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


moro To the Hebrews than TO us, "Ye
/ have need of patience"
] adopted rule years ago which has
/ been of great service 70 me, and it may
/ be Of some service 10 you; Cheerfully CON
sent to bc misunderstood God knows
! whether we are right or wrong, whether
( we are trying 10 serve him or damage
+ his cause. When you can chcerfully con
sent to be misunderstood, many of the
annOyanCeS and veXations Of life viii
1 quit your heart, aud you viii come into
c2lmcr seas than you have ever sailed on.
/ The most misunderstood being that ever
/ trod the earth was the glorious Christ.
/ The world misunderstood his cradle and
concluded that one so poorly born could
I never be of much Importance They
/ charged him with inehriety and called
/ him a winebibber. The sanhedrin mism
( dcrstood him, and when it was put to the
( vote whether he was guilty or not OF
/ treason he got but one vote. while all
the others voted Aye. aye" They mis-
understood his cross and concluded that
( il he had divine power he would effect
/ his own rescue. They misunderstood his
/ grave and declared that his body had
/ been stolen by infamous reSurrectioniSts.
/ He so fully consented 90 be misunder-
/ stood that harried ana slapped and sub
merged with sCorn. he answered not
! word. You cannot come up TO shat. but
you can initiate in some small degree the
! patience OF Christ.
Patience Under Physical PAW.
Again, this grace is needed to help in
tine OF physical ailments, What vast
multitudcs are in perpetual pain while
| others are subject 10 occasional parox-
ysm! Almost every one has some dis
order to which he is occasionally sub
iected. 1t is rheumatism or neuralgia
or sick headache or Indigestion. 4 draft
from an open window or hasty mastica-
ton or oyerwork brings on that old spell,
and YOU think YOU would rather have al
most anything else, but that is because
yoa have not tried the other. Almost
| every one has something which he wishes
he had not. There are scores of diseases
| ever ready 10 attack the human frame.
They have been in pursuit Of our race
ever since Adam and Eve resigned their
| innocence as we'll as the worlds health.
1t is amazing how persistent and meth
odic those disorders are in their attack
on the world and how regular is the har-
vest which with the sharp scythe of pain
they NOW down for the grave. No such
disciplined aud courageous army ever
marched ms the army OF physical suffer
ing. They do their work in the order |
name, and yon may depend upon their
keeping on in that same order for q good
while yet; first of all tuberculosis, next
organic heart disease, next pneumonia,
next in number Of its victims is npoplcXy,
next Brgbts disease. next cancer. next
typhoid fever, next paralysis. Those
eight diseases are the worst desp0ilers of
human life. The doctors with solutions
and lanccts and anodynes and cataplasms.
are in q brave fight against these physi-
illogical devils that try 10 possess the hu-
man race But after all the scientists
can do there is Il dcmnnd for patience.
Nothing can take the place of that 1t
is needed this moment in every sick room.
and along the streets and in business
places and shops whore bread winners
are compelled TO toll when physically in
competent TO move a pen or calculate II
column Of figures or control a shovel.
But every pastor could show you in
stances of complete happiness under ply
steal suffering. lie could take you to
that garnet or to that hospital or to some
room in his parish whore sits in rocking
chair or lies upon pillow some one who
has not seen Il we'll day in ten years and
yet has never been heard to utter "A word
of complaint. The grace OF God has tri-
umphed in her soul as il never trmmphs
in the soul OF one who Is vigorous and
athletic. Il
Bauishmcnt Of Care.
Now. let MS this hour furu over a new
leaf and Danish wotrment and care out
Of all our lives. JUST SO" how these per
yerstics have multiplied wrinkles in your
face and aeidnIatcd your disposition and
torn your nerves. You are ten years old
cr than YOU ought to be. DO two things,
ono for the bettcrmeut of your spiritual
condition and the other for the safety OF
your worldly interests. First, get your
heart right with God by being pardoned
through the atuncmeut Of Jesus Christ.
That will give security for your souls
| welfare. Then got your life insured in
some we'll established life insurance com
pany. That viii take from you all anx
icty about the welfare of your household
in case Of your sudden demise. The SAM
| tary influence of such insurance is not
/ sufficiently understood.
/ Many brcadwinncl long since dcccas-
cd would now have been alive and well
/ but for he reason that when he was
! Frustrated he saw that in ease of his de
ccasc his family would 20 TO the poor
/ house or have an awful struggle for daily
! bread But for that anxiety he would
/ have got well. That anxiety defcd all
that the best physicians could do. Sup
! posing these two duties attended TO, the
| one for the safety Of your soul in this
/ world and the next, ana the other for the
i safety Of your family If you pass out OF
! this life, make new start If possible
/ have your family sitting room where you
/ can let in the sunlight. Have musical
/ instrument if you can afford it, harp or
| piano or bass viol or parlOr organ. Learfi
| how to play on it yourself OF have your
| children learn bow to play on it. Let
| bright colors dominate in your room liz
! there are pictures on the wall. let them
not be suggestive Of battle6eds which
are always cruel, Of deathbeds which are
/ always sad, or partings which are always
/ hcartbrcaking There are enough pres