Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-10-19
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BY Rev. Henry r. Cop

Matt 20 90.
what IL II 10 be sayedf Once there
wns no difficulty IN securing n glib nm.
ewer to that question. He was sayed
who PROGRESSED to believe certain
things; he was damned who doubted
them The saved were ticketed to
heaven; the rest were Ms plainly tick
cied elsewhere.
The comfort Of being billed clear
through 70 everlasting BLISS without 50
much as change Of cars doubtless
was enhanced by the opportunity to
gazc with compIacency mingled with
cunrnlseratlon on those poor wretcbes
who we're condlgned 10 everlasting tor
melt
This simple division Of the race into
aho "lns'' and the 'outs," the elect aud
che doomed, remained satisfactory,
however. only M long as there was no
other standard raised by which men
should be measured than that Of the
formal acceptance OF a creed. IA soon
an moral standards were introduced a
new alignment began 10 take plnce.
II you begin 10 classify into the good
and tho bad the results Will be differ
est from that reached by Tho stand
ards of the saved aud the lost. Be
sides this you have new problem,
that OF the man who neither IL good
nor bad, who neither belongs with the
sheep nor with the goats. II you Ia
sEat on cioar.cut divisions. what arc
you going to do with hlm7 There are
many Of him
The truth IL that every man belongs
10 this class 40 far as bis character Is
concerned there are none unmixed
with evil nor any unadulteratedly bad.
There usually Is more good than we
expect In others and more base than
we recognise In ourselves. What then
has become OF tho old sharp line be
tween the saved and the lost2
There Ia distinction; there is dif.
ference Men either are finding life
or losing it, hut that Ia a different
thing from classifying humanity on the
tests OF their intellectual and moral
nhnhlepess In credal gymnastics. whe
differences between men are funds.
mental and moral, rather than intel
iectunl and external
salvation Is not legal fiction. q
right conferred by virtue Of fact be-
nesed. Salvation Is living up: dam.
nation Is dying down. Heaven Is
growing I'D into tho life and light of
the spirit the hlghor SELF. hell Ia de-
eayIng IA the death &c the flesh.
The great gulf liked between the
Saved ana the lest IL vital: IL Is deter.
mined by The direction OF life It
grows wider between Individuals ~
each persists IN his chosen course. the
cue reaching after the worthy THUGS
before the other sinking In the lower
depths, 1t requires no deyfre issuing
in thunder TO separate u man; he de.
teunines his place and lot ny the al.
rectlon In which he sets his face.
No man can look down and live up.
Ne matter 80 what creed YOU may give
snreServed assent, no matter IN what
measure yeu may trust 60 the virtues
OF She mercy % the most high Ii your
life goes down, II character teterg.
crates. II The soul sheinks if the beast
Develops, sou Danish Yourself to peril>
tgcM
pragreSs is The proof of nsety. Any
msn may know Of his faith Ay wheth-
se he Is 1oipg forward And here none
stand SsillS there are no Indifferent
lives; either ya0 move with the sheen
who seek the grseA pastures and the
Seil waters 81 the river Of life or With
che goats who turn 90 the desert.
eaan nee,iS no ere,aal test af him.
self, M ecclesiastical test; here Is the
AnSwey 10 the question, Am i saved
Ana / turning my face 10 the llShty
Am learnlng the lsfe az loves Is my
NE worth more "a tAe world than II
wss9 Is 4 richer. fuller, sWeeter,
more Ike tte ideal life at the son ,f
Mans
LIE either IS building ap ~ hreak,
snk down Cor each ~ Us, elgAae No an,
eaS'nS llse or we sre an,sinS Ii. Han.
ny they Who i've ny who set tsseir AZ.
seStoas On things aeav>. Mo bave
lesrnea TIE epeSt te&cAar,s lnSSan ~
esaatEsne the 1oe ny living Ter ofAArS
ey serving ana self-e,vlpg ghey nsve
M tear - aeeNg Forever 1ASt wao gesr