Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-01-03
ART OF GOING WITHoUT.
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By Rev. T. Calvin McCleIland. D. d.
know how to be abased.-Phi,ip-
plans Nv. II.
st Paul says he has learned the art
of going without. 1t is easy to lose. but
II is hard to lose and keep ones spirit.
II Is easy to lose ones money, but 1t is
hard for made-to-order feet to walk
gracefully in bargain-counter shoes. Ola
age comes without trying, but after
working forty years a man must have
learned how TO give up-to retire gra-
ciously.
The secret learned by st. Paul had
two parts. First, he looked on loss as
iutrinsically useful. The loser gives up,
but he gets. Adversely has a value.
Tolstoy's Peter, the richest man in
Russia, taken prisoner of war, learned
for the first time hunger and fatigue.
but ne learned more-the pleasure Of
eating when hungry, of sleeping after
hard work; lying on the bare ground
for the first time, he saw the sun rise.
apq took In the meaning of the md
night with its myriad stars.
Poverty brings the feeling of the pri-
mary happinesses; bankruptcy is a
great teacher of the higher values.
When man lies petulant with conya-
lescence he appreciates loves patience.
When traditional opinions buckle one
discovers that the plain face of duty
has the features of her father, God.
10 t. IL
ment when feeling the hand he has al
ways held slip away, he looked up, and
through his tears saw the heavens open
and the assurance Of personal immor-
tally descend upon him.
Wealth, health, faith and life have
their revelations like the sunshine, pan
Drama of mountain, river, flower and
bird. But poverty, doubt, sickness and
DEATH like the night, let in the host of
heaven and widen creation till 1t
reaches the fiery margin of infinity.
Wealth, health, faith and life have
their revelations like the sunshine, pan
Drama OF mountain, river, flower and
bird. But poverty, doubt, sickness and
death, like the night, let in the host of
heaven and widen creation till It
reaches the fiery margin of inf1nity.
The first part of st. Paul's success
Of going without is, accept loss as
condition with character Of its own.
The second part Of his secret is he
had masterful purpose. 81 can do
all things in Him that strengtheneth
me-" he said. He was able to go with
out, because he lived for one thing to
make men Christlike, lovers and doers
OF good
An oyerbearing purpose makes a man
put up with anything. Last summer
the family slept in that attic with only
blankets to cut the place into make
believe rooms, but every one slept well,
because the mountains were Just over
the hill. When one goes for mountains.
what boots bit of publicity and corn
husks Instead Of curled hair?
That wealthy man is known less by
his riches than by his hobby for settle
ments. Then he who made dollars a
minute works for dollars month with
out whining, because when work Is over
he goes down to the club house his
wealth built and by association with
the lads makes them love character
even more than they love the club
house. And the hobby is the secret of
retiring gracefully
The man who has to give up the old
ways of thinking about truth saves
himself from skepticlsn because before
the time of transition he devoted him
self to doing good as well as believing
good. And when he is compelled to say
farewell to his hearts companion at the
door which swings only outward what
will save him from forewandering in
his loneliness?
By living deeply, earnestly while his
friend Is with him for the things that
abide-faith, hope and love. A mutual
interest In the eternals gives one
great sense of the infinite companion
ship when the old companion goes
away. So one must have an imperative
work, must be taken up with something
that is worth fitting into Gods scheme
to stay, then when money goes or health
or friend a man has no chance TO brood
over himself.
1t Is worth while knowing how TO
lose gracefully. This Is how-bo accept
loss as a positive experience with BIT
ter-sweet gains, to be commanded by
an interest. and this is the greatest in
terest to get folks to be Christianlike
lovers and doors of the good.
RELIGION AND NATIONAL LIFE.
BY Henry +. Cope.