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

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oned, but none of his friends knew
| where, SO his loyal friend went around
! the land from stronghold TO stronghold
| and sang at each window q snatch of
song that Richard Occur de Lion had
| taught him in other days. And one day,
coming before Jail whore he suspected
| his king might toe incarcerated, he sang
! two lines Of song. and Immediately King
! Richard responded from his cell with the
! other two lines. aud SO his whereabouts
| were discovered, and successful move
ment was at once made for his liberia
! ton. So let us go up and down the world
! with the music of kind words and sym
| pathetic hearts, Serenading the unfortu-
nate and trying to get out OF trouble men
who had noble natures, but by unfore-
| seen circumstances have been incarce-
rated, thus hberating kings. More hymn
! book and less razor
Especially ought we to be apologize
and merciful toward those who, while
| they have great faults. have also great
virtues. Some people are barren Of vir-
tues No weeds verify. but no flowers.
| must not he too much enraged at a
ncttle along the fence il it be in field
| wheat. Some time ago naturalistS told
rs there was ON the sun spot 10000
miles long, bur from the brightness and
warmth / concluded il was a good deal
of Il sun still. The sun can afford 10
have 4 very large spot upon il, though it
be 2o,oO0 miles long. and am very apo-
oCctic for those mon who have great
faults. while at the same time they have
magnificent virtues.
Nothing Ever "Happcns."
Again, when read in my text that the
| Lord Shavcs with the hired razor of AS
syria the land of Judea think myself Of
the precision of Gods providence. \
( razor swung the tenth part of an inch
ont of the right line means either failure
| or laccratiou. but Gods dealings never
/ Slip, and they do not miss by the thou
/ Sandth part of nm inch the right dircC-
/ ton. People talk as though things in
( this world were ut loose ends. Cholera
sweeps across MarScillcs and Madrid and
! PH,trmo. and we watch anXiouSly. VIII
! the epidemic sweep Europe and Amer
! icaE People say, That will entirely de
! pend on whether the incubation is n
/ successful experiments; that viii depend
/ entirely on quarantine regulations, that
/ viii dcpcned on the early or late appear
/ ancc of frost. That epidemic is pitched
: into the world. and il goes laundering
/ across the continents and it is all guess
WORK and an appalling perhaps | think,
perhaps, that God had something 20 do
| with il and that his mercy may have
in some way protected us; that he may
/ have done as much for us as the qunran-
zine and the health officers. 1T was right
| and necessity that all caution should
be used, hut there have come enough mae
arou from Italy, and enough grapes
from the south of France. and enough
rags from tatterdemalions, aud hidden in
these articles of transportation enough
choleraic germs to have left by this time
all the cities mourning in the cemeteries.
| thank all the doctors and guarantees.
hut more than all and first Of all, and
last Of all. and all the time. | thank God.
In all the 5000 years OF the worlds ex-
iStencc there has not one thing merely
happened so" God is not an anarchist,
but Il King. Il Father
When little Tad. the son Of President
Lincoln. died. all America sympathzed
| with the sorrow in the White House
He used to rush into the room where the
cabinet was in session and while the
most eminent men of the land were dis
cueSiuG the questions Of national exist
encc But the child had no care about
those questions. Now. God the Father
and God the Son and God the HOLY
Ghost are in perpetual session in regard
to this world and kindred worlds Shall
you. his child, rush in to criticise or ar
rdign or condemn the divine governments
| No: the cabinet OF the Eternal Three can
govern and will govern in the wisest and
best way. and there never will be a mis-
take and. like razor skillfnlIy swung.
shall cut that which ought 10 be cut and
avoid that which ought to be avoided
Precision TO the very hairbreadth Earth
ly timepieces may get out of order aud
strike wrong. saying il is | O'Clock when
ii is >, or - when it is .. Gods clock is
| always right and when it is it strikes
| l. and when 1t is II it strikes H. and the
second hand is ~ accurate as the minute
| hand.
National Sirs Punished.
Further. my text tells lis that God
sometimes sbavcs nations. "ln the same
! day shall the Lord shave with n razor
| that is hired With one sharp sweep he
| went across Iudca. and down went its
/ pf!de ana us power. IN 1Sbl h0d shaved
the American nation. We had allowed
10 grow Sabbath Dissertation and opprcs
sion aud blasphemy aud fraud aud i'm
purity aud all sorts Of turpitude. The
| South had its sins, and the North it's sins.
and the East its sins and the West its
/ sins. We had been warned again and
again, and We did not heed At length
/ the sword Of war cut from the st. Law,
renee to the gulf and from Atlantic sea
| board to Pacific scaboard The pride of
! the land, not the towards, bat the heroes.
on both sides went down And that
| which We took for the sword Of war was
! the Lords razor. In 1867 again il went
across the land il 1863 again; in 1864
| ncnin Thnn the shnrn Instrument WIS