Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-02-09

have family relations, and some of them
will be making exit from this world, so
that bereavement is the universal inherit
ance. So also is financial loss. The diff
ference between the prospered ard those
not prospered is the difference in the
amount they can afford TO lose. The
more wealth man has the more he can
lose, hut one man can afford to lose a
million dollars where another man can
not afford to lose one dollar. On larger
or smaller scale all suffer financial loss.
Amid the rapidity of the revolutions of
the wheel of national and international
finance monetary perplexity is as com
mon as day or night.
So also misinterpretation and Islander
come TO az who live active lives Our
actions, thoroughly honest and above,
board, may come under suspicion. Every
court room at every term of court hears
Illustrations of the deluSion OF what is
called circumstantial evidence Innocent
men are fined or imprisoned or electro
cutcd because of an unfortunate commune
ton of events. What is true in court
rooms is true in all circles OF domestic
OF social or political or official life. Nou
scented or will be misunderstood or ms
represented. Then hoN can my text he
true? My explanation is this: Tho man
without any divine grace in his heart
finds in these troubles irritation and IN
belief and melancholia and despair. \
Christian man finds in them submission
and enlarged views and divine support
and reconsecration. Bereavement to the
wording brings hard thoughts of God
and a resistance so violent il dares not
fully express itself. bereavement brings
to the Christian the thought of heavenly
reunion and a more complete laying hold
of God. and Il more tender appreciation
of the divine presence. and deeper graft
Jude that we were permitted 20 have the
departed one SO long. and n more lively
sympathy for the SORROWS of others and
another evidence of Gods love, for
whom the Lord loveth he chastcncth."
Misery OF Having Too Much.
Financial loss, which just now said is
sure to come. never breaks up II man
who mas strong faith in God. In most
cases it is loss of surplus or it is the
Punishment Of Injuries Most of the
wants of the prosperous classes are arti-
icial wants. The late MIR. Armour Of the
S6O,00O,O00 estate pointed to one of his
clerks on ordinary salary and said. THAT
man has better appetite than |, sleeps
hotter nights and enjoys life more than |
do oh, the gigantic miscries of those
who have too much!
Things are more equally divided than
is generally supposed. That splendid
home is apt to have taking off OF some
kind. 1t may be an invalid wife. or a de.
formed child, or an inherited tending to-
ward insanity, or dissolute son, or de
spoiled reputation, or weakened heart
that may halt under the least excitement
Envy no man. Envy no woman. BE
| content with such things as We have. ID,
not think, in order to have il well witt
YOU according to my text, that there
fore you must have more thar somebody
else, or even as much as somebody else
The Lord treats MS all better than We
treat him, and if we would study oui
blessings as much as we study our disas
tiers we would be more reasonable and
thankful In Isaiah God says that bread
and water shall be sure. and none of us
has been put on SO low diet, but we
/ often act as though God lad not kept
his promise because we want more lux
uries. forgetful OF the fact that he prom
ised bread. not cake; water, not spark
ling cordials.
The reason 50 many people are misera
| BILE is because they do not let well enough
alone. They are in one occupation ano
see its annOyances and so change to an
other occupation and find as many annoy,
ances, if not more. They live in one
place and know it's uncomfortable en-.
yironments and move into another place
which has just as many limitations
Their investments yield them 4 per cent
and they sell out to make investments
that will yield 10 per cent and lose all.
Better settle down and stop frcttng
about Yourself and the world.
An Unlimited Supply.
DO any of us fully realize the fact that
God gives us three things in unlimited
supply. although no formula Of prayer
that | ever heard recognizes thcu-wa-
ter. air and sunlight? Water by the riy-
erful. Water by the Iakcfui Water by
the oceanful. Some for ablutiou. some
for shaking Of thirst some for baptistcry.
some for fountains aud aquariums.
never appreciated what wonderful
thing water is until last summer stood
by the fountains before and around the
empcror's palace at Peterhof Russia. !
had been familiar with this wonderful
element of nature from childhood. hav-
Ing been born on the banks of the brauti-
ful Raritan and as a barcfootcd boy dab
blcd in the brook near my fathers house.
But ! never realized until last summer
what water could do in play, or in
strange caprice, or Identification, or
when climbing the ladder Of the light or
when skilful w0rkmen took hold Of if to
toss il, or whirl it, or shape it into
crowns. or hoist il into columns. or
spring il into arches. or lift il into stars.
or turn it into crescents. or build it into
temples. You forget you ever saw the
less glorious waters at Chatsw0rth.
England. or Versailles, France as YOU
stand in the balcony Of the palace over
looking the Finland gulf, bcwildcred and
transported as you look ut the one dis
play called the Golden Stairway foun-
tain. The water rolls down over TWEEN
ty-four steps one foot high aud twenty
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