Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-01-12
lCopyrlght. LouIs Klopseh, loOI.


ing; text, IL. Samuel xiii, I, a morn
ING without clouds"
What do you expect of this new cen
tury?' is the question often asked Of me,
and many others have been piled with
the same inquiry. In the realm of inven-
ton | expect something as startling as
the telegraph and the telephone and the
ray. In the realm of poetry | expect
rs great poets as Longfelow and Genny-
son. In the realm of medicine | expect
the cure Of cancer and consumption. In
the realm of religion expect more than
one Pentecost like that of 1851, when
100000 souls professed TO have been com
verted. expect that universal peace
will reign and that before the arrival of
the two thousandth year gunpowder will
be out of use except for blasting rocks or
pyrotechnic entertainment. / expect that
before this new century has expired the
millennium will be fully iuaugurated.
The twentieth century will be as much an
Improvement on the nineteenth century
as the nineteenth century was an i'm
provement on the eighteenth. But the
conventional length Of sermonic discourse
will allow us only time for one hopeful
consideration. and that will be the re
demption of the cities.
Pulpit and printing press for the most
part in our day are busy in discussing he
condition of the cities ut this time, but
would it not be healthfully encouraging
to all Christian workers and to all who
are toiling to make the world better if
we should this morning for a little while
look forward to the, time when our cities
shall be revolutionized by the gospel Of
the Son of God and all the darkness Of
sin and trouble and crime and suffering
shall be gone from the Sky and it shall
be "a morning without clou3s:'
Every man has pride in the city Of his
nativity or residence, if it be city dis
tinguished for any dignity or prowcss.
Caesar boosted of his native Rome, Virgil
Of Mantua, LycurGus of Sparta, Demos
themes of Athens. Archimedes of Syria
Cuse and Paul Of Tarsus. | should have
suspicion of base heartedness in man
who had no especial interest in the city
Of his birth or rcsidence-no exhilaration
at the evidence of its prosperity or its
artistic embellishments or It's scientific
advancement.
Civic Pride CommendabIe.
l have noticed that a man never likes
a city where he has not behaved well.
People who have n free ride in the prison
van never like the city that furnishes the
vehicle. When l find Argos and Rhodes
and Smyrna trying to prove themselves
the birthplace Of Homer, conclude right
away that Homer behaved well. He liked
them, and they liked him. We must not
war on laudable city pride or with the
idea of building ourselves up at any time
to try to pull others down. Boston must
continue to point to its Fnncul hall and
to its superior educational advantages.
Philadelphia must continue to point to
its Independence hall and its mint and
its Girard college New York must CON
tinue to eXult in its matcheSs harbor and
its vast population and its institutions Of
mercy and its ever widening commerce.
Washington must continue to rejoice in
the fact that it is the most beautiful city
under the sun.
If | should find a man coming from any
city having no pride in that city, that
city having been the place Of his nativity
or now being the place Of his residence,
| would feel like asking him right away:
What mean thing have you been doing
there? What outrageous thing have you
been guilty of that you do not like the
place."
Every city is influenced by the charac
ter of the men who fodnded it, Romulus
impressed his life upon Rome The pill
grim fathers will never relax their grasp
from New England. William Penn left
legacy of fair dealing and integrity to
Philadelphia, and you can now any day.
on the streets Of that city, see his Gus
toms, his manners. his morals, his hat,
his wife's bonnet and his meeting house.
SO the Holianders, founding New York,
left their impression on all the following
generations. SO this capital Of the nation
is a perpetual eulogy upon the Washing
ton who founded it.
| thank God for the place Of our resi-
dence, and while there are a thousand
things that ought TO be corrected and
many wrongs that ought to be over
thrown, while / thank God for the past
look forward this morning to a glorious
future. | think we ought-and / take il
for granted you are all interested in this
great work Of evangelizing the cities and
Saving tut NOIIu We bUEnL 10 ION win
the sunlight in our faces. We are not
fighting in a miserable Bp' Run Of de-
feat. We are on the way final victory.
We are not following thc ider on the
black horse, leading us / 10 death
and darkness and doom, ne rider on
the white horse, with the moon under his
feet and the stars of heaven for bis tiara.
Hail, conqueror, hail.
Good OverbaIances Evil.
| know there are sorrows and there are
sins and there are sufferings all around
about US. but as in some bitter cold win
ter day when we are thrashing our arms
around us TO keep our thumbs froIa freez-
ing we think Of the warm spring day
that viii after awhile come, or in the
dark winter night we look up and we see
the northern lights, the windows Of heav-
en- illumined by some great victory. just
so we look up from the night Of suffering
and sorrow and wretchedness in our
cities, and we see a light streaming
through from the other side, and We
know we are on the way to morning
more than that, on the way 20 "a morn
ing without clouds