Arizona republican., 1917-09-10
SYMPATHY WITH JESUS CHRIST
 IN SUFFERING

evening services were well attended yesterday.
 | After Bible school and the commu 1 nion service, which is observed in this church on each Lords day, Dr. | Buchanan took as his text Col. 1:1S: ''I rejoice in my sufferings for your | sake and fill up on my part that which l is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church." and Phil. 3:10: That ! I may know Him, and the power of i His resurrection, and the fellowship of | his sufferings. becoming conformed unto His death"
 pr. Buchanan spoke as follows:
 Isaiah predicted that Christ should l be the man of sorrows and acquainted with grief'-He should be 'despised, hated, rejected If there ever was a pi ophecy fulfilled, this one was. He was filled with suffering when tie saw men turn from His pleadings to the wrongs of the world. He suffered when His own people refused to accept Him as their king These sufferings l increased until we see Him in the l garden. pressed down under the mighty weight of His sufferings; and they increase in number and weight until, no longer able to bear the strain, He 1 lies under their mighty weight on the l cross.
 Suffering is the path that has been ] u odden by the best Cf earth.
 They tell me love must bleed 1 And friendship weep,
 Ere in my deepest need
 I touch thu Geep.'
 When Christ met Paul near Damas | GUS Paul cried out, Lord, what wilt 1 thou have me l. Go?' Standing with Paul at the close of his life and look | ing back over the years lived with Jesus we get Christs answer to Paul's question-'What wilt thou have me to do?' For it is with Christ he suffers death through crucifixion.
 With Christ he is buried in bap- tism With Christ he arises by res ] lirectior to walk in newness of life. With Christ he walks and suffers. We find him in prison, beaten with many | stripes He says, Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. | Thrice was I beaten with rods once 1 was stoned, thrice 1 suffered ship ! wreck, a night and day have l been in the deep; in journeys often. in per ils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my countrymen, in perils ! from the Gentiles. in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness. in perils in the sea, in perils among false breth- | often, in hunger and thirst in fastings often, in. cold and nakedness.'
 With all this behind Paul, he seems to ask the question, And for all this suffering what do I gain? Eel lowship with Christ in his sufferings. And in the end, His presence forever more
 When Christ said, Paul, I want you to go far hence, to the Gentiles. with the message of my death and burial and resurrection Paul, measuring his fragile body against the stupendous task of carrying the message through Asia Minor across the Aegean into the Grecian peninsula, and westward past Rome to the edge of the world, bearing to his death the scars of beatings and stonings, of exposure and disease, we do not wonder that he should con strue his ministry as a continuation of the ministry of his Lord, and his af- flictions as a sharing in his Lord s sufferngs, not differing greatly in purpose, in spirit or in kind. This is why Paul uttered the words of the text: I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ's flesh for his body's sake, which is the church.
 I Christ in His redemptive work, this in- wolves fellowship with Him in His suf- ferings also. The vegetable kingdom lives, because the mineral kingdom has l given up its best to it. The anima kingdom lives because the vegetable kingdom has given up itself to the animal. and we live physically because all have given up their very best tC us. Just so in the higher or spiritua sense-we have our Christianity be- cause thousands have given up theil lives for the one great cause and al
 have lived because Christ, the Savior , of us all. was the Prince of Burder i | Bearers.
 He was Man of Sorrows. and ac- ' quainted with grief. Men though ] him smitten of God a nd afflicated fol His own short -comings. But viewed
 alright. we see that He was wounded , for our transgressions that He wal ? bruised for our iniquities, and tha
 God had laid upon Him the iniquit,
 of us all. Never were truer word spoken than in the reproach whicl was cast upon Him on His cross: H
 saved others; Himself He cannot save For Him it was the choice of an alter
 native-He could save others or H.
 could save Himself; but He could no
 
 Christ, out of His own experieno ' and sufferings, says: He that woul
 come after me must take up his eros | and follow me- Like our Lord, if w l would save our lives, we must be will T ing to lose them in the lives of others Il Except a grain of wheat fall into tn ground and die, it will not bring forth Except our lives are worn out in tn
 service of the Master, they will withe @ away and in the end die.
 If we would share with Christ Hi T redemptive task we must be willing t
 drink with Him the cup of suffering s and be baptized with the baptism wit {, which He was baptized. We, too, mus t enter our own Garden and suffer un /. der the weight of sorrow. We mus 5, be misunderstood, we must suffer fo = the mistakes of others, we must hay s enemies who will talk at our back an 3 misrepresent us-they will leave u. d as they left Christ-but out of our suf
 ferings will come good, not only [ IT ourselves but the entire human rac, Is While we shrink from such suffering! n yet these are the things that give mus
 cle to our faith, suffering sends us t d God like it sent Jesus in the Gardel l. to His Father
 a Great is the cost of progress. al seems to be a law of our life that tn l., way of progress shall be reddened wit l. the blood of sacrifice. Is it too muc
 that the sea should claim it's toll (
 human life if only highway is dis
 covered through the watery wilderness
 Is it too much that our adventurou | chn,1ld ha oc;f to