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

sidered criticism and to be resented bel
comes kindly suggestion, sweet Influences
that make US better men than we other
wise would have been or could have beenJ
The last chapter of Proverbs recog-
nizes the good wfe's influence when it
says, Her husband is known in the gates
when he sitteth among the elders the
land"-that is, his apparel indicates that
he has some one to look after his ward
robe, and his manners show that he is
under refining influences at home. But no
one fully appreciates the sweet influences
of the wife until the dark day comes and
the slight symptoms become serious and
the serious phases OF the disorder pass
into the fatal and the temperature is JOG
and medical ingenuity is exhausted and
you are told for your consolation that
while there is life there is hope" which
means that there is no hope at all, and
the precious life fiutters and is gone and
you must put out of sight the one who
from the day she took the vow amid the
orange blossoms under the marriage bell
had been to you more than all the world
besides. Then you realize as never before
what had been the sweet influences.
Sweet influences of friendship! If we
h"NS hf'htNtd buA SGiN tS lOtttdOig hCtis We
have friends In our days of mirth they
come with their congratulations. In times
of sorrow they come with expressions ot
solace. In times of perplexity they come
with their advice. They are with us at
weddings and at burials IL there is any
thug good in us, they find it out and our
frailties they overlook or excuse. If
something appears against us, they say
wait till hear the other side If dis
aster shall befall us. we know from
whom would come the first conscience.
family friends, church friends, business
friends, lifelong friends. In our heart OF
hearts we cherish them
Sweet influences of our holy religion.
surrounded as we are by all amenities
Of Christian society, men and women
who have felt the refining and eleyating
power of the gospel Sweet Influences "r
the Sabbath. ffty-two Of them Ginning
their joy into every year, Sweet iniin-
cnccs OF the Scriptures, with their balm
for all wounds and their light for every
darkness When the heirs of vast cs-
tate in England wished to establish their
claim to property worth S100,000.000.
they offered n reward of $500 for the re-
| covery of an old Bible. the family record
VI which tVllNa4htu int tNtu ANNlhiSitN-
But any Bible new or old. can help MS
to n vastcr inheritance than the one spo-
ken of. one that never fades away.
The World of Reunion.
The sweet Influences Of the heavenly
world, which many wise men thought for
a long while was Aryone the center Of
the constellation of the Pleiades, world
of our future residence, as We hope;
world OF chorus and illumination, world
Of reunion, world where we shall be ever
| lastingy complete, world where our Old
faculties will be intensified aud quickened
and new faculties implanted. world or
high association with Christ, through
whose grace we got there at all, and
apostles and poets-Habakkuk and st.
John Of patmos and Edward Young, his
Might Thoughts" turned into eternal
| day, and Horatius Bonar of modern
! hymnolOgy and Hannah More and Mrs,
Hemans and Mrs. Sigourney, who struck
| their harps till nations listened, and Da-
| vid, the victor over Goliath with what
seemed insufficient weapons, and Joshua
OF the prolonged day in Gideon, and
Havelock, the evangelist hero, aud those
| thousands of men OF the sword who
fought on the right side. What company
TO move in! What guests to entertainl
| What personages TO visit! What choirs
| to chant! What banquets with lifted
| chalices filled with the new wine OF the
! Kingdom What victories to celebrate!
! Sweet influences of the Holy Ghost,
with all his transforming and comforting
and emancipating power! When that
power is fully felt, there will be no more
| sins to pardon and no more wrongs to
correct and no more sorrows 10 comfort
| and no more bondage TO break. But as
| the old time ship captains watched the
rising of the Pleiades for safe navigation
| and set sail in Mediterranean waters, but
were sure to get back into port before
! the constellation Orion came into sight
| the season of cyclone and hurricane, 80
| there is n time to sail for heaven, and
that is while the sweet Influences ave
upon us and before the storms oyertake
the delay. Open all your soul to the light
and warmth and comfort and inepirdtion
of that gospel which has already peopled
heaven with millions Of the ransomed and
is helping other millions to that glorious
| destination. DO not postpone the things
of God and eternity till the storms of
life sw0op and the agtations Of great
future are upon us. Do not dare wait I'M
til Orion takes the place Of the pleiades
Weigh anchor now and with chart unrOl-
cd and pilot on board head for the re-
unions and raptures that await all tho
souls forgiven. And they need 10 can
die, neither light of the sum- for the Lord
God giveth them light, and they shall
reign forever and ever"