Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-08-31

II You fashion boat let it be water
proof, for you know not who may sail
in II. If you put Bible in the truak of
your boy as he goes from home, let il be
remembered in your prayers, for it may
have a mission as farreaching as the
book which The sailor carried in his teeth
TO the Pitcairn beach. The plainest mans
life is an island between two eterniues-
eternity past ripping against his shout
ders. eternity to come touching his brow.
The casual, the accidental, that which
merely happened so. are parts of great
plan, and the rope that let's the fugitive
apostle from the Damascus wall is the
cable thar holds to its mooring the ship
Of the church in the storm Of the ccntu-
ries
The Humble Spiuners.
Again, notice unrecognized and unre-
corded service. Who spun that rope?
Who tied it To the basket? Who stead
led the illustrious preacher as he stepped
into it? Who relaxed not muscle Of
the arm or dismissed an anxious look
from his face until the basket touched
the ground and discharged its magnih-
cent cargo? Not one of their names has
come to us. But there was no work doEe
that day in Damascus or in all the earth
compared with the importance of their
work. What if they had in their agita-
ton tied knot that could slip? What If
the sound of the mob Mt the door had led
! them to say, Paul must take care of
| himself. and we will take care Of our
| selves" No, no. They held the rope.
and in doing SO did more for the Chris
tan church than any thousand of us will
ever accomplish. But God knows and
has made record of their undertaking.
And they know.
How cXultant they must have felt when
they read his letters to the Romans, To
the Corinthians. to the Galatians, to the
Ephesians, to the Philippians. to the Co
losSians, to the Thessalonians, and when
| they heard how he walked out of prison,
with the earthquake unlocking the door
for him, and took command of the Alex
andrian corn ship when the sailors were
nearly scared to death and preached
sermon that nearly shook Felix off his
judgment seat. | hear the men and
women who helped him down through the
window and over the wall talking in pri-
vate over the matter and saying; How
| glad | am that we effected that rescue.
In coming times others may get the glory
of Paufs work, but no one shall rob us
| Of the satisfaction Of knowing that We
held the rope"
Once for thirty-six hours we expected
every moment to 90 TO the bottom of the
ocean. The waves rushed down into the
hold of the ship and Kissed against the
boilers. 1t was an awful time; but by
the blessing of God and the fathfulness
Of the men in charge we came out of the
| cyclone and we arrived at home Each
one before leaving the ship thanked Capt
| Andrews. | do not think there was a
man or woman that went off that ship
| without thanking Capt. Andrews, and
| when years after ! heard OF his death |
| was impelled to write u letter of condo
lence to his family in Liverpool. Every
body recognized the goodness, the cour-
! age, the Kindness OF Capt Andrews but
! 1t occurs to me now that we never thank
! ed the engineer. He stood away down
| in the darkness amid the kissing furnaces
| doing his whole duty. Nobody thanked
the engineer, but God recognized his he
roism and his continuance and his fidei-
! for the engineer who worked ont OF sight
as for the captain, who stood on the
bridge of the ship in the midst OF the
bowling tempest.
| Early Struggles and Sacrifices.
There are said to be about a hundred
and fifty thousand ministers Of religion
| in this country. About 10000, warrant
came from early homes which had to
! struggle for the necessarics Of life. The
! sons Of rich bankers and merchants gen
! orally become bankers and merchants
| The most of those who become ministers
! are the sons Of those who had terrific
! struggle to get their everyday bread. The
/ collegiate and theological education OF
that son took every luxury from the pa
rental table for eight years. The other
children were more scantily appnreled
The son at college every little while got
bundle from home. In it were the
socks that mother had knit sitting up
late at night, her sight not as good as
once it was. And there also were some
dolicacies from the sisters hand for the
voracious appetite Of n hungry student.
The father swung the heavy cradle
through the wheat, the sweat rolling from
his chin bedcwing every step Of the way,
/ and then sitting down under the cherry
tree at noon thinking to himself. Il am
fearfully tired, but II Will pay If | can
once see that boy through college, and
if | can know what be will he preaching
the gospel nfter / am dead" The voun-
ger children want 10 know why they
can't have this and that. rs others do,
and the mother says, BE patient, lay