The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-21
THE PULPIT.
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY
DIR. ALLAN D. cARLILE.
Theme: The Tears of Jesus.

Brooklyn. N. Y.-Dr. Allan Doug
las Carlile, pastor Of the Throop Ave
nue. Presbyterian Church, preached
sunday morning on THE Tears Of
Jesus" The text was from John
1885. In the course of his sermon
DR.. Carlile said:
There never was a manlier man
than Jesus. When His masculine
traits are assembled, He towers
among men supreme for courage, will
power, hxity OF purpose and persever-
ance in the face of obstacles. It is
true Jesus embodied human nature
ana therefore we see in Him, as in
no other strong man, the distinctive
feminine traits of sympathy, GENTLE
ness and love. But these did not pre-
dominate. Jesus is unique in that in
His character both the masculine and
feminine virtues blended harmon
iously. He Is always gentle and al
ways strong. So that our. text repre-
sents Him not only with the tender
ness OF the woman who weeps easily,
but also in the awful agony Of the
strong Man in tears. And when we
draw near to our Saviour's SORROW
and study the occasion for II, we get
an insight into His character not 9TH
erwise disclosed. Three times He is
represented thus to us. Let us rev.
erently behold His sorrow and ask
Him why He weeps.
1. We come first to the occasion
referred to in Luke 19:41, where He
weeps over the city. Read the text
| and catch the pathos of it. There are
two elements in Christ's sorrow here,
lesser and greater. He mourned
the destruction of that city, and for
what that destruction typified. There
are lessons for us in both. The first
| indicates Jesus love of place. 1t may
seem little thing, but like to recall
the fact that Jesus was and ever will
be associated with places on this
earth. He loved Jerusalem. Some
people scoff at the idea of holy
places" The poet Montgomery asks,
scornfully:
whats holy ground? Has Earth a
It's Maker meant should not he trod
Ely Man. the image OF his God. erect
| and free?"
| Perhaps not. but that is nothing
against holy places. 1t is natural to
love our birthplace; to hold in sacred
reverence the sanctuary where we
hrst found Christ and the field where
lies the dust of loved ones. And Jesus
loved the Holy City. He had peculiar
reasons for doing so. Had it not been
the trysting place OF God and His
people for ages? Besides that, Jeru-
salem was and is unique. Like Mel
chisedek himself, its history has no
beginning, and 1t has always been and
always will be holy city. Its first
king was a priest of the most high
God. 1t is to this day the object of
Il ifno 0f h.
elisions-Jewish. Mohammedan and
Christian-and in prophetic pictures
| 1t is destined to be again the most
sacred city of the world, when Israel
shall be brought back with JOY and
singing and the glory of God once
more fill His sanctuary.
The wise men tell us that this
| world will be DESTROYED; that it will
be blown to fragmer by it's internal
| fires. or wrecked in collision with
some other world, or be frozen dead
by Its own cooling. In some way or
other they are sure it will be de-
| stroyed. But I doubt it. Jesus abides
unchanged, and in His regard for and
relation to this little world is Just
what He was. When Peter and John
healed the lame man at the temple
gate they invoked the name Of Jesus
heaven. Destroy the world and we
will forget how He got His title. He
who wept over the city, how would
He weep over the world He came to
| save! I do not believe anything in
the universe is going to be DESTROYED.
4 For 1t is written, The creation itself
snail be delivered from the bondage
| or corruption into the glorious liberty
OF the children of God" The uni
verse is waiting for the redemption
OF our body" Matter, mind and soul
are to be redeemed. not destroyed.
But Jesus love of place is not suf-
hcient to explain these tears. There
was agony infinitely deeper than that
In the thought of what the city's
downfall meant to the people for
! whose salvation God had done SO
much. Not that the work of God
would fail. He was able Of the stones
TO raise up children unto Abraham.
The door should be thrown wide omen
and the Centiles would come in. But
Gods love is not tickle, and the
thought of Israel, whom He loved and
still loves, children of the covenant,
heirs OF the promises, doomed by
their own soul-blindness to be scat
tered among the nations, q people
without q home, like Abraham,
strangers and pilgrims" on the
earth, for centuries to be made to
suffer what they had made Him, their
greatest Prophet, suffer, who was
despised and rejected Of men!"-this
was what agonized the Saviour. Here
HIS tears were for the ancient people
OF God.
[ q. The second instance shows His
sympathy for men in the ordinary
SORROWS Of life. 1t happened at the
| tomb of I,azarue md ~ ;o 60. a. =.