Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-12-08

! become pessimiStic and cynical and de-
sparful. You have reached that stage
yourself. Now you need something that
you have not. But | know OF rc-en
forcement that you can have If you Will
accept il. Nonder comes up the road or
the sidewalk messenger of God. Her
attire is unprctcndiug. She has no wings,
for she is not an angel, bur there is some
thing in her countenance thar implies
rescue and deliyerauce. She comes mp
the steps that once were populouS with
the atfiucnt aud into the hallway where
the tapestry is getting faded and fray
cd, the place nov all empty Of worldly
| admirers. | will tell you her name il you
would like to know IT, Paul baptized her
and gave her The right name. She is not
brilliant, but strong, There is a deep
Quicthood in her manner and a frmness
| in her tread, and in her hand is a scroll
| revealing her mission, She comes from
heaven. She was born in the throneroom
of the Kiag. This is Patience. I'VE have
need of patience"
/ First patience with the faults of 9TH
crs. No one keeps the Ten Command
ments equally we'll. Ones temperament
! decides which commandments he shah
/
/ some of the commandments ourselves,
/ why be so hard on those who break 9TH
ers of the ten? If you and ] run against
one verse of the twentieth chapter of
! Exodus, why should we so severely ex-
/ coriate those who run against another
verse * he same chapter? Until we are
| perfect ourselves we ought TO be lenicnt
with our neighbours impcrfections. Yet
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vulnerable is the most hypcrcritical. Per
! haps he is profane, and yet has no toler-
ance for theft. when profanity is worse
| than theft, for while the latter is robbery
OF man. the former is robbery of God.
| Perhaps he is given to defamation and
| detraction. and yet feels himself better
| than some one who is guilty of man
/ slaughter, not realizing that the assas-
sination of character is the worst Kind OF
assassination. The laver for washing in
| the ancient tabernacle was at its side
FURNISHED like Il looking glass so that
J those that approached that laycr might
see their need OF washing and IL by the
gospel looking glass we discovered our
own need of moral cleansing we would
| be more economic of dcnunciation.
Warm-Heartcd Christians
| But here comes warm hearted, sym
! pathetic, Christian man. He says;
There is man down in the ditch. I
must get him out. God help me to get
him out" And standing there on the
edge of the ditch the good man soilO-
, quizcs and says to himself. TT had had
as bad father and mother as he had
and all the surroundings Of my life had
/ been as depraving as those that have
cursed him | myself would probably have
! been down in the ditch, and If that man
! had been blessed with as good father
| and mother as | have and he had been
surrounded by the kindly influences which
! have encompaSsed all my days he would
probably have been standing here looking
down at me in the ditch" Then the good
man puts his knee to the side Of the ditch
and bends over and says to the fallen one,
Brother give me your hand" aud with
one stout grip lifts him up TO God and
| heaven. There are wounds of the world
| that need the probe and tho sharp knife
| and severe surgery, but the most of the
wounds want an application Of ointment
or salve, and we ought to have three or
four boxes Of that gospel medicamont in
! our pocket as we go ont into the world.
| We all need TO carry more 81 the balm
of Gilcad' ana less caustic, more brne-
dction and less anathema.
We also have need Of patience with
slow results of Christian work We want
to see our attempts 10 do good immedi-
ately successful. The world is improving
but improving at so deliberate rate.
why moi more rapidity and momentum?
! Other wheels turn 50 swiftly, why not the
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not know. I only know that it is Gods
way. We whose cradle and grave are so
near together have to hurry mp, but God,
| who manages this world and the uni
verse. is from everlasting to everlasting
| He takes 500 years 10 do that which he
could do in FIVE minutes. His clock strikes
once in Il thousand years. While God
! took only week to lit up the world for
| human residence. geology reveals that
| the foundations Of the world were cons
| in being laid and God watched the ga-
| cicrS and the FIRE and the earthquakes and
| the volcanoes as through centuries and
| milenniums they were shaping this
! world. before that last week that put on
/ the arh0rescencc. few days ago my
/ friend was talking with geologist. As
! they stood near Il pile Of rocks my friend
/ said to the scientist, Il suppose those
! rocks were hundreds Of thousands Of
| years in constructions And the gcolo-
| gist replied, Yes. and you might say
| millions Of years, FOR no one knows but
the Lord. ana he won't toll If il took
so long to make this world ~ the start
| be not surprised IL it takes a long while
10 make it over again now that il has
| been ruined The Architect has prom
| sed to reconstruct it, and the plans are
| all made, and st just the right time il
will be 50 complete that it VIII be fit for
| heaven to move in, if, according to the
belief Of some Of my friends. this world
is 20 be made the eternal abode OF the
righteous The wall Of the temple is go
ing up and my only anxiety is 10 have
the one brick that ! am trying 10 make
for that wall turn out TO be Of the right
shape and smooth on all sides, 80 that
the Master Mason will not reject il. or
have much wcrk with the trowel 10 get
il into place. / am responsible for only
Tint ono brick tb0ugh Won NAV b,. re