Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-05-18

er of the gospel has not yet been touched.
As a sportsman throws up his hand and
catches the ball flying through the air,
just 50 easily will this gospel after awhile
catch this round world flying fron its or
bic and bring it back to the heart of
Christ. Give it full swing, and it will
pardon every sin, heal every wound, cure
every trouble, emancipate every slave and
ransom every nation. Take careful aim.
Pull the arrow clear back until the head
strikes the bow! Then let il fly. And
may the slain of the Lord be many.
Again, if you want to be skillful in
spiritual archery you must hunt in TN
freQuented and secluded places. Why
does the hunter so three or four days in
the Pennsylvania forests or over Ra-
quette lake into the wilds of the Adiron-
dacks? 1t is the only way to do. The
deer are shy, and one bang" of the gun
clears the forest. From the California
stage you see, as you go over the plains,
here and there coyote trotting along al
most within range Of the gun sometimes
quite within range of it. No one cares
for that 1t is worthless The good
game IS hidden and secluded. Every
hunter knows that. So many Of the souls
that will be of most worth for Christ aud
of most value to the church are secluded.
They do not come in our way. You will
have to go where they are. Wonder they
are down in that cellar. YOnder they
are up in that garret-far away from the
door OF any church, The gospel arrow
has not been pointed at them. The tract
distributor and the city missionary some
times just catch glimpse of them, as Il
hunter through the trees gets a momen.
tary sight of partridge or roebuck. The
trouble is we are waiting for the game to
come to us. We are not good hunters.
We are standing on some street or road
expecting that the timid antelope will
come up ana eat out Of our hand. We
are expecting that the prairie fowl will
light on our church stceple. Ii is not
their habit, II the church should wait
1O,00O.000 of years for the world t0 come
in aud he saved, 1t will wait in vain. The
world will not come.
What the church wants now is to lift
its feet from damask ottomans and put
them in the strrups The church wants
not so much cushions as it wants saddle
bags and arrows. We have got TO put
aside the gown and the Kid gloves and
put on the hunting shirt. We want
pulpit on wheels. We have been fishing
SO long in the brooks that run under the
shadow of the church that the fish know
us, and they avoid the hook and escape
as soon as we come TO the bank, while
yonder is Upper Saranac and Big Eup-
pers lake, where the first swing of the
gospel net would break it for the multi
tude of the fishes There is outside work
to be done. What is it that ! see in the
backwoods? 1t is a tent. The hunters
have made clearing and camped out.
What do they care If they have wet feet
or if they have nothing but pine branch
for a pillow or for the northeast Storm
If Il moose in the darkness steps into the
lake TO drink, they hear it right away.
IL loon cry in the midnight, they hear
it, So i'll the service of God we have ex-
posed work, We have got to camp out
and rough it. We are putting all our
care on the comparatively few people who
so to church. What are we doing for
the millions who do not come? Have they
no souls? Are they sinless that they need
no pardonF Are there no dead in their
houses that they need he comfort Are
they cut off from God to go into eternity.
no wing TO bear them, no light to cheer
them, no welcome to greet them? Go
We into all the world and preach the gos-
pei 70 every creature. He that bclicveth
and is baptized shall be saved but he
that helieveth not shall he damned"-a
command, you see, punctuated with a
throne of heaven and dungeon Of he'll
| remark, further, il YOU want 20 sue
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courage. II the hunter stands with trem-
bling hand or shoulder that hnchcs with
fear, instead of his taking the cata-
mount the catamount takes him What
would become OF the Grecnlander If when
out hunting for the bear he should stand
shivering with terror on an icchcrgy
What would have become of Du Chaillu
and Livingstone in the African thickct
with Il faint heart and a weak knee?
When n panther comes within twenty
PAGES Of you and it has its eve on You
and it has squattcd for the fearful
spring. STEADY there" Courage. . We
spiritual archcrs There are great mon
sters Of iniquity proving all around
about the community. Shall we not in
the strength of God 20 forth and combat
thcmT We not only need more heart. but
more backbone. What is the church Of
God that it should fear to look in the
eye any transgressionf There is The
Bengal tiger Of drunkenness that prowls
around, and instead of attacking il how
many OF us hide under the church pew or
the communion table, There is 50 much
invested in it we are afraid TO assault
it, Millions Of dollars in barrels, in watts,
i'm spigots. in corkscrews in gin palaces
with marble floors and Italian top tables
aud chased ice coolers, and in tho strych-
nine and the logwood and the tartaric
acid and the uuX yomica that go - make
up our pure American drinks | look
ed with wondering eyes on the "IIcidel-
berg tun," 1t is the great liquor vat Of
Germany, which is said to hold 500 hogs
heads of wine, and only three times in
100 years it has been filled. But as
stood and looked at it | said to myself:
That is nothing 500 hogsheads. Why,
our American vat holds 100000 bar
rels Of strong drinks, and we keep 300,-
600 men with nothing t. do but 10 see