Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-01-25


| help you, whether at the time the forest
around You raves in the midnight hurri-
| cane or you suffer from something qnite
! Insignificant, like the loss of an AK head.
/ Take your Bible out under the trees, if
| the weather will permit, and after You
! have listened to the solo of bird in the
| tree tops or the long meter psalm OF the
/ thunder. read those words Of the Bible,
! which must have been written ont OF
doors: Tine trees of the Lord are full ot
| sap, the cetlars of Lebanon which he
hath PLANTED, where the birds make their
nests; rs for the stork, the .ir trees are
her house. The high hills are refuge
for the wild goats and the rocks for the
comics. Thou makest darkness, aud il is
night. wherein all the beasts Of the for
est do creep forth. The young lions roar
after their prey and seek their meat from
God. The sun riseth, they gather them
selyeh together and lay them down IN
their dens. Man goeth forth unto his
work and to his labor until the evening.
O Lord, how manifold are thy works! In
wisdom hast thou made them all. The
earth is full Of thy riches" How Ito
you like that sublime pastoral?
Overcome Evil.
| My subject also reminds us OF the inn
| portance of keeping our chief implement
! for work in good order. l think that
| young theological student on the banks
of Jordan was to blame for not cxanin-
| ing the ak before he lifted il chat day
! against tree. He could in a moAent
| have found out whether the helyS aud
! the head were firmly fastened The sim
! pie fact was the AK was not in good or
! der or the strongest stroke that sent
! the edge into the hard sycamore would
not have left the implement headcss.
| So God has given every one Of us an
AK with which to hew. Let Us keep it
in good order having been sharpened
| by Bible study and strengthened by
| prayer The reason we sometimes fail
in ouv work is because we have a duh
AK or we do not know how Alright t0
swing IT, The head is NOT Alright on the
handle At the time We want the most
| skill for work and perfect equilibrium
we lose our head. We expcnd in useless
| excitement the nervous energy that We
ought to have employed in direct,
straightforward work Your ak may he
pen or n type or a yardstick or n
scales or tongue which in legislative
| hall or business circles or Sabbath class!
or pulpit is to speak for God and right
eousness, but the AK will not BE- worth
much until il has been >harpene1 ON the,
| grindstonc OF atiliction.
| Go right through the world. and go
| right through all the past ages. ana show
| me one man or woman who has done
anything for the world worth speaking
/ of whose AK was not ground on the re-
volving wheel OF mighty trouble 1t was
not David for he was dethroued and
bounded by unfilial Ahsalom. Surely III
was not Paul, for he was shipwrecked.
and whipped with thirty nine stripes from
rods of elmwood on his way to behead-
ment. Surely it was not Abraham Lin
coin, called by every vile name that hu-
man and satanic turpitude could invent
and depicted by cartOonists with more
mennness than any other man ever suf-
fered, on the way to meet outlet era sh
ing through his temples
God Does the Impossible.
/ worship the God who can do the inn
possible. Here is God who can lift the
soul that has been deepest down. Here
is a God who can raise soul out OF the
blacklist depths OF sin and wretchedness.
Here is a God who can make iron swim.
the God OF Elisha. the God OF the young
student that stood in dismay On the banks
Of the Jordan at the lime of he lost ax
head. Lay hold Of the Lord in a prayer
that will take no denial.
Alas, there are impOssiblos before thou-
sands Of peoplc-called to do work that
it is impossible for them to 10. called 10
bear burdens that it is impossible for
them to bear, called 10 endure suffering
that it is impossible for them to endure.
Read all the gospel promises, rally all
your faith, and. while you will always
be called to worship the God of hope.
to-day, with all the concentered energies
of my soul, ! implore you to bow down
and worship the God who can turn the
impossibles into the possibles. II was no
trivial purpose, but for grand aud gl0ri-
Gus uses | have spoken to yGu to-day Of
the borrowed, the lost and the restored
ak head.