The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08


y UNDREDS of thousands Of
persons have seen the large
picture The Conquerorss .
which was exhibited at
the Chicago fair and has
since been on exhibition IN
Philadelphia No one who has ever
looked upon it can forget it. The can
vas portrays the worlds great conquer
ors marching, with banners and insig-
MIA, in solid column that dwindles of
into the indistinguishable distance.
There we see Napoleon and Caesar and
Alexander and Charlemagne and Cy-
rus and Xerxes and PtOlemy and the
other men who beheld the world at
their feet.
Two facts about the great picture at
once suggest themselves to the
thoughtful observer. The first IS that
these conouerors came to glory by a
pathway Of death, destruction and des-
OlatiOn- The canvas is reDeuant 10
some sensitive persons because of the
two long lines of stark, grim, gray
corpses that flank the conQuerors on
either side. What a price humanity
had to pay that these men might wear
the laurel!
The other obvious remark is that
the greatest of the worlds conquer
ors IS not represented The victories
of Alexander and Napoleon were IN
consequent and ephemeral beside the
conquests Of Jesus The veriest tyro
An historical study must perceive that
the outstanding hero of the past nine
teen centuries is the gentle Nazarine,
whose sway had increased and extend
sc until today 500,000,00o of PEG
pie who in turn rule the world bow
the knee to him. Truly, Thou hast
conquered, o pale Galilean!" And the
eonQussts of Jesus have not been along
q gloomy course of sorrow, suffering
and death. Life and light have walk
ed in his footsteps. Civilization has
been His handmaiden. Health, knOWi-
Fell 81 Ia,
His train His triumphal procession
down the ages has been accompanied
by the hosannas Of the nyTiads who
have felt His help or witnessed His
Ife-giving touch
The Greatest TriunDhaI Entry.
This triumphal entry into old Jeru-
Balem on the first Palm Sunday sug-
ggests stirring thoughts. For in 1t was
fDrengured Christ's trium phal entry of
life Individual characters ascrfbe all
their goodness to the perfect One.
Learning lays its laurels at the feet
school by blue Galilee- Medicine es-
teens as its highest honor the fact
that 1t walks in the footsteps of the
great Physician. Art has reserved its
the personality of the Saviour. The
lawyer harks back to the dicta Of the
Messiah for the noblest code that can
govern the conduct Of men in their
eonfesses that the greatest Of philoso-
pliers was He whose teachings were so
new that they startled the philoso-
Pliers who first heard them, and whose
gentle speech expressed the highest
wisdom The religious impulses Of
mankind find in Him the One alto
gether lovely" The continual coro-
nation Of Christ is the sublimest spec
tacble Of the centuries.
Bring forth the royal diadem
And crown him Lord Of ALL
OF all this. how little conception had
the multitude which eagerly carpet
ed his path with their garments and
with branches hastily stripped from
the palm treesl And how little the
banned Pharisees understood that their
disappointed comment, 10, the world
sas gone after Him. was in truth a.
prophecy of that day, now arrived,
when Jesus should be the center of
the stage of the universe.
Men do not understand themselves
and their own actions, much less their
neighbor and his deeds. Nobody, save
the lonely and sad-hearted Man who
rode as the center Of this demonstra-
tion perceived its significance as a
startling tulnllment Of the inspired
Scripture. Even His disciples needed
1.-THE light that came by the Spirits de-
enable them to interpret it. Tomorrow
scent after the ascension Of Jesus, to
IS always needed to illuminate today.
We wax all unseeing life; therefore
we should walk gently and humbly
Hate for a Hero.
Today it is the fashion to praise
Jesus Even the men who honor Him
least in their conduct, and deny Him
the allegiance of their lives, are quick
to pay tribute to His character. and tC
His teachings. In this atmosphere OF
universal laudation Of the Son of Mary
= is not easy to realize the intense
bitter and unreasoning hatred with
which Jesus was viewed by the Phar-
1sees and priests. He was hated for
Himself, because He was a non-con-
Former and a newcomer with uncon-
ventional teachings The old is the