The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-06-27

as was the brutal Roman custom IN
dealing with the prisoner condemned
to death.
While the frenzied mob outside was
impatiently awaiting the cruciixion
of Jesus, the Roman soldiers took
Him into the common hall and. hav-
ing called all the band together.
they stripped Him and put on Him
scarlet robe. They plated a crown
of thorns and put it upon His head.
Then, placing a reed in His right
hand, they bowed the knee before
Him, and mockingly said: Hail.
King of the Jews!" All, what cor
onation! Oh, tragedy of the agesi
Crowned with the piercing thorns,
the emblem of the cursed ground
from which the first Adam must OBJ
tain his living. How strikingly sig
nifcant 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 SIM Man,
in his hellish rage, is only fulfilling
the will of God and making beauti-
fully complete the marvellous plan Of
redemption.
What contrast. The browning 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
er. Man is doing his worst in order
tbof Cod NOV do HE 1oSt an6 he-
yond that agonized, thorn-crowned
head, we see the vision of the risen
and assembled 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
led the hosts Of Israel across the dry
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-
lection of Jesus as the promised
Messiah of the Jews. For 1000 years
it 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
H11n1 he oh tho TnuCtinaI
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
iects 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, "lest coming sud-
denly, He find you sleeping. And
what I say unto you l say unto all,
watch"
I understand that at the corona
ton of King Edward all the mobiles
of his state, following the placing Of
the crown upon his head, will crown
themselves by placing upon their
own heads their coronets. What
sight this will be. AS the magnifi-
cent creations of the jewelers. art
catch the glinting light and throw
it back in myriad CLEANS and flashes,
the brilliancy of the scene will be
I, ;,,+anciGn1
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
we are all invited, and which we may
attend if we only will. Preceding
the description of this scene in the
fourth chapter of Revelation is given
this blessed, all-inclusive invitation:
"Behold, L stand at the door and
knock: if any man hear My voice,
and open the door, l 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 l 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 a 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 ard twenty seats,
and upon the seats 1 saw four and
twenty elders sitting, clothed in
white raiment; and they had on their
heads crowns of gold. And out of
the throne proceeded lightnings and
thunderings and voices; and there
were seven lamps of fire burning be-
fore the throne, which are the seven
Spirits of God. And before the
throne there was sea of glass like
unto crystal; and in the midst of the
throne, and round about the throne,
were four beasts full of eyes before
and behind. And when those
beasts give glory and honor and
thanks to Him that sat on the
throne, who liveth forever and ever,
the four and twenty elders fall down
before Him that sat on the throne
and worship Him that iveth forever
and ever, and cast their crown be-
fore the throne, saying: Thou art
worthy, o Lord, to receive glory and
honor and power That this Ian
guage may be largely fgurative is
admitted, but the fact that God has
been obliged to resort to symbolism