Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-01-25
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NefaCltY. bofrOW. W ny, We are hoFEOW-
| ing all the time We borrow from the
| Lord the sunlight that shows us our
way, the water that Slakes our thirst
the food that refreshes us three times a
! day, the pillow on which we slumher
| We borrow gadness from our friends: we
borrow all elevated surroundings The
church borrows all its beauty from the
Christ who founded it. In our songs
and sermons We borrow from the raptures
| of heaven.
We borrow time; we will borrow eser-
nifty, and that constant borrowing inn
! plies return. For what we borrow
! from God we must pay back in hearty
| thanks and Christian service. in improve
ment OF ourselves and helpfulness for
others. For what We borrow in the shape
Of protection from good government we
must pay back in patriotic devotion. For
| what we borrow from our parents in
their good example and their hard work
| wrought for us in our journey from cradle
to manhood or womanhoOd for all the
ages to come we ought to be paying back
The halleluiahS of heaven will he re
| turned for crucitixion agony,
Hayden the painter said his ruin be-
gan the day he began to borrow money
and he wrote in his diary. Here began
debt and obligation, out of which | have
never been aud never shall he cxtrcated
as long as live" DR.. Johnson said
! DO not accustom yourself to consider
dcbt only as an Inconvenience. You will
! find it calamity" We have right TO
borrow for the absolute necessities, OK
pecting to pay back again, but we ought
| =, a,
| cording 20 the Laws of Amasis," in
| Egypt if il man died without paying that
which he had borrowed he was deprived
OF all obsequies, Ii that law were in
vogue in our times how many postponed
and impossible funerals!
Superiority of God.
Those students in the valley OF palms
by the Jordan had a physical strength
and hardihood that would help them IN
their mental and spiritual achievements.
We who are toiling for the worlds bet
terment need hawn as well as brain,
strong bodies as well as illumned minds
and consccratcd souls. Many Of those
who are now doing the best work in
church and state got muscle and power
of endurance from the fact that in early
life they were compelled to use AK or
plow or fail or hammer, while many who
were brought up in the luxuries OF life
give out before the battle is won They
are keen and sharp OF mind, but have no
physical endurance. They have the AK
head. hut no handle. The body is the
handle Of the soul.
Let all those who toll for their educa-
ton remember they are especially favor
ed, and IL things go against them and
the ak head should hy the helye that very
Underwent may some time turn out ad.
vantageously, as the accident by the river
Jordan, which seemed to finish the young
students capacity to help build the new
seminary, resulted in splendid demon.
straton of the power OF Elisha's God Ia
help any one who helps himself. No az
that was ever welded has wrought SO
we'll as that ak, the handle and head OF
which parted.
Notice. also. how God is superior &c
every law that he has made, even the
strongest law OF nature, the law OF gravi
tation. The stick that Elisha threw into
the Jordan hoated, but the AK head sank
By memorable law it must 20 down into
the depths of the Jordan, yet without 50
much as touch the hard, heavy metal
sought the surface There ii is, the font
ing ak head. What rcbuke to those
who reject miracles on the ground that
they are contrary to nature, Ms though
the law were stronger than the God who
made the law, Again and again in Bible
tines was that law revoked, Witness
the scene on the banks Of the same JOr-
dan, where in after time the AK head
sank and rose. Elijah stood there, wear
ing cape Of shccpskin, when there was a
mighty stir in the air and a flashing
cquipagc descended. Eljiah stepped into
il, aud OH wheels Of FIRE. drawn by horses
Of fire, he rose. Fifty men for three
days searched the mouutains to see if
The body Of Elijah had not been dropped
among the rocks aud picked at by birds
Of prey, hut the search was in vain. The
law Of grayitation bad Leen defeated.
Wonders of Disin Power.
There Christ stood 10y his disciples on
the Mount Of Olives after his coming out
Of she sepulchcr. No ladders let down
for his ascension, but his feet lift from
the hill, and he goes up until the curtain
Of cloud drops, aud he is invisible. Law
% grayitation again embarrassed. Enoch,
Methusglah's father, escaping death.
went up bodily and Will have no need oc
resurrection So will all the good who
shall be still alive at the end or the
I world. They will not need wings Every
one Of the millions Of oHr planet who
/ loved and served tho Lord. IL then alive.
will "be caught up as the Bible says,
/ body as we'll q soul. The law Of gravita-
! ton parayzad. God mighticr than any
! law he ever created. Oh like the mira
clcs because they show God indcpen-
! dent Of every; hing.
! Notice also the divine power in the
backw0ods. Wonderful things were done
/ ut the cities Of Jericho and Jerusalem
and Babylon and N.neyth, and the great
/ cities Of our time have seen the divine
/ power but this miracle Of my text was in
! the backwoods, far away from the city,
/ in the lumber districts. where the stu
| dents had gone to cut timber for the
new theological seminary, And II this
/ sermon shall come, as it will come. like
my other sermons for the last thirty
| years, without missing week. let me
say to those far away from the house Of
!