Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-04-14

W mere are ketcham and Swartwout alb
, sconding swindlers? Where are James
Fisk, the libertine, and all the other mis-
demeanants? The wicked do not i've
out half their days. Disembogue. o
world Of darkness. ONE up, Hildebrand
and Henry II. and Robespierre and, with
biisrering and disappearing and ashen
lips. hiss out, The triumph of the wicked
is short
Awaiting opportunities.'
Lesson the third: How much may be
accomplished by lying in ambush for OPP
portunitics. Are you hypcrcritcal of
Joshua's maucuverl Do you say that il
was cheating for him to take that city by
ambuScadcf Was it wrong for Washing
ton to kindlc camphrcs on Jersey heights.
giving the impression 10 the opposing
9orre that Il great army was cncamped
there when there was none at aNY |
answer. if the war was right, then Josh
ua was right in his strategcm. He yio-
lated no flag of truce. He broke no
treaty, but by a lawful ambuscadc cap
tured the city of Al. Oh, that We all
knew how TO lie in ambush for opportuni-
ties to serve God. The best OF our OPP
portunities do not lie on the surface, but
are secreted, BY tact, by stratcgem, by
Christian ambuscade. you may take al.
most any castle of sin for Christ Come
up toward men with a regular besiege.
mcnt Of argument and you will be de-
feated, but just wait until the door OF
their hearts is set aiar, or they are off
their guard, or their severe caution is
away from home. and then drop in on
! them from a Christian amhuscade. There
! has been many 4 man up 10 his chin in
scientific portfolios which proved there
was no Christ and no divine revelation.
! his pen scimeter flung into the heart of
/ theological opponents, who nevertheless
/ has been discounted and captured for
/ God by some little 3-year-old child who
/ has got mp and put her snowy arms
| around his Sincwy neck and asked some
! simple question about God.
/ OH make flank movement! Steal
march ON the devil! Cheat that man into
! heaven! \ 81 treatise that will stand
! all the laws OF homiletics may fail TO do
/ that which penny tract of Christian
! cntrcaty may accomplish. Oh for more
! Christians in amhuscade- lying in
! idlcness, but weiting for quick spring,
waiting until just the right time comes!
! DO not talk To a man about the vanity of
| this world on the day when he has bought
something ut 10 aud is going TO sell it
At 10" But talk 60 him about the van
/ ity OF the world on the day when he has
| bought something at 10 and is com
/ PEELED to sell it at 70 DO not rub a
mans disposition the wrong way; do not
/ take the imperative mood when the sub
! junctye mood viii do just as we'll. do
not talk in pcrfcrvid style To u phegmat-
/ ic nor try to tickle a torrid temperament
with AN iciclc. You can take any man
for Christ il you know how to get at him.
DO not send word 20 him that tomorrow
AZ 10 O'Clock you propose TO open your
| batteries upon him. but come on him by
skllfut, perseyering, God directed am
buscade.
Importance of Good Aim.
Lesson the fourth The importance OF
taking good aim. There is Joshua, but
how are those people IN ambush M yon,
der 10 know when they are To drop on the
city and how are these men around
Joshua 10 know when they are TO stop
their flight aud advance? There must
he some signal signal to stop the one
division and 10 start the other. Joshua.
with spear on which were ordinarily
hung the colors of battle, points toward
the city. lie stands in such 4 conspicu
Gus position, and there is so much of the
morning light dripping from that spear
tip that all nround the horizon they scc
/ Il, II was rs much ms 10 say; There is
the city. Take -
God knows and we know that a great
dead Of Christian attack amounts 10 moth
ing simply because we do not take good
aim. Nobody knows aud We do not
know ourselves " hch point We want TO
take when we ought 10 make mp our
, minds whnt God will have rs to do aud
point our spear In that direction aud
/ then hurl our body. mind soul, time, etcr-
nifty at that one target. In our pulpitS
/ and pews and Sunday schools and prayer
meetings we want to get reputation for
( sayin. pretty things, and 50 we point
/ our spear toward the flowers. or We want
/ a reputation for saying sublime things,
! ard we point orr spear toward the stars,
/ or We want "a get reputation for HIS
/ torlcal knowledge. and we point oar
I spear toward the past. or we want 10 get
a reputation for great libcrality. 50 We
swing our spear al around while there
: is the old world, proud, rebellious and
armed against al righteousness, and IN
! stead Of running amy farther away from
I Its pursuit We ought 10 turn around, plant
/ our foot in ID" strength Of the eternal
/ God, ljfi the old cross and point it in the
! direction Of the worlds conquest till, the
/ redeemed Of earth, marching up from one
side and the elorihed Of heaven marching
down from the other side, the last battle
mcnt Of sin is compelled to swing out
/ the str"nmers of Emanuel. q church of
( God, take aim and conquer.
4 Year of Mercica
! believe that the next year viii be the
/ most stupeudous year that heaven eyer
| saw The nations are quakiug now with
/ The coming of God. 1t will be- year Of
successes for the men OF Joshua, but of
! doom for the men Of Al. You put your
car - the rail track, and you can hear
| the train coming miles away. so | put
my ear to the ground, and ! hear the
| laundering on Of the lightning train OF
| Gods merc.es and judgments. Tho mcr
| cy of God Is first to be tried upon this
! ton. 1t win be preached in the pulpits,
( in theatcrs. on the streets-evcrywh whore.
/ Dnut.n will T.. IN itad Ia anraut th,. ,pav-