Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-12-29

titles by Mrs. E. +. Stockum, VIII
worked continually to find those VIII
were really in suraitened circum
stances. Citizens, Sunday school class
es, churches, the Salvation army an
other groups of men and womel
helped in buying the baskets. Check
were received by Mrs. Stockum a
well as silver offerings from differen
institutions and individuals, and, a
some OF these were late in coming in
underwear, stockings, ETC., we're pur
chased for those who were in need o
them. We are told that grea
deal of interest was taken in tn
work that was being done and man
queries were made as to what familie
were worthy and that individual
would become interested enough T.
find out the ages of the children ant
would send some toys, ETC., wher
Iif they had not, there would hav
been no Christmas, for those children
whatever. Several little boys, we un
derstand, saved their pennies ant
nickels and when Christmas cam,
they went to the room at the Y anC
gave their savings TO help the poor
This enabled the purchase of mucl
wearing apparel. An elderly maj
came into the rest room the day be
fore Christmas and left a half dollar
Such acts as these goes to show thai
the people are interested and anxiou:
to see the good and helpful work Of
the Federated Charities a success.
Mrs. Stockum says that only severa
days ago lumber camp above Wan
sau needed men and that she was able
to send up several who had been
looking for work, from this city.
The poor in this city have Ger.
tainly been lucky in being supplied
with absolute necessities. The people
of Wausau proved TO be genuinely
generous and gave very freely, despite
the fact that the indications for 2
winter of plenty, is not very bright.
UNION SERVICES.
The union services were held at the
Presbyterian church at 1880 a. m.
Christmas morning and a large
audience was present Revs. W. H.
Gould, 0. d. Briggs, Donald West
and James M. Duer assisted in the
preIiminaries. the address was de-
livered by Rev. Richard Evans, of the
First Methodist church, which we
publish in part as follows:
Luke 2;l3. And suddenly there was with
the angel multitude of the heavenly host
praising God, and saying,
Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace among men in whom
he is well pleased"
THE ANGELS SONG.
OF what kind of beings was this
heavenly host composed? Such host
Sc ms to us very intangible, very in
Indeed to some people
who pride themselves on their hard
sense it seems very unreal. TO them
B multitude of the heavenly host is
Ill moonshine. Those that saw and
heard it were simply moonstruck.
Might not the simple shepherds re-
tort that their critics are probably
That is, that they are
SO absorbed in mud, by which, / mean
what is tangible, what their hands
can handle, that the world of pure
mind is beyond their reach. Their
sense is so hard, so material, so SEN
that it brushes their souls
md blinds their eyes. They can see
what is tangible, material, temporary,
while they ever remain strangers to
reality.
But who were the beings that COM
posed this heavenly hoSt2 In the
third chapter of Genesis we read of
IN angel who stood to guard the gate
If Eden with drawn flashing sword.
such being is mentioned
n the Old Testament. In the Book of
lob reference is made to the Sons of
Tod who were busy on errands for
he Almighty. And in Daniel and
,ther Hebrew Apocalyptic books,
lngels of various ranks and authority
IRE introduced. Milton makes much
If the idea thus presented. He peo-
)les the universe with angelic spirits
rood and bad who we're so created,
Ind entertains his readers with mar
yelous pictures of his imagination.
Now the conception we have been
is all very good, and there
S probably truth in it. But there is
mother that appeals to me more. 1t
comes from the New Testament. In
me place Jesus, eulogiZing childhood,
,ays, "Their angels do always behold
jhe face of my Father who Is in heav-
IN" And John, in the Revelation,
speaks of multitudes that
10 man could number, gathered from
.mong men, who are continually en-
ragged in the service of God. Why
should not the heavenly host of the
ext have consisted of glorified hui
Why should we not, when
We leave this earth, be free and nor
nally gifted, and efficient?
Is it preposterous to think that the
lost that sang the anthem Of the
text on the first Christmas morning
vas composed of those that had once
lived on earth, and had been released ?
Are such beings frequently about us?
Is it only in our infancy that heaven
les about us? Or does that blessed
privilege persist through all our
years, if we only had eyes to see it,
and ears to hear its music Do our
departed friends frequently observe
rs, wait on us, serve us? Why not :?
But think of the pain they must
suffer through observing our pain,
and more by observing our folly.
Nav they not see as well the blessed
of our pain, and the blessed
that awaits US, and the
forces of redemption that are opera
ting for the cure of our folly? And
what more delirhtfui and profitable
exercise could they be engaged in
than the service Of loved ones left
behind? Sir Oliver Lodge is not a
fanatic, nor an enthusiast. nor hare
Drained herald of half-bake notions.
He is sober, serious, conservative
scientist. Such one is the last we
would suspect of being superstitious.
He has expressed his settled convic-
ton based on scientific grounds, not
only that there is a life beyond the
grave, but that those that have
passed into it may and do communi-
cate with those still on this side.
Indeed he has positively assured US
that he has had such communications
Possibly he is mistaken, but why
should we doubt his grounds? Why
should we want to doubt them? Fiji
teen years ago we would have smiled
at the person who should have told
us that he had message from a
friend on a ship in mid ocean. But
we would not now. We should not
like to be thought ignorant. Why,
than should We ScOru the thing that