Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-14
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HELP FOR ALL IN GOD.

By Rev. Edwin W. Caswell.

By Kew. EDWIN w. CaSWeI1.
The one hundred thousand spectators
witnessing the Olympiad at London
were filed with wonder when they saw
a mere boy. from New York City, the
smallest of the ifty-tive competitors,
win the great Marathon race.
Littleness was better than bigness
quality than quantity. That the IN
seen forces of the will, purpose and
faith are mightier than visible prowess
was proven when David met Goliath,
when the japanese defeated the Rus
SLAMS and when John Hayes won the
twenty-siX mile race. Consciousness of
weakness means preparation, discipline,
progress and development and these
mean victory. Necessity is called the
mother of invention, therefore II the
Young man of wealth feels no necessity
he will fail of the greatest achieve
ment.
Carnegie and Rockefeller struggled
I'D from the weakness of poverty TO
the summit of wealth and influence.
Dante, Ruskin and Carlyle fought
against the weakness of bodily Ills till
they attained the climax Of intellectual
greatness. The handicap of blindness
enabled Milton of England, Milburn
and Mathewson Of Scotland to behold
visions of thought and beauty beyond
their fellows.
IIardships, deprivatiOns and great
difficulties in early life lifted Lincoln
and Grant into their Hottest seats Of
power. Prisons have palaces proved
to minds like Paul and Bunyan, where
they were inspired to produce pen pic
lures that have delighted and blessed
mankind in every land. Is it not a
sublime truth that there Is a pathway
upward for every one? No wonder
that Paul gloried in his infirmities, per
secutions and distresses, for he ex-
claimed: "When | am weak, then am
I strong, for the power Of Christ will
rest upon me-"
The little child becomes strong be-
cause 1t stretches out its hand to the
parent. The father is nobler when he
bears his child out of danger into
safety. So the sinful and troubled soul
that stretches out it's hands Of faith
to the Heavenly Father feels under
meath the everlasting arms and nestles
in the bosom Of forgiveness and father
hood, and who shall say God is hot
happier and mightier because of his
embrace of helplessness?
Do you feel crushed by the law of
"the survival of the fittest" or that
"the weakest go to the wall?'
Heavens law of grace creates fitness
and meetness for the highest inherit
ance.
Do you agonize in the commissions of
pain? 1t is the divine hand leading
you to greater riches as earthquakes
reveal the gold in the rended rocks.
If God in nature can produce the
diamond from the black carbon, the
white lily from the black earth and
bulb, the great tree from the tiny seed,
He can bring purity out of sinfulness,
strength out of weakness and heaven
Jul VI hCIi LIS pONOl Will SllIiUIS INC
soul that trusts in Him to overcome
dangerous hereditary tendencies, unto
ward environments, unspeakable diff
culties, so that you may become the
author of opportunities and the creator
Of circumstances. and, though, at last,
like John Brown, you go down to ig-
nominOus death, your ltberty-loving
soul will go marching on" through
all millenniums, in blessed companion
ship with Him who arose from the
weakness of the manger, the cross and
the sepulchre to become coneueror and
ruler of all worlds.
If we put out little crosses at the
foot of His great cross. He will lift
them up until they become tranfgured
into crowns of glory forevermore.