Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-04-27

progress TO the celestial city or John
Bnnyan had attempted an essay on the
human will.
The Harvests of Grace.
Brighter than the light, fresher than
the fountains, deeper than the seas, are
these gospel themes. Song has no mel
ody, flowers have no sweetness. sunset
sky has no color, compared with these
glorious themes. These harvests of grace
spring up quicken than we can sickle
them. kindling pulpits with their fire
and producing revolutions with their pow
or, lighting up dying beds with their
glory, they are the sweetest thought for
the poet, and they are the most thrilling
illustration fer the orator, and they offer
the most intense scene for the artist, and
they are to the ambassador of the sky
all enthusiasm. Complete pardon for the
diresj guilt. Sweetest comfort for ghast-
Hest agony Brightest hope for ggimmcst
death. Grandest resurrection for dark
est Sepulcher. Oh, what a gospel to
preach. Christ over all in it. His birth,
his suffering, his miracles, his PARALLELS,
his sweat, his tears, his blood. his atone
ment, his interceSsion-w glorious
themes, DO we exercise faith? Christ
is its object, DO we have love? 1t fast
ems on Jesus, Have we fondneSs for
the church? 1t is because Christ died
for it. Have we hope of heaven? 1t
is because Jesus went ahead. the herald
and the forerunner.
The royal robe of Demetrius was so
costly. So beautiful, that after he had put
it off no one ever dared put it on, but
this robe of Christ. richer than that. the
poorest and the wannest and the worst
may wear, Where sin ahounded grace
may much more abound"
oh, my sins, my sins" said Martin
Luther to Staupitz my sins. my sins"'
The fact is that the brawny German
student had found Latin Bible that had
made him quake and nothing else ever
did make him quake. and when he found
how through Christ he was pardoncd
ana saved he wrote to friend saying:
Come over ana join us, great and awful
sinners saved by the grace of God. Nou
seem To be only a slender sinner, and YOU
don't much cXtol the mercy of God, but
we who have been such very awful sin
nors praise his grace the more now that
we have been redeemed Can it be that
You are so desperately cgotiSticAl that
you feel yourself in first rate spiritual
trim ana that from the root of the hair
to the tip of the toe you are scarless aud
immaculate? What you need is looking
glass, and here it is in the Bible. Poor
and wrctched and miserable and blind
and naked from the crown of the head to
the sole of the foot, full Of wounds and
putrefying sores. No health in us And
then take the fact that Christ gathered
up all the notes against ms and paid
them and then offered us the receipt.
And how much we need him in our Sor-
rows, We are independent OF circum-
stances if we have his grace. Why, he
made Paul sing in the dungeon, and I'M
der that grace ST John from desolate
Patmos heard the blast of the apocalyptic
trumpets. After all other candles have
been snufed out this is the light that gets
brighter and brighter unto the perfect
day, and after under the hard hoofs of
calamity all the pools OF worldly enjoy
ment have been trampled into deep mire
at the foot Of the eternal rock the Chris
tian, from cups Of granite, lily trimmed
and vine covered, puts out the thirst of
his soul.
Manlincss in Death.
Again. ! remark that Christ is above all
in dying alleviations. | have not any
sympathy with the morbidity abroad
about our demise. The emperor Of Con
stautnople arranged that ON the day of
his coronation the stonemason should
come and consult with him about his
tombstone that after awhile he would
need. And there are men who are mono
maniacal on the subject of departure
from this life by DEATH and the more
they think Of 1t the less prc:,arcd are thew
to 20 This is an nrmaniucss not worthy
of you. not worthy of me.
Saladin, the greatest conqucror Of his
day. while dying, ordered the tunic he
had on him to be carried after his death
on spear at the head Of his army. and
then the soldier ever and anon should
stop and say. Behold all that is left of
Saladin. the emperor ana connucror, OF
all the states be conquered. of ali tho
wealth he accumulated, nothing did he
retain but this 4hroud." ! have mo svm-
pathv with such behavior or such air
surd demonstration or with much thai we