Year: 1876

you need Yours is living; those ara all dead. These
are, all OF them, mere representatives


rnE PROBLEM or LIFK.


Now, artist paint portrait except by pig
menisi but the pigments are not The portrait There
must be the various coors on his palste and but tor
them he might be able 10 bring out the cherished
likeness that desired. But after he has brought
your mother vile or child, II is not the pigments that
you think OF, but the face, the living face IS
seems. And now need the Christ OF art, the pho
sophie Christ but they are mere pgments ana, as It
were lay them on the palette, and our Christ, We
have that Is 10 US what Paus was To him. Is the
Christ of childhood the Chrlst OF youth, the
Christ OF manhood. IL is the Christ that
veaed when heart was like cluster AM
God crushed II until the blood flowed out like VINE
IRON cluster Was there no God revealed 10 Us then


At this portion OF his discourse Mr.. Beechers voice
became choked with emotion and tears started from
his eyes, so intense, apparently was his feeling The
effect upon his congregaio instant aneous, and
handkcrchieis were brought into requision 10 hue
many weeping counienance There have been
times, he continued. OF temptation when you have
been bowed down TO the ground and seemed likely to
be utterly swept away and there have come TO you
wholesome, iucd moments OF uprising ana victory,
and ia those moments there has been OF
Jesus Christ. some sense OF power rising up TO help
you; some moments when you would have trodden
men under foot and there has risen up thoughts OF
sympathy and forgiveness; and in the midst OF them
there has dawned upon your imagination down.
looking face OF Christ, so .ui OF sympathy and so
full of satisfaction that you had gained victory
over your passions, that ii has stamped itself
upon your mind never to be forgotten In days OF
darkness and sorrow there are born into man ele
mcnts of Christ and so might go step by step and
make the whole round OF human life and say, II





other men while you feel less and more humble than
they; II there be Christ who dominates, IL is the
Christ that has been fashioned In you by your cx.
pcriences We are born TO suffer. II you choose to
call ii suflerng born tn trial and discipline,
and ali hose rude exactitudes By which discipline
is made result in second nature; and there is
perpetual revealing to OF the Christ that suffered
for us. WHAT rs tne meaning OF Infer What is the
problems And there silence in tho heavens, not
Tor the space OF half an hour as the Apoc llypse de-
clarcs but there is silence through the ages. Tho
mystery OF time the expression OF God
from In the scenes in which they
communicate with each other. 1t is the
OF The soul that God hides himself, and is
revealed man. oh, how sad Is the way OF life But
there comes of these individual elements the con-
ception OF God and we feel that separated
from Christ that carrying in this globe part OF
the experience which takes It's nighost conception
nature OF God Himself no suffers. through
limitation, but because love suffers and for
suffer in doing good. In living we joined
gether that suler and in the details OF lie
able to dignity them, 10 cast grandeur upon gloom
are able what no other eyes than dis
in the strange unroing of the drama and the
tragedy.


Rejolce, my friends. said Mr.. Beechcr In conclu-.
sion, standing upon the eve OF tho celebration of
Chrsts BIRTH rejoice in the historical Christ; rejoice
IN the Christ of beauty which art has fashioned;
rejoice In Christ set forth in the documents oil tho
Church; but above all rejoice in that Christ which
born within you.