Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-02-02

tie be told his troops what he wanted
them 10 do, and after be had described
what be wanted them to do they said:
well, general, what are you going to
give us for all this?" "Well," he replied.
II don't know what else you will get.
but you will get hunger, and cold, and
wounds, and death. How do you like
it?" His men stood before him for a
little while IN silence and then they
threw up their hands and cried: I'VE
are the men! We are the men!" The
,rd Jesus Christ calls you to His scrv-
ice. do not promise you an easy time
In this world. You may have persecu.
tions, and trials, and misrepreenta
lions, but afterward there comes an
eternal weight of glory. and you can
bear the wounds, and the bruises, and
the misrepresentation, il you have the
reward afterward. Have you not
enough enthusiasm to cry out: 1--WE are
the men! We are the men!"
learn also from this subject the dan
ger OF worldly elevation. This Eglon
was what the world called great man.
There were hundreds OF people who
would have considered 1t the greatest
honor of their life just to have him
speak to them, yet, although he Is so
high up in worldly position, he Is not
beyond the reach OF Ehud's dagger. !
see great many people trying to climb
up in social position, having an idea
that there is n safe place somewhere
far above, not knowing that the noun
tain OF fame has top like Mont Blanc.
covered with perpetual snow.
We laugh at the children OF Shinar
for trying TO build tower that could
reach to the heavens, but | think II our
eyesight were only good enough we
could see Babel In many dooryard.
Oh, the struggle Is fiercel 1t Is store
against store, house against house
street against street, nation against ma,
ton. The goal for which men are run
ming is chairs and chandeliers and mir
rors and houses and lands and presi-
dental equipments. II they get what
they anticipate, what have they? Men
are not safe from calumny while they
live, and worse than that, they are not
safe after they are dead, for have seen
swine root up graveyards. One day "a
man goes up into publicity, and the
world does him honor, and people climb
up into sycamore trees to watch him us
he passes, and as he goes along on the
shoulders OF the people there is way
ing of hats and wild huzHa. To-mor-
4, h, 10 Int "a n
the jaws of the printing press and
mangIed and bruised, and the very
same persons who appaudcd him be
fore cry: down with the traitorl
down with hint"
Rclshaz2ar sits ut the feast, the
around him. wit spnrkles like the wine
and the wine like the wit. Music rolls
up among the chandeliers; the chan
dclierS flash down on the decanters.
The breath Of hanging gardens floats
in on the night air The voice of reyelry
floats out, Amid wrcaths and tapestry
and folded banners iinger writes. The
march Of host Is heard on the stairs,
Laughter catches in the throat, A
thousand hearts stop beating. The
blow Is struck The blood on the floor
Is richer hued than the wine on the
tnble, The Kingdom has drpartct Bel
shn22cr was no worse perhaps than
hundreds OF people IN Babylon, but
his position slew him, Oh, be content
with Just such n position as God has
placed YOU I'M 1t may not be said Of us;
"lle was II great general" or "lle was
an honored chieftain," or "lie was
mighty in worldly at,alnmcnls," but
this thing may be said of you and of
me; "llc was good citizen, n faithful
Christian, Il friend of Jesus" And that
in the last day will be the highest of all
eulogiums.
learn further from this subject that
denth comes to the summer house, Egg
Ion did not expect to die in that fine
place, Amid all the flower leaves that
drifted like summer snow into he win
dow, in the tinlle and dash of the foun-
tnins, in the sound of Il thousand leaves
huting on one tree branch, in the cool
breeze that came up to shake fevcrish
trouble out Of the kings loekS~~there
was nothing That spake Of death, but
| there he died! In the winter, when the
snow is n shroud, and when the wind is
dirgc, 1t is easy to think of our NOR
talty. but when the weather is pleas
ant and all our surroundings are agree
able, how difficult II is for us TO appre-
clate the truth that we are mortall
| And yet my text teaches that death does
sometimes come to the summer house.
! He Is blind and cannot see the leaves.
| He is deaf aud cannot hear the foun-
tains. Oh, IL death would ask us for
victims we could point him TO hundreds
OF people who would re ioce To have him
come. Push back the door of that howell,
Look at that little child-cod, and sick
and hungry. II has never heard the
name of God but in kaSphemy Pa
rents intoxicated, staggering around
It's straw bed, Oh, death, there is u
mark for thee! Up With il into the
light! Before those little feet stumble
on li(c's pathway give them rest
/ l. . 4. Z.