The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-02

"Alas for you, Scribes and Phari-
sees, hypocrites. for you pay the 1.-THE
on mint. dill, and cumin, while you
have neglected the weightier require
ments of the Law-just judgment,
mercy, and faithful dealing. These
things you ought to have done, and
yet you ought not to have left the
others undone. You blind guides,
straining out the gnat while you gulp
down the camel! .
ALAS for you. Scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites, for you wash clean the
outside of the cup or dish. while with
in they are full of greed and self
indulgence. Blind Pharisees, first
wash clean the inside of the cup or
dish, and then the outside will be
clean also.
Alas for you, Scribes and Phari-
sees. hypocrites, for you are just like
whiteWashed sepulchres. the outside
of which pleases the eye, though in
side they are full of dead mems Bones
and of all that is unclean. The same
is true of you: outwardly you seem to
the human eye to be good and honest
men, but, within, you are full of in
sincerity and disregard of Gods Law.
ALIAS for you, Scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites, for you repair the sepul-
chres of the Prophets and keep in
| order the tombs of the righteous, and
| your boast is.
"If we had lived in the time of our
forefathers, we should not have been
! implicated with them in the muEder
of the Prophets
so that you bear witness against
yourselves that you are descendants of
those, who murdered the Prophets.
| Fill up the measure of your fore
| fathers guilt. o serpents, o vipers'
brood, how are you to escape con-
domination to Gehenna?
! The Guilt of that Generation
For this reason I ann sending to
you Prophets and wise men and
ScribeS. Some of them you will put
to death-nay, cruelty; some of them
| you will flog in your synagogues and
chase from town to town; that all the
innocent blood shed upon earth may
come on you. from the blood of
righteous Abel to the blood of Zech-
ariah the son of Berechiah whom you
murdered between the Sanctuary and
the altar. I tell you in solemn truth
| that all these things will come upon
the present generation.
Jesus G:ieves Over Jerusalem.
| 20 Jerusalem, Jerusalem! thou who
murderest the Prophets and stonest
those who have been sent to thee!
how often have I desired to gather thy
children to me, just as a hen gathers
her chickens under her wings, and you
would not coEei See, your house
will now be left to you desolate! For
ACAA JO0 LA1I you Will never see me
again until you say, Blessed be he
who comes in the name of the Lord"
! Cps. cxviii. 26).
Jesus Predicts the Destruction
of the Temple.
Jesus had left the Temple and was
going on His way, when His disciples
game and called His attention to the
Temple buildings
You see all these?" He replied;
'in solemn truth 1 tell you that there
VIII not be left here one stone upon
another that will not be pulled down."
Christ's Return at the End
of the Age
| Afterwards He was on the Mount of
! Olives and was seated there when the
disciples came to Him, apart from the
others. and said:
| Tell us when this will be; and what
will be the sign of your Coming and
of the Close of the Age?"
Take care that no one misleads
YOU" answered Jesus; for many will
come assuming my name and saying
I am the Christi and they will mis-