Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-04-20


you have had a most delightful evening,
ana then passing down off the front
steps. the slam of the door the only sat
isfacton of the evening.
Oh, young man come from the coun-
try TO spend your days in city life where
are you going TO spend your evenings:
Let me tell you, while there are many
places Of innocent worldly amusement. it
is most wise for you to throw your body,
mind and soul into Christian society.
Come TO me at the close Of five years and
tell me what has been the result of this
advice Bring with you the young man
who refused Ia take the advice aud who
went into sinful amusement. He will
come dissipated, shabby in apparel, in
disposed to look any one in the eyes,
moral character 50 per cent off You will
come with principle settled, countenance
frank, habits good. soul saved and all the
inhabitants OF heaven. from the lowest
angel up To the archangel and clear past
him 10 the Lord God Almighty, your CO.
adjutors.
This is not the advice of misanihrope.
There is no man in the house TO whom
the world is brighter than it is to me. Ii
'
geStion is perfect; it is not the advice of
Il man who cannot understand Joke or
who prefers a funeral: il is not the advice
of WORKOUT man, but the advice of a
man who can see this world in all its
brightness and, considering myself COM
petcnt in Judging what is good cheer
tell the multitude Of Young men that
there is nothing in worldly association SO
grand and SO beautiful aud SO eNhlarant
rs in Christian society
The Question of Self Denial.
| know there is great deal of talk
about the Seif-dcuials Of the Christian
| have to tell Won that where The Chris
tian has one sef-denial the man of the
world has a thousand sclf-dcuials. The
Christian is not commanded 10 Surren-
der anything that is worth keeping. Bul
what does man deny himself who de
MES himself the religion of Christ! He
denies himself pardon for sin, he denies
himself peace Of conscience. he denies
himself the JOY ot the Holy Ghost, he
denies himself comfortable death pill
low, he denies himself the glorics OF hcay-
en-. Do not talk 60 me about tlfe scf-de-
mails of the Christian life. Where there
is one in the Christian life there are a
thousand in the life Of the world. Her
ways are ways of pleasantness.'
Again. | find great deal of religions
sunshine in Christian and divine cXpla-
nation. 10 Il great many people life is
an meNplicable tangle. Things turn out
differently from what WAS supposed.
There is useless woman in perfect
health. There is an industrious and con.
sccrated woman complete invalid. Elk
plain that. There is n bad man with
100000 of income. There is n good man
with $500 of income. Why is that:
There is a foe of society who lives on
doing all the damage he can. to - years
of age, and here is Christian father,
faithful in every department of life. at 81
! years of age taken away by death. his
! family left helpless. Explain that. Oh
! there IS no sentence that oftener drops
from your lips than this: II cannot IN
| derStand it. / cannot understand il.
| Well, now religion comes in just al
| that point with its illumination and lis
! explanation There is a business man
| who has lost his entire fortune. The
week before he lost his fortune there
were twenty carriages that stopped at
the door of his mansion. The week after
h" lost his fortune all the carriages Won
could count Oh one finger The wecl.
/ before financial trouble began people al
took off their hats 10 him as he passed
down the street. The wcel. his financial
prospects were under discussion peopIe
just touched their hats, without anywise
bending the rim. The week that he was
pronounced insolvent people Just ioltcd
their heads as they passed. not tipping
their hats ut all, and the wrel, the sher-
! if sold him out all his friends were look
ing in the store windows as they went
down past him
Now while the world cocs away fran
a man while he is in financial distress
the religion of Christ comes to him and
says: You are sick, aud your sickness il
TO he moral publication; you are he
reayed. God wanted in some way TO
take your family to heaven aud he must
begin somewhere, aud 80 he took the one
that was most beautiful and was mos,
ready to go" ! do not say that religion
explains everything in this life. bur do
say it lays down certain principles which
are grandly consolatory. You know bust
hes, men often telegraph in cipher. The
merchant in san Francisco tclegraphs 10
the merchant in New York certain infor.
nation IN cipher which no other man in
that line of business can understand hut
the merchant in san Francisco has the
key 10 the cipher. and the merchant in
New York has the key to the cipher. and
on that information transmitted there arc
enterprises involving hundreds Of thou
sends Of dollars. Now, the proridonces
of life sometimes seem tu ne Il srnxelcss
rignarolc, Il mysterious cipher: but God
has a key 70 that cipher and the Chris
tiau q key to that cipher. and. though n.
may hardly be able to spell ont the mean
ing, he gets enough of The meaning to
understand TINT it is for the best Now.
is there not sunshine in thatF Is there
not pleasure in that? Far beyond laugh
ter, il is nearer the fountain Of tears
than b0istcrOus demonstration. Have You
never cried for JOY; There are tears
which are eternal rapture in distillation,
All Is for the Best.
There are hundreds of people who are
walking day by day in the sublime sat
iSfactiOn that all is for the host. all things