The Washington herald., 1918-01-21
EVENING SERMON
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let Jesus go, these Jews will be more
bitter than ever against me and will
lose my job
Second. plate thought. what will
Caesar say? Caesar is suspicious of
this man Jesus and IL ne hears that l
have let Him go he will think that
think Him right and Caesar will be
angry and will lose my job and may
be my head; but il Caesar hears that
gave this long-haired evangelist to
the Jews he will think ! am onto my
job and am looking after Rome's in
terests down here
What a shameful consideration.
Many a man today is just as low
down. sacrificing Jesus because he is
afraid to sacrifice his job, sacrifice
even his life for Jesus. when he would
find no fault in Him and was con-
vinced that he was an Innocent man.
cd Work Same Game Today.
"T'll tell you what old PLATE was.
He was a stand-pat, free-lunch. pie
counter. pliable. lickspittle, horn.
peanut-graftfng. ward-heeling. wea-
seI-eyed rat. hole of a whisky
soaked Godforsaken politician. He
was typical machine politician.
the direct product of the political
system of Rome and Jerusalem
Yes and there are q lot of fools to-
day who are so low down and black
hearted that they let the world spit
in the face of Jesus Christ for fear
of their jobs.
h. L.
who led that mob. 1t was the tenn
pie thieves, the high priests, the
Pharisees and the politicians who
wanted to kill Him.. The common
people cast their coats before Him
to walk upon and tore palm branch
es from the trees and cast them at
His feet as He walked. 1t was not
the common people who cried, Kill
Him. No. the common people
cried, "Hosanna"'
IT'S the God-forsaken gang that
runs things today who are letting
the church go to hell. not the COM
mon people. Never mind what So
ciety says. If the world is against
Jesus Christ, then I'm against the
world. I'll stand pat for Him, If 1
have to slap your face, and you,
and you.
"Pilate knew how to stand pat
with the political machine at Rome,
so he sent Jesus Christ to death to
please the dirty gang of politicians
of his day.
They work the same old graft,
the same old gang today. They will
use it today by reIegating the faith,
full preacher to some corner. II a
preacher -dares to come out against
the sins of his influential church
members. they pull strings with
the bishop or other presiding offi-
GERS and have him removed. Chris
tianity is progress. 1t is a pro-
gressive movement and will over
turn the political hierarchies of the
world. 1t is bound to win, and il
will win, even II all hell is against
it ---.
PLATE Was Surprised.
II Imagine that can see the look
OF wonderment that must have
swept over Pilates face as they led
Jesus in. This was not the kind
of man he had expected to see. He
said Art thou the Son of God? He
said: I am He was conceived of
the Holy Ghost and born OF the Vir-
gin Mary. or He was bastard born
out of wedlock. He was either the
Son of God or He was a liar. He
was either the Son of God or this
book Indicating the Bible) isn't
worth the paper it's printed on. He
said Himself: I am the Son of God
'Pilate said: I find no fault in
Him Take Him and cruelty Him
What wonderful Justice! Then he
went and washed his hands of the
blood Of Jesus. 1t would have
been better for him II he had gone
and washed his wicked old heart.
"A book has just come across the
water bearing the title Letters from
He'll One of the letters tells Of
man who stoops to wash his hands
in a stream Of water Water In hell
that's about the limit, according to
my theology. Well ,-as this man stands
washing his hands--I think the author
must have been off his trolley or
had his wires crossed when he dis
covered stream of water In hell
another man comes and touches him
on the shoulder and says: Well, Pi-
late, won't it come OFF, PLATE an
swers: No, o, will they never be
clean?' There has been the blood
of Jesus on his hands for over 1900
years. Poor PLATE! You had your
chance and hell is your eternal re-
ward for your, showing the white
feather .,..
"Pilate was convinced that Jesus
was on, the square and that the:
crowd was wrong, hut he didn't have
the courage to stand up and face that
bowling, bloodthirsty mob of cut
throats. If PLATE had only said
to, that gang That man .ist innocent
and you'll never get Him except
across my dead body his name would
stand today beside that Of Joseph
Of Arimathea. and beside those of
Peter and James and John and Sa-
vonarola; but instead his name reeks
with the stencil Of infamy.
Heard MckinIey's whisper.
When Plate found that Jesus wa S
all right, he rushed Him on TO Hero /.
he tried to pass the. responsibility on