Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-12-21

different thing. You never could have
imagined the silences about the house
now that the little feet are quiet and the
infant voice has ceased its prattle What
sensation at eyentide with no one to put
TO bed! What toys put away to be looked
ut on anniversary days! How Christmas
day is Swallowed and the world IS chang
cd. Get over it? You never can GET over
| il in this world Perhaps il is your FIRST
sorrow. "Ie have not passed this way
before God grant that you may never
pass this way again.
But follow the ark, and il will Lead You
to rivers of consolation. You will find
| that your child has gone into a heaven ot
children. land where children are in
vast majority, a score of infant souls 10
one manly or womanly soul, Tor the vast
majority OF the race die in infancy. 1t is
the exception when people live to grow
up. Heaven a great playground for chill
dren. Palaces for kings and queens? Oh,
yes! But what wide halls OF pleasure,
what gardens of delight, what raptures,
such as on earth with bali and kite and
hoop they never felt! Let them go. moth
er. You can trust him in the land Of mu-
sic and flowers. The front door OF that
eternal home was opened by him who
said. Suffer the little children to come
unto ME and forbid them not. for such is
the kingdom OF heaven" What a time
the children have up there! Follow the
ark, and it will lead YOU to the crossing
! into the reunions of the home where you
| will never part.
Discovery of New Things.
As our sorrows are new, our Joys are
! new aud all our experiences are new.
/ Our life is one long discovery Of things
that we did not know ana could not
| know. because we have not passed this
! way before. We have found, for instance
| that gratitude is the rarest OF virtues
You used to suppose that il you DO II
kindness it will be fully appreciated and
! reciprocated. You have found out by eN
| perience, You could have found out III
no other way, that gratitude is apt to be
| only another ak to grind. While there is
a possibility that you may return stu
more service you are thanked. but when
| you can return no more advantage You
are dropped. Here is man whom You
| have helped in political elevation. When
| the time comes for the compliment to I've
| returned, you are not onl@ refused help,
| but You receive positive opposition. You
| have found out that you should do the
! right thing not with respect 20 reward or
! gratitude, but because it is the right
! thing to do. Many are miserable BECAUSE
they are all the way looking for gratitude
which they cannot find, You might rs
well go down Pennsylvania avenue,
| Washington. or Broadway, New York, or
! fremont street, Boston, your eyes scrut-
nizing the pavements looking for tur-
| quoscs and emeraldS and ruhjes. Per
haps you might find them. but there is
not mach probability thar in fifty years
| YOU would ind one of them. No one has
| come TO midlife who has not been stung
of ingrattude. On the battlefield of
| Alma in 1854 wounded Russian was
| crying in anguish Of thirst for water.
Captain Eddington of the English army
ran to him and gave him drink. As the
captain was running by to join his regl-
ment the wounded soldier Shot him Az
most all languages have proverbs setting
| forth this perversity,
\ on will never be happy in this world
If you do not do all the good you can and
look for no responsive gratitude Al the
| damage | did a man who is ms enemy
/ was TO take him from position whore
he received 500 4 year salary into po-
Sition where he has ever since received
50, 800 n year. lie never forgaye me, bt
has pursued me with q pen Ytriolic ever
! since. The worst enemy you ever had is
the man YOU introduced aad favore and
| helped But he not disturbed or even irri-
! tated. NOu are no better than your Lord.
| If the world had had any thankful apprc-
| citation Of his coming, it would have ILL
ed that Bethlehem caravansary with
| flowers which bloom there clear on into
the December month, ana IIerod, instead
| Of attempting his death, would have sent
! q chariot to fetch the infant 10 the pal
| ace, and the oyer and termuer Of Pilates
| court room would have pronounced him
not guilty, and instead OF cross and
crown Of thorns it would have been
| coronation, with all the mighty ones of
| the earth knecing at the foor Of his
| throne.
] Crossing the Jordan.
| ask YOU to notice the fact that ny
! text does not call attention TO the cross,
| ing OF the Jordan, but to the way lead
| ing thereto. We all think much of our
| crossing of the Jordan when tho march
Of our life is ended but put too little
| emphasis on the way that leads to the
crossing. What you aud need most to
| care about is the direction OF the road
wa are travelling. We need have no
fear Of the crossing if we come to it in
the right way. In other words. we need
not care about death il our life has been
what 1t ought to be. We win die right il
we live right
| What an absurdity il wonld have been
for Joshua and his men 80 have asked
each other questions Ike these. How
| can we cross the Jordan il We get thcrey
VIII not the water be too deep to allow
us to wade? VIII we not all be so satu-
| rated that We may lose our lives by expo
sure? How many Of US can swim? Had
We better not wait until the annual fresh
ct has subsidedE" No such folly did they
| commit. They were chiefly anxious about
| the way that they had not passed be
fore" and We're ignorant u aud to keep
their eyes on the golden covered acacia
! box. wing mounted, which VAS the ark.of
! the covenant.