The Newtown bee., 1901-09-20

arrangements with a message from Jehovah, ''Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts saying, Behold the man whose name is the Branch, and he shall grow up out of his place and he shall build the temple of the Lord' which was desecrated and destroyed by wicked hands, land he, after it's restoration within three days, 'shall bear the glory and shall sit and rule upon his throne, and he snail be priest upon his throne and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.'' And deserving his arrival at the national capital he sends cry pealing down the centuries to the people of those times Rejoice greatly, o daughter of Zion; shout, o daughter of Jerusalem; behold, thy king cometh unto thee; he is just and having salvation; lowly and riding upon an ass, even upon colt, | the foal of an ass. And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the nations; and his dominion shall be from sea to sea and | from the river to the ends of the earth, '' And finally Malachi, about four hun dred years before the event, reiterateS the unchanged purpose of the Eternal: "Behold, send my messenger before me; and the Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to his temple; even the messenger of the covenant whom ye delight in; behold he cometh saith the Lord of hosts." In view of all these and many other manifestations of his constant purpose to introduce king dom of God upon the earth, whose wise, good and holy sovereign should be of Jewish stock according. to the flesh; in view of all the stately dealings of Pr :,.ence with this people during a perrt' of some two thousand years, was lt not to be expected that when the Messiah should come, the hour should be ripe for that grand event? that expectation should have thorough ly leavened the Jewish mind and in- deed the minds of bards and seers of distant lands among whom the Jews had been dispersed? In the wilder. ness of Judea the people heard the re. frain written by Isaiah centuries be. fore: ''Prepare ye the way of Jehovah MAKE STRAIGHT IN THE DESERT A | HIGHWAY
 for our God; every valley shall be ex alted and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places smooth and the gloryof Jehovah shall be revealed and all flesh shall sec it together; for the mouth of the LorG hath spoken it,"
 The weird precursor of the Messiah recognized the tokens of the incarnate God and cried: ''This is he of whom ] spoke, the buckle of whose shoes I an
 not worthy to unlOoSe who shall bap
 tiZe not as l with water but with the
 Holy Spirit of God most high.' After receiving the ordinance of baptism the heavens opened above him and a dove like form descended and alighted upor
 him and voice from the most excel
 lent glory proclaimed, ",This is my be-
 loved Son, hear ye him." Did evel man speak like this man, or so enchair the ears and minds of hearers? Die ever benevOlence let itself loose in sucl
 manifold and various expressions O kindness, sympathy and good will to
 ward burdened, sorrowing and suffer ing mOrtals? Did ever Omnipotenct appear so humane, so human?
 The multitudes that had been at tracted to the unfrequented wilderness
 of Judea by the long expected yet startling announcement, ''The King
 dom of Heaven is at hand' nov
 turned their eyes, their steps toward Him who alone could interpret tha1
 kingdom to the minds and hearts fo which it had been prepared.
 And Jesus traversed all Jewry ant
 "Went about all Galilec teaching il their synagogues and preaching tht gospel of the kingdom and healing al manner of sickness and all manner o disease among the people. And hi fame went throughout all Syria; an( they brought unto him all sick tha were taken with divers diseases anC