Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-12-15

- course draws SOME cUlulOEllHS anu
rapturous lessons. The text is ii. Sam
mel xix. IS, And there went over a
ferryboat to carry over the kings house
hold"
Which of the crowd is the king? That
short man, sunburnt and in fatigue dress.
II is David, the exiled king. He has de
fcated his enemies and is now going home
70 resume his palace. Good! l always
like TO see David come out ahead. But
between him and his home there is the
celebrated river Jordan which has TO be
passed The king is accompanied TO the
bank of the river by an aristocratic old
gentleman of so years, Barzillai by name,
who owned a fine country seat at Roge-
lin. Besides that David has his family
with him But how shall they get across
the river? While they are standing
there / see a ferryboat coming from the
other side. and as it cuts through the
water / see the faces of David and his
household brighten up at the thought OF
so soon getting home. No sooner has
the ferryboa struck the shore than Da-
vid and his family and his old friend
Barzillai from Rogeiim get OH board the
boat Either with splashing oars at the
side or with one oar sculing Mt the stern
of the boat they leave the eastern bank
Of the Jordan and start for the western
bank.
That western bank is black with
crowds OF people, who are waving and
shouting at the approach of the king and
his family. The military are all out.
Some of those who have been Dayid's
worst enemies now shout until they are
5onrSa OF yaturu M Sooua- ~ mo
boat struck the shore on the western
side than the earth quakes and the heav-
ems ring with cheers Of welcome and con-
graduation. David and his family and
BarZiilai from Rogehm step ashore. King
David asks his old friend to go with him
and live at the palace but Barzilai apol'
ogi7es and intimates that he is infrm
with age and too deaf to appreciate the
music, end has delicate appetite that
would soon be cloyed with luxurious Hv-
ins, and so he begs that David would
let him 90 back to his country seat.
DisiiLe of asxcitement.
once heard the father of q President
Of the United States say that he had just
been to Washington to see his son in the
White House, and he told me of the won
derful things that occurred there and Of
what Daniel Webster said to him, but he
declared: Il was glad to get home. There
was too much going on there for me"
My father. an aged man, made his last
visit at my house in Philadelphia, and
after the church service was over and we
vent home. some one in the house asked
the aged man how he enjoyed the service.
Well" he replied, Il enjoyed the SER
vice, but there were too many people
there for me. 1t troubled my head very
much" The fact. is that old people do
not like excitement. If King David had
asked Barzillai thirty years before TO go
to the palace, the probability is that Bar
zillai would have gone, but not now. They
kiss each other good-by. q custom among
men oriental, but in vogue yet where
two brothers part or an aged father and
son 60 away from each other never
to meet again. No wonder that their
lips met as King David and old Bar
zillai, Mt the PROV Of the ferryboat, part
ed forever.
This river Jordan, ia all ages and
among all languages, has been the sym
Dol of the boundary line between earth /
and heaven. Net when, on a former oc-
casion. preached to you about the Jor
DAME passage have no doubt that some
OF you despondingly said, The Lord
might have divided Jordan for Joshua, |
but not for poor me- Cheer up! l want I
10 show you that there is a way over Jor- |
dan as well as through it, My text says, |
And there went over ferryboat TO car
~ over the kings household"
All our cities are familiar with the |
ferryboat. 1t goes from San Francisco
nnlr Z
Blrkenhead, and twice every secular day |
OF the week multitudes are on the ferry |
boats of our great cities, so that you will |
not need to hunt up a classical dictionary |
10 find out what l mean while l am
speaking to you about the passage Of /
David and his family across the river |
Jordan.
An Unstable Craft.
Every day l find people trying to ex- |
lehporize way from earth to heaven. |
Ahey gather up their good works and /
some sentimental theories, and they make /
raft, showing it from this shore. and /
poor deiuded souls get on board that |
falt' and they go down. The fact is that |
SAepuelSm and infdelity never yet helped |
one man to die. / invite all the ship car
penters of worldly philosophy to come |
ana build one boat that can safely cross /
inns river. I invite them all to unite /
thelr skill, and Bolingbroke shall lift the /
sanctions, and Trndall shall shape the |
OoWsprit, and Spinoza shall make the
lI"ihtopgallant braces, and Renan shall |
10 10 tacking and wearing and boxing
tne ship All together in 10000 years
.tIey VIII never be able to make 4 boat
NAY can cross this Jordan Why was it
,"at Spinoza and Blount and SALISBURY
lost their souls? 1t was because they
.,'ed to cross the stream in a boat Of
,De't own construction What miserable
s %Y5A they made Of dying. Diodorus
4.oa Of modification because he could
IVY guess .conundrum which had been
proposed to him at a public dinner:
-r4Ais' the philosopher died Of mirth.
..usnlng at caricature Of an aged WON
n ,r,,., a caricature made by his own hand.
- -t,e another Of their company and of
N'ttE kllG died Sar;Dc, .,NT.,.- I 49, 49, II I