Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-12-11

i top Of il noun ain Of phasphorescent fire
! and then plunged down. down, down. UNI
! til it seemed Is IL she never would again
! be righted. All. you never want TO sre
u cyclone at IA.
But | was in Minnesota, where there
was one Of those cyclones on land that
| swept tue city Of Rochester from its
foundations and took dwelling houses,
barns, men, women. children. horses, cat
/ tie and tossed them into indiseriminate
ruin and lift~d a rail train and dashed
/ it down. a mightirr hand than that Of en-
gineer Oh the airbrake. Cyclone in Kan
sas cyclone in Missouri, cyclone in Wis
cousin, cyclone in Illinois. cyclone in
| Iowa. Satan. prince of the power OF the
air, never made such cyclonie disturb
ances as he has in our day. And am |
not right IN saving that one Of the char
! acteristics of the time in which we live
/ is disaster eyclol.e?
But look at the disasters oceanic. Shall
| call the roll Of the dead shipping? le
monsters Of the deep, answer when call
your names The Vile de Hayre, the
! Schiller, the City of Boston, the Melville,
the President, the Cimbria, the Oregon,
the Mohegan. But why should | 20 on
calling the roll when none of them an
svers and the roll is as long as the white
scroll of the Atlantic surf at Cape Hat
! teras breakers? If the oceanic cables
( could report all the scattered life and all
the bleaehed bones that they rub against
! in the ocean, what a message eff pathos
| and tragedy for both beaches, In one
storm eighty fishermen persisted off the
coast of Newfoundland and whole fleets
of them off the coast of England God
help the poor fellows at sea and give
! high seats in heaven to the Grace Darl-
ings and the Ida Lewises and the life
boat men lowering around Goodwin sands
and the Skerries. The sea, owning three
f0urths of the earth, proposes to capture
the other fourth and is hombarding the
j land all around the earth. The moving
of the hotels at Brighton Beach back
ward 100 yards from whore they once
stood type of what is going on all
around the world and on every coast.
The Dead sea rolls to-day where ancient
cities stood Pillars of temples that
stood on hills biologists now find three
| quarters under the water or altogether
submerged. The sea. having wrecked so
many merchantmen and f1otilas, wants
to wreck the continents, and hence dis
asters oceanic. Alas for Galveston and
other cities almost drowned.
The Work OF Epidemics.
Look at the disasters epidemic. | speak
not of the plague in the fourth century
that ravaged Europe and in Moscow and
the Neapolitan dominions and Marseilles
wrought such terror in the eighteenth
century, bat | look at the yellow feverS
and the choleras and the diphtherias and
the scarlet fevers and the typhoids &C our
time. From Hurdwar, India, where every
twelfth year 100000 deyotees congre-
gate, the caravans brought the cholera,
and that me disease slew $4,000 in eigh-
teen days IN Bossorah. Twelve thousand
/ in one summer slain by it in India and
25,000 in Egypt. Disasters epidemic.
| Some of the finest monuments in Green
wood and Laurel Hill anI Mount Auburn
are to doctors who lost their : -es battling
! with southern epidemic.
But now l turn the leaf in my subject.
and | plant the white lilies and the palm
tree amid the Magistrates and the myrtle.
! This age no more characterized by won
ders of disaster than by wonders of bless
! irg-blessing of longevity; the average of
/ human life rapidly increasing Forty
years now worth 400 years once. Now l
| can travel from Manitoba to New York
| in less than three days In other times
/ it would have taken three months. In
| other words. three days now are worth
three months of other days. The average
;. of human life practically greater now
| than when Noah lived. with his $50
years. and Methusaleh lived his 800
| years
Blessings Of intelligence: The Salmon
! ?. Chases and the Abraham Lincolns and
/ the Henry Wilson's Of the coming time
will not be required to learn to read by
pine knot lights or seated on shoemaker's
! bench nor will the FergusonS have to
/ study astronomy while watching the cat
/ tie knowledge rolls its tides along ey-
! cry poor mans door. and his children
may 90 down and battle in them. If the
/ philosophers of a hundred years ago were
/ called up to recite in class with oar
| boys and girls, those old philosophers
would be sent down to the foot of he
/ class because they failed to answer the
questions! Free libraries in all the inn
portant towns and cities of the land. His
/ torical alcoves and poetical shelves and
magazine tables for all who desire to
walk through them or sit down at them.
pIessing. o. Ouick Information.
Blessings of quick information: News
papers falling all around Us thick as
! leaves in September equinOctial News
three days old rancid and stale. We see
! the whole world twice day-through the
! newspaper at the breakfast table aud
! through the newspaper at the tea table,
viii an extra" here and there between.
Blessings of gospel proclamation DO
! you not know that nearly all the mission
airy societies have been born within Il
hundred years and nearly all the Bible
societies and nearly all the great philan-
thropic movements? Christianity is on
the march. while infideity is dwinding
into imbecility. While infidelty is ,n,:s
| dwinding the wheel Of Christianity is
making about thousand re- buttons in
minute Al the copies of Shakespeare
1 and Tennyson and Disraeli aud of any
ten of the most popular writers of the
day less in number than the copies Of the
Bible going out from our printing presses.
A few years ago in six weeks mere than
100000 copies Of the New Testament
purchased-not given away, but purchas
ed. because the world will have II. The
most popular book to-day is the Bible.
and the mightiest institution is tho
| church. and the greatest name among the
natiors and more honored than any is the
name Of Jesus.
Wonders of self sacrifice; & clergyman