The herald., 1898-04-04
kNGsHIP OF CHRIST
HoSANNA AND CRUCIFY HIM,
THE POPULAR CRY
THE WORLDS GREATEST NEED
DR.. Day on Loss and Gain at the First
Congregational Church and
Other Sermons

Rev. B. W. R. Tayler preached yesterday
morning in st. Johns Episcopal church
from st Matthew xxi:5: "Tell We the daugh
ter of Zion, behold, thy king cometh unto
thee meelc and sitting upon an ass and
colt the foal of an ass
1T was not the intention of God that h!f
only begotten son should rule with tem'
poral authority. While he was entitled to
the throne of his fathers. humanity speak
ing he was to rule from the spiritua
throne of his eternal father divinely speak
Ing. That kingdom which the eternal faith
er was setting up among men was purely
a spiritual kingdom. The throne upon
which he was to be placed and from which
he was to rule was very simple. 1t was
made of two pieces of wood, in the shape OF
q cross. The crown with which his brow
was to be adorned was a crown of thorns.
stained with the blood of suffering. The
royal robes which the king was to wear
were the scarlet robes of sacrifice and the
purple of mockery. That royal restoration
which he came to effect was the restoration
of a nation, people; not the useless and
enervating debauchery of a human royalty
kingship.
eff ever a people failed to see the plain
purpose of God, the Jews of our lord
time failed. Blind to every idea of ruler
ship saving that which savored of human
strength and power they saw not that God
had again said, as he said to Samuel: I
am the king And SO it came to pass that
when the second, the third and the fourth
day of the week came and the people saw
no revolution in Jerusalem and no sign of
uprising and no indication of a popular
movement which would have drawn out
the foreign rulers and restored to Israel
lawful king and national ind dependence
simultaneously. the popuiace began to sus-
pect that after all this was not he that
should have delivered Israeli This sus-
pscion soon grew into dissatisfaction and
the day after that the popular estimate of
Christ was that he deceived the people and
the day after that again they were ready TO
Join the popular cry. Cruelty him.
What sad commentary on the tickle
ness Of the multitude, what Kaleidoscope
change of public opinion do We not witness
in few brief days. We have seen some
thing Of this human weakness in this last
week in our own. In three successive DAYS
Of last week did three successive phases
Of popular estimate justify pillory and
again approve the attitude of our chief
executive in the pressing problem now be-
fore the nation. On Monday it was Give
him time; let him guide the ship of state
On Tuesday 1t was, He is backing down;
he is a coward On Wednesday, He is all
right; he must follow diplomatic USAGE
ohan tn To ,
days from friends and foes alike, and pub
lie sentiment will flatter itself with the I'm.
godly fiattery that each time it was right.
Haste. hot-headedness and hatred are
not characteristics which swayed the
fathers Of the republic, and we have drifted
from their manly standard If we cannot
look an enemy straight in the face without
choking ourselves with ungovernable rage.
We are a peaceful nation, plentifully
blessed by the God of peace. OF course,
national honor must be preserved, even at
the cost of war. 1 am in favor of knuck-
ling down to no power on earth, and, more
than Dat, am in favor of the strong arm
of this nation interfering for the protec-
ton of the weak The crime of the last
decade has been crime of the Anglo
Saxon race, that crime which wa be
written large on the page of history, that
infamous disgrace that England and
America stood idly by while the most ter
rible outrages and fiendish inhumanities
were permitted in Christian Armenia. The
Anglo-Saxon race should have gone to war
with all Europe If necessary to stop those
abominable butcheries. There is a spot
of blood on the Union Jack and a spot of
ha c
those permitted butcheries. And I am
convinced that we, as nation, must put
stop to the inhumanities of which SEN
ator Proctor so calmly, and yet so wildly
told U.S. But if this can be done without
the necessity of going to war, may God
grant 1t. The nationa al honor will be better
conserved by honorably avoiding war than
by dishonorably plungins into It. War
means bloodshed, it means more heart
broken widows than we already have: If
means children bereft of the love and nro
lection and support of father; it means
lover. torn from lover, one to mourn and
the other to bleach on a battlefield Oh, it is
horrible. And yet there are thousands
hundreds of thousands, millions, who are
itching for it, praying for it, agitating It,
as if it were child's play. Oh the misery
of it. Oh the fatal lack of that calm
spirit and temper which causes fools TO
rush in where even the angels fear to
tread.
1.-THE changes are rung with lightninglike
rapidity from Hosanna to cruelty. Popu-
larity rests too frequently on the possibil-
ity of doing some brilliant thing which
illumines for awhile the armament. The
steady, sober, thoughtful characteristics
of former age are unpopular among those
who are being schooled in the glitterin.
superfcialties of this generation. The
plodding process is too slow, and humanity
seems disinclined to have any king who
comes to us riding upon the beast of hu-
initiation. We do not wish to be a nation
Of braggarts, We have achieved ouita
enough success without any farther neces.
sity Of bluster. And no individual if he is
q true follower of the meek and lowlv Jesus
= follower of his meekness and humility
needs to call attention to it. The king
whom we follow is truly king"
AT UNITY CHURCH