Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-29
MONDAY.
THE DAY OF AUTHORITY.

come out from Bethany he hnngered.
And seeing fig tree afar off having
leaves, he came, If haply he might
find anything thereon: and when he
came to IL. he found nothing but
leaves; for it was not the season OF
figs. And he answered and said unto
it, mo man eat fruit from thee hence
forward forever"
And his disciples heard ii.
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 bought in the temple, and over
threw the tables of the money-chang
ers, and the seats Of them that sold
the doves; and he would not suffer
that any man should carry vessel
through the temple And he taught
and said unite them, as it not written,
My house shall be called a house OF
prayer for all the nations? but We
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 scribes saw the wonderful things
that he did. and the children that were
crying in the temple and saying, "Ho-
sauna 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
~ hoh
fected praise?'"
And the chief priests and the
principal men of the people sought
to destroy him, and they could not
find what they might do, for the peo-
pie 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
it's immediate purposes in the public
announcement that Jesus was the Mes
sianic king That proclamation and
the joy which it evoked were sufficient
for the day when they occurred. We
are told that Jesus entered into Jeru.
salem. and looked into the temple and
looked round about upon all things,
remaining until eventide. and then he
went unto Bethany with the IL, and
lodged there. % as -.
! But that proclamation of regal au-
thority involved some exercise of the
prerogatives belonging to the Messiah.
Monday morning beheld Jesus in what
was to his disciples new role. He
had wrought miracles of mercy; they
row saw a miracle of stern judgment
The hand which had been laid with
healing power upon the sick, and
which he stretched. forth with well
come to the penitent. neeame strong
for the overturning of tables and the
breaking of dovelcage aIe. who had
hidden himself from crowds became
the center of a crowd composed of the
curious. the wondering, the sympathet-
lie and the hostile. ..s....
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
scattered" cried the psalmist in a
time of moral confusion. And pro-
phet 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, vet, in the process of that sal
sation. 1t became necessary to exhibit
that stern disapprobation of sin which
is only the other name for the abiding
love of God.
The real temple of God is the hui
man soul And it is written in this
temple, IF any man defile the temple
Of God, him will God Destroy for
the temple of God is holy; which tenn
pie We are Evil imagination un-
holy desires, resentful feelings, eoyet.
Gus longings, all these profane the
temple of our lives. Many scholars
have raised the question whether the
two cleasnings of the temple were not
really one; 1t seemed to them strange
that Jesus, having cieansed.<the tenn
PIE at the beginning of His ministry,
should have need to repeat the act at
the close. Whatever the answer con-
corning 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, near
er and nearer. till they camp within
the sacred precincts of our souls
most holy place. "A
It Is not enough that we drive the
evils from our lives; the empty space
gEr . = -