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if these should hold their peace the stones would immediately
cry out. These are the words of the text.
It looks like you might see him coming up to Jerusalem, no
previous preparation having been made, only prepared hearts.
That is one thing I like. He wants a prepared heart. He has
said, "Give me your heart." I saw them making preparation for
Jesus as they brought the colt for there was a crowd who had
made preparation for Jesus, made preparation in their hearts. So
much form, so much indulgence, so much selfishness and leaving
off Jesus. I see them pulling off their coats and putting them
down before him. They tell me the people climbed in palm trees
to see the triumphant entry and they tell me those palm trees
grew forty feet in the air. I don't know how they got up there
and got the palm leaves; but they were there waving the branches
of the palm tree. Sometimes when I see myself born down in
Georgia where there are so many hardships, I can tell that my
dungeon shook and my chains fell off. I don't know how Jesus
saved me; but I am saved. I don't know how they got up in
those palm trees, but they got up there and got palm leaves and
waved them in the wind. They said we have no comnets, no
instruments to make music. They said that this is the day that
music should animate the souls of men. There is nothing we
can do but use our voices. What will we sing? Nobody knew
what they ought to sing. Jesus said this is the day of my inauguration and' they began singing "Hosanna." We see those men
who were the main officers, who controlled the city, staring, but
Jesus Christ said I am going to let them know that my message is
a brotherly message. "I am the Lord of Lords, the King of
Glory, my dominion being an everlasting dominion, heaven and
earth may pass away but my dominion will last forever." They
said make them hold their peace. But he said, "This is the day
that I must be presented, this is the day that I shall take the
reins of time. Yes, if these will hold their peace, even the rocks
will cry out." The world has been trying to get you to hold your
peace; but you cannot get, a child of God to hold his peace. I
don't know what God meant when he said the rocks will cry, but
I think he meant if he should make them hold their peace, then
the rocks would cry out and proclaim him Lord. To let you