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International Sunday School Lesson For Sunday, May 17 JESUS ENTERS JERUSALEM AS KING Printed Verses: Luke 29:42, 45-48 Golden Text: He Is Lord of lords, and King of kings.? Rev.~i7:14. Tk < Lesson And it came to pass, when He drew night wnto Bethphage and Bethany, at '?he mount that is called Olivet, H< sent two of the disciples, saying, "Gc your way into the village over against you; in which as ye enter ye shall nnd a colt tied, whereon no man ever yet sat: loose him, and bring him. And . any one ask you, 'Why do ye loose thus shall ye say: 'The Lord ^?*ath need of him.' " And they that wtere sent went away, and found even as He had said unto them. And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto them: "Why loose ye the colt?" And they said: "The Lord hath need of him." And they brought him to Jesus; and they threw their garments upon the colt, and set Jesus thereon. And as He went, they spread their garments in the way. And as He was now drawing nigh, oven at the mount of Olives, the A whole multitude of the disciples be ~ gan to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen; saying: "Bless ed is the King that cometh in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven, and glory in the highest." And some of the Pharisees from the multitude said unto Him: "Teacher, rebuke thy disciples." And He answered and said: "I tell you that, if these shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out." And when He drew nigh, He saw the city and wept over it, saying: "If thou hadst known in this day, even thou, the things which belong unto peace! But now they are hid from thine eyes." And He entered in to the temple, and began to cast out them that sold, saying unto them: "It is written, 'And my house shall be a house of prayer, but "you have made it a don of robbers." And He was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief prie9ts and scribes and the principal men of the people sought to destroy Him ; and they could not find what they might do ; for all the people hung upon Him, listening. Comment* on the Lesson The triumphal entry of Jesus into , Jerusalem is our study today. We hare watched the Master as He en-, tered Jerico, healing the blind men on j the outskirts of the town; we saw y Him as He went into the home of the ; despised Publican, Zacchaeus, and ; learned the words of wisdom that fell ( from His lips while speaking from, that home, and last Sunday we were Kiven an insight into the manner in , which He holds us responsible for our ( part of the world's work, as He gave the parable of the pounds. Had this story, which we are study- , ing, the book of Luke, been produced a New York writer, the press of the, nation would have vied with pulpit , in singing its praisies, and critics would have worked overtime _ and, would have used up all the descriptive ( adjectives in their vocabularies in try-; ing to tell of its beauty, and in de-v scribing the matchless manner in which it fulfills the prophecies that had been made five . hundred years before the time of its actual occur- . rence. Every man, woman and child, who claims to be well read would have had the story so perfectly memorized j that its re-telling could have been glibly done in any social group wher ever gathered. Yet, we permit the book that contains this beautiful story to lie undisturbed on our tables or in our bookcases for years and years without reading it, unconscious of its fine beauty, unaware of its powerful ( appeal, unmindful of its great import-, a nee in our own lives. Jesus was proceeding on his way r from Jerico to Jerusalem, and stopped i at Bethany, where Mary and Martha i and Lazarus lived. These were close i friends of Jesus. He reached their ; home on a Friday afternoon, remain 1 ing there until Sunday morning. At sundown Saturday evening which was the close of the Jewish Sabbath, Jesus was the guest of honor at a supper prepared and served in the home of his friends. It was here that Mary annointed the Master's feet with precious ointment, an act that was fuir of meaning within itself. On Sunday morning Jesus and his followers came unto Bethphage, on the Mount of Olives, and the Master called unto Him two of the disciples and told them to go into a nearby vil lage where they would find an ass and a colt with her, and when found these were to be untied and brought back to Him. He instructed the disciples to say to any one who might question them about what they were doing that the Lord has need of these animals, and all would be well. This was being done, Jesus told the disciples, that it might be fufilled which was spoken through the prophets five hundred : years previously, when that prophet said : "Tell the daghter of Zion that behold the King coming unto thee, meek and riding upon an ass, and up on a colt that is the foal of an ass." i The disciples went, as directed by the Master, and when they found the ani- , mals and began to untie them, a man said: "What do you mean, untying these animals?" The disciples told him that the Lord had need of them, and the man then said it was o.k. They brought the animals to Jesus, threw their garments on the back of the ass, and Jesus sat thereon and started again his journey Into Jerusalem. | Great multitudes were all about him, and they spread their garments in the highway, while others cut palm branches from the trees and spread them in the pathway of Jesus, as was the custom when a great king entered , a city. It was because the people used j the feathery fronds of the palm on ; that august occasion, that we cele brate Palm Sunday in our churches today. Great crowds went before | Jesus, as He entered the city, crying: j "Hosanna to the Son of Davia, blessed is He that cometh in the name of the ; Lord; Hosar.na in the highest." Hos- 1 anna means: "Save, we pray," and these shouts were something like Brit ish subjects would use in the expres sion : "God save the king," as that grea.t personage would pas3. When Jesus was come into Jerusa lem all the city was stirred and rock ed as if an earthquake had shaken the very foundation of the town. ( Great excitement prevailed, and peo ple on every street, and in the restau rants, and peeping from behind lat ticed windows, anxiously asked: "Who j is this? Who is it that is causing so much excitement? Who is that Man riding on the ass, with thousands of people following Him? Who is this?" |. they asked. And the multitude that [ was with Him, shouted back: "This is the prophet, Jesus from Nazareth in ? Galilee." . j What a triumphal entry into the,' city of His death ! In that one hour the lowly Nazarene could easily have 1 led His followers into combat that^ would have wiped out Roman author- 1 ity and power, had He been so mind- ; ed. Surrounded by countless thous- j ands, some of whom sought Him for | mercy and sympathy, and sought by others that they might take his life, , Jesus sat on the beast of burden, ac- ( i ?????iiiiiMiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiitii I IJIIIHIIIIIHIIIIIillllllllllllillllllillllllllllllllllllllllilitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii M-O-V-E-D TO NEW LOCATION To better serve in a larger and more adequately lighted building all of our GOOD OLD CUSTOMERS And at the same time making diligent search aad an earnest bid for NEW CUSTOMERS And giving to one and all, as they come and when they come, First Class BARBER WORK We are now located in the Joines Building, former lo cation of English Bros. Shoe Shop, and are looking for new customers to get their Barber Work done in a sat isfactory way and at prices that will not crimp the pocketbook : Hair Cut 25c ? Shave 15c We welcome our many old customers to our new home and will continue to give them the very best to be had in the Barber trade. Newspapers from Everywhere All the Best Magazines Cigars, Cigarettes, Tobaccos, Candies Ward's Barber Shop and NEWS-STAND We are doing our very best to serve the people of this section and invite you to give us a trial. claimed as a king. Loved and hated, looked down upon by some, and look ed up to by others, none of whom, however, friend or foe, recogniiing in Him the Son of God. To some, He was king; to others He was an imposter, but to none was He the Son of the ["Living God. Let us think for a moment of the manner and method of Christ's entry jnto Jerusalem. First, it was the ful filment of the prophecies of the com ing of the Messiah, the Saviour. In the Orient, the horse was regarded as the beast of war. Soldiers used the horses, and the chariots of the rich and powerful were drawn by horses. The ass was the animal of peace, and was used by the common people. Can we ever know how much it has meant to the world that Jesus selected the ass upon which to ride into Jerusalem, instead of sending for the finest hors es that could be obtained? This man ner of entry declared at once that Jesu3 Christ is an advocate of peace, and, although King, is of the common people. It is one of the tests of Chris tianity today that the man who lives in the mansion must serve the same : Jesus who was a guest in the humble home of Mary and Martha, and is to 1 day in the humble home of the poorest factory worker or the most destitute tenant farmer. Had the disciples been able to dictate to Jesus as to His en ,try into Jerusalem, they would have ihad Him clothed in purple and linen, decorated with flashing jewels, seated in a great chariot or astride the finest horse in the Orient. He, then, would have been king-like indeed. We feel much the same way. If we could look upon Jesus as we see the Prince of Wales, heir to the British throne, or a Rockefeller, king of finance, He j would have many more followers to- ^ day than He has. Our vision is just j as Harrow and limited as was that : of the followers of Christ into Jeru salem. They had not, even at that mo- ] ment, recognized Him as the Son of ( God, the greatest power that has ever touched man's life. Nor do we fully appreciate all the great, deep mean ing of His life and being. He took every opportunity to demonstrate His love for the common people, the great mass of humanity, saying over and over to us that we could be brothers to the great King of all kings, there fore becoming members of the finest Royal family in all the world's his tory. If we spent one fractional part of the time and energy in aligning our selves with this great King that we do in trying to climb one rung higher on the social ladder, the Kingdom of God would now embrace many more millions ef happy hearts than are reg istered therein today. When Jesus said that a rich man could hardly en ter the Kingdom of Heaven he had in mind the blinding influence of wealth and the arrogant spirit that wealth produces. He knew how hard it would be for rich men to worship a Christ who preached simplicity and humility, and practiced these things by choosing the lowly ass upon which to ride Into the city that He was to conquer through death, burial and resurrection. As Christ's entry into Jerusalem was emphasized by simplicity and hu mility, it is a Btriking lesson to us that our entry into the New Jerusa lem must be in the same manner. Our pride, our arrogance, our ignorance, will not open the gate of the city to us. "I am the Way, the Truth and the Light," savs Jesus, "and no man comes unto the Father except by Me." Pride of family name, ambitious achieve ments, arrogance of wealth and pow er, social leadership, genius, neither can be substituted for the humble spirit that Jesus so many, many times emphasized as being necessary to sal vation. "Who is this?" the milling throngs in Jerusalem asked, when Jesus en tered into their midst, and for two thousand years men everywhere have been asking this same question. Those who followed Him on that day said He was a prophet, a great leader, a King. He then was standing on the other side of the grave from our time and day. Surely, then, we who claim to be his followers today can see more in Him than a mere prophet, a great King. We can see Him as the Son ol God sent into the world to save men land women from sin and Sntan. we i know from experience that when Me enters into our hearts, as He entered into the city of Jerusalem, we are stirred even as the whole city was stirred on that day. "Who is this?" We know Him as a I Jesus whose cleansing power sobers 'the drunkard and makes an honest, 'righteous man of the crook, even as 'He cleansed the leper and made the lame to walk in the days that He trod the earth and proved His Messiah S^''Who is this?" We know Him as the one who comes into the room where a precious child is lying on a cick bed, with fevered brow and rac inir pulse, a child that soon was to die, the doctors say, and by the power of His unseen but well known pres ence bids the fever leave that child and its pulse beat to slow down, and quietly leaves it in peaceful slumber from which it awakens, and in good time be at play again about its moth er's knees, even as He raised the daughter of Jarius in that day one score of centuries ago. "Who is this?" We knew Him as the Presence that comes to the man whose soul is sick of sin and shame, whose life is miserable and unhappy, whose load is heavy and whose feet are faltering at every step, and this presence whispers unto that man, sai ling: "CasCyour burdens upon me |and I will carry them for you,' ant 1 peace comes to that soul even as peacc 'tame to those who were possessed ol evil spirits which He east out bact yonder before Calvary. ' "Who is this?" We know Him as the one who stretches forth a savmf hand to him who is sinking, and lead! that one to safety, even as He stretch ed forth His hand to Peter back yon der when the disciple was about t< be engulfed in the turbulent sea, am called to the Master to save him les he sink. 1 "Who is this?" If you wore tb white flower Sunday, Mother's Day you will know Him as the One wh< came in* 'the last moments to the bed 'aide of that - Christian mother of 'yours, and by His presence implanted that wistful, happy smile upon her face, as her form was released from its physical pain and suffering at the .instant her soul began to wing its '?way to the mansions in His Father's house. I "Who is this?" If you wore the red flower on Mother's Day, look in to her eyes and ask her about this Jesus, and she will take you as in the days of your childhood, and tell you about Him, even as she taught you the little prayer in days agone when you learned to say: "Here I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep." "Who is this?" you ask, even as the people of Jerusalem put this ques tion. You often ask this question in those moments when you know that all is not well with you, when you fee! that the very ground under your feet is slipping, when you feel as though you are falling, and you throw out your hands to catch at some support, and all that you can accomplish is the swishing of your arms through empty space. You ask the question, "Who is this?" as you gaze into the blue sky of the day or tfce star-bedecked heaven in the night time, and you know that a power with no limit to its reach .created and controls this east and perfectly fitted universe, yet. big as it all is, vast as the space that has no ending, this One you are asking about notices even the falling of the sparrow, and loves you with matchless passion, and wants you to place your hand in his, and be with Him when He comes again in all splendor, this time to enter into the city of the New Lake Toxaway News I Rev. and Mrs. S. B. McCall and family moved last week from the Gil ilespie cottage to the Burgess cottage J at Oakland. Misses Mildred and Mary Caroline 'Mcintosh of Brevard spent the week lend with their aunt, Mrs. L. C. Cass. 1 Mrs. C. L. Saunders spent several :days last week with her sister, Mrs. Grover Woodard, at Rosman. Mrs. Charlie Lee visited Mrs. Guy Whitmire Wednesday, who ia sick at jthe home cf her mother, Mrs. Cole man O'Nell. I Mr. and Mrs. Henry Arrowood and ; children, Virginia and Charles, left last Friday for Tuscola, Tenn., on ac- j count of the serious illness of Mr. Arrowood's parents. Ralph Fisner of Brevard, was in ^ Toxaway last Sunday. J. H. Breedlove, better known as ] "Uncle Jim" Breedlove, is very sick at his home. Mrs. Frank Nichols of West Ashe ville, spent the week-end in Toxaway : with her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Patton and children of Andrews, N. C., spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Scruggs. Jerusalem. "Who is this?" He is Jesus, the | Christ, the Son of the Living God, ' Who gave His ife a ransom that you ' and I might have everlasting life. He is yours, any moment that you say: Here, Lord, am I. Take me and use ma " Miss Mildred Williams, who has been teaching school at Dillaboro, N. C., came home last week. Mrs. L. C. Case, who has been sick, is able to be out again. Mrs. Fred McNeely and children of Oakland, spent last Friday in Bre vard. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts left last week for a visit in Texas. H. G. Rogers, who spent last week with his family, left last Saturday for Asheville. Mrs. C. C. Hall and Mrs. Fannie McCoy epent Monday with Mrs. S. L. Sanders. Harry Rother of Waynesville was a Toxaway visitor last week. Mr. and Mrs. Kim Miller and fam ily spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Chris Fisher. Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Gillespie and daughter Virginia spent last Sunday in West Asheville. B. T. Egerton spent last Sunday in Brevard. Lucy Hall was the guest of Little Bettie Fay Rogers, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Ray were Bre vard visitors Tuesday. SINGING CONVENTION AT PISGAH FOREST SUNDAY Notice is given that the District Singing Convention will be held at Pisgah Forest Baptist church next Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The public is invited to attend. !n ?-? do,,,,,-. ? Pri^ e"S ?> ?ep i 9"*'"V ?" 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