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

hardly a comfortable place TO live in be-
fore the middle of the eighteenth CEN
fury. So many things have come into
the world that were not tit TO stay in We
ought to be glad they were put out. The
waters of Lethe, the fountain of forget
fulness, are a healthful draft. The his
tory We have of the world in ages past
is always one sided and cannot be de-
pended on. History is fiction illustrated
by few struggling facts.
Why We Should BE Remembered.
Now, / have told you that this Oblivion
of which | have spoken has IFS defeats
and that there is no more reason why we
should not be distinctly and wildly and
gloriously remembered five hundred mill
ion billion trillion Quadrillion quintillion
years from now than that we should be
remembered six weeks. l am going to
tell you how the thing can he done and
will be done.
We may build this everlasting remem-
brance,' as my text styles it, into the
superpal existence of those to whom we
do kindnesses in this world. Iou must
remember that this inhrm and ueacher
Gus faculty which we now call memory
is in the future state to be complete and
perfect. Everlasting remembrancer'
Nothing will slip the stout grip of that
celestial faculty. Did yoa help a widow
pay her rent? Did You find for that man
released from prison place TO get hon
est work? Did you pick up child fallen
on the curbstone and by stick Of candy
put in his hand stop the hurt on his
scratched knee2 Did you assure bust
ness man swamped by the stringency Of
the money market that times would after
awhile be bettcrE Did you lead Mag
dalen of the street into midnight mis-
sion, where the Lord said to her: Mel
Their do | condemn thee. Go and sin no
moreE Did you tell a man clear discour
aged in his waywardness and hopeless
and plotting suicide that for him was
near by laver in which he might wash
and coronet of eternal blessedness he
might wear! What are epitaphs in
graveyards, what are eulogiums in pres
ence OF those whose breath is in theig
nostrils, what are unread biographies in
the alcoves of a city library, compared
with the imperishable records You have
made in the illumlned memories of those
to whom you did such kindnesses? For
get them? They cannot forget them.
! Notwithstanding all their might and
spendor there are some things the glori-
ned of heaven cannot do, and this is one
Of them. They cannot forget an earthly
kindness done. They have no cutlass to
part that cable. They have no strength
to hurl into oblivion that benefaction.
Has Paul forgotten the inhabitants of
Malta who extended the island hos
pitality when he aud others with him
had felt. added 10 shipwreck. the
drenching rain and the sharp coldI Has
the victim Of the highwayman on the
road TO Jericho forgotten the good Sa-
marian with a medicament of oil and
wine and a free ride to the hostelry =?
| Have the English soldiers who went up
| TO God from the Crimean battlehelds for
gotten Florence Nightingale? Through
| all eternity will the Northern and South
/ ern soldiers forget the Northern and
| Southern women who administered to the
! dying boys in blue and gray after the
| awful fights in Tennessee and PennsyI-
| vania and Virginia and Georgia which
turned every house and barn and shed
into an hospital and incarnadined the
i Susquehanna and the James and the
Chattahoochee and the Savannah with
! brave blood? The kindnesscs you do to
others will stand as long in the apprecia-
ton Of others as the gates of heaven will
1 stand, as the "hOuse of many mansions
will stand as long as the throne of God
| will stand.
I Defeat of Oblivion.
! Another defeat Of oblivion will he
! found in the character of those whom we
rescue. uplift or save. Character is ctcr-
! nal Suppose by a right influence we aid
| in transforming a bad man into a good
man. a dolOrOus man into Il happy man.
a disheartcned man into courageous
man, every stroke of that work done
will be immortalzcd. There may never
| be 50 much as one line in newspaper
regarding it or no mortal tongue may
| ever whisper it into human ear, but
/ wherever that soul shall 20 your work
upon it shall go, wherever that soul rises
your work on it will rise, and so long as
that soul will last your work on it will
last. DO you suppose there will ever
come such an idiotic lapse in the history
of that soul in heaven that it shall for
get that you invited him to Christ; that
him round from the wrong way 10 the
right way! No such insanity will ever
smite a heavenly citizen. II is not half
as well on earth known that Christopher
Wren planned and built st Paurs as it
will be known in all heaven that you
were the fundamentally Of building a
temple for the sky. We teach n Sabbath
class or put Christian tract In the hand
OF paSserhy or testify for Christ in
prayer meeting or preach sermon and
20 home discouraged. as though nothing
had been accomplished. when we had
been character building with material
that no frost Or earthquake or rolling Of
the centuries can damage or bring down
There is no sublimer art on earth than
architecture. With pencil and rule and
compass the architect sits down alone
and in silence and evolves from his own
brain a cathedral or national capitol or
a massive home before be leaves that Ia
bic and then be goes ont and nnrolls his
plans and calls carpenters ana masons
aud artisans Of all sorts to execute his
design, and when II Is finished he walks