Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-23
THE ILLUSTRATED BEE.

put on them their clothes. and they set
And a very great multitude spread their
garments on the way; others cut down
branches from the trees and strawed them
And the multitude that went before and
that followed cried, saying, Hosanna to the
son Of David. Blessed is he that cometh
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And when he was come into Jerusalem.
this?
And the multitude said, This is Jesus, the
prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.
1t was message of peace He brought
to Jerusalem, not the tocsin of warfare.
He drove the money changers from the
temple and preached there a gospel Of love
and good will to men, of hope for the
hopeless and promise for the despairing
He answered the sophistical questions
put to him by the religious leaders
who were opposed to His teachings, and
before He had been forty eight hours pres
ent in the city He had been made the subject
OF barter between Judas Iscariot and
the chief priests, who looked upon Him as
dangerous man. His doctrine was sub
vertive of theirs and they considered His
course one which threatened destruction
to them. During this week Jesus pro-
nounced the only curse recorded in His
history, that which blasted the fig tree
His disappointment found voice in His cry
"Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem how
often would have gathered thy children
together, even as a hen gathereth her
chickens under her wings, and ye would
not" This cry came at the end of His
denunciation Of the Scribes and Pharisees
which led them to determine His execution
His agony in Gethsemane. when He prayed
that the;cup might pass from Him, His ar
raignment before Caiaphas, the high priest,
who was still allowed to exercise the
judicial function OF his office; the transfer
OF His case from the religious court Of the
Sanhedrim to the temporal court of the
Roman, where Plate said he could find
nothing in the man to condemn, all the
tremendously tragic incidents of those
twenty-four hours preceding the painful.
march to Calvary are set forth in the
briefest of sentences by the gospeller, yet
little imagination is required to supply the
details. He who was on Sunday well
coined as the savior OF His people, the
liberator of His race, on Friday was crucihed
as malefactor after trial whose
brevity was even shorter than that com
monty accorded a man nowadays accused of
nothing more serious than public intoxica-
tion Viewed from any standpoint the
most pregnant week in history begins on
Palm sunday.
Dead leaves are all very we'll as poetic
SMILES, but II the poet had to clean out
the vale of Vallambrosa in the early spring
time II is altogether likely he would have
found occasion to refer to the leaves with
which 1t was strewn in terms less compl-
mentary than he really used. Omaha's parks
are beautiful places all the year round.
Even when the bare branches of the trees
toss in the winds Of winter, a majesty of
potential strength and elemental grandeur
clothes them. When the warm rains OF
April have charmed the buds to swelling
and the tender green leaves burst forth
to greet the sun Of May, the parks have
a beauty that cannot appeal in vain even
to the most sordid and unimaginative. Then
is carried on the most interesting detail OF
all animate natures manifold routine. In
the sylvan arches may be seen the court
ship OF the feathered citizens Of the parks.
Unblushngly they WOO and win, and settle
the minutiae Of their housekeeping arrange
ments and go about the discharge of
matrimonial duties without delay Squirrels
and chipmunks, too plan for the summer,
and gambol and frisk in the delight OF the