Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-06-01

Bur there is another man who hy re
pentance and prayer has put himself into
alliance with the Almighty God. Made
all right by the Sayior's grace, this man
goes to work TO make the world right.
He says to himself; God launched this
world, and he never launched failure.
The garden Of Eden was useless morass
compared with what the whole world will
be when it blossoms and leaves and
flashes and resounds with its coming
glory. God will save it anyhow. with me
or without me, but | want 10 do my
share. l have some equipment as
much as some others, but what | have
will use. | am not a soloist but | can
sing Rock of Ages to a sick pauper l
cannot write great book, but | can pick
Ciuder out of childs eye or a splinter
from under his thumb nail. l now enlist
in this army that is going TO take the
world for God, and l defy all the evil
powers, human and satanic, TO discourage
me. Count me into the service | cannot
play upon u musical instrument, but l
can polish cornet or string a harp or
| applaud the orchestra"
A Cheerful Faith.
/ All through that mans experience there
runs faith that will keep him cheerful
! and busy and triumphant ] like the
watchword Of Cromwell's Ironsides, the
men who feared nothing and dared every
/ thing, going into battle with the shout:
! The Lord Of hosts is with MS, the God
/ of Jacob is our REFUGEE Selah." No bal
! ance that human brain ever planned or
| human hand ever constructed is worthy
/ OF weighing such spirit Gold end pre-
A.,tt IL,
! which is four grains The dealer puts
/ the diamond or the pearl on one side of
the scales and the carat on the other side
and tells you the weight. But we need
/ something more delicately constructed 10
| weigh that wonderful quality of faith
( which | am glad TO know will be recog-
I niZed and rewarded for al time and all
! eternity. The earthly weighman counter
| poiScs on metallic balances the iron, the
/ coal. the articles of human food. the
/ solids of earthly merchandise hut he
/ cannot test or announce the amount Of
/ things spiritual. Here is something
/ which the Attic and Babyloniau weigh
4 ing systems Of the past and the metric
! weighing system of the present cannot
manage. The Lord wcighcth the Spir-
/ it's"
/ Put also into those royal scales the am
/ bilious spirit. Every healthy man and
j woman has ambition The lack Of it is a
| sure sign of diocy or immortality. The
only question is, What shall be tho style
Of our ambition? TO stack up a stu
! pendous fortune to acquire resounding
name to sweep everything we can reach
into the whirlpool of our own selishness
! that is debasing, ruinous and deathful.
! If in such a spirit we get what we start
for, we only secure gigantic discomfort.
| No man was ever made happy by what
he got. 1t all depends upon the spirit
with which we get it, and the spirit with
which we keep it, and the spirit with
which We distribute it,
Gods Discipline.
But look into the dream of that school
boy who. without saying anything about
it, is planning his lifetime career. From
an old book partly written in Hebrew
and partly written in Greek, but both
Hebrew and Greek translated into good
English, he reads Of great farmer like
Amos, a great mechanic like Aholiab. a
great lawyer like Moses. great soldier
like Joshua, a great king like Hezekiah,
a great poet like David, great CLEANER
like Ruth, great physician like Luke,
a great preacher like Paul, great Christ
like no one on earth or in heaven because
the superior of all beings terrestrial or
celestial. He has learned by heart the
Ten Commandments and the sermon on
the mount and has splendid theories
about everything Between that fair
haired boy and the achievement of what
he wants and expects there are obstacles
and hindranccS known only to the God
who is going to discipline him for herocs
magnificent, | have no power 10 propho-
sy that different experiences of his en-
couragemeut and disappointment, Of his
struggle OF his triumph but rs sure as
God lives to make his word come true
that hoy who viii sleep tonight nine
hours without waking will be final victor
do rot know the intermediate chapters
Of the volume of that young mans life.
hut ! knox the first chapter and the last
charter. The first chapter is made Of
high resolve in the strength Of God. and
the last chapter is filed with tho rewards
Of Il noble ambition. As his obscuuicS
pass out to the cemetery the poor Will
| weep because they will lose their best
friend. Many in whose temporal welfare
and eternal salvation ne bore Il part will
hear of it in various places and culogizc
his memory. and God will say IA the as
ccuding spirit. ITO him that overcomcth
will | give TO eat Of the tree of life which
is in the midst Of the paradise Of God.
In the hour Of that souls release and on
| throncment there will be heavenly arcla.
nation as in the royal balances 1.-THE
| Lord weighcth the spirits
Other balances may lack precision and
| fail in conntcrpoise. Scales are affected
by conditions Of atmosphere and acid
vapors. After all that the nations have
done 10 establish an iuyarable standard.
perfection has never yet been reached,
and never viii he reached. But the royal
balances of which speak are the same
in heat and cold. in all weathcrs. in all
lands and in all the heavens just and
| true TO the last point Of justice and truth.
| TO mcasu the time we have calcn-
dars 70 measure the lightning we have
the rcctrometers TO measure the hca,
we have the thermometers. 70 measure
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