The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-24
MISS BL0DGETT's LECTURE.
Yesterday Her Theme Was Events in the last
Week Of ChrIst's Life.

The theme of Miss Blodgetts lecture
yesterday afternoon was Events in the
Last Week of Christ's Life. This she
handled with ability, and her hearers
were geratly benefited. In discussing
her topic Miss Blodgett presented the
following views:
In this Hage it is customary to attach
more importance to Christ's living than
to his dying In studying the gospel we
find that God reverses this order, since
from one-fifth to one-fourth OF the space
is given to his death This surely seems
OF show thta we should give the same
proportion of interest to that one event,
without which the world would be oday
in utter darkness.
The last week of Christ's life begins
with the triumphal entry into Jerusalem
Mention is made here tao first and only
time of Christs riding. Like every other
act of his life, this is highly significant.
He offers himself formally as king to the
Jewish people, and receives the homage
of the multitudes. This is another sig
nificant fact Christ received their hon.
age unquestioningly, thus asserting his
kingship.
Every detail of this entry was in exact
fulfllment of prophecy. But, though the
Jews had spent their lives in the study
of the prophets, and knew that Messiah
would come exactly in this manner, they
rejected him. Why? Not because he did
not fulfill prophecy, but because they
did not want such a king. Christ meant
to teach that he was not only Savious
but king. Many of US have accepted him
as Saviour. Have we also enthroned him
in our hearts as king?
Christ spent many of the nights pre-
ceding his death with the family in Beth
any He felt the need of human sympathy
in the awful ordeal before him. But he
also spent whole nights on the Mount OF
Olives in prayer. He needed divine fell
lowship even more than human, to helI
him bear the burden of the sins of the
world. May we not learn a lesson here
Human sympathy in sorrow is sweet, but
it is not the true source of comfort anC
help. When we need courage and endur-
ance for tho trials OF life, we must go tC
God.
| On one of his returns from Bethany t.
j CruSalem CnTlSC is hunSefeu' Approach
! ing a fig tree and finding on it nothing
but leaves he spoke the words: let M
fruit grow en- thee henceforward forever.
| This fig tree is the true type of the Jew
ish nation. After all the care and train
/ ing bestowed ON them, they had nothing
but leaves for Christ when he came t
them hungry for recognition. Since tina
day the Jews, as nation have borne NJ
fruit Christ will come to them again
but not until they can say: Blessed il
he that cometh in the name of the Lord
The lecture closed with an earnest ap
peal to study the second coming of Christ
In his teachings on this subject Christ un
folds his glorious plans for his children
If an earthly father should call his SON
and begin to tell them his plans fer thei
future, would he be pleased if ono sshoul'
say: "Never mind that, father, am will
! ling to leave it all with you?"
The Importance of this subject is evi
dent from the fact that it is mentioned
three hundred and eighteen times in The
scriptures.