Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-04-11

Chicago. April 5.-In this sermon, ap-
propriate to tie day, the preacher pre-
sents vivid picture of the triumphal
entry of Christ into Jerusalem amid
the acclamations of the common peo-
pie, whose plaudits were so soon to
give way to eXecration. The text Is
John xii, 13, "Took branches of palm
trees and went forth to meet him ana
cried hOsanna."
This is Palm Sunday. In the ecclesl.
astical year it Is the day on which we
commemorate the strange scene on the
Judnan road which constituted the one.
sole pageant of our Lords life. 1t Is,
the day that ushers in holy week, the
beginning of which saw him ridlne
into Jerusalem in triumph and the end
lying in Joseph of Arimathea's tomD7
This Is the time when the same surging
crowds which. a few days later, Will
cry: Cruelty him. Cruelty him.! now
make the Judaan hills echo and re-
echo with their eXultant shouts or
"Iosanna to the Son of David! Hosan-
ma 10 the kingw
Appropriate, also, is my subject III
reference to the audience to which /
sneak. know not of any class OF peo-
ple TO whom the significant lessons OF
Palm Sunday can be better applied
than to ourselves. Christ among the
waving palms ought to have for us
GOSPEL teachings, as well as Christ in
pilates Judgment hall. Christ among
the vociferatng multitudes should ap-
neal TO us suggestively, as well as
Jesus carrying his cross, Jesus resur-
rectcd from the grave, Jesus appearing
unto his disciples after the crucifiXion
or Jesus ascending from Mount OlVer'
Palm Sunday emphasizes the truth
that n false and a selfish alteration OF
Jesus Christ never results in trl-
umphant and Il lasting worship. why
did that great cOncourse OF people,
which came forth to welcome Jesus
into the Davidic capital, soon turn upon
Christ and become his tauntlng eXecu-
TONERS? Why did they one day throw
under his feet the branches or PAIN,
which have always been the symDol OF
victory. and within a week be eager
10 mock his dying agonies upon Cal
vary? They were not welcoming CHRIST
as their spiritual Saviour They were
merely greeting him as temporal
king. who would lead them on 10 ma
tional victories, as Napoleon did the
French. Frederick the Great the Prus-
slams. Alexander the Greeks, as Ram
eses II. the Egyptians or Saladln the
Saracens when he totally defeated the
crusaders near Tiberias and captured
their leader, Guy de Lusignan' In 49,
They were not welcoming a Messiah
SGrd SSGSrd FS" de bthhf they were e greeting one
whom they believed to be about 10
drive the Roman tyrants off the he
brov soil: one who would restore the
Solomopic grandeur. when the national
treasury would be full of gold, ana the
kings and the queens of the horth' east
south and west would make pilgrim
ooes TO Jerusalem. as the queen OF
Sbeba came. bringing her presents oi
enices and precious stones. Thus, whel
Christ allowed himself to be arrested
as q common criminal, the rabble want
ed to destroy him because they nae
cherished in their breasts the tals'
hone of temporal champion.
Do We worship Selhshlyf
Nv friends. is our faith in Jesus un
satisfactory? Are we, too, worshlpih'
Christ from selfish and not from splr
final motives? DO we attend the lash
ionable church in our neighborhoo'
merely 10 win social prestige rathe
than with the desire to fit us TO nell
tho troubled and the lost? | once ha'
q nhvslcian bluntly tell me that n
ioined the church with the same pui
nose for which he joined the cluD-h
went to both places so that he couiu D
brought into contact with people an
win as many patients as he could:
wonder how many of us are klnd I
our friends solely from the selfish me
five to make our friends kind TO III
# is possible to even feed the hungr
with the most mercenary OF desires
Christ stated this when he said, "Whe
thou makest dinner or a supper, ca
not tby friends, nor thy brethren DC
tby kinsmen, nor thy rich neighDol
! lest they also bid thee again and re-
ompense can be made thee. In oth'
words we should not make our Cnrl
tian engagements merely a case
reciprocity you do so much tor IL
and / will do so much for you. b'
when YOU make a gospel feast ask th'
: voung man to your home who has I
friends and is alone in a great CIT
ASK that young girl who has no chan'
of coming iu touch with refined raj
ilv circle unless you give her an 1nVlt
tion. "Call the poor, the manned, u
lame and the blind and thou shaiI
blessed, for they cannot recompeh
thee" Are we. this Palm Sunday, no
oring Christ with the unselhsh pu
nose of his disciples, who were accol
panying him from Bethany ana WI
not only threw the palm branches
his way, but who were also ready
die for him. or are we worshipll
Jesus with the selfish alteration or [
great host that came out from Jerus
lem to welcome him as q tempoi
king?
If we are selfshly worshiping Chr
for what We can get out of him, m
we not here and now change that p'
pose. as did DR.. Bon0r, through I
influence Of an inspired dream VIII
he had in his Edinburgh parsonae
For many years he had been popul
preacher. but his ministry bore but III
- spiritual fruit. He himself had [
little spiritual faith. One night, as
slept, he thought an angel came q
stood by his bed and said, "Horati
what is troubling theeT "Oh,'
swered the minister, Il do not seem