Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-11-02

turn, by our virtue or vice, may influence
those who shall live 200 years from now.
Moral gravitation is as powerful as ma
terial gravitation, and if, as my text
teaches and science confirms, the Plei-
AIDES, which are millions of miles from
our earth, influence the earth we ought TO
be impressed with how we may be in
huenced by others far away back and
how we may influence others far down
the future. That rill away up among
the Alleghanies, so thin you think it will
hardly find its way down the rocks, be-
comes the mighty Ohio rolling into the
Mississippi and rolling into the sea. That
word you utter, that deed You do, may
augment itself as the years go by until
rivers cease to roll and the ocean itself
shall be dried up in the burning of the
world. Paul, who was all the time say
ing important things, said nothing more
startlingly suggestive than when he de-
clared, None of us liveth or dieth to
himself" Words, thoughts, actions, have
an eternity of flight AS Job could not
bind the sweet influence OF the Seven
Stars, as they were called, SO We cannot
arrest or turn aside the good projected
long ago. Those influences were started
centuries before our cradle was rocked
and will reign centuries after our graves
are dug. Oh, it is tremendous thing 10
live! God help us TO live Alright.
Astronomers can easily locate the Plei-
AIDES. They will take you into their OBJ
servatores on clear night and aim their
| revealing instrument toward the part in
the heavens where those seven stars
have their habitude. and they will point
TO the constellation Taurus, and you can
see for yourself. But il is impossible to
point TO influences far back that have
affected our character and will affect our
destiny. We know the influences near
! by-paternal, maternal, conjugal-but by
the time we have gone back two genera
tons or at most three our Investigations
faltcr and fail. Through the modern in
tereSting habit of searching back to find
the ancestral tree we may find a long list
of names, but they are only names. The
conservation or abandonment Of some one
200 years ago was not recorded. 1t would
not be SO important If you and by our
good or bad behavior blessed or blasted
only those Immediately around MS, but
our goodness or our badness will reach a.
far as the strongest ray of Alcyone-yea,
across the eternities. Under this consid-
Grafton what do you think OF those who
give themselves up TO friyolity or idlcness
| and throw away fifty years of their eX-
iStence as though they We're shells or pep
bles or pods instead of embryo eternities?
influence of other Worlds.
Notice also in my text the influence of
other words upon this world. We all re-
gard the effect which our continent has
upon other continents or one hemisphere
upon the other hemisphere. Great har-
vest or drought on one side of our world
affects the other side of our world. A
panic in Wall street, New York, has its
echo in Lombard street and the bourse.
| The nations Of the earth cablegrammed
| together all feel the same thrill OF delight
| or shock of woe. But we do not appre-
| ciate the influence of other worlds upon
our world The author Of my text rOuses
us to the consideration. 1t takes all the
worlds of known and unknown astronomy
| to keep our world in its orbit, every
world dependent on other worlds. The
| stellar existence is felt all through the
! heavens. Every constellation is sister
! hood. Our planet feels the benediction of
|
! Pleiades. Yea, there are two other
worlds that decide the fate of our world,
! its redemption or its demolition. Those
| two worlds are the headquarters of an
GEOLOGY and demonology. From the one
world came Christ come ministering spir-
! its, come all gracious influences. From
| the other world rise all satanic and dia-
| bolc influences From that world of NOR
| al night rose the power that wrecked our
! poor world 5000 years ago, and all the
! good work done since then has not been
! able to get our world ont of the breakers
! But the signals of distress have been
hoisted and the life lines are out, and our
worlds release is certain. The good In
fuences OF the consecrated people in our
world will be centupled by the help from
/ the heavenly world, and the divine power
will overcome the demoniac. . man, .
woman, expand your idea and know the
magnitude Of contest in which three
worlds are specially Interested. Fram all
the seven world which my text calls the
| pleiades there come no such powerful m
huences from the two worlds that | am
now mentioning. Ny only hope for this
world is i'm the reinforcement that is TO
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promised, and so | feel as sure Of the
ratification of all evil as though looking
out Of my window to-day | saw the parks
/ and the gardens Towering into another
/ paradise and the apocalyptic angel flying
through the midst of heaven with the
news that the Kingdoms Of this world
| have become the kingdoms of our Lord
! My text called Job and calls us to con
! slider "the sweet influences" We put too
much emphasis upon the acidities of life,
upon the irritatiOns Of life, upon TIE dis
! appointments Of life Ammianus Marcel
( linus said that Chaldea was in odcn
times overrun with lions, but many of
them lost their power because the great
swamps produced many gnats that would
get into the eyes Of the lions, and the
lions to free themselves OF the gnats
would claw their own eyes out and then
starve. And in our time many a lion has
been overcome by a gnat. The little
singing anHOyances Of life keep us from
approaching the sweet influences. And
how many Of these last there are Sweet
/ in ftupncpe Of homo hoWavar yIoi in ~ MAJ,