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The Message of the Minister 75
want to see if we can get up in Jerusalem. Over yonder I see
Jesus riding on a colt and the people praising him. But after a
while the people began singing "Hosanna," and the other people
said make them hush. But Jesus said, "I cannot make them hush,
for if they hush, the stones will cry out. He turned water into
wine, but he said, that if they hush, the stones will cry out. Oh,
it looks like you might see a happy crowd. Talk with me. They
were crying, "Hosanna." You must be born again. He has got
up on the Mountain and he looked at Jerusalem and he said the
kings and prophets will be in Jerusalem; but Jerusalem is lost if
it does not repent of its sin. "Oh, Jerusalem, how long will it
take to get you under my wings? I longed to shelter you, I longed
to protect you, I longed to take care of you and then I called you
and you wouldn't come." I am sorry for Jerusalem, and He was
so anxious that the tears ran down His cheeks.
You can't help but cry. Oh, Sinner, my God is bothered about
you. You ran away. My God, my God, and they try to make us
hold our peace by limiting my preaching. No man can limit me
to preach God's word. God called me to preach and it would be
woe unto me if I did not preach. When I come up to the judgment I want my God to say "Well done, well done." When I
lay down to die and when I shall go back to Him, I shall not be
afraid. When I shall look over that mystic river and see my
Saviour on the shore I want to wait until I hear his voice and see
the print of the nails in his hands, I am going to shout and sing
and pray until I get to glory. When the war is over, when the
war is over, I shall stack up my hymn book and Bible. In the
morning, in the morning, when the war is over, and when the,saints go marching in, I mean to be in that number. 0, church,
do you remember when your dungeon shook and your chains
fell off?
AN EASY ROAD TO HEAVEN
God said, "Give them something to eat." "We haven't anything but there is a lad with two fish and five loaves of bread."
He said "Have them sit in groups of fifty and bring the fish and
loaves to me." And when they had sat down in groups of fifty,
he looked up to heaven and blessed the bread and fish and gave
it to the disciples. In a desert with 5,000 men and children with