Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-01-19

preceded her, and the time of her pXDect-
ed arrival will be announced to all the
members Of that family already glori
fed and to the old earthly neighbor who
put down their tolls a little sooner than
she did. and she will have the warnesr
Kind Of home coming, and She will go
through the gate as easily as ever she
| lifted the latch of her front door coming
from the old country meeting house
where she used to worship. 60 in
mother! Heaven has been waiting for
you good many years. Got rid Of all
your aches and pains and WEAKNESS, have
you? 60 anywhere in heaven, and they
viii be glad to see you. On the highest
throne you will find one who said, Be
hold thy mother Sit anywhere YOU
please. You win be at home anywhere.
Take your pick out of that sheaf of scep-
tiers. What! The wrinkles have an gone
out of your face. and the once rheumatic
step has become like that of the bound
lug roe. Just as / expected, you aged,
gioritied soul. you had an abundant en-
trance.
There is another kind Of spirit who will
have radiant admission to the upper DO.
minion. There is a fact which ought To
nave most emphatic pronouucement. All
over the world to-day there are men and
women of consecrated wealth. They are
multiplying by the day and hour people
| who feel themselves the Lords stewards.
and from their opulence they are making
distribution which pleases the heavens.
| The check book in the office drawer Of
! that man has On its stubs story of be-
netcence clear MP into the sublime In all
/ the round of the worlds suffering and
| ignorance and woe You cannot mention
| one worthy object to which that prosper
| Gus and good man has not made contribu-
| tion. He is not Initiated, as many are.
| by solicitations for aims. In some poor
woman in thin shawl. holding in her arms
! child with rhcum in its eyes, this good
| man sees the Christ who said, "luas-
much ms yc have done it unto one of the
| least OF these, We have done it unto me-"
Consecrated Affiuence.
| Well, this man Of consecrated atiluence
| Is about to so out of this world He feels
| in brain and nerve the strain Of the early
! struggles by which he won his fortune,
| and ut go or 20 years colapses under the
! eXhaGstions of the twentics and thirtes
! of his lifetime, When the morning pa
! pers announce that he is gone. there is
| excitement not only on the avenues
| where the mansions stand. but all
| through the hospitals and asylums and
! the homes Of those who will henceforth
! have no helper. But the excitement of
| sadness on earth is very tame affair
| compared with the excitement of glad
ness in heaven. The guardian angel of
| that good mans life swept by his dying
! pillow the night before. aud on swift
! wing upward announced that in a few
hours he would arrive. and there is a
| mighty stir i'll heaven. He Comesn
| cries seraph to sCraph. The Kings her
nlds are at the gate to say. Come, We
! blessed and souls who We're saved
| through the churches that good man sup
| ported and hundreds who went up after
being by him helped in their earthly
struggle will come down off their thrones
and out of their palaces and through the
| streets to hail him into the land which
they reached some time before through
his Christian philanthropy. Why, that
is the man who, when / was a-hungereC,
gave me breadr' why, that IL The
mar" says another. who encouraged me
when | was in the hard struggle of
business life!' why, that is the man"
says another, who paid my rent when
had nothing with which to pay why.
that is the man through whose mission
AIRY spirit heard the gospel call in Bonn
| bay why, that is the man, says an
other, who helped send the gospel Of
Christ to the aborignes Of America aud
caused me to exchange the war whoop Of
the savage for the song Of Christian de
| Iiverancc" Stand back commands
the gatckccper of heaven, "all ye throngs
redeemed through this mans nstrumen-
talitcs! Make way for him to the feet
of the King, where he viii east his
crown. and then make way for him to the
! throne, where he shall reign forever and
ever" Now, that is what ! call an album
dant entrance. You see it is not ncces-
| sary to be failure on earth in order TO
be a success in heaven.
But ] promise that all those who have
lived for others and been truly Chris
tian, whether on a large scale or "a small
scale, will have illustrious Introduction
into the impeaIled gateway. Here and
there in some large family y0u see an al
tractive daughter who declines marriage
that she may take care Of father and
mother in old days. This is not an alb
straction. | have known such. You have
PIpbduiN Known SucHs mere are ~ fHl4
world womany souls as big as that.
They checrfully endure the whimsicali-
ties and querulousness which sometimes
characterize the aged, and watch nights
when pneumonia is threatened, and are
eyes TO the blind, and sit in close rooms
lest the septuagenarian be chilled, aud
count ont the right number of drops at
the right time. The mother Of a little
child has her hands full, but the daugh.
ter who stays home to take care Of an
aged father or mother has her hands just
rs full.
Know right well that in whatever sta
ton of life you now move aud whether
your intellectual faculty be brilliant nr
duh and your worldly resources opulcnt
or poor, You may have ut the gate Of
heaven jubjlant and triumphant reccp.
ton. All soldiers cannot be Hannbals
and Marlborough>, all admirals cannot
be- Duponts and Farraguts. all authors
cannot be BacauS and SOutlpy, neither