Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-02-16

would flush up quick and either with an
indignant word or doubled up fist make
response. And yet here is our Christian
religion which has done so much for you
and so much for the world that it will
take all eternity to celebrate it, and yet
when it was attacked you did not so
much as say: II differ. l object. | am
sorry to hear you say that. There is
another side to this" You Christian
people ought in such times as these TO
so armed, not with earthly weapons, but
with the sword of the spirit. You ought
TO have four or five questions with which
you could confound any man who attacks
Christianity.
Silence Gives Consent.
Oh, friends, better load up with few
Interrogation points! You cannot afford
TO be silent when God and the Bible and
the things of eternity are assailed. Your
silence gives consent to the lombard
ment of your Fathers house. You allow
slur to be east on your mothers dying
pillow. In behalf of the Christ who for
You went through the agonies of assas-
sination on the rocky bluff back of JelQl-
salem. you dared not face sickly joke.
Better load up with few questions. so
that next time you will be ready. Say
to the scoffer: My dear sir, will you tell
me what makes the difference between
the condition of woman in China and
the United States? What do you thinS
of the sermon on the mount? How do
YOU like the golden rule laid down in the
Scriptures? Are you in favor of the Ten
Commandments? In your large and ex-
tensive reading have you come across
lovelier character than Jesus Christ? Win
YOU please to name the triumphant death
beds of inhdels and atheists? How do
you account for the fact that among the
out and out believers in Christianity were
such persons as Benjamin Franklin, John
Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, Darlington Mac
aulay, William Penn, Walter Scott,
Charles Kingsley, Horace Bushnell,
James A. Garfield. Robert Il. Lee, Stone
| wall jackson, Admiral Footc, Admiral
Farragut, Ulysses $. Grant, John Milton,
William Shakespeare, Chief Justice Mar
shall, John Adams, Daniel Webster.
George Washington? How do you ac-
count for their foudness for the Christian
religion? Among the innumcrable col
eges and universities of the earth will
you name me three started by iniidcs ana
now supported by inGdels? Down in your
heart are you really happy in the posi-
ton you occupy antagonistic to the Chris
tion religion? When do you have the
most rapturous views of the next world p
Go ut him with few such questions, and
he will get so red in the face as to sug-
gest apoplcXy, and he will look at his
watch and say he has an engagement
and must go. You viii put him in a sweat
that will beat a Turkish bath. You will
put him on rout compared with which
! our troops at Bull Ran made no time at
all. Arm yourself, not with arguments,
but interrogation points, and l promise
You victory. Shall such n man as you,
shall such woman as you, surrender to
one of the meanest spirits that ever
smoked up from the pit-the dumb devil.
! spoken of in the text?
Duty to Sing Gods Praise.
But then there are occasions when this
! particular spirit that Christ exercised
when he said. Il charge thee to come out
Of him." takes people by the wholesale.
In the most responsive religious audience
| have you noticed how many people never
sing at all? They have a book, and they
have a voice, and they know how TO read.
4, They know many of the tunes, and yet
are silent while the great raptures of mu-
| sic pass by Among those who sing not
one out Of hundred sings loud enough
| to hear his own voice. They hum it.
| They give Il sort of religious grunt. They
make the lips go, but it is inaudible
| With a voice strong enough to stop a
street car one block away all they can
| afford in the praise of God is about half
a whisper With enough sopranos, enough
altos, enough bassos to make a small
| heaven between the four walls they let
the opportunity 90 by unimproved. The
volume of voice that ascends from the
| largest audience that ever assembled
ought to be multiplied two thousand fold
Historic Incidents of Praise.
During the cotton famine in Lanca-
shire, England. when the suffering was
| something terrific, as the first wagon
load Of cotton rolled in the starving PEG
pie unlocked the horses and drew the
load themselves, singing, until MI Lam
cashire joined in with triumphant voices,
their cheeks soppiHg with tears, Praise
God from whom all blessings f0w."
When Commodore Perry, with his war
ship. the Mississippi lay off the coast of
japan, he bOmbarded the shores. with
OIu I1HnuItu, pIaych ny inc marine
band. Glorious "Old Hundred" compos-
ed by William Franc OF Germany. In
war prison at 10 o'clock at night the
poor fellows far from home and wound
ed and sick and dying one prisoner start
ed the cold Hundredth Doxology," and
then score Of voices joined; then all the
prisoners on all the floors tool, up the ac-
claim until the building, from foundation
to top stone, fairly quaked with the
melodious ascription. A British man-of-
war lying off n foreign const heard a
voice singing that dox0logy and imme-
diately guessed, and guessed Alright that
there was an Englishman in captivity TO
the Mohammedans, and in the small
boats the sailors rowed to shore and burst
into a guardhouse and set the captive
free | do not know what tune the
trumpets of resurrection shall play, but
it may be the doxology which is now
sounding across Christendom. How much
more hearty we would be in our songs
and how easily we could drive back the
dumb devil from all our worshiping as
scmblagcs il We could rcaltze that near