It was only a crowd of poor people who escorted Jesus on Palm Sunday to the Holy City; but they sent their hosannas upward to the highest, and their shouts of acclamation and praise are ever ringing down the ages. Let us take them up and pass them on. Hosanna means Save now, Psalm 118: 25, which formed part of the Great Haillel, or Passover Psalms. Thus, one day, his Church, and probably the

literal Israel of the future, will hail him with transports of joy. See Zech. 2:10. Where Jesus comes, he cleanses. At his word the heart that was filled with the din of worldly care becomes the home of prayer, and children—the emblems of humility, simplicity, and faith —gather. While the needy and the childlike are attracted by our Lord’s gentleness, wrongdoers are driven out before the “terror of the Lord.”