Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-11-23

ny this life? Are you going to he loung-
er and do nothing after You have quit
this world? Ii is my business to tell you
that your faculties are 10 be enlarged
and Intensified and your qualifications for
usefulness multiplied tenfold, i hundred
fold, a thousandfold.
Is your health gone? Then that is a
sign that you are To enjoy celestial
health compared with which the most jo-
cund and hilarious vitality Of earth IS in
vaIidiSm. Are your fortunes spent? Re
member You are TO he kings and queens
unto God and how much more wealth
You will have when you reign forever aud
ever. want to see You when you get
your heavenly work dress on. This little
bit of a speek of q world we call the
earth is only the place where we get
ready to work. We are only journeymen
here, but will be master workmen there
Heaven viii have no loafers hanging
around. The book says of the inhahit-
ants, They rest not day nor night Why
rest when they work without fatigue?
Why seek pillow when there is no night
there: want to see you after the pedcs-
trianiSm of earth has been exchanged for
power of fight and velocities infinite and
enterprises interstellar, interworld
Freed from Limitations.
Am | not right in saying that eternity
can do more for us than can time? What
will we not be able to do when our pow
erS of locomotion shall be quiekened into
the immortal spirits speed? Why should
a bird have swiftness of wing when it
is OF no Importance how long it shall take
to make its aerial way from forest to for
est and we, who have so much more im-
portant errand in the world. get on so
slowly? The roebuck outruns us, the
hounds arc quicker in the chase, hut wait
until God lets us loose from all limita-
items and indictments. Then we will fair
ly begin. The starting post win be the
tombstone. Leaving the world will be
graduation day before the chief work of
our mental and spiritual career Hope
sees the doors opening. the yictor'S foot
in Stirrup for the mounting, The day
breaks-hrst flush of the horizon The
mission of hope will be an everlasting
mission, as much Of it in the heavenly
hereafter as in the earthly now Shall we
have gained all as soon as we enter
no other heights to climb, no new an
thems TO raise, a monotony of existence,
the same thing over and over again for
endless years? No! More progress in
that world than we ever made in this.
Hope will stand on the hills of heaven
and look for ever Frightening landscapes,
other transformations of color. new glo-
res rolling over the scene new celebra.
tons of victories in other worlds, heaven
rising into grander heavens, seas Of glass
mingled with fire. becoming a more bril-
liant glass minglng with more flaming
fire. (which hope"
Now, let me introduce this feeling into
the lives of some who are at times hope
less. There is family whose son has
gone wrong. Father and mother have
about given him mp. he seems so head
long, so ungrateful, so dissipated, and the
| old folks do not know half the story OF
moral precipitation. He has ceased writ
ing home. bur they hear of him through
people who like to carry bad news, and
every time the report is more deplorable
He swears, he CANDLES, he drinks, he
goes into all the shambles of sin. His for,
mer employer says there is no hope for
him, and all outside the family agree in
thinking he will never reform The father
and mother have not quite given him up,
and these words are 10 strengthen their
hope That boy is going to come back.
! on have a hold on him that YOU must
not relax. Through prayer You may win
the eternal God for your side Of the
struggle. You must enlist all the heaven
ly dominions, cherubim and seraphim and
archangel. in the movement to save your
son. Some day or some night he viii call
a halt to his infamous practices.
Hope on, and, though yon may never
hear Of your sons reformation and others
may think he has left this life hopeless,
who knows but that in the last moment.
after he has ceased TO speak and before
his soul launches away, your prayer may
have been answered aud he be one Of
the first to meet you at the shining gate
The prodiAal in the parable got home and
sat down at the feast, while the elder
brother, who never left the old place.
stood pouting at the back door anu did
not 20 in at all
To another class of persons / Introduce
the angel Of Hope. and they are the inya-
anus VI iupH Allfi long AHIfUlH2 or
orerwork or towering grief your nervous
system is ruined. Perhaps you have
hidden disorder that the world knows
nothing about and which you cannot with
any delicacy speak of. Perhaps il may be
a rheumatism that distorts and inhames
or neuralgia which runs its sharp knife
along the temples Of your forehead. Per
haps it is an indigestion causing food
which is a recuperation TO others to be
come n torture TO you. Perhaps it is an
insomnia which keeps You az wide awake
at II O'Clock at nig.It as at II clock at
noon, and hour after hour like one in the
Bible Vines you cry, Would God it
We're morning"
cannot take the diagnosis of your dis
order, but let hope cheer you with one Of
two thoughts. Such marvellous cures are
being wrought in our day through mcdi-
cation and surgery that your invalidism
may yet he mastered. Persons as i'll as
you have got we'll Cancer and tubercu]o-
sis will yet give way before some new
discovery. ! see every day people strong
and well who not long ago | saw paIlid