The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-12-27
CHRIST, THE
RULING KING
SUBJECT or AN INTERESTING
SERMON BY REV. A. {.
CLEMENT
At FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
Large Audience Witnesses the
cantata on Sunday Wight
Christmas Gifts.

the First Methodist church was q
good one and those who attended the
services heard a fine sermon By the
pastor. Rev. A. e. Clement. on Christ,
the Ruling King Taking for his
text Psalm 2-S: "Yet have / set my
King upon my holy hili of ZAon,'' he
said In part:
THE rulegship Of king with alb
soEute powers is the ideal one, pro-
vided the king be absolutely perfect
b all his being and powers Other
wise the rulership rests safter in the
hands of the people among whom JUS
tice and right have a hearing and an
opportunity TO live. This ideal condi-
ton is fully met within the kingdom
OF God in Christ. the King. who en-
bodies within Himself every attribute
OF perfection known among reasoning
beings in earth and In heaven.
AS implied in the text and set
forth in the first part OF the Psalm.
Lue eHSJHISS vi righteousness 80
themselves in array against the Lord 3
Amounted and wrought their hardest
to no avail, only they spread the
ruth in trying to stamp out the hre. |
Ierod called the wise men and In
luired what time the star appeared, |
ostensibly for worship, but in fact.
hat he might destroy Christ from
among men. The Sanhedrin. that
Jewish assemblage of religious over
sight so far forgot itself as to for
sake all principles of justice and
bounded to the death the footsteps
of man in whom no one could find
a single fault,
But the context says these enemies
shall be destroyed by this holy king
Of power For Thou shalt break
them with a rod of iron; thou shalt
dash them in pieces like a potter's
vessel" is the word OF God. But I
cali you to witness that this part Of
the context is preceded by the posi-
bilties of salvation for all, even the
heather. The best way to disarm the
enemy Is to make them allies, and
this the King of all the earth does,
II possible, by salvation. But when
Is persisted in there is but
me way left, and that is the way Of
t
The text sounds a clear note of vic |
Dry and orders forward march in
he face OF all opposing and seemingly !
,onquering powers C
And he whe made the heavens, the j
lea, the land, and all that in them is,
s able to keep his promise. His pow &
RS OF preservation towards all who b
'nt their trust in Him are illimitable, q
nd the faithful servant of God walks !,
lothed with invulnerable armor in O
he midst OF his enemies He has Il
every foe that lay in wait .
Or, him and has pledged a like con-
uering power to our support against
hose enemies who would overthrow p;
is church and children. On the re-
arm of the seventy from their first E
lission for the Master rejoicing that =
ven the devils were obedient to
fem as they spoke in the name of
hrist. Speaking In the highly fig
rative language of the East in proph- 3
" of his final victory over Satan he
lid II beheld Satan as lightning
III from heaven" A very free
anslation of this incident found in
odet renders it: while you were NJ
xpeliine the subordinates / was wi
'eing the master fall" The fan of tn
itan symbolizes the complete des- Gu
uction Of his kingdom, for lightning All
'picts a power of dazzling brilliancy wi
hich is as suddenly extinguished. an
The righteousness of God involves an
It only the fact of purity and sin TN
i also the genuineness OF the fruit he
e springing from His character as
emplihed In his acts. For the deal r
IS Of God must be above reproaeA =
the review Of all right-thinking
ings In earth and IN heaven And
reasonable being can find fault IN
m, either as to his personal life or r.
to his administration His judgments
e righteous and just, because of
! perfect knowledge Of all the
ITS involved; because of the In.
OF his administration; ed
cause of his wisdom in deciding on we
ose facts as they come trooping In but
view before Him. And His right Of
usness is clearly manifest in giving thi
s defense and support to the truth ito
the face of all opposition and in 20,
oviding his personal protection TO the
2 righteous And when men sur. the