The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun. day Sermon. Sabjeect: “Ywsefal Suffering. Text: *“Jt beloved Luke xxiv, 43 There have been scholars why hav» ven- tured the assertion that the pains of our Lord were unnecessary, Inijesi it was a shocking waste of tears ani blood ani ag ony, unless soms great ent w wre to ba reached. If men can prove that no good ra- sult comes of it, taen the cuaracter of Gol 18 impeached, and the universe must stand abhorent and denunciatury at the fact that the Father allowed the butchery of His only begotten Son. We all admire the brave six hun fired men described by Teanyson as dashing into the conflict when they knew they must die, amd knew at che same time that ‘somes one had blunder’d;” but we are abhorrent of the man who made the biunder and who caused the sacrifice of those brave men for no use. But 1 shall show you, if the Lord will help me, this morning that for good reasons Christ went through the torture, In other words “It behooved Christ to suffer.” In the first place, I remars that Christ's lacerations were necessary, becaus» man's rescue was an impossibility except by the payment of some great sicrifice. Outraged law had thundered against iniguity., Man mast dic unless a substituse can intercsnt that deatw.. Let Gabriel step forth. He ra fuses. Let Michael the archan gel step forth, He refuses. No Romau citiz*n. no Athe- nian, no Corinthian, no reformer, no angel volunteered. « hrist then bared His heart to the pang. He paid for our re femption in tears and blood and wounded feet and seourged shoulders and torn brow. ‘it is done.” Henven and earth heard the snap of the prison bar. Sinai c:aied to quake witi wrath the moment that Calvary tecan to rock in crucifixion, Curist had suffered “Oh,” says some man, “I don't lik» doctrine of suostitution: let every bear his e¢wn buriens | weep his own ht bis own battles! Why, my tears, brother, 2re 18 vicarious suffering all ovar the worid. DMinot vonr parents suffer for you? Do you not sometines suffer for your children? Does not the patriot suffer for his country? Did not Grace Darling suffer ior the drowning saiiors®* Vicarious sutfer- ing on all sides! But how insignificant com- pared with tois sceue of vicarious suler- ing! Was it for crimes timt I had done He groaned upon the tree’ Amazing pity, grace unknown, And love beyond degree. Christ to suffer) — that man iis Christ must suffer to pay the prices of out redemption. But I remark again, sufferings of Christ were necossary in order tha: world's sympathies might be arousad. are won to the right and gool throu th thai sympathies. The world must feel before it can act aright, So the oo allowed to be lifted that the world’s sympa- thies might be arous:. Men wao have been obdurated by the crueities they have enacted, the massacres they have i by the horrors of whica they have ben guilty, have become little children in the presence of this dying Saviour What the swords could not do, wh gernauts could no: subdue, the hand of Christ bas accomplished, are this moment millions of der the spell of that ous sac mers that struck spikes iato have broken the r neart of Nothing but theagonies of a Naviou:’s de throe could rous: ths world's sy: I remark again, “I: behoved suffer.” that ths and p the divine love mi 1 DON it the applause of the world Christ on that crusade from Heavae all the universe was at His conquest of this signifi paid Him for His caree: been a mere matter of ap; honors of heaven sur Would your queen give she mignt rue Woula the Lord Je of the universe c it were a mere matter clamation? Nor was it gn expedition the accumulation vast could all the harvests and our little world do for Him whose are glories of infinity ie and ! Nor was It an experimenti—an attempt to show what He could do #ith the hard heartad race, who wheels the stars in their courses bolds the pillars of the universe ot of His fingers neede | to make no ex (neat to find what He could do, Ob, I wii tell you, my Iriemis, wnat it was It was un- disguised, unlimited, all conquering, all con- suming, ininite, eternal, omnipotent love that opened the gate, that started the star in the east, with finger of hight pointing down to tue manager, that arrayed the Christinas choir above Bethlehem, that opened the stable door wheres Christ was born, that lifted Him on the eroes. love thirsty at the well, Love at the sick man’s couch. Love at the cripple’s cruteh, Love sweating in the garden. Love dvicg on the cross. Love wrapped in the grave, You cannot mistake it. The blindest eye must see it. The hardest beart must feel it, The deafest ear must hear it. Parable and miracle, wayside talk and seaside interview, all scenes of His life, all the sufferings of His death, proving beyund controversy that for our ingrate earth od has yearned with stu dous and inextinguishable love, ut I remark again, “It behoved Christ te soffer.” that th: nature of human guilt mizht ba demonstrated, There is nota com- mon sense man in the house to-day that will not admit that ths machinery of society 1s out of gear, that the human mind and the buman heart are disorganizad, that some. thing ought to ba dons right away for ita re. pair and readjustment. But the beight and depth and lenzth and breadth and hate and reckiessness and infernal energy of tne human heart for sin would not nave besa demonstrated if againgt the holy and inno. cent one of the crossit bad not brea huret in one bolt of fire. Christ was not the first man tat hat bam i to death. There had been manv befors Him put to death, but they had their whims, the r follive, toeir sing their inconsistanrise But when the mob outside of Jerumlem howled at the Non of God it was hate against oodness, it was blasshemy against virtue, Lt was eal hh azainst heaven, What was it in that innocent and loving facs of Clirist thas excited tae vituperation and the con- tumely and scora of men® If He had ban tered them to come on, if He had laughad them into derision, if He hat denouncxd them as the vagabonds that they were, wo could understand their ferocity, but it was against inoffensiveness that they brandisted their spears, and shook their fists, and ground their teeth, and howled and scoffed and jeered and mnocked, What evil had He dons Whoss eyesight had He put out® None; but He given vision to the blind. Whoss chiid had He sliin? None; but He restored ths deat damsel to her mother, What law had He broken? None; but He had inculoated obedience to government, What foul plot had He on. acted agains’ the happiness of ths rac? None; He had eyno to save a worll, The only cruelty Ho ever enacted was to heal the . The only ostentation He ever dis. biayed was to sit with publicans ani sinners and wash the disciples’ feet, The only selfisines He ever exhibitad was to give His life for His ensmies. And yet all she wrath of the world sur zed against His holy heart, Hear the redhot scorn of the world hissing in the poolsof o Faviour's blood! And standing thers to day let us see what an unreasonable, loath blasting, damning thing is heart. Unloossd the the wour Chere iy Christ ersistence to of strengtl Was 5 | by, the y feet, id : h ave Africa? throne r planet i yplagss and ace a wissen lie 3st HIS « mndertaken fi What wr of saith, : ’ ix of the elern te and tips or 2 an no y utter, taers arueitios on which it will not gi it, 1s not gorgs itself, Is will wallow in filth, it will braatue the air of charnelhouses of corruption and call than aroma, it will guafl the blood of immortal souls and call it nectar, When sin murdered Christ on ths eross it Almighty if it could get at Him, The prophet had declare i-I think it was Jere. miah~had declared cmturies before the truth, but not uatil sin shot out its forked tongue at the crucifix and tossel its sting Again, “It beloved Christ to sa ff? Why, sire, the behavior of our Lord affections of all those who it. It has been the art has stirred the have ever heard of Hunt's “*Agony Crucifixion,” Holman Tintored's Angelo's * to's “Baptism of Christ” “Christ in the Temple,” in the Garden,” rang sweetest chimes in Young's *‘Night the psalmody of the world with the penitential notes of sorrow Show me aay other kinz who many subjects, Whaoat is tho most potent name to-day in the Uaitod States, in France, in England, in Scotland, in Ireland? Jesus, Other kings have had many subjects, but where is the king who has so many admir- ing subjects as Christ! Show me a regi ment of a thousand men in thelr army and I will show you a battalion of ten thousani men in Christ's army. given his property and his life for any one eise, aud 1 will show you in history hun- dreds and thousands oi men who have chieer- fully died that Carist might reizo. Aye, there are a hundred men in this house it need were, would step out and die for Jesus, Their faith may now seem to be faint, and sometimes they may be inconsise tent, but let the fires of martyrdom be kin- dled, throw them into the pit, cover them with poisonous serpents, pound them, fail them, erush them, and 1: will tell you waat their last cry would be, "Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly! Ob, yes! thes Lord Jesus has won the affec. tions of many of us. Toere are some of us who can say this morning, “Lord Jesus, my light and my song; my nope for time, mn) expectation for eternity.” Altogether lovely Thou art. My soul is ravished with th vision. Thou art mine. Come let me clas) Thee, Come life, come death, coms scort and pain, come whiriwind and darkness. Lord Jesus, I cannot give Thee up. 1 hava heard Thy voice. 1 have seen Thy bleeding side. lord Jesus, if I had some garland pluckel from heavenly gardens 1 would wreath it for Tay brow. Il I had some gem worthy ol the pinca 1 would set is in Thy crown. If I had seraphic bu I wonid strike it in Thy praise. But [ co lost and ruined and undoae to throw myself at Thy Lest, Not Ve Simply to Thy cross | cling. ics I bring: Thou knowest all things, Thou knowest that { love Toee But | remark again, “it behoved Christ to suff or.” that the worud might learn bh suffer. N suf bs rin they cannot bus Clirist had in His hands all the to vunish His enemies, and yet in quies He envured all outrage. He mizht have upon His pursases: buried rocks of Golgotaa earth until He swal. might have lowed up Hix assailants; He might hava ealied in reinforcement or taken any derbolt from the armor God Omnip uried 1t s*etning ¢ flery among ut He anew . my hearers the history « enduring pa WwW IO times people help themselves, welipons ATU the 3 fet Cait tne asin ily pain, HY ain and The tow hey fall, DORNER angry. tort, the still hand, loo your Lord, . sirikin tog again. Ob, if you could only appreciate what He endurad in the way ol persecution you never would complain ol persecution, 4 rule, fia c.0% vf line, loo tiful demenoor Neon beay Ths words of Chirist would be your w “Father, if it he possible, let this cap pass from Me: but if not, Thy will be done.” “lt hebioved Christ to suffer” persecution, that He might show you bow to endure persecu- tion, Some of you are bereft. It is no random romark, because thers is hardly a family here that has not passed under the shadow, You have been bereft. Your house ic a different place from what it usd to be. The same furniture, the same books the same pictures, but there has bea a voice hushed The tace that used to Highs up the whole dwelling has vanishe!, ‘The patter. ing of the other {eet does not break up the loveliness. I'he wave has gone over your soul, and you have sometimes thought what you would tell hima when he comes back; but then the thought has flashed upon you, be will never come back, Ah! my brother, my sister, Christ has sounded all that depth, Jesus of the herelt soul is hers to-lay. Behold Him' He knows what it is to weop at the tomb. It seems to me as it all the storms of the world's sorrow were comorsssed into one soh, and that sob were utterel in two worlds, ‘‘Jesus wept.” I close my sermon with a doxology: “Blessing and glory and honor ani pow er be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and uglo the Lamb, forever. Awea aul amen ” , Furnished Their Own Obituaries, The Philadelphia Ledger still try. Before the expedition for the relief of Lieut. Peary started out for Greenland, each and every one of its members was invited by the Ledger to prepare his obituary for the use of that paper. The fact of a man sit- ting down and transmitting to paper a record of his own life which will never appear in print until death robs his haod of its cunning causes a cold shiver to run up and down one's spinal column, but the Peary rescuers did it just the same, and Mr. Child's paper will have an exclusive scoop if they never come back.—Doston fer- ald, ERIN 000 sist A Friend in Neca. Philanthropist-—Why are you cre ing so, my child. Little Girl Please, sir, me mudder sent me wid fifty cints fer to git bread wid, an’ I lost it in that there dark al- leyway. I'll be licked terrible. Philanthropist--Well, well, my poor child; dry your tears. Here is—a match, Perhaps you may be able to tind it.~—Tuck. NOTES AND COMMENTS, Sovrit Avnica has locust still being wrought, A { rossed over one pl (T&F six miles wide, everything before crop in the Orang destroved by the over £1,000.000 pest and consid wirm of locusts in clearing them, ¢ Free y ClUsIng The State mene has been i i loss of i518 Srarmrics gathered in spite of the opposition and shi=& that an are cither killed or n » coupli of cars conceal them, number of ed for life because CHOON men every in in the wt and the coupler is often not as spry as he should be, being tired and sled py. chilled with the cold, or i slips on ice or snow on the Vin the car: are jammed close together i sometimes perhaps track. A GovERNMENT commission in Western Australia has just made an exhaustive re port upon the present condition of agri culture in that colony, together with the thie The also suggested in what w might be advanced prosperity of the farmers in creased, One of the cond at was that agricultural depression was unknown there, causes affecting “ame Com mission the cultivation of the soil and the ays usjions arrived the like 675 to Parliament, only ten ar in Amer ath od rs. something {yp elected farm ers, which strikes markable. Army extent re presse ICH as of the *} "contribute 33:1 15 The InWw us, is the stepping Pag 1'¢ Par to public the new Wryosmine i ran ence ix 4 it Srikes of more finds FOr hier cond hurch of N be launched at Bismarck Missouri for Christian work in alot a the Missouri for: than 500 miles be called the length and twenty-five Bishop church, to reach many i not otherwise attend divi it is to be usd for g¢ work of every Kind that the for. Bishop W r 3 name of the giver, ving h # man with many interests in the West “Ix five | Edgar LL Wakeman, hd have tram d along 3.000 miles of British roads Each time 1 step my feet upon their broad, firm, even sur face, every drop of "he hopes, years’ time,” says American blood me tingles with shame at the the mud pikes bottomless road slonghs of our own splendid country rich, great and strong enough to mateh the roads of Europ a week's delay. And ye for five months of every year, and in a lesser degree for the other seven, half of the people of our farming communities are imprisoned and impov. erished helplessly at home A= one re- sult, the people of the whole country pay, in an indirect road-tax, though annual eharp advances on all food neces sities of life, all of which the farmers lose, a sum each year enormous. enough to maintain as superb roads as England anywhere positases, around ev ery section of cultivable land in the entire United States.” in thought of and without Dr. Gruvore Erne, superintendent of the insane asylum at Singapore, India, has made public some interesting results of his od of the peculiar form of mad. ness known as “amok.” He has gathered from the testimony of Malays who have run amok, or “amuck.” as we spell it, that stropg emotions bring on genuine paroxyms, during which the person lias no recollection of his acts, It is a curl. ous coincidence that the theory brought out by Zola in “La Bete Humaine” is identical with that of the murderous Malay. Zola’s hero secs everything red before him when seized by the passion of slaughter. So the Malays whom Dr, Ellis interviewed declared that they grew giddy and “everything appeared or dark like blood ber their eyes.” The doctor's theory of Tesponnibiity for the amok runners is v , 88 he would ex- cuse those who act from a certain impulse while he would hold guilty those who work murderous rage This is opean to themselves into a over real or imaginary wrongs, too fine a distinction for the Eur Tus Olive Growers' Association California State recently held a convention transa little ir products, Ban Diego, of to compare notes and in the interest of the Bumples were exhibited from Pomona, and other i ent i yd arbara, Live Auburn, Santa Clara, Sonot Pri tnlked to the « terat hibiting it had reason that it did COUunt ies { noper onvention about the adul The State law pro proved i ion of olive oil HH | pointment Oi ¢ sold the proceed individoally the le nee, law and get Trea puta pri ather buy cheap that the puy a fair § « tuiintalsle AROUND THE HOUSE, chens of the Kit closets and ant ontents, syvstomatll ’ dried, and th borax and BOOK and CTranny. 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