Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-01-05
Copyright, Louis Klopscn. 1907

little thing may decide ones destiny. The
text is Proverbs XIV, IL revised YER
sion), "A word fifty spoken is like apples
OF gold in baskets of silver
A filigree basket loaded with fruit is
put before US in the text. What is ordi-
narily translated pictures" ought to be
baskets" Here is silver network
basket containing ripe and golden apples,
pippins or rennets. You know how such
apples glow through the openings Of "A
basket of silver network. You have seen
such basket of fruit ON many table.
1t whets the appetite as well as regales
the vision. Solomon was evidently fond
of apples, because he so often speaks of
them. While he writes in glowing terms
of pomegranates and figs and grapes
and mandrakes, he seems to find solace
as well as lusciousness in apples, calling
out for a supply Of them when he says
in another place, Comfort me with APP
pies" Now you see the meaning OF my
text, a word fifty spoken is like apples
of gold in baskets of silver"
You see the wise man eulogizes just
one word. Plenty of recognition has
there been for great orations. Cicero's
arraignment of Catiline, the philippines Of
Demothenes the FIVE days argument OF
Edmund Burke against Warren Hast
ings. Edward Irving's dscourses on the
Bible and libraries full of prolonged ut
terances, but my text extols the power of
one word when it refers to "a word fifty
spoken"
This may mean single word or
small collection Of words something you
can utter in one breath. something that
you can compact into one sentence. "A
word fitly spoken"-an encouraging word,
a kind word, a timely word, sympa-
thetic word an appropriate word. ! can
pass right down the aisle of any church
and find between pulpit and front door
men whose temporal and eternal destiHies
have been decided by word.
Choosing an Occupation.
/ tell you what is great crisis ia ey-
cry mans history. 1t is the time when
he is entering an occupation or profess
sion. He is opposed by men in middle
life, because they do not want any more
rivals, and by some of the aged, because
they fear being crowded off and their
places being taken 10y younger men. Hear
the often severe and unfair examinations
of young lawyers by old lawyers, OF
young doctors by old doctors, of young
ministers by old minister's Hear some of
tha old merchants talk about the young
merchants. Trowels and hammers and
scales often are jealous of new trowels
and new hammers and new scales. Then
it is so difficult to get introduced. How
long time has many a physician had his
sign out before he got call Cor his ser
vices and the attorney before he got n
easel Who wants to risk the life of his
family to young physician who got his
diploma only last spring and who may
not know measles from scarlatina. or TO
risk the obtaining of a verdict for $4,000
TO an attorney who only three years ago
read the first page Of Blackstone:
How is the young merchant to com
pete with his next door bargain maker.
who can afford to undcrsell some things
because he can more than make ii up by
the profit on other things, or has failed
three times and had more money after
each failure? How is that mechanic TO
make a livelihood when there are twice
as many men in that trade as can in hard
times find occupation? There are this
very moment thousands of men who are
just starting life for themselves, and they
need encouragement Not long harangue
not quotation from profound book, not
page, not paragraph, but a word. one
word fifty spoken.
Why does not that old merchant who
has been forty years in business, go into
that young merchants store and say,
Courage He needs only that one word,
although. Of course. you will illustrate it
by telling your own experience, and how
long you waited for customers. and how
the first two years you lost moncF. and
how the next year, though you did better.
illness in your household swampcd the
surplus with doctors bills Why does not
that old lawyer go into that young law
yer's office just after he has broken down
in making his first plea before a jury and
say that word with only two sylablcs,
Courage" He needs only that one word.
although, of course, y0u will Illustrate it
by telling him how you broke down in
one OF your first cases and got laughed at
by court and bar and jury, and how Dis
raeli broke down at the start, and how
hundreds Of the most successful lawyers
at the start broke down. Why do not the
those who are starting what they went
through, and how their notes got protest
ed, and what unfortunate purchases they
made, and how they were swinded, but
kept right on until they reached the gold
en- milestone? Even some who pretend 10
favor the new beginner and say they
wish him well put obstacles in his way
The Need of Courage.
There are so many men who have all
the elements Of usefulness and power cx-
cept one-courage. If you can only under
God give them that you give them every
thing. In illustrating that one word show
them that every man that ever amounted
20 anything had terrific struggle. Show
him what ships Decatur had 10 frh., and
what a mountain Hannibal had t. climb.
and what a lame foot Walter Scott had
10 walk on, and that the greatest poet
who ever lived-Miltou-wa blind, that
one Of the grandest musicians Of all the
-Beethoveu--was deaf, and that
stewart. in some respects the greatest
merchant that America ever saw, began
in his small store, dining on bread and
cheese behind the counter III q sHatched
between customers he open