Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-06-26


any board of trade, in any legislature
State or national, and ask all who We're
brought up in luxury and ease to lift
their hand, here and there n hand might
be lifted But ask those who had an aw-
full hard time at the start to lift their
hands, and most of the hands would be
lifted. The heroes of church and state
were not brought up ON confectionery and
cake.
Ely Your Antagonists.
The Earl of Alsatia, fayorite Of Ed
ward ILL., of England, had excited the
jealousy of other courtiers. and one time,
while the king was absent, they persuad-
ed the queen to turn lion loose in the
court to test the earl's courage. The earl,
rising at break of day, as was his Gus
tom, came into the courtyard AMI met
the lion, and the jealous courtiers from
the windows watched the scene. The
lion, with bristling hair and a growl, WAS
ready TO spring upon the earl when he.
undaunted, shouted to the monster,
Stand, you dog!" Then the lion couched,
the ca i took it by the name and turned
it back into the cage, leaving his hand
kerchief on the neck of the monster, and,
looking up in triumph to the jealous cour-
tiers, who he knew were watching from
the windows, cried out, Let him among
you all that prideth himself on his pedi-
gree go aud fetch that handkerchief.
And you, young man, will find lor III
your way, perhaps turned loose by the
jealousy Of those who would enjoy your
ruin. But in the strength of God make
that lion couch. BY Gods help you can
10 it and defy and challenge your antago-
nists.
But my subject takes another step.
Through medical science and dentistry
that has improved the worlds mastica-
ton and stronger defense against eli
matte changes and better understanding
of the laws of health human life has
been greatly prolonged. But a centena-
rian is still wonder. How many people
do you know hundred years oldf | do
not know one We talk of century as
though it were a very long reach of time.
But what is one century on earth COM
pared with centuries that we are to live
somewhere, somehow-ten centuries.
million centuries, quintillion of eentu-
ries? We are all determined to get ready
for the longer life we are to live after our
exit from things sublunary. We are
We have too much business to attend TO
now or too much pleasure to allow any
thing 10 interfere with its brilliant pro
gress. We are waiting until the wind
blows in the right direction. We are go
ing to sow and sow the very best grain.
and we are going TO raise an eternal mar
vest of happiness We like what You
saw about heaven, and we are going
there, and at the right time we will get
ready. But my lungs are sound, my d.
gestion is good, the examining physician
of the life insurance company says my
heart beats just the right number of
times a minute, and / am cautious about
sitting in a draft, and | observe all the
laws of hygiene, and my father and
mother lived to be very old, and | come
of long-liyed family. So we adjourn
and postpone until, like the farmer sug-
gested by my text, we allow The seed
time to pass, and sudden pneumonia or
reckless bicycle or an ungoverned auto
mobile puts us out of life with all its
magnificent opportunities of deciding
Alright the question of everlasting resi-
dence.
There are other persons who truthfully
say: Il am doing the best | can. The
clouds are thick and the wind blows the
wrong way. but | am owing prayers
and sowing kindnesses and sowing help
fulness and sowing hopes of a better
world" Good for you, my brother, my
sister! What You PLAT will come up.
What YOU sow will rise into a harvest
the wealth of which you will NOT know
until you go up higher hear ~ rust
ling of your harvest n the bright fields
of heaven. The soft gales Of that land.
rs they pass, bend the full headed grain
in curves of beauty. 1t is golden in the
light of a sun that never sets. As you
mass in You will not have to grid on the
sickle for the reaping, and there will be
nothing to remind you Of weary hus-
bandmen toiling under hot summer sun
on earth and lying down under the shad-
ow of the tree at noontide, so tired were
they, so very tired. No, no; yeur har-
vest will be reaped without any toll o.
your hands, without any besweatng of
vonr brow. Christ in one of his sermons
told how yoGr harvest will be gathered
when he said, The reapers are the an.
gels"