Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-07-27

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that there is Il tendency Ia excuse
81 brilliant faults because they are bril-
| liant, when the same law of RICH; AMI
wrong ought to be applied 10 high places
and low; text, Daniel w., 83, The same
hour was the thing fulfilled upon Neb-
uchadnezzar, and he was driven from
men aud did eat grass as oxen"
Here Is the mightiest of the Babylon
| ish kings. Look at him. He did more
| for the grandeur of the capital than did
| all has predecessors or successors. Hang
| ing gardens, reservoirs. aquedUcts, pal
aces, ali of his own planning. The bricks
| that are brought up to-day from the ruins
| of Babylon have his name on them
Observation-Disclosures, son of \abopolassor,
king of Babylon" He was Il great con
| queror. He stretched forth his spear to-
ward nation, and it surrendered, But
he plundcred the temple of the true God,
| He lifted an idol, Bel Merodach, and
| compelled the people to bow down before
| it, and if they refused they must go
| through the redhot furnace or he crunch
ed by hon or lioness. SO God pulled him
| down.
! He was smitten with what physicians
| call lycanthropy and fancied that he was
| wild beast and he went out and pas
| tured amid the cattle. God did not eX-
| cuse him because he had committed the
| sin III high places or because the trans
| gression was wide resounding. He meas
ured Nebuchadne22ar in high places just
as he would measure the humhlast cap
! tive.
But in our time. you know as we'll as |,
h1f SC h,l
around iniquity if it is committed in con
spicuous place and if it is wide resoundng
and of large proportions Ever and anon
| there has been an epidemic Of crime in
high places, and there is not n State or
city and hardly village which has not
been called to look upon astounding for
gerry or an absconding bank cashier or
| president or the wasting Of trust fund or
swindhng mortgages. | propose in car
| rylng out the suggestion of my text as
| far as / can, to scatter the fascinations
around iniquity and show you that sin is
sin and wrong is wrong whether in high
place or low place and that it will be
dealt with by that God who dealt with
| impalaced Nebuchadnezzar.
| All who preach feel that two kinds of
sermons are necessary, the one on the
faith of the gospel. the other on the
morality of the gospel. and the one is
just as important as the other for you
know that in this land to-day there are
hundreds of men hiding behind the com
munion tables and in churches of Jesus
Christ who have no business to be there
as professors Of religion They expect to
be all right with God although they are
all wrong with man. And, while | want
you to understand that by the deeds Of
the law no flesh living can be justified
and mere honest life cannot enter us
into heaven, | want you as plainly 10
understand that unless the life is right
the heart is not right Grace in the heart
and grace in the life; SO we must preach
sometimes the faith of the gospel and
sometimes the morality Of the gospel.
1t seems to me there has not been n
time in the last fifty years when this lat
ter truth needed more thoroughly to be
presented in the American churches. 1t
needs to be presented today.
Needs to BE Presented.
A missionary in the islands of the Pa
cific preached one Sabbath on honesty
and dishonesty. and on Monday he found
his yard full Of all styles Of goods. which
the natives had brought. He could not
understand it until native told him,
Our gods permit US to purloin goods,
but the God you told us about yesterday.
the God of heaven and earth it seems.
is against these practices. and 50 we
brought all the goods that do not belong
to us, and they are in the yard, and we
want you 10 help us to distribute them
among their rightful owners" And if in
all the pulpits of the United States to-day
rousing sermons could be preached Oh
honesty and the evils of dishonesty and
the sermons were blessed Of God and ar
rangements could be made by which all
the goods which have been Improperly
taken from one man and apprC .'riated
by another man should be put in the city
halls of the country there Is not a city
hail in the United States that would not
be crowded from cellar to cupola Faith
Of the gospel; that we must preach and
we do preach. Morality OF the gospel we
must Just as certainly proclaim.
Now, look abroad and see the fascina-
tions that are thrown around different
styles of crime. The question that every
man and woman has been asked has
been, Should crime he excused because
1t is on a large scaef Is iniquity guilty
and TO be pursued Of the law in proper
ton as II is on small sraleI Shall we
have the penitentiary for the man who
steals an overcost from a hatrack and all
Canada for a man to range in If he have
robbed the public of millions?
Look upon all the destinations thrown
around fraud in this country. You know
for years men have been made heroes OF
and pictorialized and in various ways
presented to the public as though some
times they were worthy of admiration IL
they have scattered the funds Of banks
or swallowed great estates that did not
belong TO them. Our young men have
been dazed with this quick accumulation.
They have said: That's the way TO do IT.
WHAT'S the use OF our Flooding on with
small wages or Insignificant salary when
we may 80 into business life and with
some stratagem achieve such fortune ar
that man has achievedg A different
measure has been applied 10 the crime
Of Wall street from that which has been
applied 70 the spcils which the man car
RES up Rat alley.