Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-02-08

ophcrs at ten years of age, astronomers
at eleven years of age. biologists at
twelve years of age. They viii be first
on examination day, but last in all mat
ters of useful and successful life. That
man and that woman whose intellect goes
safely through the storms OF this life.
in which so many have foundered, ought
every day and every night employ one
of the ten strings in gratitude for that
| particular mercy.
The blessings of Friendship.
Another string of this instrument /
now touch friendships, deep and abd-
/ ing, by which | refer to those people
who, when good or bad motive may De
ascribed to you, ascribe the good; those
concerning whom you do not wonder
which side they will take when you are
under discussion; those who would more
gladly serve you than serve themselves;
those to whom you can tell every thing
without reserve; those who are first in
your home by person or by telegram
when YOU have trouble. Oh what 4
blessing to have plenty of friends. Aye,
if YOU have only one good friend. you
are blessed in that glad possession. With
one such friend you can defy the world,
But he must be tried friend. You cam
not tell who are your real friends hb
| disasters come. AS long as you collect
| vast dividends and have health joeund
and popularity unbounded you will have
crowds Of seeming friends, but let bank
ruptcy and invalidism aud defamation
come, and the number of your friends
will be % per cent Off IL you have been
through some great crisis and Won have
one friend left, thank God AMI celebrate
it on the sweetest harpString.
while All this is So, says SOME one,
there are So many things that others
! have which | have not" l reply. il j.
not what we get but what we sire, that
| decides our happiness With the bare
necessities of life many are uusPeaka-
! bly, happy, while others with all the
| Injuries are representations 0t misery.
Your heart right. all is right; your heart
wrong. all is wrong.
The Gospel of Good Morals.
But we must tighten the cords of our
harp and retunc it while we celebrate
gospel advantages. The highest style OF
| civilization the world has ever seen IS
! American civilization. ana il il built our
of the gospel OF pardon and good morals
! That gospel rocked our cradle ani il viii
cpitaph our grave. 1t soothes our Sor,
rows, brightcns our hopes, inspires our
! courage, forgivCs our sins and saves our
souls. 1t takes Il man who is all wrong
and makes him all right. What that Cos
| pei has done for you and me is a story
| that we can never fully tell. What it
has done for the world aud viii get do
for the nations il win take the thousand
years of the millennium TO celebrate. The
Grandcst churches are yet to be built. The
| miGhticst anthems are yet 10 be- hOisted.
| The greatest victories are yet 50 be gain
| ed. The most beautiful MadOnn9s are
yet to be painted. The most triumphant
| professions are vet to march. Oh, what
a world this will be when it rotates in
its orbit redeemed planet, girdled with
spontaneous harvests and enriched by
orchards whose fruits are speckless and
redundant, and the last pain will have
been banishcd and the last tear wcpt and
the last groan uttered, and there shall he
nothing to hurt or destroy in MI Gods
holy mountain! All that and more viii
come TO pass. for 'the mouth OF the Lord
hath spoken it,"
So far | have mentioned nine of he
ten strings OF the instrument Of graft
! tude. | now come TO the tenth and the
! last. / mention it last that il may be
| the more memOrahle-heayenly anticipae
| ton. BY the grace Of God we are going
! to move into place 50 much better than
| this that on arriving we will wonder
that we were for so many years 50 loath
| TO make the transfer After We have
seen Christ face to face and rcjoiced
! over our departed kindred there are some
mighty spirits we will want to meet soon
| after we pass through the gates. We
| want to see and will see David a might
! Ter king in heaven than he ever was on
| earth, and we viii talk with him ah0It
! psalmody and get from him exactly what
| he meant when he talked about the in
| strumcnt Of ton strings. We will con
| front Moses, who will tell Of The law Civ
| ing on rocking Sinai and OF his n4vstcyi-
Gus burial, with no one but God present
| We viii see Joshua, ana he Will tell us
of the coming down of the walls Of .ieri-
ch0 N the blast Of the rams horn and
explain TO ms that miracle-h0w the sun
and moon could stand still without demo-
ltion of the planetary system, We viii
see Ruth and have her tell IT the har-
vest field Of Boaz, in which she Cleaned
for afflicted Naomi. We win see Nasil-
ii ana hear from her own lips the story
Of her Punishment from the Persian pal
ace by infamous Abasucrus.
Now take down your harp Of ten
strings and sweep all the chords. max
ing all Of them tremble with "a gtcfr
gladnCsS | have mentioned just ten
dcliehtsomc food, eyesight, hearing,
hcalthful sleep, power Of physical loco
motion, ilumned nights, mental facui-
ties in cquiposc, friendships u life. COS
pei advantages and heavenly anticipa-
tons Let us make less complaint AMI
offer more thanks, render less Urge and
more cantata. Take paper and pen and
write down in long columns your bless
ings. have rectcd only ten. 70 oN-
press all The mercies God has bestowed
you would have TO use at least three.
and / think five, Numerals, for surely
they would run up into the hundreds ana
the thousands, "Oh, give thanks unto
the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy
endureth forever"
All things will work together for yoae
t,ooI and hpnypn is NOT f,r ab,,J