Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-03-16

yet. NO Ilan wants 10 so out OF TINS
world or out of any house until he has
bett@I house.
To cure this wish TO stay here God
must somehow create a disgust for our
surroundings. How shall he do il? He
cannot afford to efface his horizon or to
tear of a fiery panel from the sunset or
TO subtract an anther from the water lily
or to Danish the pungent aroma from the
mignonette or to drag the robes of the
morning in mire. You cannot expect
christopher When to mar his own st.
PauFs cathedral or Michael Angelo TO
dash out his own Last Judgment or
Handel to discord his Israel in Egypt"
and you cannot expect God TO spoil the
architecture and music of his own world.
How. then, are we to be made willing to
leave! Here is where trouble comes in.
New Heaven and New Earth.
After a man has had a good deal of
trouble he says: well, am ready to go.
If there is a house somewhere whose
roof does not leak, | would like to live
there. Ii there is an atmosphere some
where that does not distress the lungs,
would like to breathe il. If there is a
society somewhere where there is no tit
tie tattle, l would like to live there. If
there is a home circle somewhere where
| can find my lost friends. | would like
to so there" He used TO read the first
part of the Bible chiefly; now he reads
the last part of the Bible chiefly. Why
has he changed Genesis for Revelation?
All, he used TO he anxious chiefly to know
how this world was made and all about
its geographical construction. Now he is
chiefly anxious TO know how the next
world was made and how it looks and
who live there and how they dress. He
reads Revelation ten times now where he
reads Genesis once. The old story, In
the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth does not thrill him half
as much as thceother story. II saw new
heaven and new earth" The old
mans hand tremblcs as he turns over
this apocalyptical leaf, and he has to
take ont his handkerchief to wipe his
spectacles. That book of Revelation is a
prospectus now of the country into which
he is soon to emigrate; the country in
which he has lots already laid out and
avenues opened and mansions built.
1t is trouble, my friends, that makes
us feel our dependence upon God. We
do not know our own weakness or Gods
strength until the last plank breaks. 1t
is contemplate in us that only when
there is nothing else to take hold of we
catch hold of God Why, do you know
who the Lord is? He is not an autocrat,
seated far up in a palace, from which he
energies once n year, preceded by her
aids swinging swords to clear the way.
No. He is a father, willing AZ our call
to stand by us in every crisis and predic-
ament of life. / tell you what some of
you business men make me think Of. A
man is unfortunate in his business. He
has to raise a good deal of money. and
raise it quickly. He borrows on word
and note all he can borrow. After awhile
he puts a mortgage on his house. After
awhile he puts n second mortgage on his
house. Then he puts a lien on his fur
niture. Then he makes over his life in
surance Then he assigns all his prop
erty. Then he goes 10 his father-in-law
and asks help. Wen. having fail,
ed everywhere, completely failed, he
gets down on his knees and says, "Oh,
Lord, / have tried everybody and every
thing; now help me out of this financial
trouble" He makes God the last resort
instead Oh the nrst resort.
A young man goes off from home to
earn his fortune. He goes with his
mothers consent and benediction She
has large wealth, but he wants to make
his own fortune He goes far away,
falls sick, gets out of money. He sends
for the hotelkeeper where he is staying,
asking for lenience, and the answer he
gets is, IF you do not pay up Saturday
night. you'll be removed to the hospital"
The young man sends TO a comrade i'm
the same building. No help. He writes
to n banker who was friend Of his de
ceased father No relief. Saturday
night comes, and he is moved to the hos
pital. Getting there, he is frcnzied with
grief. and he borrows a sheet of paper
and a postage stamp, and he sits down,
and he writes home, saying, Dear moth
or, am sick unto death. Come" 1t is
twenty minutes Of 10 o'clock when She
gets the letter. At 10 o'clock the train
starts She is five minutes from the de-
pot. She gets there in time 10 have five
minutes to spare. She wonders why the
train that can go forty miles an hour can
not go eighty miles an hour. She PUSHES
into the hospital She says: MY son.
what does all this mean? Why did You
not send for me? You sent to everybody
but me. You knew | would and could
help you. liz this the reward / get for
my Kindness 10 you always She bun
dies him up. takes him nome and gets
him well very soon.
The Last Resort.
Now, some Of you treat God iuet as
that young man treated his mother.
When you get into financial pcrplexity,
you call on the banker, you call on the
broker, you call on your creditors, you
call on your lawyer for legal counsel. you
call upon everybody, and when you can
not get any help then you go to God.
You say: "Oh, Lord, come to thee.
Help me now out Of my pcrpleXity." And
the Lord comes, though il is IN the elev-
cnth hour. He says: why did you not
send for me before? As one whom his
mother comfortetb, so will | comfort
you" 1t is 10 throw us back upon God
that we have this ministry Of tears.
/ like what Martin Luther said to
Philip Melanchthon when Mcanchth0n
has gone to bed discouraged and saying
ia Iufhpr. ''Our CaUsc is lost We have