Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

DO not 20 into the particulars. my broth
ers. Simply say you Were sick, but make
no display Of your ulcers. The chief
stock in trade of some ministers and
Christian workers seems to be their early
crimes and dissipatons The number OF
pockets you picked and the number of
chickens you stole make very poor prayer
meeting rhetoric. Besides that, it dis
courages other Christian people who
never got drunk or stole anything. But it
is pleasant to know that those who were
farthest down have been brought highest
up. Out of internal serfdom into eternal
liberty. Out of darkness into light.
From coal to the solitaire. THE crystal
cannot equal it,"
Power of the Gospel.
But, my friends, the chief transforming
power of the gospel will not be seen ia
this world. and not until heaven breaks
upon the soul. When that light falls
upon the soul, then you will see the crys-
tails. What a magnificent setting for
these jewels of eternity! | sometimes
hear people representing heaven in a way
that is far from attractive 10 me. 1t seems
almost a vulgar heaven as they represent
it, with great blotches of color and bands
OF music making a deafening racket,
John represents heaven as exquisitely
beautiful. Three crystals! In one place
n says, Her light was like a precious
stone, clear as crystal" In another place
he says. Il saw a pure river from under
the throne clear as crystal" In another
place he says, Before the throne there
was sea Of glass clear as crystal"
Three crystals! John says crystal atmos'
phere. That means health. Balm Of
eternal June. What weather after the
worlds east wind! No rack OF storm
clouds. One breath OF that air will cure
the worst tuberclc. Crystal light on all
the leaves, Crystal light shimmering on
the topaz of the temples Crystal light
tossing in the plumes of the equestrians
of heaven on white horses. But "tho
crystal cannot equal it," John says crys'
tai river. That means joy. Deep and
ever rolling. Not one drop of the Poto-
mae or the Hudson or the Rhine to soil
it. No one tear Of human sorrow to inn
bitter il. Crystal, the rain ont Of which
it was made. Crystal, the bed over
which it shall roll and ripple. Crystal,
its infinite surface. But the crystal can
not equal it," John says crystal sea.
That means simultaneously vast. Vast
i'll rapture. Rapture vast as the sea, deep
as the sea, strong as the sea, ever chang
ing as the sea. Biliows of light. Bill.
lows of beauty, blue with skies that were
never couded and green with depths that
were never fathomed. Arctics and Ant
arctcs and Mediterraneans and Allan.
ties and Paci6cs in crystalline magnii.
cence. Three crystals! Crystal light
falling ON a crystal river Crystal river
rolling into a crystal sea. But the crys-
tai cannot equal it."
"Oh," says some one, putting his hand
over his eyes, "can it he that / who have
been in So much sin and trouble will ever
come to those crystaIsI" Yes, it may
bet will be- Heaven we must have
whatever we have or have not, and we
come here to get it, How much must
pay for itT' you say. You will pay for
1t just as much as the coal pays to be-
come the diamond. In other words,
nothing. The same Almighty power that
makes the crystal in the mountain will
change your heart which is harder than
stone, for the promise Is. Il will take
away your stony heart, and | will give
you heart Of flesh"
Open the Door TO Christ.
"Oh," says some one, 1T is just the doe
trine | want. God is to do everything,
and | am to do nothing My brother,
it is not the doctrine you want. The coal
makes no resistance 1t hears the resur-
rection voice in the mountain and IL
comes 10 Capitalization; but your heart
resists. The trouble with you, my broth
err, is the coal wants to stay coal.
do not ask you to throw open the door
and let Christ in. i only ask that you
stop boiling it and barring it. My friends.
we will have to get rid of our sins
will have to get rid of my sins, and Won
will have to get rid of your sins. What
will we do with our sins among the three
crystals? The crystal atmosphere would
display our pollution. The crystal river
would be befouled with our touch. Trans
formation must take place now or no
Transformation at all. Give sin full
chance in your heart and the transforma-
ton will be downward instead Of upward
Instead of crystal it will be ciuder.
In the days of Carthage a Christian
girl was condemned to die for her faith.
and a boat was bcdaubed with tar and
pitch and filled with combustihios and
set on fire. and the Christian girl was
placed in the boat, and the wind was off
shore, and the boat floated away with it's
precious treasure. No one can doubt
that boat landed at the shore Of heaven.
Sin wants to put you in a fiery boat and
shove you off in an opposite direction
from peace, off from God, off from heay-
en-, eyerlastingly off, and yhe port toward
which you would sail would be a port of
darkness, and the guns that would greet
you would be the guns OF despair. and
the Gags that would wave at your ar.
rival would be the black flags OF death
Oh, my brother, you must either kill sin
or sin will kill You! 1t Is no exaggcration
when ! say that any man or woman thar
wants 10 be saved may BIZ saved. Ire
mendous choice, A thousand people are
this moment between salvation
and destruction, between light and dark
ness, between charred ruin and glorious
capitalization.
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