Newport weekly independent., 1902-06-27

hand, they bowed the knee before Him, and mocl1ingly said: Hail, King of the Jews." An, what a cor onation! Oh, tragedy of the ages! Crowned with the piercing thorns, the emblem of the cursed ground from which the first Adam must ob- tain his living, How strikingly sig niticant that He who was to bear the sin of the world in His body on the tree should have as His crown that which sprang from the soil as the direct consequence of sin! Man, i'll bis hellish rage, is only fulfilling the will of God and king beauti- fully complete the marvellous plan of redemption.
 What a contrast. The crowning of the earthly potentate is marked by the bringing of gifts, the paying of tribute, the showering of the best of the nation upon his kingly head, but in the dark picture before us we see the sins of the world being rolled upon the Lamb of God, the sin bear that God may do His best, and be- yond that agonized, thorn-crowned head, we see the vision of the risen and ascended Lord, awaiting at the right hand of God for the fullness of time when He shall come again in power and great glory to rule over the earth.
 Man may delay, but he cannot thwart Gods plans. Disobedience and unbelief delayed the possession of the promised land by the children of Israel, and it was not until after 40 years wandering in the wilderness and the death of every soul but Caleb and Joshua, who lacked not faith to go in and possess the land, that Joshua bed of Jordan and encamped against Jericho. The plating of the crown of thorns upon the Saviour's brow marked but another step in the re- Jectlon of Jesus as the promised Messiah of the Jews. For 1900 years 1t has delayed the fulfillment of much of the prophecy relating to the great prosperity and blessing of the Jewish nation. During the interim, the time of the Gentiles is being full filled, and the church, the mystical body of Christ, of which He is the head, is being made complete. The millennial dawn is drawing nigh and the supreme coronation of the ages will be enacted with the hosts of Heaven as the attendants of the tri- umphant King, and the peoples of the earth, the glad and obedient sub- jects of the Heaven-sent and earth bought King. But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in Heaven, neither the Son, but the Father" Watch, therefore, Hest coming sud- denly, He find you sleeping. And what l say unto you l say unto all, watch"
 1 understand that at the corona tion of King Edward all the nobles of his state, following the placing of the crown upon his head, will crown themselves by placing upon their. own heads their coronets. What q sight this will be. As the magnifi- cent creations of the jewellers art catch the glinting light and throw it back in myriad gleams and flashes, the brilliancy of the scene will be heightened and intensified. Fortu- nate indeed will be the one whose lot it is to behold the magnificent spectacle, but away beyond anything which man could devise will be that coronation scene in Heaven to which al fn1 oh attend if we only will. Preceding the description of this scene in the fourth chapter of Revelation is given this blessed, all-inclusive invitations: ''Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come to him and will sup with him and he with Me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with My Father in His throne" And we who have invited the Master in to be our guest here will be His guest over there, and then, Behold, a throne was set in Heaven, and One sat on the throne. And He that sat was to look upon like jasper and sardine stone; and there was rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. And round about the throne were four and twenty seats, and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold And the four and twenty elders fall down