Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-04-06

| damask gave JOY alike TO the appre-
ciatiye eye and the touching hand,
where countless silver cleaned. where
| glass Sparkled like the diamonds that
! it approached in value, and where the
daintiest china of France supported
| fish, flesh and fowl of two continents
and two seas. 1t has been my honor,
now and again, TO sit at the tables of
the great where men of intellect and
fame and women of intellect and
charm have made an hour unforget-
| able and have taught one more than
whole university of mere cIassrooms
could do. 1t has been my profit to sit
at banquets where hundreds sat about
the tables and listened to the words of
| heroes, heroes of war and heroes of
peace, captains of sOldiery and cap
tains of industry, and felt the while
they listened, that they were in touch
with the men and the forces that move
the world. 1t has been my benefit to
sit at meat in the homes of the hum
| bic, in log cabins and huts, dining off
metal plates and plain fare. and there
| to learn that not circumstances, but
characters make men and women. It
has been my delight to sit about the
table of the grass, in forests and will
| dernesSes, the campfire at hand and
! the viands won from stream or forest
only by gun or rod. But when con-
| template the circumstances of that
morning meal beside the lake of Cali
lee and realize the realities that were
there present-things, emotions, sights
that surpass words to describe-I know
| that I had rather have been one of
those men that ate the bread the Lord
/ baked, the fish his hands caught and
| cooked for them. that saw what they
saw and heard what they heard, than
| to have attended any other banquet
that wealth ever bought or meal that
| the friends of ones bosom prepared
for friendships tribute!
"Why so? Tell me. who were there !
Tell me whom that group consisted of -
"Oh, a group of coarse fishermen,
! tagged out by nights work,
listening to chance rabbi who is
getting breakfast for them while he
| talks" Yes; you can make that an
swer If you Lave succeeded in wiping
! Easter day out of your calendar.
| Who were there? ooh. let's see,
wasn't that the time when Jesus met
his disciples and the miracle of the
great draft of fishes occurred?"
1t was; and that is about the way
the average churchgoer (shall l have
TO say the average ChrlstianO would
answer.
Who was there? Listen! Men were
| there that had seen the man in their
! midst die in pain on the horrid cross
| of a Roman criminal execution, had
witnessed his writings of agony, had
seen the sweat of blood had heard
1 from those very lips at which their
| eyes now gazed as if enchanted the
! last scream as the body sank lifeless
| in the nail-suspended collapse of death.
! Men sat there who had taken that
I body down in tears and diSmay and In
| the shock of disiIlusioned hopes had
buried it and gone away feeling as ii
/ their universe had tumbled IL wreck
/ about their heads, murmurlng To Que
another as they went: And this is the
end of hiua whom we hoped that IT.
had been he that should have redeemed
! Israeli" And that man sat there be-
fore them alive Alive? He had
caught fish and made a fire and baked
| bread and helped them TO make one
of the great hauls of their fishermen's
experience. and now while they SAT
stunned, amazed, astounded, incapable
almost of realizing what had occurred
incapable, as they afterward wrote,
of speaking a syllable of inquiry-he