Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-06
MONDAY.
THE DAY OF AUTHORITY.
The cursina CT the Fig Tree

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find anything thereon; and when he
came to it. he found nothing but
leaves; for it was not the season OF
figs And he answered and said unto
il NO man eat fruit from thee hence
| forward forever.
and his disciples heard it.
The Cleansing of the Temple.
And they come to Jerusalem; and
he entered into the temple, and began
to cast cut them that sold and them
that brought in the temple. and over
threw the tables of the mOnPy-Chang-
ers. and the seats Of them that sold
the doves; and he would net suffer
that any man should carry a vessel
through the temple. And he taught.
and said unto them. is il not written.
! NV house shall he called house Of
Irayer for all the nat'ons?' but ye have
made it a den OF robbers"
And the blind and the lame came
to him in the temple; and he healed
them. But when the chief priests and
the scrihes saw the wonderful things
that he did. and the children that were
crying in the temple and saying.
"HCsanna to the son Of David they
we're moved with Indignation, and said
| Unto him, "Hearest thou what these
are saying?"
And Jesus said unto them, Yea;
did We never read. Out of the mouths
Of babes and sucklngs thou hast per-
tected praise?"
And the chief priests and the scribes
and the principal men Of the people
sought to destroy him; and they could
net find what they might do for the
people all hung uDon him, listening.
And he left them. and went forth
cut Of the city to Bethany, and lodged
there
Mo-day-The ReIner's Fire.
| The triumDhal entry accomplished
| its Immediate hurn0so in the public
announcement that Jesus was the Mes
sianic king That Dloclamat;on and
the iov which it evoked were suffi-
cient for the dav, when thew occurred.
/ We are told that Jesus entered into
Jerusalem. and looked into the temple
and locked round about unon all
things. remaining until eTentide. and
then he went unto Bethany with the
| p and lodged there.
! But that proclamation of regal au-
tbOritv involved some exercise of the
prerogatives belonging to the Messiah.
Monday morning heheld Jesus in what
was to his disciDlPs a new role. He
| had wrought miracles Of mercy; they
now saw a miracle of stern judgment.
The hand which had been laid with
| healing power upon the sick. and
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come to the penitent. became strong
for the overturning of tables and the
breaking of beverages. He who had
hidden himself from crowds because
the center of a crowd composed Of the
curious, the wondering. the sympathet-
| ic and the hostile.
Condemnation of evil is insparablv
Joined to approval Of the good. A
God. who abiding amid the shadows,
permits the earthly to go it's way of
good or evil unrestrained does not sat
isfy the ethical demands Of the soul.
Let God arise; let his enemies be
scattered" cried the psalmst in
time of moral confusion. And a
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 betweerfathe right
eous and the ungodly.
Jesus came not to condemn the
world. yet. in the process Of thai
salvation. it became necessary to ev-
libit that stern disaDprobation CT sin
which is only the other name for the
abiding love Of God.
Tho real temple Of God is the
human soul And it is written in this
temple, eff any man dofile the temple
of God, whom Will God destroy: for
: the temple Of God is holy: which
temple We are" Evil lamentations, I'M
holy desires, resentful FEELINGS, covot-
! GUS longings, all these prOfane the
! temple Of our lives. MANY scholar:
have raised the question whether IL
two cleansings of the tHmDIe were not
really one: it seemed to them strange
! that Jesus. having CieanScd the tenn
pie at the beginning OF His ministry
should have need 20 repeat the aCt
: at the close. Whatever the aIsWc.
concerning the temple then. wp know
TOO we'll the answer OF the question
row. 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 fist consccra.
| ton many worldly hahi'S that crcep
back and back. r2arer and nearer. till
they cramp within tile sacred pre-
! CinCts Of our srul'& most holy place:
1t is not enough that We drive n
evils from our lives: the empty SNac'
must he filled speedily with worth y
! Pun poses. and ho!ior affections Jesus
spoke once Cf a nan from HON az