Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-04-20

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are ways of pleasantness.
You have all heard Of Gods only be
gotten Son. Have you heard of Gods
daughter? She was born in heaven She
| came down ever the hills OF our world.
| She had queeniy step On her brow was
| celestial radiance. Her voice was mu-
sic. Her name is Religion. My text in
! PRODUCES her. Her ways are ways Of
| pleasanmeSs. and all her paths are
! peace" But what is religion? The fact
| is that theological study has had diff
| fereut effect upon me from the effect
| sometimes produced. Every year l tear
| cut another leaf from my theology until
| have only three or four leaves left-in
other words, a very brief and plain state
ment of Christian belief.
| An aged Christian minister said:
When | was a young man, knew ev-
erything When | got to be 81 years of
| age. in my creed | hats only Z. hCudrcd
| doctrines of religion. When | got 20 be
/ 40 years Of age, | had only 30 doctrines
| OF religion When | got TO be 80 years
of age, had onlv ten doctrines of rclG
ion, and now ! am dying at - years of
age, and there is only one thing | know,
| and that is that Christ Jesus came into
the world TO save sinners" And SO
| have noticed in the study OF Gods word
| and in my contemplation of the character
of God and of the eternal world that it is
necessary for me to drop this part of my
belief and that part Of my belief as
| being non-csScntial. while | cling 20 the
one great doctrine that man is Il sinner
! and Christ is his Almighty and Divine
Savior
Now. take these three or four leaves
of my theology, and + find that ia the
first place and dominant above ali 9TH
ers is the sunshine of religion. When
20 into a room, / have a passion for
throwing open all the shutters That is
| what | want to do this morning. We
| are apt TO throw SO much Of the sepul-
| chral into our religion and to close the
shutters and to pull down the blinds that
| it Is only through here and there a GREY
| ice that the light streams. The religion
| of the Lord Jesus Christ is religion of
| JOY indescribabln and unutterable. Whcr-
| ever | can find bell mean to ring it,
| If there are any in this house this
morning who are disposed to hold on TO
their melancholy and gloom, let them now
depart this service before the fairest and
the brightest and the most radiant being
| Of all the universe comes in Gods Son
has feTl our world, but Gods daughter
| is here. Give her room. Hail, princess
OF heaven. Hail. daughter of the Lord
God Almighty! Come in and make this
| house thy throne room.
In setting forth this idea the dominant
theory of religion is one of sunshine |
hardly know where TO begin, for there are
SO many thoughts that rush upon my
soul. A mother saw her little child seat
| ed on the floor in the sunshine and with
! spoon ia her hand. She said. My dar-
ling. what are you doing there oh
replied the child, Il am getting a spoon
| fu Of this sunshine" Would God that
to-day | might present You with a glean-
ing chalice of this glorious, everlasting
| gospel sunshine
/ Sunshine of Christianity.
| First Of ALL find great deal of sun
| shine ia Christian society. | do not know
of anything more dolefuI than the com
| paDionship of the mere funmakers of the
| world-~the Thomas Hoods. the Charles
! Lambs, the Charles MatheWses of the
| World-the men whose entire business it
| * to make sport. They make others
| laugh, but if you will examine their an
| photography or biography you will find
| that down in their soul there was ter
| rihc disquietude. Laughter is no sign of
| happiness. The maniac laughs. The ny
ena laughs. The loon among the Adiron-
! dacks laughs The drunkard. dashing his
| dccanter against the wall, laughs.
There is a terrible reaction from all
| sinful amusement and sinful mcrrimeut.
| Such men are cross the next day They
| snap at you on exchange or they pass
M I I
| Quit mere worldly society for The reason
it was so dull so insane and SO stupid.
| My nature is voracious Of joy / must
| have it.
always walk on the sunny side Of the
street, and for that reason have crossed
over into Christian society. like their
mode Of repartce better | like their
style Of amusement better They live
longer. Christian people, ! sometimes
notice, live on when by all natural law
they ought to have died. | have known
persons who have continued in their cx-
istence when the doctor said they ought
20 have been dead ten years. Every day
or their existence was a defiance of the
laws Of anatomy and physiology, but
they had this supernatural yiyacity Of
the gospel in their soul, and that kept
Lllflu AiAA
Put ten or twelve Christian people in
room for Christian conversation, and Won
will from s to 10 o'clock hear more re-
sounding glee, see more bright strokes of
wit and find more thought and profound
satisfaction than in any merely worldly
party Now, when / say worldly par
ty'' mean that to which you are inyit-
ed because under all the circumstances
Of the case ii is the best for you to be in
vited. and to which you go because under
all circumstances of the case it is better
that You 20, and, leaving the shawls on
the second floor, you 20 TO the parIor 10
give formal sautation to the host and the
hostess and then move around, spending
the whole evening in the discussion Of the
weather and in apology for treading on
long trains and in effort to keep the cor
ners Of the mouth up to the sign Of pleas
ure, and going around with an idiotic
he-he about nothing until the collation. is