The Newtown bee., 1908-05-22
The Newtown Bee.
4 SERMON
BY REV MIR LOCKE OF THE EAs.
 TON BAPTIST CHURCH.
NeWt0Wn, Friday, May s9., lpla,

ttseehHst tANao'h VI hilN hillS VI iA rael that cometh in the name of the
 Lord.
 R. V. "Hosanna Blessed is He thai eometh in the Name of the Lord ever
 the King of lsreal. "JOhn XII: l3.
 This song commem0rates the most significant procession or Triumphant
 march on record. The triumphant pro
 sessions of Darius, Alexander, Caesar
 Napoleon, Wellington or Washington entalled no such meaning. Never em,
 phasized or had in view such eOnquesti as the Savior had as He skirted tht
 brow of 0livet with His face bent to-
 wards Jerusalem, the City of the Great King-that King Himself while the multitudes sarg "flosanna Blessed i:
 He that Cometh in the Name of the
 Lord, even the King of Israel. This Triumphant ride and entry of Jesus in to the Queen City of Palestine and the Queen City of the world at that time and the Queen city yet to be.
 This Triumphant entry with the peo. pie spreading their garments and way. ing palm and olive branches and strew. ing them in floral profusion and as tap. estry of the Kings own handiwork as prophetic of far greater triumphant entry on the same city in days close al hand and nearer than many of this gen eration dream upon whom the very ends of the dispensstions have come.
 As the procession reaches the summit of 0livet there's pause. The Christ figure of the multitude surveys tho scene, perhaps near or on the spot where Isaiah seven hundred years pre- vious stood (LXlV 10) anticipating with sorrowful heart the coming de- struction of the City that then was fol the sins and transgressions of its peo pie. saying We all do fade as leaf, thy Holy cities are a wilderness. Zion is wilderness, Jerusalem is a desc. lation. Our holy and beautiful House where our Fathers praised thee is burnt with fire and all our pleasant things are laid waste."
 Another scene is before the eye of the Prophet of Galilee, there before Him stands the ancient City rebuilt by Zerubbubel and Nehemiah and beauti- fled by the Herods. The City in the days of the righteous King of Isreal, the joy of all the earth and the center of Universal joy yet to be. There comes to His mind the scene of His rejection-the hatred of His own peo- pie, the malice of the Scribes and Phar- isees, the mock trial, the unjust con demnation, the awful passover and in describable anguish of the cross and the fearful consequences that follow their unjust treatment of Him.
 Vivid is the Picture, Hateful the treatment and Dire the retribution, that falls upon the Chosen City for the rejection and crucifxion of Him who was their long looked for Messiah, De- liverer and King. In the dark outlines of the picture and vision in the mind of Christ doubtless there is the siege of Titus (from the warning He gave His disciples.) the battering ram of the Roman Legions, the crumbling walls, the desolate dwellings of the Beloved City. the burning Temple. the starving populace, the cannabalism of the Daughters of Zion, the mothers of Jerusalem, who ate their own children to save their own lives, the heaps of human bodies willing, rotting and de- composing in the streets poisoning the air or horrible disgust too horrible for description Arch Deacon Farrar in His Life of Christ says: "There were 500, GOO dead bodies carried out of the gates. Friends fighting for grass and netties and the refuse of the drains, seeing there fellows crucifed in jest; streets running with blood and the fire of burning houses quenched by the blood of the defenders. Their young sons sold in hundreds or exposed in the amphitheaters to the sword of the gladiator or the fury of the lion. One million one hundred thousand perished in the siege and 97000 carried captive. Farrar says in later paragraph 'The city had deserved its overthrow by producing generation of men who were the causes of its misfortunes. ]" How true it is sin brings it's own re- wards.
 Such then was the vision before the mind of Jesus as He paused on that memorial march upon the brow of Ol- wet to gaze upon the City of His hopes and affections. In that memor- able moment was it any wonder that there were slgns of anguish on His. face, that the Contains of the great depths of His soul were stirred with emotion and tears of compassion down His cheeks and His heart gave vent to those lamentable words 70. Jerusalem, Jerusalem. How oft en would have gathered thy children together, even as hen gathered her chickens under her wings, and ye would not. Matt. 23 :37.
 "Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, if thou hadst even known thou at last in this Thy Day, the things which belong to thy peace but now they are laid from thine eyes. For the days shall come when thine enemies shall cast trench about thee and compass thee 'round and keep thee in on every side md shall lay thee even with the ground md thy children within thee and they