The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-02
As CHRIST SUFFERED
SO. ARoHnlsHoS IRELAND SAYS,
HUMANITY, HAS ALWAYS SUI
FERED IN THIS WORLD
JESUS CAME TO SAVE MEN
Not to Move Above Them, but Among
Them, Suffering as They
Did on This
Earth.


Archbishop Ireland delivered the Pas
sion Sunday sermon at the Cathedral
Today is PS passion Sunday s19 day. the begin
as Used BY the church, signifies ~ suffering.
Passion tide Is the time set apart by the
cnarch that we may mediate upon the
vior, Jesus Christ. The end of His Pill
grimaging upon earth approaches. and
We are asked to see the Son of God
the summit Of Calvary, where he Is to be
crucif1ed. The cross, heretofore the SYM
Dol Of lowness and of suffering, is to be-
come His standard of conquest. And
His advance through the nations of the
earth during all time to come will be
eetokened by the cross, the symbol Is
A God upon earth living in sorrow and
dying In sorrow2 If the philosophy Of
men had been asked what manner of
life should be that of the incarnate God
upon earth, 1t would have answered, let
him be the conqueror, the monarch, let
the nations pay Him honor as they should
pay honor to their sovereign. Let His
coming be the announcement of joy tri-
umph, of victory.
Christ came to our poor humanity.
what is the life Of humanity? life of
sorrow, life of suffering. From cradle
to grave man walks amid fluctuations and
trials He may seek as he may to re-
his ears to the wallings of grief. he re-
mains always a being of suffering. Man
Is finite being put upon earth with linn
itations for a purpose, the realization
of which is beyond earth; put upon earth
only for few days; consequently a be-
ing exposed to the shortcomings and the
deIectS attending upon his limited ca
pacity, and upon insufficiencies of the
things around him. 1t is not necessary
that men seek sorrows and trials. 1t is
even proper for them to ameliorate as
far as they can the conditions of their
| own existence and of that of others with
whom their life is related, but do as they
will go or fIniv
brows and torment will still invade their
hearts Do as they may disappointments
VIII come; friends will be snatched from
them, disease will prey upon them, and,
finally, death will, claim them it's vic
Tins. Such is humanity as 1t is and in
one degree or another as it will ever be.
ties olden PHILOSOPHERS. They sought for
an explanation. They strove to bring
to man some consolation amidst his
universal sorrow. But, they ever failed:
Explanation and consolation were not
to come fronnC humanity itself, or from
the earth upon which humanity rests its
PLANTATION and consolation came from
Jesus Christ, through the cross Of Jesus
Christ: II the Son Of GEO coming among
they who rejoice, 70 what a mockery to
humanity thea words would have been.
Had Jesus Christ, the incarnate Cod
glory despair would have entered into
the soul of humanity, for the millions
who suffer and weep; who sink beneath
the pressure of sorrow, would have read
in the earthly glory of the Savior the
terrible pronouncement that for them
there Is no hope; that the Goldman shuns
row visits, that only these the few, If
any, who grasp something of the pass
ing joys of earth are dear and near to
God; the fatal sentence would have gone
out to humanity that there is no consola-
ton in sorrow. q 49,,
Oh, God of love. Savior of men, not
Thou speak What did Christ Jesus say?
who mourn How did Christ come e
it werel IN Bethlehem. He was born in
a stable. How. did He live? He passed
through life having no place where to lay
cross Of Calvary. What is the standard ard
by which He proposed to conquer? The
cross; yes.
Christ's cross conquered. Because the
gospel of Christ was a gospel Of sorrow
| men looked up to Him in hope and love.
They clasped his cross to their breasts
and said: ''Oh, let US be nailed to the
cross Of Jesus, for indeed it is our COM
| fort and our hope" How sweet how
heavenly to our bruised hearts are the
| words of Isaiasl A man of sorrow, and
acquainted with infirmityi No form of
infirrnity or of suffering will there be for
| the most miserable Of us with which
Christ was not himself acquainted. Christ
was born into the depths Of poverty and
| of anguish, lest there be some child of
man who would feel that his suffering
was greater than anything that Christ
had known. Christ lived the lowliest and
| the poorest, as il to say to men, not one
| of you will taste the bitter cup of life
as l myself did; not one of you will be
able to say or to think that 1 do not
love him, that | RTn not his friend and
his redeener.xrl. $50
The world suffers as 1t suffered before
Christ came to, It. But now 1t suffers
1 xT1n ic f0V
mystery of sorrow; it knows that there
| is comfort for 1t however great its suf-
fering. Sorrow comes to it, for its greater
glory and It's higher perfection Sorrow
comes to men to teach them this all-iTn-
portant lessons that the moral life is the
| true life of menSf7not the physical nor
| the MATERIAL If sInans grandeur were
| indeed in sensual pleasure. were the mere
animal, then he would wish for nothing
| save pleasures and enjoyment. But he
IS above all else soul, a spirit drawn
| from heaven itself, commissioned to rule
| the body to live and act through 1t dur
| Ing its pilgrimaging upon earth, but not
| to live and act through 1t as it's master
and Its king. Now. moral greatness Is
| built up through suffering, through the tri-
umph over material things, over sensual
| demands, by self-denial and strong eff
| fort. We feel this in the things Of this
| world How much value the man who
| has walked across the blood-stained bat
| tiefeld, never fearing and never yielding,
and crossing its frontier with victory
| Frightening his pathway. Do we not es-
| TEEN such a man much more than we do
| the quiet, tinnid being, who remained
| where there was enjoyment and peace?
And so along all the lines of the moral,
| spiritual life. What merit Is there In
| being patient ard avoiding murmuring,
when. poverty has never crossed our
| of grief in our heart, when every one
around us fattered us, when DAYS and
nights flowed by in easy comfort and
quiet slumbering? Little there IS
! there of merit. The merit Is when the
soul looking up to God for a raw Of
| light and the help Of divine grace enters
| into itself poises itself on high above
| all the vanities and trials and sorrows
| If LEE eycIairns dafxr trioI Ia -.