Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-10-02
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WORSHIP AND IT'S WORTH.

Inc measure or the worm OF any
worship must be in the increasing
worth of the worshiper. If we would
glorify the Creator, the best way VIII
be by making His creation more glo-
rious. God is not made more by max
ing man less. True religion in every
way will inspire and lead men TO larger
living.
We have had enough of the religion
that thought Of man as utterly de-
PRAYED, that cnose to describe him as
vile worm of the dust, and that ex-
pressed its highest wish in the prayer,
20, to be nothing. nothing" Man was
made to be something, and religion is
to help him to be something greater,
nobler, fairer than he ever has
dreamed.
When a man has told the Almighty
that he is only vile worm of the
dust, his gratutous information has
branded him as hypocrite, for while
he may have accurately described him
self, he would be the first to resent
our acceptance of his own estimate,
while at the same time he nas no fight
to utter such libel on the race.
Worship is a reaching up toward
the worth while, that which is worthy
and inspiring Every endeayor for bet
ter, purer, larger and more ideal liv-
Ing is an act OF worship. Every pros
tration i'll the dust, save in sincere con-
fession OF past failure and with speedy
rising to new endeavor, is an offense
against the love that has destined us
for greatness.
The divine call to man is to stand
up and strive for the highest levels of
life. Make the most of yourself, for
manhood has been given that we might
make it mean yet more. The godly
life is the life that grows in good
illness, in godliness. The reality Of the
sense OF the infinite may be meas
ured by the earnestness of our endeav-
in our own.
No man ever strives after such full
life without realizing how it both ne
cessitates and develops the spirit of
humility, how, as one seeks after fair
er living, all the foulness and unwortn-
mess stands revealed. Yet we have TO
learn to leave these things behind, to
cast off the old garments of weakness
and wandering, and put on new glory
day by day.
Because man is the sen of the Most
High ne is not afraid OF his Fathers
face, and he never has found anything
too high for him. He is most like his
Father as he reaches out after the life
that is great and good and noble iii
children of the Most High are known
everywhere as those who seek the high
est life.
1t is the spirit of God that makes
men aspire. Think no glory OF char
acter too great for you. Look on lie
as simply heavens way Of setting the
every discipline as call to true wor-
ship, TO endeayor to be worthier, to
climb somehow nearer to the face OF
the infinite goodness.
/ would rather trust the honor of
the man who is conscious of being an
erect animal than that of the one who
interprets his religion in terms of self
abnegation the latter is liable to live
up to his own specifications. If we
would have men upright in their ways
we must aid them to be upright in
their worship.
This world needs men who will stand
up on their feet who are not afraid o.
being individuals, who can be counted
and who can be counted on. That was
the glory Of that goodly life lived long
ago in Judea and Galilee; it counted
as an individual life. 1t was a life
that stood up and has cried to all our
lives ever since, Stand up, look up,
lift up"
Men have seen the divine In that
life because il lifted itself toward the
divine. 1t has become worthy of wor-
ship because 1t constantly worshipsd
by becoming more worthy. 1t has lift
cd lives because it has gone on rising
TO higher 'a2eis. SO if any life would
truly worship. it must realize its own
dignity. its own glorious destiny, and
standing upright, strive out and I'd for
fullpoSs Of living