Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-04-19

place for you is to come right down
among us who are so incompetent and
so inconsistent sometimes. Show US how.
/ Give us an example.
Time TO BE Religious.
Other persons apologize fer not becenF-
/ ing Christians because they lack time,
as though religion muddled the brain OF
the accountant or tripped the pen of the
author or thickened the tongue OF the
orator or weakened the arm Of the me
chanic or scattered the briefs nf the law
yer or interrupted the sales OF the mer--
| chant. They bolt their store doors
against it and fight it back with trowcIs
and with yar,lsticks and cry. Away with
| your religion from our store, our Office,
our factory" They do not understand
] that religion in this workday world viii
help You TO do anything you ought to DO
1t can lay a keel; ii can sail a ship it eaa
buy Il cargo: it can work pulley; it can
| pave street; it can fit 4 wristbands
| il can write a constitution; it can mar
/ shall host. 1t is as appropriate to the
astronomer as his telescope, to the chem
list as his laboratory. to the mason ss
| his plumb line, to the carpenter as his
plane, TO the child as his marbles, 10
grandfather as his staff
No time to be religions here, You have
no time not to be religious. Yon might
as we'll have no clerks in your store, mW
books in your library, no compass on yoOr
| ship, no ride in the battle. no hat for
| your head, no coat for your back, ho
shoes for your feet. Better travef sn
| toward eternity bareheaded aud bare
footed and houseless and homeless and
fricndless than to so through life with
out religion.
Other persons apologize for not enter
ing the Christian life because it is time
enough vet. That is very ike those per-
sons who send regrets aud say. II VIII
come in perhaps at IL or IL o'clock; ]
will not be there at the opening OF the
banquet, but | viii be there at the close =
Not yet! Not yet! Now, do not give
any doleful view Of this life. There IS
nothing in my nature, nothing in the
grace of God, that tends toward dole
full view OF human life. have not much
sympathy with Addison's description Or
the Vision of Mirza," where he repre-
sents human life as being a bridge OF a
hundred arches and both ends OF the
bridge covered with clouds and. the race
coming on. the most of them falling down
through the last span. lt il a very dis
NAL picture. | have not much sympathy
with the Spanish proyerb which says,
THE sky is good and the earth is good:
that which is bad is between the earth
and the sky" But, while we as Chris
tan men are bound to take a cheerful
view of life. we must also confess that
life is Il great uncertainty aud that man
who says Il can't become Christina
because there is time enough yet" IS
running a risk infinite. You DO not neF-
haps realize the fact that this descending
grade of sin gets sleeper and sleeper and
that you are gathering up a rush md
velocity which after awhile may not ap-
swer TO the brakes.
The DeIusion in Delay.
Re not among those VINO give their
whole life to the world and then give
their corpse to God. 1t is great thing
for man on his dying pillow to repent
better that than never at all; but now
much better, how much more geneFous
II would have been ii he had repent.d
fifty years beforel My friends, you wiii
never get over these representations.
Here is delusi0n. People think. II
can 20 on in sin and worldllness, but
after awhile | will repent and then IL
viii be as though j had come at The
very start" What a lnistakei No QUE
ever gets fully over procrastination lc
you give your soul TO God some other
time than this, you win enter heaycr
with only half the capacity for enjoy
ment and knowledge you might have had.
There will be heights Of blesseduess yoa
might have attained that then you viii
never reach; thrones OF glory on whicb
you might have been seated, but which
you will never climb. We viii never get
over procrastination, neither in time nor
in etersdty.
We have started on a march FROM
which there IL no retreat The shadows
of eternity gather on our pathway. How
Insignificant IN time compared with the
vast eternity This moment voices r0ll
down the sky and all the worlds OF light
are ready TO rejoice at your disenthral-
ment. Rush not into the presence OF the
King ragged with sin when sou may
have this robe Of righteousness. Dash
not your foot 10 pieces against the throne
Of a crEcified Christ. Throw not your
crown of life off the battlenwnts All
the scribes OF God are az this hour ready
| with volumes of living light to record
the news or yOur soul emapcipated.
Copyright, Louis Klopsch. 1902