Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-01-12


| choir did all the singing, save one Chris
tan man who, through perseverance OF
| the saints, went right on, and afterward
| committee was appointed TO wait on
him and ask him if he would not please
to stop singing, as he bothered the choir.
Let those refuse to sing
| Who never knew our God.
But children of the heavenly King
Should speak their joys abroad.
Praise ye the Lord; let everything
with breath praise the Lord" In the
/ glorious time coming in our cities and in
| the world hosanna will meet hoSanna
and halleluiah halleuiah.
| In that time also of which l speak all
| the haunts Of iniquity and crime and
| squalor will be cleansed and viii be ilu-
mined. How is it to be done? You say
| perhaps by one influence. Perhaps | say
| by another, will tell you what is my
| idea, and | know l am right in it, The
| gospel Of the Son of God is the only
| agency that viii ever accomplish this. Oh.
| my friends, by the sunglaSs of the gospel
| converging the rays of the Sun of Right
| eouSnesS upon the sins, the wickedue>s
| Of the world, we will make them bfaze>
| and expire! ..t
The Machinery of Love.
! In that day Of which l speak do YOU
| believe that there will be any midnight
| carousal? VIII there be any kicking Off
| from marble steps of shiverng mendi-
Giants? Will there be any unwashed. IN
| fed. uncombed children? Win there be
any blaSphcmics in the street? Win
there be any inebriates staggering paste
| No. No wine stores, no lager beer sa-
! looms, no breweries where they make the
| three KS, no bloodShot eye. no bloated
cheek, no Instruments of ruin and de-
| struction. no tst pounded forehead The
| grandchildren of that woman who goes
down the street with curse. stoned by
the boys that follow her, will he the re-.
| formers and the phjlanthropists and the
| Christian men aud the honest merchants
Of our great cities.
Then, what municipal governments,
too, we will have in all the cities Some
| cities are worse than others. but in many
Of our cities you just walk down by the
city halls and look in at some Of the
| rooms occupied by politicians, and sec to
| what Il sensual, loathsome. ignorant, he
| Sotted crew city politics is often aban-
| doned. Or they stand around the city
hall picking their teeth waiting for some
| emouments Of crumbs 10 fall to their
feet, waiting all day long, and waiting all
| night long.
Who are those wretched women taken
| mp for drunkenness and carried up to the
| courts. and put in prison. OF course?
| What will You do with the grogshops
that made them drunk? Nothing Who
are those prisoners in Jail? One of them
| stole pair Of shoes That boy stole
dollar This girl snatchcd IA purse MI
of them crimes damaging society less
| than $50 or $50 But what will You do
with the gambler who last night robbed
the young man of $1,000? Nothing.
| What shall he done with that one who
| breaks through and destroys the purity
| Of n Christian home and with an adroit-
| ness and perhdy that beats the strategy
Of hell, filings a shrinking, shrieking soul
into n bottomless perdition? Nothing.
What will YOU do with those who fleece
that young man, getting him 10 purlOin
large sums of money from his employer
the young man who came to an officer Of
my church and told the story and fran
tically asked what he might do? Moth
ing. All, we do well to punish small
crimes, but have sometimes thought il
-
the officials would only turn out from the
ials the petty criminals, the little offend,
erS, the SO desperadoes, and put in their
places some OF the monsters OF niquity
| who drive their roam span through the
streets so swiftly that honest men have
10 leap to get out of the way Of being run
over. Oh, the damnable schemes that
profcssed Christian men will sometimes
| In, 4 G.,
rctributiOn into the collar Of their robe Of
| hypocrisy and rips it clear to the bottom.
But all these wrongs are going to be
| rightcd. | expect to live to see the day.
| | think | hear in the distance the rum
bling Of the Kings chariot Not always
in the minority is the church of God 90
ing to be, or are good men going to be.
| The streets are going to be filled with
| regcncratcd populations. Three hundred
| and sixty bells rang in Moscow when one
| prince was married, but when Righteous.
ness and Peace kiss each other in all the
earth ten thousand times ten thousand
| bells shall strike the jubilee. Poverty
| enriched. Hunger fed. Crime purified
Ignorance enlightened. All the cities
saved. Is not this a cause worth work,
ing in?
Gods Omnipotent Love.
Gods love will yet bring back this
ruined world TO holiness and happiness.
An infinite Father bends over it in sym
pathy. And to the orphan he will be II
! father, aud to the widow h2 win be-
n husband, and to the outcast he will be
| home and to the poorest wretch that
to-day crawls out of the ditch Of his abom-
nations, crying for mercy, he win be- an
| all pardOning Redeemer. The rocks VIII
turn gray with age, the forests will be
| unmoored in the hurricane the sun will
shut its fiery eyelid, the stars will drop
like blasted figs, the sea will heave hs
last groan and lash itself in expiring
agony, the continents will drop like an.
chors in the deep the world will wrap
itself in sheet of flame and leap on the
funeral pyre OF the judgment day. bur
| Gods love will never die. It shall kindle
| a. al Al 15,rAE