Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-01-19

! public. God Will give TO few men on
both sides of this question faith and
courage for all the rest. There are
two false positions many are now TAX
ing, false as false can be. The one is
that IL we decline TO take under full
rharge Cuba and Porto Rico and the
Philippines we make a declaration thai
will be disastrous to our nation, and
other nations will take control OF those
archipelagoes and rule them, and per-
haps to our humiliation and destruc-
ton. The other theory is that II we
be the demolition of this government.
Both positions are immeasurablc mis-
takes. God has set apart this continent
Tor free government. and the triumphs
OF Christianity, and we may take either
the first or the second course without
! rum. We may say to those islands,
we do not want you, but we have set
you free; now stay free, willie we see
| that the Spanish panther never again
| puts its paw on your neck or we may
| invite the annexation of Cuba and Porto
Rico, and say 10 the Philippines: Get
ready, by education and good morals.
| for free government, and at the right
| time you shall be one of our territories
on the way to be one of our states"
And there is no power in Europe. Asia
or Africa or all combined that could
harm this nation in its worldwide en-
deayor. God is on the side of the right,
and by earnest imploration for Divine
guidance on the part of this nation We
will be led to do the right. We are on
the brink of nothing. There is no
frightful crisis. This train If repub-
| lican and democratic institutions is a
through train, and all we want is 10
have the engineer and the brakeman
and the conductor attend to their bust
ness and the passengers keep their
| places. We want men in this nation
with faith enough for all. We want
here and there a David worth 10000
men.
A vast majority of men have no sur
plus of confidence for others and hardly
enough confidence for themselves.
They go through life saying depressing
things and doing depressing things.
They chill prayer meetings. discourage
charitable institutions. injure com
merce and kill churches. They blow out
lights when they ought to be kindling
them. They hover around a dull fire
on their own hearth and take up so
uuch room that no one can catch the
least caloric, instead of stirring the
hearth into blaze, the crackle of
whose backlog would invite the whole
neighborhood to come in TO feel the
Astounding warmth and see the trains
tiguration of the faces. AS we all have
to guess great deal about the future,
let us guess something good, for i, will
he more encouraging and the guess will
be just as apt to come true. What a lot
OF ingrates the Lord has at His BILE
people who have had three meals day
for so years and yet fear that they will
soon have to rattle their knife and fork
on an empty dinner plate! How many
have had, winter and spring and sum
mrr and fall, clothing for 60 years. but
expect an empty wardrobe shortly,
How many have lived under free insti-
tutions all their days, but fear that the
United States may be telescoped in
some foreign collision! Oh, but the
| '"NN' AH'N SbHt up. les. Dul. IHauk
God, ii is easier, with money, to pay the
taxes now that they are up than il was
without money TO pay the taxes when
they were down. We want a few mon
who have faith in God and that mighty
future which holds several things.
among them a millennium. Column
banus said TO his friend: "Deicolus.
why are you always smiling" The re-
ply was: Because 10 one can take my
God from mel" We want more men to
feel that they have mission TO cheer
Others and to draw up the corners of
peoples mouths which have long while
been drawn down-move Davids who
can shepherd whole tlocks of bright
hopes and play a harp of encourage
ment and strike down a Goliath of de-
spair, and of whom we can say: Thou
art worth 100000 of us"
admit tina; this thought of my text,
fully carried out, would change many
OF the worlds statistics. Suppose viii
lage is said to have 1000 inhabitants
and that one-half of them-namely, 500
have for years been becoming less in
body, and through niggardliness and
erumbiing, less in soul Each one of
these is only one-half of what he once
was, or one-half of what she once was.
The original 500 have been reduced one
half in moral quality. and are really
only $50. Suppose that the other 500
have maintained their original status
aud are neither better nor worse. Then
The entire population of that village is
$50 But suppose another village of
LOCO and 500 of them as the years go
by through mental and spiritual cul-
ture. augment themselves until they
are really twice the men and women
they originally were. and the other 500
remain unchanged and are neither bet
ter nor worse. then The population of
that village is 1900. Meauness is sub
traction and nobility is addition. Ac-
cording as you rise in the scale of holi-
ness and generosity and conservation.
you are worth or 10 or 80 or 100 or |. 900
or 10000.
Notice, my friend. that this David,