Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-05


earth or the name by which celcstials.<
shall call you. | know the Bible says in
one place that God is a jealous God, hnt
that refers 10 the work of those whs
worship some other god.
No Cause for Jealousy.
A true father is not jealous of his
child. With what glee you show the pie
ture your child penciled or toy ship
your child hewed out or recite the noble
deed your child accomplished and God
never was jealous of a Joshua. never
was jealous Of Paul, never was jealous
of a Frances Haversal, never was jeai-
Gus of man or woman who tried to
heal wounds and wipe away tears and
lift burdens and save souls. and while all
is of grace and your self abnegating ut
terance will be, Not unto us. not unto
us, hut unto thy name, O Lord, give
glory" you shall always feel heavenly
satisfaction in every good thing You did
on earth, and il iconoclasm. borne from
beneath, should break through the gates
of heaven and efface one record of Your
earthly fidelity methinks Christ would
take one of the nails OF his own cross
and write somewhere on the crystal or
the amethyst Oh the jacinth or the chrys-
oprasus your name and just under 1t tho
inscription of my text, The righteous
shall be held in everlasting rcmem-.
brance. Oh, this character building!
You anG | are every moment busy in
that tremendous occupation. You are
making me better or worse. and | ann
making you better or worse. and we shall
through all eternity bear the mark Of
this benediction or blasting Let others
have the thrones OF heaven. those who
have more nightly wrought for God
and the truth, but it will be heaven
enough for you and me if ever and anon
we meet some radiant soul on the boule-
wards of the great city who shall say:
You helped me once. You encouraged
me when | was in earthly struggle. |
do not know that | would have reached
this shining place had it not been for
YOU" And you will laugh with heavenly
glee and say: ''Ha, ha! Do You really re-
member that Christian invitation? What
a memory you have! Why, that mast
have been down there in Washington or
New Orleans at least ten thousand mill
ion years ago" And the answer will be,
"Yes, it was as long as that, but | re-
member 1t as well as though it were yes
terday."
Grasen ON G0d's Hand.
There is another and a more completes
defeat for oblivion, and that is in the
heart of God himself, You have seen a
sailor roll up his sleeve and show yOa
his arm tattooed with the figure of a
favorite ship, perhaps the first one in
vusht .h 10 Il W., La,s.
soldier roll up his sleeve aud show you
his arm tattooed with the figure OF 4
fortress where he was garrisoned or the
face of a dead general under whom he
fought You have seen many hand
tatt0oed with the face OF loved one be-
fore or after marriage. This custom of
tattooing Is almost as old as the world.
II is some cOlored liquid punctured into
the flesh so indelibly that nothing can
wash ii out Ii may have been there fifty
years, but when the man goes into his
coffin that picture will go with him ON
hand or arm. Now, God says that he
has tattooed us upon his hands. There
can be no other meaning In the forty
ninth chapter of Isaiah. where God says,
Behold, ! have craven thee on the
palms Of my hands, 1t was as much as
to say: II cannot open my hand to help.
but | think of you. | cannot sprend-
abroad my hands to bless, but think OF
YOU. Wherever | go up and down che
heavens | take these two pictures of you
with me. They are SO inwrought into
my being that | cannot lose them Az
long MS my hands last the memory of
you will last. Not on the back OF my
hands, as though to announce you to 9th
ers, but on the palms OF my hands for
myself to look at and study and love
Though hold the winds in my fist, no
cyclone shall uproot the inscription of
your name and your face. and though /
hold the ocean IN the hollow of my hand
its Diiowing shall not wash out the rec
ord of my remembrance. Behold, | have
craven thee on the palms Of my handsr
What JOY. what honor, can there be
comparable to that of being remembered
by the miehtiest and most affcctionate
being in the universe? Think OF it, TO
hold an everlasting place in the heart of
God The heart OF God! The most beau
tiful palace in the universe
Oh, where is oblivion now? From Inc
dark and overshadowing word that it
something which no man or woman or
child who loves the Lord need ever fear.
Oblivion defeated. Oblivion dead. Obiv.
ion sepulchered. But | must not be so
hard on that devouring monster, for into
it's grave go all our sins when the Lord
for Christ's sake has forgiven them.
Just blow a resurrection trumpet over
them when once Oblivion has snapped
them down. Not one of them rises Blow
again. Not a stir amid all the pardoncd
inquitics Of lifetime. Blow again. Not
one Of them moves in the deep grave
trenches. But to this powerless resurrec-
ton trumpet a voice responds, bali hu.
man, half divine. and it must be part
man aud part God, saying, Their sins
and their iniquities viii | remember no
more Thank God for this blessed OBJ
liyion. So you see ! did not invite you
down into a cellar but UP on a throne;
not into the graveyard to which all ma
terialism is destined. but into garden
all a-bloom with everlasting remcm-
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