Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-17
MONDAY
THE DAY OF AUTHORITY
The cursino of the Ftu Tree

The cursing Of the Fig Tree
And on the morrow, when they
were come out from Bethany, he
hungered And seeing fig tree afar
off having leaves, he came, if haply
he might find anything thereon; and
! when he came to it, he found nothing
but leaves; for it was not the season
Iof figs. And he answered and said
unto it, mo man eat fruit from thee
henceforward forever. s',.. -
And hfs disciples heard it,
The Cleansing of the Temple.
And they come to Jerusalem; and
he entered into the temple, and began
to cast out them that sold and them
that brought in the temple, and
overthrow the tables of the money
changers, and the seats of them that
sold the doves; and he would not
suffer that any man should carry a
yeessl through the temple. And he
taught, and said unto them, rs 1t
not written, My house shall be called
house of prayer for all the nations?'
but We have made it a den of rob-
| bers?" A.: l. .
And the blind and the lame came
to him in the temple; and he healed
them. But wnen the chief priests and
! the scribes saw the wonderful things
that he did, and the children that were
crying in the temple and saying,
"Hosanna to the son of David" they
were moved with indignation, and said
unto him, Nearest thou what these
are saying?" -. ~.
And Jesus said unto them, yea;
did We never read, Out of the mouths
of babes and stockings thou hast per
feeted praise? j II ....*...
And the chief priests and the
scribes and the principal men of the
people sought to destroy him; and
they could not find what they might
do, for the people all hung upon him,
| listening.
And he left them, and went forth
out of the city to Bethany, and lodged
| there
Monday-The Refiner's Fire
The triumphal entry accomplished
its immediate purpose in the public
announcement that Jesus was the
Messianic King. That proclamation
and the joy which it evoked were suf-
ficient for the day when they oc.
Cured. We are told that Jesus enter
ed into Jerusalem, and looked into the
temple, and looked round about upon.
all things, remaining until eyentide,
and then he went unto Bethany with
the twelve, and lodged there.
But that proclamation of regal au-5
thority involved some exercise of the
lprerogatiyes belonging to the Messiah.
Monday morning beheld Jesus in what
was to his disciples new role. He
had wrought miracles Of mercy; they
now saw miracle of stern Judgment.
The hand which had been laid with
healing power upon the sick, and
which he stretched forth with a well
come to the penitent, became strong
for the oyerturning of tables and the
breaking of dove-cages. He who had
hidden himself from crowds. because
the center Off crowd composed of the
curious, the wondering. the sympa-
thetic and the hostile.
Condemnation of evil is inseparably
joined to approval OF the good. A
God, who abiding amid the. shadows,
permits the earthly. to go its way of
good or evil unrestrained, does not
satisfy the ethical demands of the
soul Let God arise; let his enemies
be scatteredn cried the psalmist in a
time of moral confusion. And
prophet promised those who loved the
Lord, but who sadly confessing to
themselves that it seemed vain to
serve him, that the. Lord would come,
and enable them to look back, and see
that God discerned between the right
eous and the ungodly.
Jesus came not to condemn the
world, yet, in the process of that
salvation, it became necessary to ex-
hibit that stern disapprobation of sin
which is only the other name for the
abiding love of God. ::..=-. ...,.->. i
The real temple of God Is the
human soul And it is written in this
temple, If any man defile the temple
of God, whom will God destroy; for
the temple of God is holy; which
temple We are" Evil imaginations, un--
holy desires, resentful feelings, covet-
Gus longings, all these profane the
temple off our lives. Many scholars
have raised the question whether the
two cleansings of the temple were not
really one; it seemed to them strange
that Jesus, having cleansed the temple
at the beginning of his ministry,
should have need to- repeat the act
at the close.4 Whatever the answer
concerning the temple then, we know
too well the answer of the question
now. How easy it is for the old
abuses to creep back! How constant
is the need of the whip of small
chords in the temple of our own soul!
How readily we shut out of our lives
in the ardor of our first conservation
many worldly habits that creep back
and back, nearer and nearer, till they
cramp within the sacred precincts of
our souls most holy place!
1t is not enough that We drive the
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