The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-28
SERMON OF MINISTER is
REMINDER OF PALM SUNDAY
The Rev. Albert Hurlstone Draws
Lesson from Story of Christ's
Entry.
REASON OF KINGSHIP

Palm Sunday to the Roberts Park Meth
of the first Palm Sunday in the early years
of the Christian era. The Rev. Albert
Hurlstone's morning sermon was on Christ
the King" and his text was taken from
Luke xix, $40.
ION the Sabbath Immediately preceding
Easter the church celebrates Palm Sun
day in eommemoration of our Savior" said
the Rev. Mr. Hurlstone palms were used
in that day as emblems OF victory. success
and royalty.
THE solemn entry of Christ into Jeru-
salem was the great public acknowledgment
OF the kingship OF Jesus Christ. Ii took
place five days before His crucifxion, on
the green hill far away, without the city
wall The only crown worn by Christ
during His earthly lite was a crown of
thorns, and yet the united heart and in
teiligence of the world for nineteen CEN
turtles has acknowledged Him as the King
of Kings and Lord of Lords.
'As we study the picture of Christ before
PLATE. the words or the ruler, behold the
man! ring in our ears, and we see Him
changing places with the judge.
1t is well that a few days before His
humiliation He should hove haen the re-
cipient of this prophetic recognition OF His
real kingship. Carlisle teaches US the true
idea of kingShip: The commander over
men, He 10 whose will our wills are to be
subordinated and loyalty surrender them
selves and find their welfare in doing So
may be reckoned the most important of
great men. He is practically the summary
for us of all the various figures Of heroism
priest, teacher, whatsoever of earthly or OF
spiritual dignity can fancy to reside In
a man, embodies itself here, to command
over us to furnish us with constant prac-
teal teaching, to tell us what we are to
do. So Christ is the one who is, who does
and who can.
"Christ's kingship was foretold in psalm
ana prophecy. The question OF the Magl
was, Where is He that Is born King of the
Jews? To Nathaniel He was the King of
Israel To us, He is King of life, King of
| truth, King of material posse sions: Inn
piled in the idea of His kingship is His
personality, His authority, His protection.
He can be nothing to us until we submit TO
His dominion. When we surrender He be-
priest and King. Then how blessedly We
realize that our King is one who is able,
one who can save to the uttermost.
Christ is King over the material uni
verse. He can and does uphold all things
by the word of His power. He is before all
things and by Him all things consist, Or
hold together; There are everywhere about
obedience to law in nature. The sun rules
by day and the moon by night. Look into
the beehive or the anthill. to the heavens
above or the earth beneath and you see
certain general features which claim at
tentiOn. Every atom of every substance
of the earth has its ordered numerical re-
lations under which, and under which
alone, IL will combine with the atoms that
| lie around.
Then we recognize the prevalence of law,
| of fixed and definite modes according to
which the processes of nature go forward.
| We mark also the harmony resulting amidst
an infinite web of infinitely complicated
| laws But this harmony is consistent with
progress-progress by development. And
then, especially we meet everywhere with
instances of daptation-adaptation OF organ
to function in the whole domain of living
things Also the feature of beauty, which
so strikingly eharacterizes so many OF the
arrangements of this earth, mlnlstering a
refined pleasure to the thoughtful mind.
Purpose is the autograph OF mind, and as
survey the arrangements OF the material
universe we are led upward in reverent
! thought TO Christ the King, who has
formed the whole, and whose living ever
active agency suStains il and carries on its
| processes.
| Christ is also King of thought In the
/ mental universe He is supreme. He Is
King because every other King of earth is
| on His territory, every other sovereign of
| time has his sovereignty on borrowed areas
| of life, every other king of humanity has
wrought the wonders of his career with
/ faculties and forces, with opportunities and
| privileges that essentially belong TO Christ.
Christ is supreme in the moral realm.
| When some base passion masters an indi-
| vidual. and he tries to free himself, then
| he feels his impotence. He is King by right
| of truth. love, sacrifice, death and resur-
rection. The hands once nailed to the
cross WELD the scepter, He who died for
us rules the universe and rules us. 1t is
ours to crown Him with reverence, obedi-
ence and love-.