Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-08-11


sells briC-a -brae at lowest figures, and
that swamps the small dealer in bric-a-
5rac, And the same thing goes on in 9th
or styles Of merchandise. and the conse-
quence is that all along the business
streets of all our cities there are mer-
chants of small capital who are in terrific
struggle TO keep their heads above water.
The ocean liners run down the New
foundland fishing smacks. This is moth
ing against the man who has the big
store, for every man has ms large a store
and as great business as he can man
age.
Need of Divine Support.
To feel right and do right under all this
pressure requires martyr grace, requires
divine support, requires celestial re-en-
forcement. Yet there are tens of thou
sands of such men getting splendidly
through. They see others going up and
themselves going down, but they keep
their patience and their courage and their
Christian consistency. and after awhile
their success will come. There is gener
ally retribution in some form for grcedi-
ness. The owners of the big business will
die. and their boys will get possession
mouths. and full to the chins with the
best liquor, and behind a pair of spank
ing bays, they will pass everything on
the turnpike road to temporal and eter-
nal perditiun. Then the business will
break up and the smaller dealers will
have fair opportunity. Or the spirit Of
contentment and right feeling will take
possession Of the large firm, as recently
with a famous business house, and the
firm will say: I'VE have enough money
for all our needs and the needs of our
children. Now let us dissolve business
and make way for other men in the same
line" Instead Of being startled at soli
tary instance of magnanimity, ii will be-
come a common thing. | know of scores
of great business houses that have had
their opportunity Of vast accumulation
and who ought 10 quit. But perhaps for
all the days of this generation the strug
gle of small houses to keep alive under
the overshadowing pressure of great
houses Will continue; therefore, taking
things as they are, You will be wise to
preserve your faith and throw over all
the cOuters and shelves and casks the
measuring line Of divine right. And the
Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest
thou? And ! said. A plumb line"
Begin at the Top.
In the same way we need to rectify
our theologies All sorts of religions are
putting forth their pretensions. Some
have spiritualistic religion, and their
chief work is with ghosts. and others a
religion of political economy, proposing
TO put an end TO human misery by a
new style Of taxation, and there is a
! humanitarian religion that looks after the
| bodies of men and let's the soul look
after itself, and there is legislative re-
ligion that proposes to rectify all wrongs
by enactment of better laws, and there
is an aesthetic religion that by rules Of
exquisite taste would lift the heart out Of
it's deformities, and religions of all sorts,
religions by the peck, religions by the
square foot and religions by the tOn-all
Of them devices Of the devil that would
take the heart away from the only re-
lgiOn that viii ever effect anything for
the human race. aud that is the straight
up and down religion written in the book
which begins with Genesis aud rnds with
Revelation, the religion Of the skies, the
old religion, the God given religion. the
everlasting religion, which says, Love
God above all and your neighbor as your
self" All religions but one begin at the
wrong end and il the wrong place. The
Bible religion demands that we first get
right with God, 1t begins at the top and
measures down, while the other religions
begin at the bottom and try to measure
up. They stand at the foot Of the wall.
up to their knees in the mud of human
theory and speculation, and have a Mum.
met and a string tied fast to it, and they
throw the plummet this way and break