Ninth Sunday After Pentecost.
Christ on Mount Olivet.
"When Jesus drew near Jerusalem, seeing the city, He wept over it." — Luke xix. 41.
SYNOPSIS.
Ex.: I. Power of Scripture. II. Arguments for Christ's divinity.
I. Wept over city : 1. Divine sympathy. 2. Unselfishness. 3. Popular response.
II. Foretold ruin : 1. Prophecy. 2. Author and subject. 3. Destruction of Jerusalem.
III. Cleared Temple: 1. Sacrifice. 2. Traders. 3. St. Jerome.
IV. Lord of all : 1. Supper-room. 2. Ass and foal. 3. True force of argument.
Per.: 1. Power of Scripture. 2. Choice of means. 3. Omnipotence.
SERMON.
Brethren, if you care this afternoon to take your family Bible — and you should regard it as a sacred weekly duty so to do — if, I say, you care, after church, to take your family Bible and read over and ponder over the Gospel I have just read — Luke xix. 41-47 — you will find there three excellent arguments against the anti-Christian spirit of our times — three convincing proofs of Christ's divinity.
And first, we read that He wept over Jerusalem. Lamentation over our own misfortunes is a purely human passion, but to forget self and weep over the ruin of another is divine. Now, here was Christ on the day of His victory — the one day of His whole earthly career worthy, humanly speaking, to be called triumphant. Fresh in the popular memory