Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-08-07
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life instead of being stupid monotone
would be glorious inspiration. pendu
luming between calm satisfaction and
high raptsee.
Christ Brings caeerfuIness.
How any woman keeps aouse without
the religion Of Christ TO teip her is a
mystery to me- To have % spend the
greater part of ones life. as many wom-
en- do. in planning for the meals and
stitching garments that w:u soea be rent
again and denloring breakages md SUI
peryising tarly sabordinates aud driving
off dust that soon again will settle ana
doing the same thing day in and day
out and year in and year out until the
hair sllyefs and the back stoops and the
specYacles crawl to the eyes and the
grave beeaks open under the thin sole OF
| the shoe-oh. it is q long monotony! Bnt
when Christ comes 20 the drawing room
and comes TO the kitchen and comes to-
the nursery and comes TO the dwelling,
then how CHEEKY become all womanly du-
ties. She is never alone now. Martha
gets through fretting and joins Mary at
the feet of Jesus. Al day long Deborah
is happy because she can help Lapidoth,
Hannah because she can make a coat for
young Samuel. Miriam because she can
watch her infant brother, Rachel because
she can help her father water the stock,
the widow OF Sarepta because the cruise
of oil is being ropienished. O woman
having in your pantry a nest Of boxes,
| containing all kinds Of condiments, why
have you not tgied in your heart and life
! the spicery of our holy religion: Mar
tina, Martha, thou ART careful and n.c-
bled about many thing but one thing Is
needful, and Mary ha chosen that good
pa RI which shall not Il taken away from
her"
must confess that great deal of the
religion Of this day is utterly insipid,
| There is nothing piquant or elevating
about it, Men and women go around
humming psalms in minor key and eul-
tiyating melancholy, and their worship
has in it more signs than raptures We
do not doubt their piety. Oh, no! But
they are sitting at feast where the cook
| has forgotten to season the food, Every
| thing is flat in their experience and in
their conversation. Emancj patea from
sin and death and hell and ou their way
| TO a magnificent heaven, they act as
| though they were trudging on toward an
/ GFFIadSlldS 1gbtdAN 1ANAA-toh ASNo
not seem to agree with them. 1t seems
10 catch in the windpipe and become
! tight stranguation instead Of an exhia-
| ration. All the infidel books that have
| been written, from Yoitaire down to Her
| bert Spencer, have not done 50 much
/ damage to our Christianity as lugubrious
! Christians. Who wants a religion woven
| out Of the shadows of the night? Why
go growing ON your way to celestial en-
! thronement? Come out of that cave and
sit down in the w RIM light Of the Sun of
| Righteousness. Away with your odes to
melancholy and Hervey's "Mediiaions
Among the Tombs.
! Then let our songs abound
/ And every tear be dry;
| We're marching through Emmaruels
ground d
To fairer worlds on high
Put in More Spices.
| | have TO say also that We need to put
more spice and enlivenment in our reig-
ious teaching. whether it be in the
prayer meeting or in the SUNDAY school
or in the church. We ministers need
! more fresh air and sunshine in our
| lungs and our hearts and our heads. Do
you wonder that the world is 50 far from
being converted when you find SO little
/ viyacity in the pulpit and in the pew:
/ We want like the Lord to plant in our
| sermons and celebrations more lilies of
! the field. We. want fewer rhetorical
Celebrations and fewer sesquipedaIian
| words, and when we talk about shadows
| we do not want TO say adumbration. and
/ when we mean queerness we do not wanl
| TO talk about ilasyncrasies, or il a stitch
1 In the back we do not want 10 talk about
! lumbago but, in the plain yerDacu ar Of
| the great masses. preach that gospel
which proposes 10 make all men happy.
| honest. victorious and free. In other
/ !, ords. we want more cinnamon and less
gristle. Let this be so in all the differ
ent departments of WORK to which the
! Lord calls us. Let us be plain. Let us
be earnest. Let us be common senscaI.
| When we talk TO the people ~ yernac-
| ular they can understand, they VIII be
very glad TO come and receive the truth
we present. Would to God that Queen
Balkis would drive her spice laden dronl-
| etIaries into all orr sermons and prayer
meeting celebrations!
More than that, we want moe life
! and spice in our Christian work. The
| poor do not want so much to be groaned
| over as sung to- WIFI the bread and
| M licines and garments you give them
| lei there he an accompaniment of smiles
/ and bri * encouragement. DO not stand
! and talk to them about the wretchedness
/ of their abode and the hunger OF their
/ looks. and the hardness OF their lot. All
! they know it better than you can tell
/ them. Show them the bright side of the
| thing. if there be any bright side Tell
| them good times win come. Tell them
| that for the children Of God there is inn
| mortal rescue. Wake them up out Of
| their stolidity by an inspiring laugh. and
/ while you send in help. like the queen Of
| Sheba. also send in the spices. There are
! two ways Of meeting the poor. One is to
! come into their house with nose elevate
/ ed in disgust, as much as to say. Il don t
| see how you live hire in this ncighfor-
! hood. 1t actually makes me sick. Taere
/ is that bundle. Take it, you poor, mis-
| cradle wretch, and make the most of It,
/ Another way is 10 go into the abode o
| the poor in manner which seems TO say:
THE blessed Lord sent me. He vas poor
1 himself Il is not more for the good
/ am going to try to do yon than il is for
1 the good that you can DO me-. Coming
| in that spirit. the gift will be as aromatic
as the spikenard on the feet OF Christ,
and all the hoE on that alley MIL be
| fragrant with the spice.
We need more spice and enliyenment
/ in orr church music Churches sit dis