Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-03-22
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longer. with long life will / satisfy
lin and show him my salvation.
Religion aud the Intellect.
Again | remark that goodness is good
Tor the intellect. | know some have
Imposed that just as soon as man
|nters into the Christian life has intellect
Eoes into bedwartng process. So far
\ rom that. religion will give new bril-
Eaney to the intellect, new strength to
he imagination, new force to the Will
+ nd wider swing to all the intellectual
faculties. Christianity is the great cen
bal fire at which philosophy has lighted
brightest torch. The religion of Christ
4 the fountain out Of which learning has
s ipped its clearest draft. The Ueilcon
CURED forth no such inspiring waters
s those which flow from under the
rome of God clear as crystal. Religion
= ls given new energy to poeSy, weeping
Il DR.. Ioung's Might Thoughts teach
l. in Cowper's "Task." flaming in
&harles Wesley's hymns and rushing
tn archangciic splendor through Mil
MS paradise Lost" The religion of
lrist has hung in studio and in gallery
s art and in Vatican the best pictures
tians Assumption, Raphael's trans
uration." RubenS' Descent from the
oss." Claude's Burning Bush" and
hgelo's Last Judgment" Religion has
adc the best music of the world
nydns Creation" Handles Messiah"
ozarts Requiem"
commend goodness as the best mcnt-
discipline. better than bellies lcttrcs
purify the taste better than mathe-
: ties to harness the mind to all intri-
caly and elaboration. better than logic 10
marshal the intellectual forces for onset
and victory. 1t will so with Hugh Mil
Ter and show him the footprints of the
Creator in the red sandstone. 1t will so
with the botanst and show him celestial
glores eucamped under the curtain OF a
water lilly. 1t will go with the astron-
omer on the great heights where God
shepherds the great flock of worlds that
wander on the hills of heaven answering
his voice as he calls them all by their
names
Again l remark that godliness is profit
able for ones disposition. Lord Ashley,
before he went into 4 great battle, was
hFdlh w oHtA lAiN prayer ~ i4Nibs
shall be very busy to-day. If | forget
thee. forget me not" With such a
Christian disposition rs that man is
independent Of all circumstances. Our
piety will have tinge of our natural
temperament. If man be cross aud
sour and frctful naturally. after he be-
comes Christian he will always have
to bc armed against the rebellion Of those
evil incinations. But religion has tanned
the widest natures. 1t has turned fret.
tulnesS into gratitude, dependency into
good cheer. and those who were hard and
ungoyernable and uncompromising have
been made pliable and eonciliatory
Influence Of the Gospel.
4 man cannot go forth with any human
weapons and contend successfully against
these Titans armed with uptoru noun
tains But You have known men into
whose spirit the influence Of the gospel
of Christ came until their disposition was
entirely changed. So it was with two
merchants in New York They were
very antsgonistic They had done al
they could to injure each other. They
were in the same line of business one
Of the merchants was converted to God.
ilAN tuE ptti con AtfAfN. ne HNkfu tue
Lord 10 teach him how 10 bear himself
toward that business antagonist. and he
was impressed with the fact that it was
his duty when Il customer asked for Ger.
tain kinds OF goods which he had not.
but which he knew his opponent had. 10
recommend him TO 20 to that store. !
suppose Tint is about the hardest thing
a man could do but. being thoroughly
converted to God. he resolved to do that
very thing and. being asked for a Ger
tain kind of goods which he had not. he
said You 90 to such and such n store,
and you will get it," After awhile mcr-
chant NO found these customers com.
ing so sent and he found also that mcr.
chant No. ] had been brought to God,
and he sought he same religion. Now
they are good friends and good neigh.
bors the grace Of God entirely changing
their dispositions.
ooh, says some one. II have 4 rougb.
jagged. impetuous nature, and religion
cant do anything for me" DO YOU
know that Martin Luther and Robert
Newton and Richard Baxter had mpet.
uous and all consuming natures. yet the
grace Of God turned them into the might
lfSt uStl utHFhS y manufacturer cares
but very little for stream that slowly
runs through the meadow. hut values a
torrent that leaps from rock 10 rock
and rushcs with mad energy through the
valley and out toward the sea. Along
that river you viii find hutterine shut
ties and grinding mill and flashing water
wheel. And a nature the swiflest. the
most rugged and the most tremendous
that is the nature God turns into greatest
usefulness. oh. how many that have
been pugnacious and hard to pleasc and
irascible and more bothered about the
mote in their ncighhar's eye than about
the bcamlike ship timber in their own
eye who have been entirely changed 10y
the grace Of God and have found out
that ''godliness is profitable for the life
that now is as we'll as for the life to
come
Religion in Business,
Again ! remark that religion is good
for worldly business. ] know the general
theory is the more business the less re-
ligion. the more religion the less business.
Not 50, thought DR.. Hans Ia his "Biog-
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