Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-06-05

not be surprised TO find a book ia honor
| of satan, the chief misereant of the uni
| verse. We all admire industry. and there
is no more industrious being than satan.
| But when a man tells me Napoleon was
| a reformer and emancfpstor would like
/ TO take him out and show him the grave
/ trenches of those who fell in the Are5-
! leonie wars. Alas for the work of this
/ great emancipation and reforner He
/ turned Europe into a eharnel her-r aud
| filed Europe with widowhood 4ld or
! phanage and childiessness. Though he
| was the brilliant man Of the ages. would
| 1t not have been better for the world il he
| had died in his cradle six weeks after
he was born? Compare that with The
man who had one taller and that the tai
ent for invention. He was born on a farm
ia Spencer. Mass, in 1919. He went 10
the district school in the winter aud ney-
or had any other literary advantages. lie
became a machnist. In 1916 he came
on to a battlefield where more women
have been slain by the needle than in the
wars | spoke of men were slain by the
sword Elias Howe. He could not make
an Grafton. He could not marshal host.
He could not write a constitution. Bat
he could contrive Il sewing machir
viii h said to millions of beggared, COZ
sumptive, bent over. half blinded sewing
women: Go free. Take back ;our
health. Recover your eyesight. Core
down out of that garrett. 60 free"
The Talent of Persuasion.
| Is -FOUR talent that of persuasion: Make
good use OF it. We all have it TO some
extent, yet none of us thinks of ii as
talent. Rut it is the mightiest of talents,
DO you knew that this one talent will
fetch the world back to Gods DO You
| know it is the mightiest talent Of the
| high heavens? Do you know that It ~
/ the one talent chiefly employed by all the
angels of God when they descend to our
| world-thc talent of persuaslont 10 you
| realize that the rough lumber lifted INTO
cross on the hill back of Jerusalem
| was in persuasion rs we'll as sacrlhee!
| That is the only, absolutely the only, per-
| suasion that will ever induce the human
| race to stop its march toward the cary
/ of destruction and wheel around and
| start for the city of light. Now may the
| Lord this moment show each one of us
| that to a greater or less extent We have
| that one talent of persuasion and lmpei
us to the right use of it. on say you
1 cannot preach a sermon, but cannot you
persuade some one to go and hear ser
mon? You say you cannot sing, but can
not you persuade some one TO go anu
/ hear the choir chant on Christmas or
| Easter morning? Send a bunch of flow
ers to that invalid in the hospital. with
message about the land where the inhah-
| itants never say, Il am sick. There IS
| a child of the street Invite him ITO the
| mission school. There is a man who has
| lost his fortune in speculation. Instead
| of jeering at his fall go and tell him or
| riches that never take wings and ny
| away. Buckle on that one talentof per-
suasion. o man, o woman, and you viii
| do a work that heaven win celebrate To-
| 600 years.
The Final Review.
After the resurrection day and all heay-
/ en- is made up. resurreeted bodies joined
to REASONED souls, aud the gates which
were so long open are shut there may be
some day when all the redeemed may
/ pass in review before the great waite
| throne If so. | think the hosts passing
| before the King will move in different
| divisions With the first dirision will
| pass the mighty ones of earth who were
/ as good and useful as they were great.
| In this division will pass before the
throne all the Martin Luthers. the Jehn
knoxes, the Wesleys, the RICHARD Ce-
ellis. the Millions. the Chrysostoms, the
| Herschells, the Lenoxes, the George Pea
| bodys. the Abbott Lawrences and all the
| eonsecrated Christian men AMI women
who were great in literature, ia law. in
medicine, in philosophy, in commerce.
| Their genius never spoiled thegl They
were as humble as they were gifted or
9opulent. TREY were grea on earth, ana
now they are great in heaven. Their sur
/ passing and magnificent talents sSere ali
| used for the worlds betterment. As they
| pass in review before the King on the
| great white throne to higher and higher
rewards it makes me think of the parable
| of the talents, ITO another ten"
/ stand and watch the other divisions
as they go by. division after division, I'M
| til the largest of all the divisions comes
in sight 1t is hundred to one. thou
sand to one, ten thousand TO one, larger
| than the other divisions. 1t is m5de UP
of men who never did anything bat sup
| port their families and give whatever OF
their limited means they could spaRa for
/ the relief of poverty and sickness aat the
salvation of the world, mothers who took
good care of children by example and
| precept starting them on the road to
| heaven. millions of Sabbath school teach
| ers who sacrificed an afternoons s.esta
for the listening class of yonng iisinor-
tails, women who declined the making of
homes for themselves that they might
take care of father and mother in the
weaknesses of old age, ministers os the
| gospel who or niggardly stipend preach
ed in the backwoods meeting he.ses,
souls who for long years did nothing but
| suffer. vet suffered with so much cheer
| full patience that it became a helpful: les
son TO all who heard of it: those who
served God faithfully all their lives and
whose name never but once ,ippea ~ei in
print and that time in the tree lines of
the death column which some survivor
| paid for. sailors who persisted in the
storm while trying to get the life line
! out to the drowning, prosecuted and tiled
| souls who endured without compld int
| malignity and abuse, those who had only
ordinary equipment for body and oydi-
nary endowment Of intellect, yet devoted
NIL they had to holy purposes and spirisu-
al achievement.
/ As see this, the largest Of all the ali
| visions. from all lands and from all ages,
\ PASS in review before the King on she
/ great white throne | am reminded If