Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-06-05
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| for heaithful purposes Ii we all had
more Of ii and knew how to use it Alright.
| how much it would improve our Chris
t;an conversation and prayer meetiug
! tax and sermon. There are SOME evils
! you can laugh down easier than you can
| preach down. The question Is always be-
1 Ing aa'kad. Why do not more people go To
church, prayer meeting and other relig-
! ious meet.cgS? | will tell You We u
the pulpit and the pew are so duh they
cannot stand it. But when we ask why
| people do mol 90 to church NE ask a mis-
leading question.
New Race of Ministers.
! More people 20 now to church than
ever in the worlds history, u.l.i the rea-
/ son Is IN all our denominations there is a
new race Of ministers stepping into the
| pulpits which are not the apostles of
! humdrum. Sure enough, We want in the
Lords army the heavy artillery. but we
/ want also more men who, like Burns.
| farmer al Gettysburg. took musket and
went out on his own account to do a little
! shooting different from the other sol
/ diers The church of God is dying of the
| proBrleties. People who in every other
/ kind OF audience show their emotions in
/ their countenances in religious assemblies
! while we are discussing coming release
| and the joys Of heaven look as doieful as
| though they were attending their own
| funeral. My friends, ii you have the
| one talent Of wit or humor are you using
| II merely to make n few people laugh
| winter nights around the stove in the
| corner grocery? Has it never occurred to
! you that you have a mission to execute
| with that bright faculty: Do you EN-
| ploy it only in idle eonundrum or low
/ farce or harlequinade or humiliating BAN
| ter! Quit that aud swing that flashing
| scimiter which God has put in your hand
| for the Staying of sin and the triumph
of righteousness.
| Or is your talent an opportunity to set
a good example? One person doing right
under adverse circumstances will accom-
| plish more than many treatises about
what is right The census has never
been. taken OF lovely old folks. Most of
us, il We haze not such one in our own
house TOW, have in our memory such
| saint. We went to those old people with
all our IT ubles. They We're perpetual
esangelists, by their soothing words, by
/ their hopefulness of spirit, an inexpressi-
1 Bile help. | cannot see how heaven could
make them any lovelier than they are or
were. But there are exceptions. There
is ii daughter in that family whose faith
er is impatient and the mother queru-
lous. The passage of many years does
not always improve the disposition, and
there are a great many disagreeable old
falks. Some of them forget that they
We're ever young themselves, and -.
become untidy in their habits and wonoer
| how XyhaD ThQir al fhnaa Oy rha a SIN
is so bad, other people can laugh or sing
and go on as they do. The daughter in
that family bears all the peevishness and
unreasonable behavior of senility without
answering back or making any kind of
complaint. II you should ask her what
| her five talents are or her one talent is,
she would answer that she has no talent
| at all. Greatly mistaken is she. Her
one talent is to forbear and treat the
childishness of the old rs we'll as she
treats the childishness of the young. She
| is no musician, and besides there may
not be piano in the house. She cannot
skillfully swing croquet mallet or golf
stick. Indeed, she seems shut up to see
| what she can dc with ladle and a broom
and brush and other household imple
| ments. She is the personidcation of pa
| thence. and her reward will besas long as
heaven. Indeed, much of her reward
| may be given on earth. She is in a
rough college, from which she may after
awhile graduate into brightest domestic
| ify. She is heroine, though at present
she may receive nothing but scolding and
depreciation. Her one talent of patience
/ under trial will do more good than many
morocco covered sermons on patience
preached to-day from the tasseled cushion
of the pulpit. ITO another one"
The Talent of honesty.
/ There is q man in business life whose
one talent is honesty. He has not the
| genius OF the force to organize company
or plan what is called a corner in
| wheat" or "a corner IN stocks" or "a
corner in anything. He goes to business
| OF reasonable hour and returns when
| it is time to lock up. lie never gave
| check for $4,000 in all his life. but he is
known on the street and in the church
and in many honorable circles as an hon
est man. His word is as good as his
bond. He has for thirty years been re-
ferred to as clean. upright. industrious,
consistent Christian man. Ask him how
many talents be has, and he will not
claim even one. He cannot make a speech,
ford an outshining equipage, but what
an example he is TO the young, what an
honor to his household. what pillar to
the church of God what a specimen of
truth and integrity and all-roundness of
| character! Is there any comparison in
| usefulness between that man with the
one talent of honesty and the dashing
/ operators of the money market who
| startle the world first with boom" and
then with slump" tell you that the
one man with the one talent will live
happier life and die more peaceful
death aad go to better place than his
| brilliant but reckless contemporary. ITO
another one"
The chief work Of the people with
many talents is to excite wonderment
and to startle and electrify the world.
| What use is there in all that? No use
| at all. / have not 50 much interest in
/ in the million Get the.great masses of
| the world right and it does not make
| much difference about what the excep-
tional people are doing. Have all the
| people with the one talent enlisted for
| God and righteousness, and let all those
| with five or ten talents migrate to the
| north star or the moon, and this world
| would get on splendidly. The hard work
| ing. Industrious classes of America are
| all right and would give 40 trouble, but
/ it is the genius who gives up work and
| on big salary goes around 70 excite dis
! satisfaction and embodiment, the genius