Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-01-26

hearts, and healed more CHASTITY wounds
than all the doctors since the time of
AeSculapius. BE obliging and just make
the experiment. If you are not ac-
quainted with the ordinary modes of
prayer. say in substance: 20 Lord Jesus,
this Is a strange thing for me To do. /
know nothing about the formulas of re-
ligion. These Christian people have been
talking so long about what thou canSt do
for me | am ready to do whatever thou
commandest me. Ii there be any power
in religion, as these people say, let me
have the advantage of it," Will you not
try that experiment?
do not now say there is anything in
religion. Do not take my counsel or the
counsel of any clergyman, for you may
dislike clergymen. Perhaps we may talk
professionally. Perhaps we may be pre-
JUDGED in the matter. Perhaps our adj
vice is not worth talking. Then take the
counsel of some very respectable layman,
MS John Milton. the poet; as William
Wherefore, the emancipation; rs Isaac
Newton, the astronomer; a. Robert
Boyle, the philosopher; as Locke, the
metaphysician; as Morse the telegra1
pher; as Washington, the statesman.
preach. yet, putting down one his tele,
scope and another his parliamentarian's
scroll and another his electricians wire,
came forth and commended the religion
of Christ as the best thing for the cure OF
the worlds woes II you will not take
the recommendation of ministers of the
gospel take the recommendation OF
highly respectable laymen.
Gospel of Peace and Hope.
Oh, men, skeptical and struck through
with unrest! | beg You come off that
great Sahara desert of doubt into tho
bright and luXuriant land of gospel hope
and peace You do not want your chill,
dren to come up in that skepticism. liz
you do not believe in anything else, you
believe in love--a fathers love- a moth,
er's love, wife's love, childs love.
Then let me tell you that God loves you
more than all these together. The great
heart of Christ aches to have you come
in, and he looks into your eyes this mo-
ment, saying, Other sheep have which
are not of this fold"
Again. ! remark that the heavenly
Shepherd is going to find great many OF
the sheep among those who have been
full of evil habit. They were all cheated
into sin. The spider does not say to the
fly, Come into the web where | kill in-
sects.' oh, no. The spider says, Dear
est fly, come and take a morning walk
with me on this suspension bridge of Cos
amer glittering with diamonds of dew"
DO not be hard on those gone astray. 1t
makes me sad to see Christian people
give up a prodigal as lost. There are
those who talk as though the grace of
God were chain of forty or fifty links
and that when they had run out there
WIS nothing left to touch bad case If
they We're hunting and got off the track
of the deer, they would look longer among
the brakes and bushes for the lost game
than they would look for that lost soul
People tell us that il n man has de-
lirium tremens twice he cannot be re-
claimed, that If woman has sacrificed
her integrity she cannot be restored. The
Bible has distinctly intimated that the
Lord Almighty is ready to pardon four
hundred and ninety times Why do |
say four hundred and ninety times? Be
cause the Bible says seventy times
seven" Now figure that out. You dc
not think n man can fall four times,
eight times, ten times twenty times one
hundred times, four hundred times and
yet be saved. Four hundred and ninety
times! There are men before the throne
Of God who have wallowed in every kind
of sin, but saved by the grace Of Christ
and washed in his blood they stand there
radiant now There are those who
plunged into the very lowest depths Of
the slums aud who have for hundreds
of times been lifted up and finally, by
the grace of God, they stand in heaven,
gIoriously rescued by the grace promised
to the chief of sinners.
| want to tell you that God loves 10
take hold Of a very bad ease. When the
church casts you off, aud when the club
room casts you off, and when society
casts you off, and when business assoc-
atcs east you off, and when mother casts
y0u off, and when everybody casts You
off, your first cry for help will bend the
eternal God clear down into the ditch
of your suffering and shame. The Good
Templars cannot save you, although they
are grand institution. The Sons oi
Temperance cannot save you, although
they are mighty for good. Signing the
temperance pledge cannot save you, al
though | believe in IT, Nothing but the
and that viii if you will throw yourself
on it.
There is only one class Of persons
about whom | am disheartcned and they
are the gospel hardened. They have been
faithful in attendance mt churches for
twenty, thirty and forty years, yet never
have surrendered themselves to God. AS
Christ says, "Publicans and harlots 90
into the kingdom Of heaven before them"
They have resisted all the importantly
of divine mercy and have gone through
most powerful earthquakes Of religious
feeling, and they are farther away from
God than ever. After awhile they win
lie down sick and some day it will be-
told that they are dead. No hopei
But | turn to outsiders with an expec.
tation that thrills through me, body and
soul. Other sheep have which are not
Of this fold" You are not gospel harden
cd, You have not heard many sermons
during the last few years. You feel the