Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-04
MONEY CHANGERS
FASTENED DOOM
REV. Mr.. PHELPS breaches
ON TIMELY TOPIC
Attitude Of erasplns Aneients Has a
Parallel Today Which Central
Baptist Pastor EloquentIy
Points Out

THE Doom of Jesus fastened When
He Scourged the Money changers from
the Temple. Why?" was the topic of
Rev. A. S. Phelps last evening at the
Central Baptist church in a series of
Sunday evening sermons on picked
Topics by Picked Men"
The subject last evening was sug-
gested TO him by Robert M. Yost, edl-
torial manager of The Herald.
In prelude Mr.. Phelps briefly re-
viewed the career of Mr.. Yost. He said
in part
"The wide knowledge of affairs which
is possible to the newspaper man opens
naturally to him positions of public
trust. Mr. Yost, a native of Missouri,
has served as private secretary to the
governor of that state, as well as as
sistant secretary of state. By appoint
ment Of the governor he was commits
sioner to the expositions at Buffalo and
Charleston
"Those men are happiest in bu, ness
who choose one calling and devote a
life to it. This Mr.. Yost has done in
the field of journalism. 1 am grateful
to him for the choice Cf this subject to-
night.
Of Psychological Interest
"It is one of the most profound in
the series. 1t is of psychological inter-
est dealing with the springs of human
character; Biblical. naming one Of the
most interesting incidents of the New
Testament; and modern having to do
with the relation between business and
religion.
why was Jesus doom hastened by
his driving the money-changers from
the temple? Because Jesus was what
he was because the money-changers
came into collision.
Notice how Jesus dealt with oppor-
tunlty This was an hour of triumph
About three million Jews, we are told
by Edersheim, attended the passover
festival at Jerusalem. AS Jesus en-
tered the city with tho plaudts of thou
sands who hailed him as king, there
were faces behind every lattice, and
looking out from every window, crowd
ing street and bazaar and asking, Who
is this?'
1.-THE whole city was stirred at his
coming. There is no power like popu
lar power. Learning appeals to linn
tied circle. Wealth makes enemies out
of friends.
The People Rule
"The people rule the world. England
knew it under Cromwell's army; France
learning it.
Jesus could have turned this power
into a bloody revolution, or still more
cunningly have used it for a coalition
with the party in power for his ad-
vantage. The ignorance of the public
is the capital of monopoly How would
you have used it2
Jesus wasereligious. The source of
his power was in prayer. He chose his
partners in that way. His ambition
was to please God. Emergencies and
opportunities find us where we have
placed ourselves before we met them.
This day was no different from any
other. 1t found him entering it with
the purpose to serve his God. How out
of date his whole point of view was!
1.-THE money-changers knew nothing
of such a conception. They would
have yawned IL people had spoken of it,
and skipped such references in a daily
newspaper. They would have said
they were religious. if they had been
directly charged. as many persons
make such claims today who have no
heart in it. They were selling oxen and
sheep for the passover. But they and
the priests, their employers, who got
all the profits from the sales which
they were carrying on within the tenn
pie, lived for naught but themselves.
'Their power was money, their ambi-
ton to make a place for themselves.
Their attitude on every public question