The Newtown bee., 1896-01-17

hnu HI GAaG Guy -dAu you SaAAob AuO O worse spot on the globe than you can find in some places in New York City. They take off their Salvation Army dresses; they lay aside their Salvation Army character;
 THEY FIND POOR ROOM.
 they furnish It with poor furniture they have broken chairs, imperfect tables, third. hand cooking-stove- everything is as in the rooms about them. except that there room is clean :; and they live there, that they may carry their life to the people living there under those conditions, that they might carry life where there is death, that they may carry cleanliness where there ia filth, that they might carry inspiration where there is despair. They hide their personality that they may offer their gifts. So Jesus Christ comes into life, laying aside the robes of his office, lay ing aside his divine glory, and coming what?-that he may be our sacrifice of God! No! no! That he may be Gods sacrifice to us; that he may witness Gods love for us; that he may bring God-life to us. He laid down his life, not for God, not for justice, not for law :; he laid down his life for Us.
 Think what that meansl He knew all the privations and Limitations of pover- ty. A western minister few years ago | oil hu saying that Jesus Christ was a tramp. It was false: because 8 tramp is not only one who is impecunious, and goes from place to place, but one who goes from place because he is vicious or lazy, and wishes to live on other people. But if to be without home, to be dependent upon the charity of others, to travel from village to village, if that were to be a tramp, the statement would have been true. All the limitations that belong to absolutr poverty he took upon himself that he might give-not that he might get. And, with that, all the loneliness of life. He was alone. His own friends did not understand him. As a cultured woman going down and living in the East Side would be without any com then she might escape her thralldom and seek some cultured companionship in her old home, so Jesus Christ went ever and anon away from his disciples up into the mountain top, that he might have little quiet companionship with God and the spirits of the Old Testa- ment saints-the only real companion. ship he ever had. He knew all the lim- itations of power. With all the strength, all the wisdom, of the divine, he laid them aside, because, by being imperfect in the possession and manifestation of power and knowledge, he could better serve those whom he wished to serve.
 HE WALKED THE SEA, but never to help himself. He made 1 bread, but never to feed his own hunger. l He never wrought a miracle save for others. He knew, too, the hate and 1 hostility of men. The men whom he l loved turned against him. He knew.
  lorring faces. He knew what it was to nfliet great wounds on those that did owe him. l do not think the hardest part Of Christ's life were the wounds hat he received; they wete the wounds le inflicted. You remember how, when | James and John came to him and asked l o sit on his right hand and on his left, e answered: Can you drink of my cup? ! an you be baptized with my baptism? [ nd they said, We will-you remember ( he pathos of his sad reply, You shall ( rink of my cup; you shall be baptized 'ith my baptism. An! It was not the | ail driven into his qaivering hand and s pot; it was the looking down upon the 0 lother that stood before him as he hung F pon the cross, and seeing the sword in i, er heart, and knowing that he had him. s If plunged it there. I know nothing h
 life harder than this: to inh!ct a c ound on one you love because duty re d lires it. That he did He knew the . ality of temptation; and the purer the d 'ul the harder and the bisterer Eempta- c, On is. There is certain sense of q lame that comes upon any man, and a1 ,on any woman, at times, just because U eY are under temptation. The recog- sl tion of any possibility of sin, the rec se milton of any possibility of contest or bs nfiiet, is hard for the pure soul to en- ias ire. He knew it all. I do not enter tiI