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Show "HAUIM! KAIL HIM!" EARTH'S NEW KING "They Knaw Not the Time of H Their Visitation," Pelm Sunday Portcnde Momentous llPlf Events Jesus' Triumphal Entry Into Jerusalom Rojsctod by the Nation. HftH He Rejected tho Nation Correspond- Bsc! ancles Between Messiah's First and wESm Second Advents Jewish Nation and IHBh Christendom Dealt With ae Type and W&St AntitypeChristendom Now Under- RhP going Tost Weighed In the sHIanoaa. gjjjfc esssejB New York City, HB March 28th. Pas- tor Russell spoke SPII today at the New greij York City Tern- Egg pie, w. am St., max near Broadway. m$x His test was, "Ho- fvffi sauna; Blessed Is He that cometh tn the nana of the liord." Manna. The senentone yi Importance of the event which Chris- I H tlnns commemorate on Palm 8unday I wsb not understood by the Jews at the time of our Lord's First Adrent r I The Jewish Sabbath had been spent I In rest at Bethany. It was the next Me'i morning, corresponding to our Sunday, U' V that Jesus made bis triumphal entry v into the city of Jerusalem at the Jew- V'-.':V ish King. I Tbe incident bad been foretold by H I the Frophet in detail, saying, "Rejoice .: . greatly. O daughter of Zlon; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, thy H King cometh unto thee, He Is jnst, - ';,, and having salvation; lowly, and rid- lug upon an ass." Zecharlah 9 9. The awakening of Laeerus from death had brought a large concourse of people from Jerusalem to see Jesus. H They were ullod with enthusiasm and, I after the custom of the time, many i, Btrerved palm branches In the way, while others spread their garments. I I Prophscy Must Be Fulfilled. f; H The people shouted as tbe Prophet I I had foretold, Tbey haUed Jesus as j I their long-promised King, the Messiah. Mes-siah. On other occasions, when at- I tempts were made to hail the Master j thus. Flo withdrew Himself, because the Father s time was not yet due. I But now the appointed time had if come, and hence, instead of hindering. I He encouraged their enthusiasm. i Prominent sectarian Jews were pros ij ent, who, although unable to account Cor Jesus' raising of Lazarus, were- , loath to accept Him as the true flies- 1 slab; and when they beard the shouts of the multitude, they sent word requesting re-questing that He restrain them. But Instead of forbidding them. Je-bub Je-bub fnlimated that It was proper for ' them to do so. The Prophet had said. ".Shout. O daughter of Jerusalem!' I J and there must be n sbour. I Enroute to Jerusalem tbe Master jf halted the procession on the summit ' I of the Mount f Olives, which overlooks over-looks the Holy City, and wept, while pronouncing Ills sentence. Knew Not the Time of Thoir Visitation. j Apparently the nation was as unpre-pared unpre-pared as at first for tbe Messiah; hence the familiar words. "Behold, your House is left unto you desolate! 1 For I say unto you. Ye shall not see Me henceforth till ye shall sny, Blessed Bless-ed Is He that cometh In the name of the Lord!" That Day is almost here! Meantime the nation has been oast off. j If thus we have before our minds 1 the orisin of Palm Sunday and what I It slcrnltlcd. as the climax of the test ! of Natural Israel in respect to the acceptance ac-ceptance of tbelr Messiah, we are pre- ' pared to go further nnd to note that In God's providence there Is a similar test for us Christians. I The Pastor called attention to the i fact that while Israel AS a nation was rejected, there was a small, faithful remnant who accepted Christ and thus heeanie the nucleus or foundation of Spiritual Israel on the Day of Pentecost. Pente-cost. Thin, so far as respects the Spiritual part of God's great promlso to Abraham, it passed forever from the reach of the Jewish nation; but there stili remains for them a glorious earthly portion, to which they will be introduced at Jesus' Second coming. The Time of Our Visitation. -M Apparently very few of Spiritual Israel, Is-rael, until recently, noticed that it has had a history parallel to that of Natural Natu-ral Israel. Few Indeed have seen that these two Israels have leen dealt with as Type and Antitype. Small has been tbe nurolKT who have noticed that i from the death of Jacob to the death of Jesus finds its exact parallel of 1&451j yenr between the death of Jesus and our day. Few have noticed that in both Natural Nat-ural Israel and in Spiritual Israel there have been both a nominal and a raal Israel. The nominal Jewish system was tried and all but tbe "Israelites Indeed" In-deed" failed. Likewise will be the experience ex-perience of Spiritual Israel. The nominal nomi-nal Christian systems will be tried, and all in them will fall except the faithful spirit begotten. Tbe Lord through the Prophet fori'- told that Messiah would he "for a j stone of stumbling to both tbe House of Israel" to Natural Israel and t' Spiritual Israel. Many things Indicate that we are living In a time eorre- I spondlug to that Palm Sunday! Ours j Is Palm Sunday in the highest sense of all! How are we receiving tbe great blessings which betoken the paroutia (presence) of the Master? |