The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-23
IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD
What Church Folk Are Think
ing Abont and Doing
SOME TfsIUMPHAL PROCISSlONo'
The international Sunday ScsaOl LES
son for August % is Jesus Enter
ing Jerusalem" Matt. Fl 1-17....
Nv WILLIAM 7. ELLlS.

L NAhooiA
ed in the present tense. Its latest ex-
pressions should supplement its MS
torical records. Thus the Triumphal
Entry Of Jesus into Jerusalem,
which the Sunday schools study to-
day, needs to be recalled in me
ton with the triumph which he is
achieving today.
mind. There is the procession to
Oberammergau this summer From
every direction, and remOtest dis
tances. travellers have been vending
their way to the little Bavarian viii
lage which ono a decade celebrates
the Passion Of Christ. Many of the
travellers go by cheapest routes, and
at the cost of much economy; others,
by the hundreds ave in their pri-
vate automobiles. Thousands of
Americans have zone to Europe ex-
pressly for the Passion Play. More
than a hundred thousand persons
will a gone to OberamHegau ere
the season closes. Why? To see a
theatrical play. No. Better acting
can be witnessed in any great city.
The attraction is the theme; it is the
representation of the supreme eXper-
ience Of humanity's Redeemer that
attracts rich and poor, ignorant and
Learned All his host celebrate the
%kingship of Christ. Thirty thousand
Jews died at Jerusalem a few years
after the crucifixion- but nobody cele-
brates this. Today the death Of Christ
is the most widely and seriously
commemorated event in all history;
the whole world is lining the highway
of tine to honor his triumph.
When the Ends of Earth Meet.
Another triumphal procession Of
recent weeks, to be considered along
side of the Entry into Jerusalem, was
the Worlds Missionary Conference at
Edinburg. The Hero Of it all perhaps
viewed this later demonstration with
more satisfaction han he did the
huzzahs OF the volatile Jerusalem
crowd. To Edinburgh's royal hill
henceforth to AVE a greater place
in history because Of this assembly
than any of the Scottish kings or
heroes have given it-journeyed
Christian leaders from the remotest
corners of earth. The earth's great
were there-lords and earls and bar
onets an dgenerals and statesmen and
kings OF and authors and
archbishOps and bishops and doctors
Of divinity and explorers and adven-
turers and missionaries-to do such
IoIlo 20 III LoIu Jesus 1IlTISt as,
In human estimation, he had never
received before. The proud univer-
sity Of Scotland's capitol conferred
honorary degrees upon a few Of the
representative delegates from Asia,
Europe and America. The gathering
was the most cosmopolitan that ever
assem- bled for any purpose.
All this was not to witness the coro-
nation of al earthly sovereign. or
to further schemes of personal gain,
or to avOW allegiance to any great
political principle, but only to do
honor to the Redeemer and to CON
slider the prosecution Of his work.
Some crowds are counted and some
are weighed; this one was to be
weighed. The Jerusalem multitude
that exultingly cried "Hosanna!" was
soon to howl to throaty hate, "Crueify
Him. Cruelty HIM" With calm and
measured purpose the Edinburgh host
sang, Grown Him with many
crowns"
The Accepted Ovation.
There is a mok humility which is
glib in self-depreciation; it is 1.-The
pride which apes humility" Not so
Jesus. He accepted the ovation of
the multitude as his right. He knew
his own k~lngllnesS, knew it far better
than the noisy crowd by the wayside.
Ihey were carried aay by a popular
Ilue OF wonder, admiration for his
works, and enthusiasm over a hero.
The deeper significance of the dem
onstration in which they shared they
did not understand; but He did.
IL must nave been a comfort to
the sore heart of Jesus to hear this
voice Of public acclaim. Even though
1t did not go very far, it meant to
him the fulfillment Of prophecy, and
a foregleam of the greater triumphs
which the Father was to give the Son.
Any sense of q realization of spiritual
truths, however superficial, was pre-
clous in his sight. And the honor
of the Son is dear to the Father:
whatever exalts the name of Jesus
Is Well-pieasipg in the sight of God.
SOMETIMES men sheer at the great
.hrisi'an EnueaVor and Epworth