Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-09-22

pressiye and Bible hating SPAN. ty4s
nations are to repent in a day. May a
speedy and worldwide coming to God
hinder on both sides the sea all national
calamity. But do not let US as a nation
either by unrighteou~ law at Washing
ton or bad lives among ourselves defy
the Almighty.
Instruments of God.
One would think that our national
symbol of the eagle might sometimes sug-
gcst another cagle-that which ancient
Rome carried, In the taIons Of that
eagle We're clutched at one time Britain,
France, Spain, Italy, Dalmatia, Rhactia,
Noricum, Pannonia. MOesla, Dacia,
Thrace. Macedonia. Greece, Asia Minor,
Syria. phOcnicia. Palestine. Egypt and
all northern Africa and all the islands Of
the Mediterranean, indeed all the wCrld
that was worth having. hundred and
twenty millions of people under the
wings of that one eagle. Where is she
now? Ask Gibbon, the historian. in his
prose poem, THE Decline and Fall of The
Roman Empire" Ask her gigantic ruins,
hemoaning their sadness through the
ages, the scrceeh owl at windows out of
which worldwide conquerors looked. Ask
the day Of Judgment, when her crowned
debaucaeeS. Commodus and PertinaN
and taligula and Di0ctettan, shall an
swcr for their infamy. As men and as
nations let us repent and have our trust
in pardoning God rather than depend
on former successes for immunity Out
Of thirteen Of the greatest battles of the
world Napoleon had lost hut one before
Waterloo. Pride and destruction often
ride in the same saddle
But notice once more, and more thaR
all, in my text, that God is 50 Kind and
loving that when it is necessary for him
To cut he has to so 10 others FOR the
sharp edged weapon. In the same day
shall the Lord shave with razor that is
hired God is love. God Is pity. God
is help. God is shelter God is rescue
There are no sharp edges about him. no
thruSting poiAts. no Instruments of lacer-
alton. II you want balm for wounds, he
has that. Ii YOU want divine saiyc foe
eycSight he has that. But IL there is
sharp and cutting work 20 30, which re-
quircs razor that hc hires, God has
nothing about him that hurts. save when
dire necessity demands, aud thcn ne has
to so clear off TO soma or" e!sc 10 get tho
instrument This divine rirmrncy will
he no novelty to those who nave pondered
the Calvarean massacre. " here God subj
merged himself in human tears and crim+
Soncd himself from meucNred arteries
aud let the terrestrial aud iufcrnas
worlds maui him until the chandeliers Ut
the sky had to be- turned out. because this
! universe could not endure the outrage
lllnstrious for love he must have been tG
take nil that as our substitute, paying
| out of his own heart the price NJ our adj
| mission al the gates OF heaven.
Breadth of Divine Love.
King Henry II. of England crowned
| his son as king and on the day Of core
nation put on servants garh and wait
| ed, he, the king at the sons table, to the
astonishment Of all the princes. But We
| know OF a more wondr0us scene the
| King of heaven and earth offering t0 put
on you, his child, the crown of life and
in the form of servant waiting on you
| with blessing. Extol that love, all point
ing, all sculpture, all music. all arch
lecture MI worship! In Dresdenian gal
lery let Raphael hold him ip as child.
| and in Antwerp cathedral let Rubcns
| hand him down from the cross as MAG
| tyr, and Handel make all his orat0riO vi
brate around that one ch0rd-"iIe was
wounded for our transEressi0ns, bruised
for our iniquitics." But not until all the
| redeemed get home. and from the c0nntt.-
| nauccs in all the galleries of the ram
somcd shall be revealed the wonders Of
| redemption, shall either man Or seraph
or archangcl know the height aud depth
| and length aud breadth OF thc love Of
! God.
| At orr national capital a monument
| in honor Of him who did more than any
| one TO achieve our American indepen-
| denCc was for scores Of years in building
| and most of us were discouraged and said
! il never would he completed And how
| glad we all were when IN the presence of
| the highest officials of the nation the
| work was done! But will the monument
to him who died for the eternal liberation
of the human race ever be completed
For ages the work has been going M.
EvangcliSts and apostles and martyrs
have been adding 10 the heavenly nile
and every one of the millions Of redeem
ed going mp from earth has made to il
contribution Of giadncSs, and weight Of
glory is swung to the top OF other weight
o. glory, higher aud higher Ak the cen.
turtles 20 by, higher and higher as the.
whole milIcnniums roll, sapphire On the
top Of jasper SardonyX On the ton Of
chulccdony and chrysoprasus above to-
paz. until far beneath shall b. the walls
and towers and domes Of our earthly
capitol n monument forever md forever
rising aud yet never done, Unto hiIn
who hath loved us and washed ~ from
our sins in his owu blood and made as
kings and priests forever Alcluia.
amen.
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