Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-10-30
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world Paul, who was all the time say
ing important things, said nothing more
startlingly suggestive than when he de-
clared. None of us liyeth or dieth to
himself" Words. thoughts, actions, have
an eternity Of flight As Job could not
bind the sweet inhuel .. OF the Seven
Stars, as they were called, so we cannot
arrest or turn aside the good projected
long ago. Those Influences We're started
centuries before our cradle was rocked
and viii reign centuries after our graves
az !" dug. Oh, it is tremendous thing 10
i've God help US to live Alright.
Astronomers can easily locate the Plei-
AIDES. They viii take you into their OBJ
servatories on clear night and aim their
revealing instrument toward the part in
the heavens where those seven stars
have their habitude, and they will point
to the constellation Taurus, and YOU can
see Tor yourself. But it is impossible to
point to influences far back that have
affected our character and will affect our
destiny. We know the Influences near
by-paternal, maternal, conjugal-but by
the time We have gone back two genera
tions or at most three our investigations
falter and fail. Through the modern in
teTesting habit OF sea rching back TO find
the ancestral tree we may find long list
OF names, but they are only names. The
conservation. or abandonment of some one
200 years ago was not recorded 1t would
not be so important if you and / by our
good or bad behavior blessed or blasted
only those Immediately around us, but
our goodness or our badness will reach as
far as the strongest ray of Alcyone-yea,
across the eternities. Under this consid-
Grafton what do you think of those who
give themselves up 10 frivolity or idleness
and throw away fifty years of their ex-
istence as though they were shells or peb-
bles or pods instead of embryo eternitiesE
influence of Other Worlds.
Notice also in my text the influence of
other words upon this world. We all re-
gard the effect which our continent has
upon other continents or one hemisphere
upon the other hemisphere. Great har-
vest or drought on one side of our world
affects the other side of our world. A
panic in Wall street, New York, has its
echo in Lombard street and the bourse.
The nations of the earth cablpgrammed
together all feel the same thrill of delight
or shock of woe. But we do not appre-
ciate the influence of other worlds upon
our world. The author of my text rouses
US to the consideration. 1t takes all the
worlds of known and unknown astronomy
to keep our world in its orbit, every
world dependent on other worlds. The
stellar existence is felt all through the
heavens. Every constellation is sister
hood. Our planet feels the benediction of
Alcyone and ali the other stars of the
Pleiades. Yea, there are two other
worlds that decide the fate of our world,
its redemption or its demolition. Those
two worlds are the headquarters of an
GEOLOGY and demonology. From the one
world came Christ, come ministering spir-
its, come all gracious Influences. F-om
the other world rise all satanic and dia-
bolic influences. From that world Of NOR
al night rose the power that wrecked our
poor world 5000 years ago, and all the
good work done since then has not been
able to get our world out of the breakers.
But the signals of distress have been
hoisted ard the life lines are out, and our
worlds release is certain. The good in
fiuences of the consecrated people in our
world will be centupled by the help from
the hef senly world, and the divine power
will overcome the demoniac. o man, o
woman, expand your idea and know the
magnitude of a contest in which three
worlds are specially interested. From all
the seven world which my text calls the
Pleiades there come no such powerful in
fluences frona the two worlds that | am
now mentioning. Ny only hope for this
world is in che reinforcement that is to
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promised, and so | feel as sure of the
ratification of all evil as though looking
out of my window to-day | saw the parks
and the gardens Towering into another
paradise and the apocalyptic angel flying
through the midst of heaven with the
news that the kingdoms of this world
have become the Kingdoms of our Lord.
My text called job and calls us to con
slider "the sweet Influences We put TOO
much emphasis upon the acidities of life,
upon the irritations of life, upon the dis
appointments of life. Ammianus Marcel
linus said that Chaldea was in oden
times overrun with lions, but many Of
them lost their power because the giea
swamps produced many gnats that would
get into the eyes of the lions, and the
lions to free themselves of the gnats
would claw their own eyes out and then
starve. And in our time many a lion has
been overcome by a gnat. The little
singing annoyances of life keep us from
approaching the sweet influences. And
how many of these last there are! Sweet
influences of home, however plain it may
be- That is the harbor into which we
sail That is the goal for which we run.
That is the place where We rest. There
abide all confidence and affections. There
we lay out orr plans. There we extend
our sympathies. There we talk over our
successes. There we unload our griefs.
Its four walls shut out prying and In
quisitive world. Thank God for the home
in which we were born. the home in
we expec4 to die
Fhe Wife's Influence.
Not sufficiently do we recognize the
sweet Influences of the wife. We men are
of rougner mold, and our voice is loud
and our manners need 10 be tanned, and
gentleneas is not as much Of character
istic as 1t ought to be, and we often say
things VIC ought 10 take back. 1t is to
change this that the good wife comes in
The interests of the twain are identical.
That which from outsiders would be con-
sidered criticism and TO be resented be
comes kindly suggestion. sweet influences
that make MS better nen than we other
wise would have been or could have been
The last chapter OF Proverbs recog
nizes the good wife's influence when il
says. Her husband is known in the gates
when he stitch among the elders ( the
land"-that is, his apparel indicates that