The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-03-12

ltdsl. ne people VINO llllpHseu 10
Jerusalem from all parts of the jew
ish world were numbered by millions
You may imagine the courage and the
peculiar majesty which must have
glowed in His whole person, when in
presence of the rulers of the temple.
he overthrow the tables of the money
changers and the seats of them that
sold the doves, saying 1T is written
My house shall be called a House of
Prayer, but we make it den of rob
bers.' The blind and the lame came
TO Him in the temple and He healed
them. The very children were shout
ing, as they saw the wonderful things
that He did. Hosanna to the Son of
David. AT this time also He was CIV
ing the people that teaching in para
bles, which so rich and inexhaustible
IN its suggestions.
NO wonder the naughty Rabbis of
the Sanhedrim the Supreme Court in
all ecclesiastical matters, we're indig-
hant When he appeared the next
morning in the temple. a solemn de-
putation met him. with the stern ques-
ion by what authority doest thou
these things, and where, is your for
mai commission? You remember how
at another time when they treacher-
ously asked His judgment about
woman taken in adultery, He stopped
down and wrote on the ground when
/ they continued asking, He said: He
that is without sin among you, let him
| first cast the stone at her? His course
now, was very much like that. He
did not answer their question, but He
| forced them to answer it in the judg-
ment Hall of their own conscience. u
will ask you a question, He said, which
II We tell me. l likewise will tell YOU
by What authority do these things.
The baptism of John was it from
Heaven or from men. They knew that
| If righteousness was the mark of a
/ Prophet John was from Heaven. They
! had seen the fruits of his preaching.
and could not honestly deny that he
was a man sent from God But John
had pointed to Jesus as the One
whose shoes latchet he was not
worthy to unloosei If they admitted
that John was from heaven He would
answer why did you not believe him
or If they denied the real prophetic mis-
sion of John, the people would rise in
arms. They took refuge in form of
agnosticism. saying 1--WE know not"
They did know, but rather than yield
to the witness of their conscienees they
preferred to suffer the humiliation. 1t
was not our Lords purpose merely to
shame them before the people but to
force them back upon their own moral
sense for an answer to their ques-
ton. They knew that the peoples
peoples conscience was right in tax
ing John as a prophet. But they had
not the courage of their convictions
Argument is always waste and weak.
ness with mind that seeing viii moi
see or hearing will not understand
He answered them YOU see. by moi
answering them. The unspoken an.
swer, was that which is felt and con.
: fessed by every true believer in oul
Lord Jesus. He proves himself from
God. not by logic nor any form Of visi
BILE demonstration. His miracles arr
manifestations of His goodness, ex
pressions of His character, the natura
: and necessary credentials Of the Divin
ity in Him, but He did not expect t,
, convince by them 'If they hear no
Moses and the prophets neither will
they be persuaded Though one ros
: from the dead, "and again He sal,
IAN evil or adulterous generation seek
I eth after a sign" He put Himsel
into the Province Of the human spiri
and made His appeal directly to tn
s eye and the ear of the soul TO hin
these were Just as real and even NOR
$ infallihle than the bodily senses whicl
: some minds make the limit of thei
e knowledge auswering\t TO all the spir
K itual possibilities which Christ reveal
a I'VE do not know"
: Now the question of Christ's author
= ity is of the first Importance. II II
i is the truth We wish an eternal los
: by own indifference. He makes a
c issue with our human nature whic
If real. must determine the perfectin
y or the degeneration Of our manhood
: The question raised is not that Of
g future Heaven or Hell merely Thes
= are figures Of much deeper realitie
which may not he scornfuly set aside
! The evolution of complete humanit,
though the moral nature of the ind
4 vidual is the end proposed by Jesus
Be We also perfect even as your Fathe
in Heaven is perfect" ST. Paul made
the end Of his preaching to preser
every man perfect in Christ Jesus. an
the final and glorious consummati0
in his view was the perfect or fu
grown man the measure of the statur
u Of the fullness Of Christ. IF our full
moss is 10 be found in Christ, unbeli,
e means that we miss our destiny an
81 become that which we see alas in
many now dwindling, animal, despair
ing mon, the sort that find no refue
but suicide when their world of n
senses fails them.
j There is no uncertainty IN Jesus. F.
ervwhere He speake as authority. I
does not argue. He does not dener
upon any authority ~ Jewish sage,
the insignia Of any earthly nstitu,ia
There is sublime daring in HI serm,
on the Mount. where he puts above Il
4 ancent authorities C'them of q
Il time'D. His positive Verify. Verify.
II say YOU. There is no uncertainty aho
81 His claim He was a moral teache
"a hut YOU have not exhausted Him.
some think they do when YOU sum hi
up in the golden rule Read into Il
sermon on the Mount and you hear
"a deep undertone in the faith of a Fat
n or which is In secret and of one grea
er than Moses and the law, who can
to fulfill law and prophecy by reali
n ing tho Father to our hearts-"whos
"a ever" He said, shall receive Ne r