Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-07-24

III tina there is tendency 70 excuse
q brilliant faB'@s because they are bril-
liant. when til me law Of right AMI
wrong ought To applied to high places
and low text, Daaiel w., 33. 'I}a same
hour was the thing fulfilled upon Neb-
nehadnezzar. and he WAS driven from
men aud did eat grass rs oxen.
Here is the mightiest Of the Babylon
ish kings. Look at him He did more
for the grandeur Of the capital than did
all his predecessors or Successors. Hang
ing gardt ns. reservoirs, aqueducts. pal
aces, all of hiS own planning. The bricks
that ARE brought up to-day from the ruins
OF Babylon have his name on them.
'Nebuchadnezzar. son OF NaEopolassor, 4
king Of Babylon" He was great cen
pueror, He stretched forth his spear TO-
ward Il nation and it surrendered. But
he plunaered the temple OF the true God,
He lifted an idol. Bel Merodach. AMI
compelled the people to bow down before
it, and if they refused they must go
through the redhot furnace or be crunch
ed by lion or lioness. So God pulled him
down.
He was smtten with what physicians
call ycanthropy and fancied that he was
a wild beast, and he went out and pas
tured amid the cattle. God did not ex-
cuse him because he had comaitted the
sin III high places or because the trans
gresson was wide resounding. He meas
ured Nebucha lnezzar in high Places just
as he would measure the hulnblest cap
five.
But in otlr ime, yoa know as well as l.
that th IRE i a disposition to put halo
arounp iniPity if it is committed in con-
spicuous rpae and il A. is wide resounding
and Of la7 q proportions. Ever and anon
there has been an epidemic of crime in
high places, aud there is not State or
city and hardly village which has not
been called to look upon astounding for
gerry or IN absconding bank cashier or
president or the wasting of trust fund or
swindlins mortgages. | propose in car
ryug ont the suggestion of my text as
far rs | can, TO scatter the Vaccinations
ayodnd niquity and show you taat sin is
sir. and wrong is wrong whether in high
Jlace or low place and that il will be
dealt with by that God who dealt with
lmpaiaced Nebuchadnezzar
All who pI ZACH feel that two kinds of
sermons are Necessary, the ona on the
faith of the gospel, the other on the
morality of the gospel aud the one is
luSb az i8llPtA lat as tiit oitt'#ts ~ Aph
know that in this land to-day .here az
hundreds of men hiding behind the com
munion tables and in churches of Jesus
Christ who have no business to be there
as professors of religion. They expect to
be all right with God, although they are
all wrong with man. And. while | want
you to understand that by the deeds Of
the law no flesh living can be justified
and mere honest life cannot enter rs
into heaven, | want you as plainly 20
understand that unless the life is right
the heart is not right Grace in she heart
and grace in the life: so we must preach
sometimes the faith of the gospel and
sometimes the morality of the gospel
1t seems TO me there has not been a
time in the last fifty years when this lat
ter truth needed more thoroughly to be
presented in the American churches. 1t
needs to be presented J-day.
Needs to Be Presented.
\ missionary in the islands of the Pa
cifc preached one Sabbath on honesty
and dishonesty, and on Monday he found
his yard full of all styles of goods. which
the natives had brought. He could not
understand it until a native told him
Our gods permit us to purloin goods,
but the God you told us about yesterday,
the God of heaven and EARTH it seems.
is against these practices and so we
brought all the goods that do not belong
to us and ;hey are in the yard, and we
want you to help us to distribute them
among their rightful owners And If in
MI the pulpits of the United States to-day
rousing sermons could be preached en-
honesty and the evils Of dishonesty and
the sermons were blessed of God and ar
rangenents could be made by which all
the goods which have been improperly
taken from one man and appropriated
by another man should be put in the city
halls of the country there Is not city
hall in the United States that would not
be crowded from cellar TO eupola. Faith
of the gospel thar we must preach and
wee do preach. Morality of the gospel we
must just rs certainly proclaim.
Now. look abroad and see the fasciaa.
tons that arc thrown around different
styles of crime. The question that every
man and woman has been asked has
been. Should crime be excused because
il is on a large scale? Is inquity guilty
aud to be pursued of the law in propor-
ton as it is ON small scale: Shall We
have the pcnitentiary for the man who
steals an overcoat from hatrack and all
AIuaua ibL Il illilu 10 IuuEt III II HG nay
robbed the public Of millions?
Look upon all the faScinations thrown
around fraud in this country You know
for years men have been made heroes Of
aud pictorialized and in various ways
presented 10 the public as. though some
times they were worthy Of admiration if
they have scattered the funds Of banks
OF sWMl wed great estates that did not
belong 20 .hem. Our young men have
been dazed with this quick accumulation
Tsicy have said: That's the WAY to dc H.
What's the use of our plodding on with
snail wages or Insignificant salary when
we may ~ into business life and with
some stratagem achieve such fortune as
that man ha> aehieyed:" different
measure has been applied 10 the crime
OF Wal sire It from that which has been
applied 70 tho spoils which the man car
rics mp Rar aiiey.
~ pcldier came down from New
England many years age. took hold of
th,. money market OF New York. Haunted
his denominations in tae sight Of all the
people .leded public morals every day Of
his life Yvau. men looked up and said:
''He was Il peddler in one decade, and in
the next ia .ade he is one Of the mon
arehs IF the stock market. That's the
way 10 10 IT. 10 this day the ell in
iHence ~ that pruhigate has been felt,
and within the past few weeks NJ has
had conspicuous imitat0rs.