Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-30


the fact that all classes and conditions
OF society must commingle. We some
times culture a wicked exclusiveness.
Intellect despises ignorance. Refine
ment will have nothing 10 do with |
boorishness. Gloveshate the sun burned |
hand, and the high forehead despises
the fiat head, and the trim hedgerow |
will have nothing to do with the wild |
copsewood, and Athens hates Naz-
areth. This ought not so to be. The
astronomer must come down from his |
starry revelry and help us in our navi- |
cation. The surgeon must come away |
from his study of the human organ
ism and set our broken bones. The |
chemist must come away from his lab |
oratory, where he has been studying |
analysis and synthesis, and help us to
understand the nature of the soils.
bless God that all classes of people are
compelled to meet on the street. The
glittering coach wheel clashes against
the scavenger's cart. Fine robes run
against the peddler's pack. Robust
health meets wan sickness. Honesty
confronts fraud. Every class of people
meets every other class. Impudence
and modesty, pride and humility, puri-
ty and beastliness, frankness and
hypocrisy, meeting on the same block,
in the same street, in the same city.
Oh, that is what Solomon meant when
he said: ''The rich and the poor meet
together. The Lord is the Maker of
them ALL
like this democratic principle of the
gospel of Jesus Christ which recog-
nizes the fact that we stand before God
on one and the same platform. Do not
take on any airs, whatever position you
have gained in society; you are moth
ing but man, born of the same parent.
regenerated by the same Spirit
| cleansed in the same blood, to lie down
in the same dust, to get up in the same
resurrection. 1t is high time that we
all acknowledge not only the Father
hood of God, but the brotherhood of
man.
Again, the street impresses me with
the fact that ii is a very hard thing for
man to keep his heart right and to
get to Heaven. Infinite temptations
| upon IL jim PioSNS Vi
public concourse. Amid such afflu-
ence, how much temptation to covet-
BUSINESS and to be disconnected with
our humble lot! Amid so many oppor-
tunities for overreaching, what temp
tation to extortion! Amid so much
display, what temptation to vanity!
Amid so many saloons of strong drink,
what alluremeut to dissipation! In the
maelstroms and hell gates of the street,
how many make quick and eternal
shipwreck! If a man-of-war comes
back from battle and is towed into
the navy yard, we go down TO look at
the splntered spars and count the bull
let holes and look with patriotic nd
miration on the flag that foated in vic
tory from the masthead. But that man
is more of a curiosity who has gone
through 30 years of the sharpshooting
Of business life and yet sails on, victor
over the temptations of the street.
Oh. how many have gone down under
the pressure, leaving not SO much as
the patch of canvas to tell where they
persisted! They never had any peace.
Their dishonesties kept tolling in their
ears. If | had an AK and could split
open the beams of that fine house. per-
baps | would find in the very heart of
IL a skeleton. In his very best wine
there is a smack of poor mans sweat.
, Oh is 1t strange that when n man has
devoured widows houses no is dis
| turbed with indigestion? Al the forces
of nature are against him. The floods
} are ready to drown him and the earth
l quake to swallow him and the fires to
consume him and the lightnings to
smite him. But the children of God
, are on every street, and in the day
/ when the crowns of Heaven are distrib-
{ uted some of the brightest of them will
: be given to those men who were faith
. full to God and faithful to the souls of
' others amid the marts of business,
= proving themselves the heroes of the
r street. Mighty were their temptations,
\ mighty was their deliverance and
: mighty shall be their triumph
I Again. the street impresses me with
+ the fact that life is fun Of pretension
- and sham. What subterfuge, what
I double dealing. what two-facedness!
: Do all people who wish you good morn
ing really hope for you'a happy day?
5 Do all people who shake hands love
$ each other? Are all those anxious
S about your health who inquire con
. corning It? DO all want to see you who
j ask you To call? Does all the world
D know half as much as IL pretends to
: know? Is there not many wretched
S stock of goods with brilliant show
r window? Passing up and down the
+ streets to your business and your
! work, are YOU not impressed with the
B fact that society is hollow and that
D, there are subterfuges and pretensionsf
D Oh. how many there are who swagger
I and strut and how few people who are
natural and walk! While fops shipper
5 and fools chuckle and simpletons gig
/ gle. how few people are natural and