Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-01-05

ten minutes walk there are stores. shops,
and factories, and homes where as brave
deeds have been done as those of Ieoni-
das at Thermopylae, as that of HoratiuS
at the bridge, as that of Colin Campbell
at Balaklava Tell them what Napoleon
said to his staff officer when that officer
declared 4 certain military attempt 10 be
impossible. "lmp0ssiblen' said the great
commander. impossible is the adjective
of fools"
Show them also that what is true in
worldly directions is more true in spir-
itual directions Call the roll of prophets
apostles and martyrs and private Chris
tians from the time the world began and
ask them TO mention one man or woman
greatly good or useful who was not de-
preciated and failed and made a laugh
ing stock. Racks and prisons and whips
and Shipwrccks and axes of beheadment
dld their worst yet the heroes were more
than conquerors. With such things you
will illustrate that word courage" and
they will go out from your presence to
start anew and right. challenging all
earth and hell to the combat
Good morning! How do you do 10
day." said clergyman in New Haven
many years ago to a stOncmasOn who
was covered with dust and mortar. The
stonemason was sour with the world
and cross and grabbed. but at that salu
tstion of the clergyman looked up in sur
prise and stopped and asked some one
who was passing who that man was who
spoke to him so kindly and was told he
was the pastor of church ON that
street. The stonemason next Sunday
went to that church to hear it's pastor
preach. The stonemason was converted
under the sermon and prepared for the
ministry and became one OF the most
useful and brilliant and foremost minis
ters in the Baptist denomination.
heard him in my boyhood say on the an
niversary platform in Broadway taher-
nacle that that good morning on the
street Of New Haven many years before
saved him for this world and the next.
Words of Comfort.
That word courage" fifty spoken with
compressed lips and stout grip of the
hand and an intelligent flash Of the eye
well, the finest apples that ever thumped
on the ground in an autumnal orchard
and were placed in the most beautiful
uAhhtN VI SlNtI HtlN blh NRltic kttu ~
petites could not be more attractive.
Furthermore, comforting word fifty
spoken is beautiful thing. No one but
God could give the inventory of sick beds
and bereft homes and broken hearts. We
ought not to let day pass without visit
or a letter or ii message or prayer con
splatory. You could call five minutes on
your way to the factory, you could leave
a half hour earlier in the afternoon and
fill mission Of sOlace You could bright
en- sick room with one chrysanthemum
You could send your carriage and give IN
afternoon airing to an invalid on a neigh
boring street. You could loan n book with
some chapters most adapted to some par
ticular misfortune. Go home to-day and
make out a list Of things you can do that
will show sympathetic thoughtfulness for
| the hardly bestead How many dark
| places you might illumine! How many
! tears YOU could stop, or, il already start
ed. you could wipe away How much like
Jesus Christ you might get to be! SO
sympathetic was he with bcggary, so
helpful was he for the fallen, and so
stirred was he at the sight of dropsy, cpl
! lcpsy. paralysis and ophthnlma that
whether he saw it by the roadside, or at
the sea beach. or at the mineral baths Of
Bethesda, he offered relief. Cultivate
genuine sympathy, ChriStlikc sympathy
You cannot successfully dramatize IT,
False sympathy Alexander Pope sketches
in two lines:
Before her face her handkerchief she
spread
To hide the food of tears she did not
shed.
There are four or FIVE words which.
fifty spoken might soothc and enamel
pate and rescue. Go to those from whose
homes Christ has taken to himself a
loved one and try the word reunion
not under wintry sky. but in everlasting
springtide not a land where they can he
struck with disease, but whore the inhab-
liant never says, Il am sick not Il re-
union that can be followed by separa-
ton. but in II place from which they
shall go no more out forever" For cma-
citation and signing immortal health Re
union. or. if you Ike the word better an
ticipaton. There is nothing left for them
in this world Try them with heaven.
With chapter from the great book
open one Of the twelve gates. Give them
one note of scraphic harp, one flash from
the sea of glass, one clattcr OF the ho0fs
OF the horses on which yictors ride. That
word reunion or anticipation, fifty spok
en- well. no fruit hcaDed NJ in silver
baskets could equal it. or the 700
kinds Of apples that have blessed the
world not one is 50 mellow or so rich or
so aromatic, but we take the suggestion
Of the text and compare that word Of
comfort, fifty spoken, 10 apples Of gold
in baskets OF silver.
a Word of Warming.
SO also is Il word Of warming \ ship
may sail ont Of harbOr when the sea has
not so much as q ripple but what a fool
hardy ship company would they be that
made no provision for high winds and
wrathful seas. However smoothly the
voyage Of life may begin we will get
rough weather before we harbor Oh the
other side, and we need ever and anon to
have some one uttering in most decided
tones and words beware There are all
the temptations to make this life every
thing and to forget that an inch Of ground
is lgrRCr As rafnparpd with tho Wholf.