The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-03-21
SIGNIFICANCE
OF HOLY WEEK
POINTED OUT
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"Palm Sunday" is so called pc
cause it is the day that commem-
crates the entry of our Lord Into
Jerusalem when the people streW-
ed the way with palm branches
and cried, "Hosannaw Churches
TO this day use the palm as the
motif for the decorations for PAIN
Sunday"
Among the earliest means adapt
ed by the church for the purpose
of impressing on the minds OF ner
children the great and interesting
scenes of the gospel history, and
the extraordinary events which
marked the first planting of Christ
ianity. was the appointment OF a
series of anniversaries and holy
days, with appropriate services,
commemorative of the prominent
transactions of our Redeemer's
life and death and of the labors
and virtues of the apostles and
evangelists. The discerning Christ
ian of today loves to preserve the
annual memory of these events be-
cause he finds them reasonable, de-
lightful and profitable.
"Holy Week." which is so gen.
orally confused with "Passion
Week." is the week before Easter.
The Catholic and historic church
places special emphasis on the ser
vices of "Holy Week" which bring
TO a climax the meditations and
PRAYERS of the Lenten season.
Turnout the world during "Holy
Week. the church is proclaiming
the disaster which the scene on
Calvary portrays. The decorations
of the houses of worship have put
on the colors suggestive of sadness
and mourning. She does not con-
ceal her affliction.
Secular histories record their
martyrs, who, having laid down
their lives for their cause, have
passed off the scene while others
have carried on the mission for
which they died, But it cannot be
so with Jesus Christ. He cannot
be regarded as separable from His
cause. Either he lived and His
cause prevailed, or He died and
His cause is lost. He has proclaim
ed himself to be the son of God,
and the son of God cannot suffer
defeat. He has proclaimed himself
to be the way of life, and He who
is the way of life cannot be swal-
lowed up in death.
His accusers, his judges, his exc
cutioners were well assured that
the disaster which they had brot
upon Him was an irreparable dis
aster. eff thou art the king of Is
rael, come down from the cross
and we will believe" "He saved
others, he himself he cannot save"
If ever man beheld irreparable dis
aster, it was the crucifixion on this
day of Jesus Christ.
And yet what was it that hap
pened? From His cross, in the
supreme hour of His defeat, He
exercised power over the world
which has never been diminished
He ruled from His cross as no king
ever ruled from his throne. King,
doms have risen and fallen; thrones
have ,crumbled away, and yet from
two boards nailed cross-wise, Jesus
Christ, wounded, dying and dead
seized the sovereignty of the
world. That sovereignty He has
never lost.
His enemies supposed that In
his death they had brot about the
irrepabale destruction of His Sc
ditious sect. But it was not so
They were wrong and when the
darkness came and the rocks were
rent and the earth was opened anc
the veil of the temple parted ir
twain, God changed irreparable
defeat into eternal victory"
This is the meaning of the events
that transpired and which we com
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