The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-17
INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON
For May 10 Is Jesus Exercising King
" Acknowledgements 11:1-33.
History's Hero and'H Great Day.
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS

H1SLOTy'S hero anu lay.
Hundreds of thousands of persons
have seen the large picture, THE Con-
querors," which was exhibited at the
Chicago fair, and has since been on
exhibition in Philadelphia. No one
who has ever looked upon it can ever
forget it. The canvas portrays the
| worlds great conquerors marching,
| with banners and insignia, in solid
column that dwindles off into the in
I dfstinguishable distance. There we
see Napoleon and Caesar and Alexan-
| der and Charlemagne and Cyrus and
Xerxes and Ptolmeny and the other
men who beheld the world at their
! Two facts about the great picture at
once suggest themselves to the
thoughtful observer. The first is that
these conquerors come to glory by a
4 pathway of death, destruction and des-
olation. The canvas is repellant to
some sensitive natures because of the
| two long lines of stark, grim, gray
| corpses that flank the conquerors on
| either side. What a price humanity
| had to pay that these men might wear
1 the laurel!
The other obvious remark is that
| the greatest of the worlds conquer
ors is not represented. The victories
| of Alexander and Napoleon were in
consequent and ephemeral beside the
| conquest OF Jesus. The veriest tyro in
historical study must perceive that
the outstanding hero Of the past nine
| teen centuries is the gentle Nazarene,
whose sway has increased and extend
ed until today 500.00O.0OO of people
who In turn rule the world, bow the
| knee to Him. Truly, as cried Julian
| the apostate, Thou hast conquered. O
| pale Galileani" And the conuuests of
Jesus have not. been along a gloomy
course or sorrow, suffering and death.
| Life and light have walked in His foot
| fiNr, hos
maiden. Health, knowledge and hap
piness have followed in His train. His
| triumphaI procession down the ages
mas been accompanied by the hosan-
mas or the myriads who have felt His
| help or witnessed His life giving touch
| Even the great war, when consid-
| cred in its lcftiest aspect, is but a
phase Of triumphal progress of his
| tcrys Hero. Does it not signify the
erding OF immemorial wrongs. the
| emancipation of whole peoples, and
the putting of life on a higher and
more Christian plane? Our Sunday
school lesson fits into the days think
| ing most OPPORTUNITY.
The Greatest, Triumphal Entry,
| This triumphal entry into Old Jeru-
| salem on the first Palm Sunday sug-
gests stirring thoughts For it was
/ prefigured Christ's Triumphal entry
| into human hearts and into all the
| ascribe all their goodness to the per-
feet Oa,. Learning lays its laurels
| at the feet of a humble Teacher who
| kept school at Blue Galilee. Medicine
| esteemed at its highest honor the
fact tina. it walks in the footsteps
1 of the great Physician. Art has re-
| served its ablest brushes for the de-
lineation OF the person of the Saviour.
4 The LAWYER harps back to the dicta
of the Messiah for the noblest code
4 that can govern the conduct of men
| in their relation one with another.
i Philosophy confesses that the greatest
! Of philosophers was He whose teach
i ings were so new that they startled
1 the philosophers who first heard
\ them. and whose gentle speech ex-
pressed the highest wisdom. The
i religious impulses of mankind find In
Him 1.-The one altogether lovely" The
continual coronation of Christ is the
SD blimesr spectacle of the centuries.
Bring forth the royal diadem
And crown Him Lord of ALL
81 OF all this how little conception
had the multitude which eagerly car
peted His path with their garments
and WITH branches hastily stripped
fl ON the palm trees! And how little
the basfled Pharisees understood thai
4 their disappointed comment. 'Lo, the
world has gone after Him. was IN
truth a prophecy of that day. now
arrived. when Jesus should be the
center Of the stage of the universe.
Il Men do not understand themselves
: neighbof and his deeds Nobody. save
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