w in filth, it will the the air of elhonses of corruption and call Shem aroma, it will quaff the blood of imum souls and call it nectar. When sin murdered Christ on the cross it { showed what it would do with the Lord God Almighty if it could get at Him. Ths prophet had deciared—I think it was Jere jah—had declarad eanturies befora the truth, bubnot until sin shot out its forked tongue at the crucifix and tossad its sting into tha soul of a martyred Jesus was it ii- lustrated, that ‘‘the hcart is Geceitinl above all things, and desperately wicked, oie “It behoved Christ to suffer,” that our affections might be excited Christ- ward. Why, sirs, the behavior of our Lord bas stirred the affections of all those who have ever heard of it. It has been the art walleries of the world with such nicinrax as Ghirlandaio's ‘Worship of the Magi,” Giot- to's ‘“‘Baptism of Christ,” Holman Hunt's “Christ in the Temple,” -Tintored’s **Agony in the Garden,” Angelos ‘‘Crucifizion,” and it has called out Handel's Messiah,” and ru sweetest chimes in Youug’s *‘Night WHAT TO WEAR AND HOW THEY A w 4s. || pishhatiare’ MAKE IT. wise fhe collar. The Grepon of the corsage. salted Linu, nd then smoked by har is stretched over fitted lining by using a wl om in a smolkehouse and ‘burping dress form. - The figa: made oversilk of ; EO his a de E Ahem: ‘But litle a) ; tbe shade of the ground of the crepon.. pry Lg re Sy i ! = 2 The illustration shows an elegant prome- | g : . tho Sh ee i of 8 Smokiog £ f NEW PIPE LINE COMPANY. nade costume, a gown inte Se for a lady 3 Ee 1eang of the pyro. : who is beyond the ‘age of girlish styles. It 2 En kL produced by {10 ne ed. | is a brocaded foulard, the skirt being Cin ee er dig Aoposiio | ! trimmed with a double-headed ruffle sepa- Sy York Tim So Es SH. tated by an insertion of lace. The jacketis | °° © Bh 1a Een double in front, the under part being cover- ed with a ‘crossed lace fichu; the upper part hangs straight, and is fitted to the figure by means of a single dart. This part is slit into tabs and filled in with lace, which at the BENEFITS OF SUFFERING, ent. 4 Sunday Sermon As Delivered by : ’ 77 the Brooklyn Divine: oo Costumes For Ladies No Lorger inthe Hey-Day of Youth. <1: “It behoved Carist to suffer’— ike xxiy,, 46. © x Albers have been ‘scholars who havs ven- tured the assertion that the pains of our Tord were unnecessary. Indeed it was a shocking waste of tears and blood and ag- ony, unless soms great enl ware to be reached. If men can prove that no good re- sult comes of it; then the character of God 3 ipeached, and the universes must stand abhorent and denunciatory at the fact that - the Father allowed the butchery of His only ten Son. : ; ‘We all admire the brave six hundred men . It bas been well said that a mirror tells more truths than are ever Spoken, and 1 add that it presumes upon long acquaint- ance and" speaks plainer and plainer every year. : ; Lo | capital $250,000, has been filed | of the Courity Recorder.” The: managers the company are J. W. Lee, ‘Chairman; Y. Ramage, Secretary and Treasu! Torry, John Swartz and A DAINTILY ATTRACTIVE CURTAINS. The woman whose artistic ability has to compensate for the slimness of her purse is never more successful than when | escribed by Tennyson as dashing into the conflict when they knew they must die, and knew at the same time that ‘some one had * blund=r’d;” but we are abhorrent of the man who roade tbe blunder and who caused the sacrifice of those brave men for no use. But . Iishall show you, if the Lord will help me, this inorninz that for pood reasons Christ went throuzh the torture. In other words, . 449% behooved Christ to suffer.” In the first place, I remarz that Christ's rations were necsssary, because man’s $eue was an impossibility except by the Jeymens of some great sacrifice. Outraged law bad thundered against iniquity. Man must die unless a substitute can intercept that death. Let Gaoriel seep forth. He re- fuses. Let Micaael the archangel step forth. He refuses. No Roman citizen, no Athe- nian, no Corinthian, no reformer, no angel ‘vo untz2ered. Christ then bared His heart to the y ang. Ee paid for our redemption in “tears and blood and wounded feet and . eeoursad shoulders and torn brow. ‘it is “done.” Heaven and earfh heard the snap of the ; r'son bar. Sinai ceased to quake with wrath the moment that Calvary began to { rock in crucifixion. Christ had suffered. “$0Oh.” says some man, “I don't like what doctring of substitution; les every maa bear his ewn burdens, and weep his own tears, and fight bis own battles!” Why, my brotoes, there is vicarious suffering all over : the worid. | Did not your parents suffer for ve 2 Do you not sometimes suffer for your ehikiren? ‘Does not the patriot suffer for “his country? Did not Graces Darling suiler for tas drowning sailors? Vidarious sutfer- ing ou all sides! Bus how insignifizant com~ pared with this scene of vicarious suifer- Veas it for crimes that I ha dons He groaned upon the tree: .Aiuszing pity, erace unknown, Aud love bayond degree. Christ must suffer to pay the pricz of our re lesiption. : us I remark again, the suiferings of Chyisi wore necessary in - order thas the ‘worid’s sympathies might be aroused. sn are won to the right and good throuzh their symvpataies, The world must feel aright belore it can act arizht. So the cross was allowed to be lifted that the world’s sympa- thies mizht be aroussd, Men who have been cbdurated by the cruelties they have enacted, the massacres they have inflicted, by the horrors of whica they have been guilty, have become littie children in the pres nce of this dying Saviour. - YWhat the swords could not do, what Jug: rnauts could noi subdue, the wounded and of Christ has accomplished. Theres are this moment millions of people held ua- der the spell oi that one sacrifice. The ham- mers that struck the spikes into the cross ‘have broken the rocky neart of the world. Nothing but theagonies of a Saviour’s death throz could rous> the world’s sympathies. I remark again, “I$ behoved Christ to suffer,” that the strengsh and persistence ot the aivine love mizht be demonstrated. Was it tha applause of the world that induced Christ on that crusade from Heuven? Why, all the universe was at His feet. © Could the conguest of this insignificant planet have ia lim for His career of pain if it had en a mere matter of applause? All the honors of heaven surging at His feet, “Would your queen give up her throne that ghie might rate a miserable tribe in Africa? { Woula toe Lord Jesus Christ on the throne of tre universe come down’ to our planet it “it were a mere matter of applause and uce clamation? Nor was it an expedition undertaken for the accumulation of vast wealth. What could all the harvests and the diamonds of our iittle world do for Him whose ars the glories of infinitule and eternity? Nor was 3b an experiment—an attempt to show what He conld do with thehard hearted races; He Who wheels the stars in their courses and Holds the pillars of the universe on the tips of His fingers needed to make no experiment to find what He could do. Oh, I will tell you, my friends, wnat it was. It was un- disp ised, unlimited, all conquering, all con- “suming, infinite, evernal, omnipozent love thas opened the gate, that started the “gtar in the east, with finger of light pointing down to tne manager, that arrayed the Christmas choir above Bethlehem, thas opened the stable door where Christ was “born, thas lifted Him on the cross. love thirsty at the.well. Loveat the sick man's © | eouch, Love at the cripple’s cruteb. Love ‘sweating in the garden. Love dying on the cross. Love wrapped in the grave.” You cannct mistake it, The blindest eye must sea it, ‘The hardest heart muss feel it. « the deafest ear must hear it.’ Parable and miracle, wayside talk and seaside interview, all toe scenes of His life, all the sufferings of ‘His death, proving beyond controversy that _ for our ingrate earth God has yearned with ‘* Istupendous and inextineuishabie love. mus | remark again, ‘It behoved Christ to i sue,” that thos nature of human guill There is nota com. mon s:nse man in the house to-day that will not admit that the machinery of society is | out nf gear, that the human mind and the human heart are disorganized, that some. vi mihi b2 demonstrated. Ahinz ougat to be done right away for ifs re- * pair and readjustment. human hears for sin would not have been . deinonstrated if azainst the holy and inno- .. eens one of the cross ib had nos bzea hurled in one bolt of {ire. Carist was not the first man tat hal been