The times., 1899-12-04
Mr.. M'KINLEY AT CommUN1oN.
The President Attends the MetropoI-
itan VI. E. Church

President Mckinley atteneei the Il
O'Clock service at the Metropolitan NJ. E.
Church yesterday morning and remained
through the communion service afterward.
The church was crowded. many of the
congregation being strangers, anxious 10
see the President. The Rev. Frank NJ.
Bristol, the pastor. took for the subject of
his sermon the words Of St. John: Be
hold the Man, y;19. He said in part:
Two beautiful garlands may be made of
the tributes which men Of ali ages have
paid to the name and merits of Jesus
Christ Into one garland may be woven
the dOyout praises which have been gath
cred from the sacred eloquence OF the
Church-howers plucked from the very
garden of the Lord. Into the other may
be set the sincere eulogies which have bsen
found in the eloquence Of the world Pi-
late did all in his personal power to save
Jesus from crucif&ion, saying again and
again, i find no fault in him And as thu
Saviour stood there on the elevated pave
ment in his humiliation, with bleeding
brow and scourgod back, PLATE thought
there might be some pity, some manliness,
left in the jeering crowd to appeal to, so
he cried Behold the mani The rough.
stout-hearted soldier was more pitiful and
humane than the priests of religion!
Twice PLATE cried Behold the man.
The world has been studying the man.
The noblest form, the most powerful per-
sonality of this world. He is the centre of
the greatest histories the leader of the
mightiest thought movements Of the CEN
turies. He is the philosophy OF modern
civilization, the worlds ideal OF moral
greatness the light and life and hope of
man. In his life and character behold the
man. In him We learn not what God ought
to be- but what man should be and may
become. His kindness, pity, virtue and
perfection are human. Jesus is a real, his
torical, living IDEAL the incarnation of
human perfection manhood in its highest
development
AS he ressts the worlds temptations.
behold the man.. This temptation is not
spectacular; it is the real temptation of
man who was tempted in all points like
as We are yet without sin. The victory OF
Jesus Christ in that wilderness Of tempta-
tion is the victory OF manhood, the triumph
of a holy humanity over sin. Here Jesus
sets forth the possibility of mans supe-
riority TO the spirit OF evil. In him who
hangs bleeding and dying on The cross be
hold the mani, This is net the crucihxioh
of the divine, but OF the human Jesus
Here the perfect manhood submits 10 the
law of self-sacrifce and lays down his
Ilit . IaaSOul lOl HldHg MAN luc ueiDs HldL
the Saviour by heroism,
The suffering of innocence is one Of the
greatest mysteries of this world. But, it
has saving power We may not be able
10 see the justice Of il; TO show why the
suffering Of the good may bring salvation
10 men, but that 1t does we know And,
perhaps, the suffering OF the pure and in
nocent has done more to correct the
worlds errors and sins than the punish
ment Of the vicious and guilty. The suf-
fering, the patient endurance Of a faithful
wife has led many a miserable drunkard
to become ashamed of himself and to re-
pent and reform How many pure, heroic,
high minded patriots had TO suffer TO
save the world from its crimes.
expressions, and slaveries, There is where
man comes TO his best when with the
Christ he has the power to lay down his
life for others, the moral power. the heroic
power. the self sacrificing power TO lber-
ate others. to enlghten and to save others
by laying down his own life, himself upon
the altar of humanity. There in that sub
lime act, behold the man, the man in all
his heroic perfection