Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-10

Mr. Sundays sermon last night, on
'sWhat Shall Do With Jesus" was
In full as follows:
Copyrighted by William A. Sunday
Nineteen hundred years ago q star
poised above a lowly manager In Beth
aehem and above the moonlit halls OF
Judea, the angels ileralded the be-
ginning of the life Of Christ on this
earth, who came to US to teach us the
religion of human kindness and broth
erly love.
No matter what ne said or did, the
Jews, spurned and repudiated his
claims to being the Messiah and
they cursed and blasphemed Him They
spat upon Him, and drove Him from
town and their enmity finally culmin-
ated in the greatest tragedy the world
has ever looked upon-the murder OF
Jesus Christ.
But before that was enacted, several
incidents took place from one Of which
I take my text this evening.
Next to Jesus Christ, the most I'M
portant parsonage that appears upon
the stage of action is PLATE, and from
his lips takc my text.
Text From Pilates Lips.
It was he who said:
what shall 1 do, then, with Jesus
who is called the Christi"
plate made one of the greatest, most
stupendous, gigantic ingominious fail
ures that the world ever looked upon.
No man ever had better chance to
show his manhood than he. No man
ever did thing that stamps him less
man until his name today Is d
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disgust and face him side by side with
mind, showed the greatest lack Of man
base ever gazed upon.
Now plate had many things to en-
courage him-so have you, and he had
many things to discourage hiu-so
have you.
When God brings influences to bear
to get you to decide favorable on
Jesus, all hell is at work to prevent
you from doing what you know is
right, and the manly thing to do.
plate Had Wife's Dream.
Now, PLATE had many things to en-.
courage and many things to discour-
age him. First, to help him, he had
the dream of his wife. do not know
who Mrs. PLATE was before her mar
riage. The story of her is very briefly
told in the bible. 1t is all summed
up in one verse: so don't know who
she was before her marriage, neither
are we informed what kind of a woman
she was after her marriage, only as ii
is suggested by this incident.
It is no real evidence Of her womanly
qualities or enduring indications OF
virtue simply because God had re-
vealed himself in dream to her. God
reveals himself in a dream to Pharaoh
and Nebuchadnezzar. And 1t is nc
evidence of Mrs. Pilates virtuous
womanhood Yet for all you know
she might have been a woman very
devout and constantly on the alert to
save her husband from tho difficulties
this pliable and plastic temperament
would lead him into. 1t might have
been her love.
Her dream was an unpleasant one
while she slumbered, in some way God
revealed something to her. am sure
that He revealed to her that her hus-
band was about to mix up in the
greatest tragedy the world has ever
known and she sent the message:
Have thou nothing to do with this
man. If others want to murder Him
let them do it-but PLATE, husband
don't you redden your hands with His
blood, or mix with that goddess rabble
clamoring for His blood"
He had his wife's dream and ad-
vice. She did all that she could dc
to keep her husband on the right side
and you are to be congratulated with
that kind of wife.
Many man is married to a mill
stone-if it were not for her he would
amount to something in the world, but
it is unfortunate to have a wife who
Is milestone, a barrier and a damper
He had another thing-he had the
personality of Jesus.
If you brought man before me
on jury I would say the personality
Of the man that stood before me would
enter largely into my attitude toward
him. Here was Jesus more beautiful
than a dream Of Pericles, the most
magnificent character in history. There
he stood before PLATE.
And the Miracles.
He had the miracles Of Jesus. ]
don't know that he had ever seen
Jesus perform miracle, but the mir
acles of Jesus were current converse
ton everywhere. The land was stirred
Everybody wanted to see the Nazarene
He had the miracles of Jesus, and you
have all that you see, the blessings OF
christianity, and see men saved.
Now then, while these things were
influencing and pulling him to STOP
him and yield to Jesus, other things arr
pulling the other way.
Jews Under Rome.
You must remember that the Jews
were under. the control of Rome, and
Rome was severe In her demands. Pi-
late as the representative was the
essence of severity, and because Of
his treatment they had sent petition
to Rome to intercede with Caesar and
8 have plate recalled.
Plate knew that the Jews hated
Christ, especially the gang that Nrar
things. He knew also that that very
class that hated Jesus had sent 8
committee to Rome to intercede with
Caesar to have him removed And
PLATE knew IL he did anything tc
further increase their enmity, his head
would not be worth anything and he
would lose his Job.
II he would show friendship for them
he would hold his job.
So Would You.
PLATE, In order to curry favor, would
slap Jesus in the face and do any,
thing to win favor, and a lot Of YOU
fellows will sell your soul to the devil
to win the favor of some old whisky
soaked, wtsened-eyed, peanut Drained
ward .healk1H politfcian That 10 @uhoa