The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-05-19

ment. But it is not so in his king
dom. The very opposite maintains.
The greatest is the greatest servant.
And of this principle he is about to
give the purest and sublimest exam
pie ever witnessed. He came not to
be ninistered unto, but TO minister
and to give His life.
The Teachers Lantern
1t may have been because Jesus
had lately rebuked them, and they
felt themselves not in good form,
that James and John got their moth
er to prefer their request for them
She is sup osed, also, to haye been
Jesus aunt.
The request was i'll the spoiled
child T. form. They sought to exact
a promise before they named the
thing they wanted.
The frankness and openness of
Jesus is here illustrated. He was
"out and out" He also knew that to
have the disciples put their mean re-
quest in words in the hearing of all
would help them discover the mean
ness of it.
Jesus here shows, in his reference
to His cup and baptism, His perfect
knowledge of what awaited Him.
The end was not hidden from Him
His compOsure, courage. and fidelity
eNtOrt our admiration.
There is nothing mystical in the
term cup. 1t is very familiar figure
of Hebrew speech. Its origin is nat
ural. In the Oriental family yet it is
the fathers custom to divide tn e
meal according to his judgment, Civ
ing each his portion of meat and
drink. So the good and ill of life is
considered the portion dealt to each
by the Heavenly Father. Gradually
the cup came to indicate the sorrow
full portion particularly. 1t became
the common figure of calamity.
1--WE canvas the rash ayowal of
ignorance. But that pledge was later
lived up to superbly by these very
disciples.
The unfit person in the fit place is
the most homogeneous icture in his
tory. The prepared place is for the
prepared person and rice cerSG High
station has high price. incompetence
may stumble into office. but has nc
tenure.
Not men seiected-men have been
the mortal heroes of the kingdom of
heaven, but the heaven selected.
This is not, however. a proof text
against Office in the Church. Refer
ence is only to the spirit in which it is
assumed and administered.
Unseemly that in that solemn hour,
so near the shadow of the cross, there
should be this fierce fire of controversy
The dispLeasure of the ten is as
reprehensible as the am bition Of the
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rivalry which Jesus had lately rebuk-
ed. The two were selfish. The
ten" were jealousy
''Lordship and authority, not so
among you,n is the announcement of
a new law in the new kingdom. 1t is
a bran-aew principle in hopeless con-
tlict with current ideas. 1t is service
rfrSuS Iordship. All the greatness
known in Jesus kingdom is the great
ness of goodness, humility, and ser
vice.
Ambition to spiritual lordship has
ruined men and Churches. The
Church has ruined many State and
the State corrupted many a Church.
In every instance, however. it has
been when this initial principle of the
kingdom of heaven on earth has been
discarded
The unintelligent things of nature
exemplify humility. The lark scars
high, but builds its nest low. The
nightingale sings only when yelled in
night. The fullest head of wheat
bows lowest, as does the limb most
laden with fruit.