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


could cause more merrimeut among the
gloriied than rehearsal of the earthly
differences between Christians differ
ences once seeming of such vast impor-
lance, bat differences unknown amid the
heavenly worshipers? What will be the
bigot'S amazement when he sees seated
side by side on the banks of the river of
life Calvin and Arminius. Archbishop
Cranmer and some dissenting preacher
of the gospel who never graduated, one
who GA earth was u r0bed and surpliced
ecciesiaStic and q backwoods minister
who in the log cabin meeting house
preached in linen buster? Among the
great surprises of heaven for the higot
will be the celestial friendliness of those
who on earth opposed each other in
wrathiest polemicS. He will get through
the gate, for he has a spark of divine
grace in his heart, but there will not be
an inch of room to spare on either side of
him, 1t will not take long for heaven to
educate him into a glorious big hearted
ness.
Again, the pcnurious Christian will not
have an abundant entrance. Perhaps he
was not converted until all his habits of
tight hstednCss were fixed beyond rccov-
cry The people who are generous were
taught TO be generous in childhood You
can tell from the way that boy divides
the apple what his characteristics for
generosity or meanness will he for the
next eighty years. if he lives SO long. IF
he eats II all himself while others look
wistfuliy on, he will Ice Shylock: if he
give half of ii to some one who has no
apple, ne will be an ordinarily generous
man; if he give thrce-fourtEs Of il to an
other, he will be Baron Nirsch er
George Peabody.
Christian BenevoIence.
For thirty years this man has been
pracucing an economy which pridcd itself
ON never passing a pin without picking
1t up, and if he responded at all in church
would put on the collection plate so insig-
nihcant coin that he held his hand over
IT so that no one could discover the small
ness OF the denomination. Somewhere
in the ffties or sixties of his life, during
a revival of religion, he became Chris
tan. He is very much changed in most
respects, but his all absorbing acausi-
tiveness still influences him. To extract
from him gift for an orphanagc or
church or poor woman who has just
been burned out is an achievement You
and / know very good men, their Chris
tan character beyond dispute, and yet
they are pronounced by all as pcnurious
and they know it themselves and pray
against it. We all have our bad habits,
and yet expect TO get to heaven, and this
sklntiint has his mighty temptation. The
passion of avarice well illustrated its
strength when in one of the houses of eX-
humed POmpei was found the skeleton
of man who was trying to escape with
sixty coins and silver saucepan. For
those valuables he dared the ashes and
scoria of Nesuvius which overwhelmed
him, and many a good man has been held
nightly by avarice. But the day is com
ing for that penurious Christians depur-
ture from the world. He has an awful
struggle in giving up his government Sc
cnrities. The attorney who drew his last
will and testament saw how hard it was
for him to leave his farm or his store
house or investments, especially those
that in the markets are called gilt edged
Those that yield only 3 per cent he easily
resigns to the care of his executors. but
those that yield & or . or 10 per cent,
how can he give them up while the mar
ket is still rising?
Boistercd up in bed. knowing he has
got to sign it, he rcada the document over
ana over again, and then, with a manner
that seems to say. well. if | must |
must he signs his name 10 that snrrcn-
der of his last farthing Of earthly posses
sions. He enters heaven, but he has not
an abundant entrance. The fortune that
won for him in this world much attention
makes no impression in that country.
where the gold is so common thai they
make streets out Of it and precious stones
are so usual that they build them into
walls jasper at the bottom, amethyst mt
the top, emerald and rubies between. He
will get in. for he has enough grace 10
save him, but his place in heaven will not
be so high up or so brilliant as that Of the
woman whose generosity and sclf-Sacri-
fee have been celebrated for thousands
Of years-the widow Of the two mites
No room for his severe economies ND
there.
Reward of SeIf-Sacrifice.
But that brings me TO the other thought
of my text, that there are those who will.
when they leave this life. bound into
heaven amid salutations infinite. For
50 an entrance shall bc administered I'M
to YOU abundantly." Such cxultant adj
mission will await those who enter hcay-
en- after on earth living life for others
and without reference to conspicuity On
the banks Of the Ohio or the Tuscaloosa
or the Androscoggin is Il large family, all
Of whom have been carefully and rclie-
i0usly reared. IN the earlier stages Of
that family there were many priyations.
The mother Of the household never had
any amusements. Perhaps once in
year poor theatrical play was enacted
in the Heighboring school house or a
Squawking concert in the town hall, aad
that was all the diversion afforded for
the winter season. / asked the manager
of an insane asylum in Kentucky, From
what class Of persons do you get most Of
your patients" and he said From
farmers wives" asked the same qties-
ton Of the manager Of an insane asylum
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