Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-22

In which sLi we all must labor, with nfe's
yonda paf the goal of all this travel hes:
what matters it If yesterda? the skies
With light were gilded, or with clouds
were black:
would not lose tomorrow's glow of dawn
Nv gazing backward, after suns long set.
Now hone is fairer than old regret.
Let me pursue my journey and press on
Not, .earfui eyed, stand ever in one spot,
4 briny statue like the wife of Lot
Ella Wheeler Wilcox. in The Nautilus.
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Cause of Empty Pews in Church.
why men do not go to church-except
in the Catholic communion-is a matter
Of grave and continuous concern, and
many are the devices clergymen have re-
sorted to for enticing them to the house
OF God Sometimes the inducement
fakes the form of smoking club annex,
and recently parlor socialism has been
introduced as Il method of pew filling.
The religious press and the ministry
have been much exercised to determine
the cause of this Indifference, and many
reasons have been advanced. among
which none surely is more far-fetched
than that which attributes it to mans
reluctance to hear his business methods
and principles rebuked from the pulpit.
and TO have his sins brought before him
by hymns, Bible reading. and preaching
When viii the religious press and the
Protestant pulpit realize that the fault
is with the churches message, not with
the laity. and that the true reason why
The majority of both men and women
are not church attendants is because
they want what one distinguished New
York rabbi left his ecclesiastical fold
and became an independent ethical lead
er to give hem-ethical truth stripped
Of ecclesiasticalism? Heresy trials, the
higher criticism, and progressive Chris
tianity, which result in the revision of
creeds. are all great shocks to .ener-
atoms brought up to believe that the
creeds. and the ecclesiastical interpreta-
ton of Scripture, and the Bible itself.
are all the word of God. and the will
of God; but when the authority of creed
Interpretation, and the Holy Book is as
sailed, not by intidels, or by those of on
posing faiths, but by reverent and inteIii
gent erstwhile creed adherents. il must
inevitably beget in the laity a loss of
confidence in religious leaders and CON
MUNYON'S, ana dispose it to question the
sOundness of anything now put forward
as ecclesiastical truth. Why. If asks
II the churchmen have been deceived ali
these centuries as to the inerrancy of the
Scriptures, and the religious authority
OF creeds, may not what is now pro-
claimed latter day ecclesiastical truth he
quite as much error as were the earlier
teachings?
The Protestant church has, in a large
measure, lost authority, and that is what
keeps It's pewS empty of men and wGm-
en- while the ethical culture halls are
crowded. Its decadence or its further
Development depends upon the message
1t has for world that hungers for reli-
gious truth.-Vogue.
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The American Wife.
Your wife doesn't want you to love her
more. She wants you to show it more,
She doesn't want more indulgence She
wants more life. She wants a broader
LIE, not that she may neglect her funda-
mental duties as wife and as a moth
er, bu. that she may bring to these du-
ties more wisdom, more experience She
wants, IN short, the square deal which
she had right to expect when you saar-
ried her. Her desire is more than Il de-
sire. 1t is an instinct: an instinct born
IN her. by sex heredity. The husband
who disregards this instinct will wake
up some day to find his marriage : wreck
of unrealized hopes.
Perhaps, you are not only a good pro-
WIDER. but do continue to tell your wife
you love her. Perhaps, in spite of all,
she is unreasonable enough to be discon-
doesn't know herself exactly what she
wants. She has a good home a good
husband, good children. She has her
household duties and the care of her
children to occupy her time. Whether
she knows it or not she wants contact
with life outside Ter home. If she is a
woman of great energy, of executive
ability, she PROBABLY wants more occu-
patton. That does not mean she wants
to be stenographer or a public lecturer.
1t doesn't mean -ecessarily that she
wants any gainful occupation. You say
she has her housekeeping; her children to
tram. To do these things is her sphere.
Let her stick to item. The Importance
cannot be overestimated. You are en-
tlrely right. She should never neglect
these fundamental duties. One of the
very reasons she needs other interests,
other occupations, is that she may bring
more knowledge and new enthusiasm to
these duties. Can she best teach her
children the meaning of life by knowing
nothing of it beyond the walls of her
nome! She canont, any more than you
can best conduct your business by know
ing nothing of business in general.-Ap-
pleton's Magazine.
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Was Ever a Finer Com
plment Paid to Women?
In the American Magazine William J.
Locke, author Of THE Beloved Naga-
bond" and The Morals of Marcus" be-
gins his new serial novel, Simple Septi-
mus"
Septimus Dix-Simple Septimus-is q
genus, an inventor of guns. He is as
eccentric as such men often are, and all
ms movements are wonderfully interest
nag But, withal, he has a marvellous
power to express truth directly and beau
TRULY Listen, for example, to this
speech Of his. as it came out in the
course of a conversation with Fora Mid
aIemlst the heroine: