew Him least
1t is easy to imagine who were Their
making up the throng-pilgrims goin
to the city and pilgrims coming fror
the city-these the many; but anon
tllSiu LIE lOl5 WllOiIL 1IlIlSL I'D
healed, those in sorrow whom He Ia
comforted, those bereaved to whom H
has restored their dying or their dead
and conspicuous the raised Lazaru
and his rejoicing sisters.
1t has been suggested that thos
whom Christ has befriended in variou
ways first began to rejoice and prais
God with a loud voice, and that thei
enthusiasm kindled the enthusiasm c
others, until fire sprang from heart t
heart, and the Hozanna, or the "sav
now" was answered back by 'Blesse
is he that cometh in the name of tn
s Lord"
sWe may not, however, assert VIII
started the old antiphona1 psalm.
matters not. Unnumbered multitude
are chanting it, and thus the world !
answering the heavenly recognition {
His birth and baptism.
Doubtless reading this record G
that triumphal entry, it impresses u
in strong contrast to and almost in
consistent with, his previous mode {
life, and so it was. But affairs wit
Christ are concentrating. The tim
has come for this Silence, so long en-
Joined to be broken. The time ha
come for public recognition of his Mes
siahship. From the sending forth c
the two disciples to his acceptance {
the homage of the crowd, and his re