Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-01-16

tAAOAN ASa As4t All uHt NuD SIE
hold thy mother" Sit anywhere you
please. You viii be at home nywhere.
Take your pick ont Of that SheaI Of scep-
ters- What. The wrinkles have AL gone
out of your face, and the once rheumatic
step has become like that of the bound
ing roe Just as l expected. you aged,
giorihed soul. you had an abundant en-,
trance.
There is another kind Of spirit who wiz
have adiant admission TO the upper do
| minion. There is a fact which ought to
have most emphatic pronouncement. All
over the word to-day there are men and
women OF eonsecrated wealth. They are
multiplying by the day aud hour-people
who feel themselves the Lord stewards,
and from their opulence they are making
a distribution which pleases the heavens.
The check book in the Office drawer of
that man has on its stubs a. story of be-
neicence clear up into the sublime, In all
the round Of The worlds suffering and
Ignorance and woe you cannot mention
one worthy object to which that prosper
Gus and good man has not made contribu-
ton. He IS not irritated as many are.
by solicitations for aims. In some poor
woman L thin shawl, holding in her arms
a child with rheum in its eyes, this good
man sees the Christ who said, "lnas-
much as We have done il unto one Of the
least of these. ye have done it unto me-
Conseerated Afiuence.
Well, this man of conseerated affluence
is about TO go out Of this world. He feels
in brain and nerve the strain of the early
struggles By which he won his fortune,
and at 60 or 20 years collapses under the
exhaustions of the twenries and thirties
of his lifetiIne When the morning pa
pers announce that he is gone, there is
excitement not only on the avenues
where the mansions stand, but all
through The hospitals and asylums and
the homes of those who will henceforth
have no helper. But the excitement of
sadness on earth is a very tame affair
compared with the excitement of glad
ness in heaven. The guardian angel OF
that good mans life swept by his dying
pillow the night before and on swift
wing upward announced that in a few
hours he would arrive, and there is
mighty stir in heaven. HE comes"
cries seraph to seraph. The Kings her
aids are at the gate TO say, Come, We
blessed" and souls who were saved
through the churches that good man sup
porteN and hundreds who went up after
being by him helped in their earthly
struggle will come down off their thrones
and out of their palaces and through the
streets to hail him into the land which
they reached some time before through
his Christian philanthropy. why, that
is the man who when | was a-hur gered,
bv fbot - no
man." says another. ''who encouraged rue
when | was in the hard struggle Of
business life why, that is the man."
says another. who paid my rent when
had nothing with which to pay! why,
that is the ma through whose mission
airy spirit l heard the gospel call in Bonn
bay! why, that is the man," says an
otnrr, who helped send the gospel of
Christ to the aborigineS of America and
caused me to exchange the war whoop of
the savage for the song of Christian de-
liverancer' ''Stand back commands
the gatekeeper of heaven, 'all We throngs
redeemed through this mans instrument
talities. Make way for him to the feet
of the King. where he will cast his
crown. and then make way for him to the
throne, where he shall reign forever and
ever" Now, that is what | call an album
dant entrance. You see it is not neces-
sary to be a failure on earth in order to
be success in heaven.
But | promise that all those who have
lived for others and been truly Chris
tan, whether On large scale or a small
scale, will have flustrious Introduction
into the impearled gateway. Here and
there in some large family you see an at
tractive daughter who declines marriage
that she may take care of father and
mother in old days. This is not an alb
straction. l have known such. You have
probably known such There are in this
world womanly souls - big as that.
They cheerfully endure the whmsicali-
ties and querulousness which sometimes
characterize the aged, and watch nights
when pnt umonia is threatened, and are
eyes to the blind, and sit in close rooms
lest the septuagenarian be chilled, and
count ont the right number of drops at
the right time. The mother of a little
child mas her hands full, but the daugh
ter who stays home to take care OF an
aged father or mother has her hands Just
rs full.
Demand of Fiiial Devotion.
After years of flial fidelity on the part
of this self-sacrifcing daughter the old
folks go home. Now the daughter is free
from marital alliance, but the damask
rose in her cheek is faded, and the crows
feet have left their mark ON the forehead,
and the gracefulness is gone out of the
figure. and the world calls her by mean
and ungalant name. But, my Lord and
my God. surely thou wilt make ii up for
that girl in heavenly reward! On all the
banks of the river Of life there is no Las-
tie of emerald and carbuncle richer than
that which awaits her. Its windows look
right out upon the Kings park, and the
white horses of the chariot are being Lar
messed to meet her Mt the gate, ana If
there are no others to meet her, fa+5l.er
and mother will be there to thank ner
for all she did for them when their
strength failed and the grasshopper be
came a burden. and they viii say: My
daughter, how kind you were to us even
until the last. How good it is to be to-
gethcr in heaven That is the Kings
chariot come for you. Mount and ,ide
to your everlasting home
Know right well that i'll whatever sta
ton of life you now move. and whether
Your intellectual faculty be brillian. or
duh and your worldly resources opDlent
or poor, you may have at the gate Of
heaven jubilant and triumphant recep-
ton. All soldiers cannot be Hapni balls
and ATarit,arottphs MI admfrals canrn+