Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-05-04
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future and compel your friends or the
world to take care of you or yours in
case of bereavement or calamity.
Wrecked by Extravaganza.
There are women who at the frs in
crease of their husbands resources wreck
all on an extravagant wardrobe There
are men who at the prospect of larger
prosperity build houses they will never be
able TO pay for. There are people with
$1,000 year income who have not 81
laid up for rainy day. 1t is a CHASTITY
dishonesty practiced on the next genera
ton. Such men deserve bankruptcy and
impoveriShment. In almost every mans
life there comes winter of cold misfor-
tune. Prepare for it while you may.
Whose thermometer has not sometimes
stood below zero? What ship has never
been caught in a storm? What regiment
at the front never got into battle? Have
at least as much foresight as the insectile
world Go to the ant, thou sluggard,
consider her ways and be wise. which,
having no guide, oversecr or ruler, pro
yideth her neat in the summer and gath
ereth her food in the harvest"
This is no argument for niserlincss.
Avarice and righteousness destroy man
about as soon as any of the other vices.
Accumulation of bonds, mortgages and
government securities and town lots and
big farms just for the pleasure of accu-
mutation is deSpicable, but the putting
aside of a surplus for your self-defense
when your brain has halted or your right
hand has forgotten its cunning or your
old age needs man servant or for the
support of others when you can no more
be a breadwinner for your household
that is right, that is beautiful, that is
Christian, that is divinely approved.
That shows that you have taken Solo
mons ant hill for an object lessc:,
Going out of this world without leaving
a dollar for those who remain behind if
you have done your best you have a right
to put your head in calm confidence on
the pillow which Jeremiah shook up in
the forty ninth chapter of his prophecy,
Leave thy fatherless children, | will
preserve them alive, and let thy widow :
trust in me" But if having the means
through mortgages or houses or life insur-
ance for providing for helpless widow
hood and orphanage you make no provis
ion for post mortem need, how dare you
so up and take palace in heaven and
let your wife and children so TO the poor
house or into a struggle for bread that
makes life a horror and sometimes ends
in suicide?
But my subject reaches higher than
temporalities-fore for the soul, pro-
vision for eternal experiences. prepare
tiou for the far beyond. Ant hills, speak
out and teach us larger and mghtier
lesson of preparing food for the more
important part of us, DO you realize
that a man may be millionaire or a
multimilliOnaire for time and n bank
rupt for eternity, n prince for a few
years and a pauper forever? The ant
would not be satisfied with gathering
enough food for half a winter or quarter
of a winter. But how many Of us seem
content, though not having prepared for
the ten-millionth part of what will be our
| existence! Put yourself in right rela
! tions TO the Christ Of the ages, through
| him seek pardon for all you have ever
| done wrong and strength for all you will
be called to endure and there will be no
force in life or death or eternity to dis
| comfit you. | declare it! There is enough
of transforming and strengthening pow
/ er in Christ for both hemispheres.
Does Not Decline Work.
Furthermore, go to the ant and consid-
er that it does not decline work because
it is insignificant. The fragment Of seed
it hauls into its habitation may be so
small that the unaidad eye cannot see it.,
! but the inscctile work goes on, the car
| penter ant at work above ground, the
mason ant at work underground Some
| of these creatures mix the leaves of the
| fir and the catkins Of the pine for the
roof or wall Of their tiny abode, and 9TH
ers 90 out as hunters looking for food,
| while others i'll domestic duties stay at
home. Twenty specks Of the food they
! are moving toward their granary put up
on Il balance would hardly make the
scales quiyer. All of it work on small
scale. There is no use in our refusing a
mission because it is insignificant. Any
thing that God il his providence puts
before us to do is important. The needle
has its office as certainly as the telescope
and the spade as parliamentarian scroll
You know what became of the man in
the parable of the talents who buried the
one talent instead Of putting it to practi-
cal and accumulatHe use. His apology
was OF no avail
There is no need Of our wasting time
and energy in longing for some other
sphere. There are plenty Of people to do
the big and resembling work Of the
church and the world. No lack Of briga-
der generals or master builders or engi-
nccIs for bridging Niagaras or tunnrling
Rocky Mountains. For every big enter
prise of the world a dozen candidates,
What we want is private soldiers in the
common ranks, masons not ashamed to
WELD "A trowel, candidates for ordinary
work to be done in ordinary ways in or
binary places. Right where we are there
is something that God would have us do
Let us do il, though it may seem to be as
unimportant as the rolling Of grain Of
corn into an ant hill.
Furthermore, 90 to the ant and con
slider its indefatigableness If by the ac-
cidental stroke Of your foot or the re-
moyal Of a timber the cities Of the in
sectiie world are destroyed, instantly they
20 to rebuilding They do not sit around
moping. At it again in second Their
eight Immediately gives way to their