Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-10-10

who have been immersed h. political
wickedness for thirty or forty years shall
come to reformation. and our hope is in
the young men who are coming up, that
they have patriotic principle and Chris
tian principle side by side when they
come to the ballot box and cast their first
vote and that they swear allegiance TO the
government of heaven as well as 10 the
government of the United States. We
would have Bunker Hill mean less to
them than Calvary, and Lexington mean
less to them than Bethlehem, but because
there are bad men around the ballot box
is no reason why Christian men should
retreat from the arena. The last time
you ought to give up your child or for
sake your child is when it is surrounded
by company Of Choctaws, and the last
time to surrender the ballot box is when
it is surrounded by impurity and dishon-
esty and all sorts of wickednesS
Religion in Politics.
Daniel stood on most unpopular plat
form. He stood firmly, though the dema-
gOgues OF the day Kissed at him and tried
TO overthrow him. We must carry our
religion into our politics. But there are
IL great many men who are in favor of
taking religion into national politics who
do not see the Importance of taking it
into city politics, as though a man were
Intelligent about the welfare of his neigh
borhood and had no concern about his
own home
My subject also impresses me with the
fact that lions cannot hurt a good man.
No man ever got into worse company
than Daniel got into when he was thrown
into the den. What rare morsel that
fair young man would have been for the
hungry monsters. If they had plunged
at him, he could not have climbed into a
niche beyond the reach of their paw or
the snatch Of their tooth. They came,
pleased, all around about him. as hunters
hounds at the well-knOwn whistle come
bounding to his feet. You need not go
TO Numidia to get many lions. You 81
have had them after you-the lion of
financial distress, the lion of sickness, the
lion of persecution. You saw that lion OF
financial panic putting his mouth down 10
the earth, and he roared until all the
banks and all the insurance companies
quaked. With his nostril he scattered
the ashes on the domestic hearth You
have had trial after trial, misfortune af
ter misfortune, lion after lion, and yet
they have never hurt you If you put your
trust in God and they never will hurt
you They did not hurt Daniel, and they
cannot hurt you, The Persians used to
think that spring rain falling into sea
shells would turn into pearls, and | have
to tell YOU that the tears of sorrow turn
into precious gems when they drop into
Gods bottle You need be afraid Of moth
ing, putting your trust in God. Even
death. that monster lion whose den is the
worlds sepulcher, and who puts his paw
down amid thousands of millions of the
dead. cannot alright you. When in old
en- times n man was to get the honors of
bnighthood he was compelled to so fully
armed the night before among the tombs
| of the dead, carrying u sort of spear, and
| then when the day broke he would come
| forth, and, amid the sound Of cornet and
great parade, he would get the honors of
| knighthood. And SO it will be with the
| Christian in the night before heaven, as,
| fully armed with spear and helmet of sal
walton, he will wait and watch through
the darkness until the morning dawns,
and then he will take the honors Of heay-
en- amid that great throng with snowy
robes, streaming over seas Of sapphire.