Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-19

here from some OF the hotels Look out
for those agents of lniquty who tarry
about the hotels and ask you. Would
You like 10 see the city," Yes" Have
you ever seen that splendid building up
town." No" Then the villain VII
undertake to show you what he calls the
| Hons and tie elephants" ali after a
| young man through morbid curiosity or
/ through badness of soul has seen the
| Lions" and the elephants" he will be
on enchanted ground Look out for
these men who move around the hotels
| with sleek hats-always sleek hats-and
| patronizing air and unaccountable inter
est ab0ut your welfare and entertain
| ment. You are fool if you cann)t see
through it. They want your money.
When nruukenness Mo,t Prevails
| In the third watch of the night also
drunkenness does its worst. The drink-
ing will be respectable at S o'clock IN
the evening. littIa flushed at ., talk
ative and garruloas at 10. at II bias
| phcmous, at L. the hat falls off, at the
man falls to the floor asking for more
drink. Strewn through the drinking sa-
looms of the city, fathers, husbands. sons
as good as You are by nature. perhaps
| better. In The high circles of society it is
hushed up. A merchant prince if he gets
noisy and uncomfortable, is taken by his
fellow jewellers, who try to get him 10 bed
or take him home, where he falls lat n
the entry. Do NOT wake up the children.
They have had disgrace enough Do NOS
| let them know it. Hush ii up. Bat
sometimes it cannot be hushed up when
the rum touches the brain and the man
becomes thoroughly frenzied. Such one
came home, having been absent for some
time, and during his absence his wife
/ died. and she lay in the next room pre-
pared for the obsequies. and he went in
and dragged her by the locks and shook
her out of the shroud and pitched her
out of the window. Oh when rum
touches the brain you.cannot hush il up!
/ My friends, you see all around about
you the need that something radical be
done. You do not see the worst In tho
midnight meetings in London great mul.
titude have been saved. We want a few
hundred Christian men and women to
come down from the highest circles of So
ciety to toll amid these wandering and
destitute ones and kindle up light in the
| dark alley, even the gadness Of heaven.
DO not go wrapped in your fine furs and
from your well filled tables with the idea
| that pious talk is going to stop the gnaw-
ing of an empty stomach or TO warm
stockinglcss feet. Take bread. take raj.
ment, take medicine as well as take
prayer, There is a great deal Of common
sense in what the poor woman said to the
city missionary when he was telling her
how she ought to love God and serve him.
Oh she said, IF you were az poor and
cold as | am and IA hungry you could
think of nothing else"
A great deal of what is called Chpis-.
tan work goes for nothing for the simple
reason that it was not practical, as after
the battle of Antietam man got ont
of an ambulance with bag of tracts.
and he went distributing the tracts, and
George Stuart, one of the best Christian
men in this country, said to him: What
are you distributing tracts for now?
There are three thousand men bleeding
to death. Bind up their wounds and
then distribute the tracts" We want
more common sense in Christian work.
taking the bread Of this life in one hand
and the bread of the next life in the
other hand. No such inapt work as that
done by the Christian man who during
our Civil War went to Il hospital with
tracts and coming 10 thr bed of a man
whose legs had been amputatei. gave him
a tract on the sin OF dancing. rcioice
before God that never ara sympathetic
words uttered, never prayer offered.
never Christian almsgivng INDUCED in.
but it is blessed. | am not here to thrust
you back with one hard word Take the
bandage from your bruised soul aud nut
on it the soothing salve Of Christ's COS
| pei and of Gods compassion. tell YOU
| there is more delight in heaven over one
man that gets reformed by the grace OF
God than over ninety and uine that never
got off the track
Attacking the Weak Point
could give you the history in minute
Of one of the best friends | ever had.
Outside of my own family never had
| better friend. He welcomed me 10 NV
home at the west, He was Of splendid
personal appearance, but he had an ardor
of soul and ii warmth Of affection that
made me love him like brother.
saw men coming out Of the saloons and
gambling hells. and they surrounded my
| friend and they took him at the weak
point-his social nature-and saw him
going down, and | had fair talk with
could not talk with on the subject of his
! habits if You talked with him in the
right way. | said to him, why don't
| you give up your bad habits and become
a Christian" ] remember now just how
he looked, leaning over his counter, as he
replied: Il wish l could. Oh. sir, |
should like to be "a Christian, but have
gone so far astray can't get baekv' SO
. hf linn A gr... -t.sa
Of sickness came. | was summoned to
his sckbed. / hastened Ii took but a
few moments TO get there. was sur
prised as | went in. l saw him in his
ordinary dress, fully dressed lying On
top OF the bed. | gave him my hand, and
he seized it cOnyulsively and said: oh,
how glad j am TO See you. Sit down
there" ] sat down, and he said: Mr..
Talmage, just where you sit now my
mother sat last night She has been
dead twenty years. Now, | don't want