Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-30
~ CONTRASTS OF SPLENDOR
AND WOE SEEN UPON THEM.
LIVING THoRoUGHFARES
pr. Talmage Says They Are Unlike
a the Democratic Gospel of Christ
Their Shams, Pretensions and
Temptations Set Forth in Bril-
liant Stlye.

"Wisdom crieth without. She uttereth
her voice in the streets"
We are all ready to listen to the
voices of nature-the voices of the
mountain, the voices of the sea, the
voices of the storm, the voices Of the
star. AS in some of the cathedrals in
Europe there is an organ at either end |
of the building, and the one instrument |
responds unsteady to the other, so in |
the great cathedral of nature day re- |
spends to day, and night to night, and
flower to flower, and star to star in
the great harmonies of the universe.
The springt;me is an evangelistin bios
SONS preaching of Gods love, and the
winter iS prophet-white-b earded-
denouncing woe against our sins We
are all ready to listen to the voices of
nature. But how few of us learn any
thing from the voices of the noisy and
dusty street. You go to your mech
anism, and to your work, and to your
merchandise, and you come back again
and often with how different heart
you pass through the streets. Are
there no things for us to learn from
these pavementS over which we pass?
Are there no tufts of truth growing up
between these cobblestones, beaten
with the feet of toll and pain and pleas
ure, the slow tread of old age and the
quick step of childhood? Aye, there
are great harvests to be reaped, and
now / thrust in the sickle because the
harvest is ripe. Wisdom crieth with
out. She uttereth her voice in the
streets"
In the first place, the street impresses
me with the fact that this life. is a
scene of toll and struggle. BY ten
o'clock every day the city is Earring
with wheels and shufiling with feet and
humming with voices and covered with
the breath of smokestacls and a-rush
with traflickers Once in awhile you
find a man going along with folded
. arms and with eisurely step, as though
he had nothing o do, but, for the most
part, as you find men going down these
ysnreets on the way to business, there
Az anxiety on their faces, as though
Z they had some errand which must be
executed at the first possible moment.
You are jostled by those who have bar
gains to mtke and notes to sell. Up
this ladder with a hod of bricks. out
sf this bank with, a. roll of bills on this
siTsy with load of goods, digging a
cellar. or Singing a roof, or shoeing
4 horse, or building wall, or mending
watch, or binding n book. Industry,
with her thousand arms and thousand
Eyes and thousand feet, goes on singing
her song of work. work, work, while
the mills drum il and the steam
whistles fife It. All this is not because
men love to toll. Some one remarked !:
Every man is as lazy as he can afford
TO be-" But IL is because necessity
with stern brow and with uplifted whip
Stands over you, ready whenever you
relax your toll TO make your shoulders
sting with the lash
Can it be that passing up and down
those streets on your way TO work an6
business YOU do not learn anything OF
the WORLDS toll and anxiety and strug'
gle? Oh, how many dropping hearts
how many eyes on the watch, how
= many miles Travelled, how many bur
,dens carried. how many losses suS
Sered. how many battles fought, how
many victories gained, how many eN
4 asperatons endured-what losses,wha'
hunger, what wretchedness, what pal
Cor. what disease. what agony, what de
= spair! Sometimes | have stopped a
THE corner of the street as the multi
tuties went hither and yon, and it has
ssesune,i to be great pantomime. and n
hooked upon il my heart broke. This
great tide OF human life that goes
down the street is a rapid tossed ant
turned aside and dashed ahead ane
driven back beautiful in it's confust OF
and confused in it's beauty. In the car
5eted aisles of the forest, in the woods
from which the eternal shadow isnevei
difted on the shore of the sea over
whose iron coast losses the tangled
woam sprinkling the cracked cliffs with
= baptism of whirlwind and tempest
s Is the best place TO study God. but In
abe rushing. swarming. raving street
as the best place to study man.
~ ~ Going down to your place of business
and coming home again charge you
TO look ahout--1see these signs OF power
~. of wretchedness. OF hunger. of sin
of bereavement 49, and as YOU GO
through ahe streets and come back
through the streets, gather up in the
arms of yolrprayer all the sorrow, all
the losses, alhthe sutferings, all the be-
reavementsp ~ those whom you pass
land present Them in prayer before an
RSympathetic God. In the great day
\ernity there will be thousands of
ps with whom you in this world
Exchanged one word who will
and call you blessed, and there
K thousand fingers pointed at
IN Heaven, saying; That is the
that is the woman. who helped
when was hungry and sick and
5nGering and lost and heartbroken,
THAT Is the man. that is the woman"
AAnd the blessing will come down upon
you as Christ shall say: ii was hun
rrv and Ne fed me. | was naked and