The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-28


highest voice the praise Of multitudes
who now receive their king.
And yet a sense Of incOmpleteness
mars this triumph. Dark forebodings
come over us. A shade of sadness
He looks round about upon all things
and beholds his Fathers house made
a house of merchandise, and not a
place of prayer. Money changers and
vendors Of wares and doves, of sacri-
fetal sheep and oxen pollute the hall
wrapped itself in the cloak of religion.
The traffickers have so Out-reached
Just One as a den of robbers. Panied
indeed must be the expression of the
Hole One as his pure eyes behold this
evil Panied is His heart as well, that
those who sit on Moses seat permit
it all and now reject the righteous re-
formation of it.
Herein have we therefore the per-
sons and the elements Of good and evil
now to exert themselves in certain
conflict. The meek and lowly Naza-
rene clothed with kingly power and
authority, yet doomed to die-to offer
his own blood in sacrifice. The
naughty priesthood jealous and i'm
placable, burning with bitter battered
toward the One who dares denounce
their sin. These are clothed with both
the imperial and eccIesastic power,
and supported by those ancient vested
rights and interests which must not
be disturbed. Thus we have the per-
sons and the forces. The conflict is
inevitable The outcome, alas, is not
uncertain. 1t was eXpedient that one
man should die. Christ must be cru
Gifted
"A few practical observations and
we close our study of this Palm Sun
day scene in the life of Jesus. Are
we among the band of simple peasants
who receive the man of Sorrows as
their king? Do our hosannas join with
those of the temple children out of
praise? Or, do we form a part of that
company of wicked husbandmen who
vineyard to the rightful Lord? Do we
refuse His servants. shamefully en-
hands attack the heir himself? Do we
cruelty the Lord afresh? He that is
not for me is against me. He that
gathered not with me scattereth
abroad?
Again the Scriptures teach us that
now no longer the tepple at Jerusa-
lem whose stones are not left standing
one upon another, marks the place
where God delights to dwell. but that
We his people, are the temples of the
Hly Ghost: our bodies are now the
sacred precincts of divinity. Here
the deity resides-Christ in you the
hope of glory. What then shall we
say of Christ's triumphal entry to
this temple of the body? the human
heart his temple of today? What does
He behold as He looks lovingly and
longingly within us? Have money
changers set their tables there? Is Sc
cret mammon worship yelled behind
outward religious ceremonial? Does
He find the beasts Of animal passion
stalled and tethered there? Is that
sanctuary polluted with their foulness?
If any man defile this temple him will
God destroy. Does he hear our high
est hosannas rebuked with cries of
bitter strife and cruel jealousy?
20 that the pure eyes of the lilly
and therefore blessed! That these sa-
cred temples entrusted to our keeping
may be guarded undefled until His
coming. For He cometh. Not with
simple Galilean peasants and the
voices merely Of the children to do him
rverence. but with ten thousand of his
saints with the voice of the archangel
and the the triumph of God. Let us
make haste to receive Him with clean
hands, pure hearts and glad hosan-
nas-that we may hear from Him the
plaudit Of well DONE and enjoy well
come in a kingdom prepared for us
from the foundation Of the world
Then shall we clothed in white robes