Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-23

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Grated wealth.
But suppose you grind the face ofthe
poor. Suppose, when mans wages are
due, you make him wait for them be.
cause he cannot help himself. Suppose
that, because his family is sick and he
has had extra expenses, he should po
litely ask you TO raise his wages, and
| you roughly tell him if he wants q
better place to so and get it. Suppose,
by your manner, you act as though he
were nothing I'd you were everything.
| Suppose you are selfish and overbear-
ing and arrogant. Your first name
ought to be Attila and your last name
| Attila. because you are the star Worm
wood, and you have imbittered one
| third if not three-thirds Ct the waters
that roll past your employees and OPP
eratives and dependents and associates.
and the long line of carriages which the
| undertaken orders for your funeral, in
order to make the occasion respectable,
| will be filled with twice as many dry,
fearless eyes as there are persons oc-
cupying them. You will be in this
world but few minutes. As compared
with eternity, the stay of the longest
| life on earth is not more than a min
ute. What are we doing with that
minute? Are we imbittering the do
nestle or social or political fountains,
or are we like Moses, who, when the
sraelites in the Wilderness complained
that the waters of Lake Marah were
bitter and they could not drink them
| their leader cut off the branch of q
certain tree and threw that branch
into the water and it became sweet and
slaked the thirst of the suffering host
| Are we with branch of the tree of
life sweetening all the brakish foun-
tains that we can touch?
Dear Lord, send us all out On this
/ mission. All around US iinbittered lives
--imbittered by persecution, imbit-
tered by hypercriticism, imbittered by
| poverty, imbittered by pain, imbittered
by injustice, imbittered by sin. Why
not go forth and sweeten them by
smiles, by inspiring words, by benefac-
tions, by hearty counsel, by prayer
| by gospelized behavior? Let us re-
member that if we are NORWOOD to
| others we are wormwood to ourselves
| and our life will be bitter and our eter'
nifty bitterer. The Gospel of Jesus
Christ is the only sweetening power
that is sufficient. 1t sweetens the dis
| position; it sweetens the manners; il
sweetens life; it sweetens mysterious
| providences; it sweetens affections:
it sweetens death; it sweetens every
J thing. / have heard people asked in
social company: IF you could have
| three wishes gratified, what would your
three wishes be?' If / could have
three wishes met, l tell you what they
| would be. First, more of the grace
of God; second, more of the grace Of
| God: third, more of the grace of God
In the doorway of my brother J ohm
once missionary to Annoy, China, Their,
was a tree called the emperor tree, the
two characteristics of which are that i
always grows higher than its sur
roundings, and its leaves take the form
of a crown. If this emperor tree b,
| planted beside a rosebush, il grows {
| little higher than the bush and spreads
out above it a crown. Ii it be planted
by the side of another tree, it grows {
little higher than that tree and spreads
above it crown. Would God that this
religion of Christ, a more wonderful
emperor tree, might overshadow al
| your lives! Are you lowly in ambi
ton or circumstance, putting over yol
| its CROWN Are you high in talent ant
! position, putting over you its crown,
| Oh, for more of the saccharin in oul
] lives and less of the wormwood
What is true of individuals is true o.
! nations. God sets them up to revolvt
as stars, but they may fall NORWOOD
! Tyre-the atmosphere of the desert
| fragrant with spices coming in cara
vans to her fairs; all seas cleft into
foam by the keels of her laden mer
chantmen; her markets rich with
horses and camels from Togarmah
the bazaar filled with upholstery from
| Dedan. with emerald and coral anC
agate from Syria. with mines from
| Helbon. with embroidered work from
Ashur and Chilmad. Where now the
| CLEAN of her towers? Where the roar
of her cbariots? Where the masts OF
her ships? Let the fishermen who dry
! their nets where once she stood, let the
sea that PUSHES upon the barrenness
where once she challenged the admira-
ton of all nations, let the barbarians
who set their rude tents where once
her palaces glittered, answer the ques-
tions. She was star, but by her own
sin turned to NORWOOD, and has
| fallen.
Hundred gated Thebes. for all time
to be the study of the antiquarian and
hieroglyphist; her stupendous ruins
| spread over 81 miles; her sculptures
presenting in figures of warrior and
chariot the victories with which the
now-forgotten kings of Egypt shook
the nations; her obelisks and columns;
| Karnak and Luxor. the stupendous
temples of her pride. Who can imagine
the greatness of Thebes in those days,
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