Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-09-29
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we postpone the gentleucSs OF Christ.
Did you ever know any difficulty to be
healed by acerbity or hypercriticism?
About forty-tiye years ago the PTesbyte-
rian Church was split into the new school
and the old school. The chasm got wider
and wider. The most outrageous person
alities We're INDUCED in. Good men on
one side mathematical good men on the
other side. Wider and wider the chasm
got, until after awhile some good people
tried another tack, and they began to eX-
plain away the difficulties, and soon all
the differences were healed, and at Pitts
burg they shook hands and are one now
- be one forever.
Nou say 10 man with whom YOU had
falling out, II despiSc YOU" He says,
Il can't bear the sight of YOU" You say
to him, Il never want you to come TO
my house again. He says, IF YOU
come 10 my house again. I'll Kick you
out, You say, I'm put you down"
"Oh, no." he says; IN put you down.
But some day the spirit OF Christ comes
into You, aud You so over and say: My
brother give me your hand. Time is
short aud eternity is near, and we can't
afford to quarrel. Now, let hygoues he
nygone>. and let us act like Christians"
Ii is all settled. How? by the gentle
ness of Christ,
How TO Love the Father.
| Did YOU ever know a drunkard reclaim
ed by mimicry of his staggering steps,
/ his thick tongue or his hiccough2 No.
/ You only madden his brain. But you go
! 10 aim and let him know you appreciate
I what an awful struggle lie has with the
/ evil habit. and You let him know that
| You have been acquainted with people
! who were down in the same depths who
/ by the grace of God have been rescued.
/ lie hears your voice, he responds to that
| sympathy. and he is saved. Nou cannot
/ scold the world into anything better. Nou
! may attract it into something better.
! The Stormic>t wind comes ont from its
| hiding place and says, II will arouse this
! sea. And il blows upon the sea, Half
/ of the sea is aroused or fourth of the
| sea- is aroused. vet not the cutre AT
! lantic. But after awhile the moon comes
| out calm aud placid 1t shines upon the
sea- and the ocean begins to lift. II en-
;
| covered The heart throh of one world
/ heating against the heart throb Of anoth
! or world. The storm could not rouse the
| whole Atlantic, the moon lifted it. And
! =" said Christ. IF | be lifted up will
! draw all men unto me,
/ thri>t's disposition was also one Of
scf->acri6cc. No young man over start
ed out with 50 bright prospect rs Christ
started out with if he had be,u willing to
! follow worldly ambition In the time
that he gave TO the sick he might have
| gathered the vastest fortune of his time.
| With his power TO populari2e himself and
magnetic the people he could have gain
ed any official position. No orator ever
/ won such plauditS as he might have won
from sanhedriu aud synagogue and vast
| audiences by the seaside No physician
| ever got such n reputation for healing
power ms he might have obtained il he
had performed his wonderful cures be
fore the Roman aiistocracy. | say thes,
things 10 let you know what Paul mean
when he said. He pleased not himself ,
| and to show something Of the wonders
Of his sclfsacrihco All human power
together could not have thrown Christ in
to tle Manager If he had not chosen 10 -
there All satanic strength could MOI
have Fitted Christ upon the cross if h,
had not elected himself 10 the torture
To save our race from sin and death ant
he'll Nv faced all the SORROWS of thr
world and the SORROWS Of eternity. How
much of that sclf-sacrifce have we?
Clothing Our Nalsedness.
What is ~clf-sacriice? 1t is my walk
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