Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-08-21
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reservations. Gougings. Unde selling.
Buyers depreciating; statesmen exaggerat-
ing. Tenants seeking less rent; land
lords demanding more. Gold fdgety.
Struggles about office Men who are in
trying to keep in; men out trying TO get
in. Slips Tumbles. Declarations. Pan
les. Catastrophes. o woman, thank
God you have home, and that you may
be queen in it. Better be there than wear
a queens eoronet. Better be there than
carry the purse of a princess. Your
abode may be humble, but you can by
your faith in God and your cheerfuiness
OF demeanor gid ii with splendors such
as IN upholsterer's hand never vet kin
died,
There are abodes IN the city-humble.
two stories, four plain, anpapered rooms:
undesirable neighborhood, and yet there
is man here to-day who would die on
che threshold rather than surrender it,
Why 1t is home. Whenever he thinks
Of it he sees angels of God lowering
around it. The ladders of heaven are lei
down to this house. Over the child's
rough crib there are the chantings of
angels, as those that sounded over Beth
lehem. j is home. These children may
come up after awhile, and they may win
high position, aud they may have an afflu-
ent residence, but they viii not until their
dying day forget that humble roof under
which their father rested and their
mother sang and their sisters played Oh,
if you would gather up all tender memo
ries, all the lights and shades OF the
heart, all banquetings and reunions, ali
liui frat al I
fections, and you had only just four let
tiers to spell out that height and depth
and length and breadth and magnitude
and eternity of meaning, you would, with
streaming eyes and trembling voice and
agitated hand, write it out in those four
living capitals, HOME.
What right does woman want that is
grander than to be queen in such a realm?
Why, the eagles of heaven cannot fly
across that dominion. Horses, painting
and with lathered TANKS, are not swift
enough to run 10 the outpost of that
realm. They say that the sun never sets
upon the English empire, but l have to
tell you that on this realm of woman's
influence eternity never marks any
bound. Isabella fled from the Spanish
throne pursued by the nations anathe-
ma. but she who is queen in a home will
never lose her throne. and death itself
will only be the annexation of heavenly
principalities.
he Most Queenly Woman.
When you want to get your grandest
ide" of queen, you do not think of
'3therine of Russia. or of Anne of En-
{ nd, or Maria Theresa of Austria, but
when you want to get your grandest
idea of a queen you think of the plain
woman who sat opposit your father at
the table, or walked with him arm in
arm down life's pathway, sometimes to
the thanksgiving banquet, sometimes to
the grave, but always together-sooth-
ing your petty griefs, correcting your
childish waywardness, joining in your
infantile sports, listening to your even
ing prayers, toiling for you with needle,
or at the spinning wheel, and on cold
nights wrapping you up snug and warm.
And then at last, on that day when she
lay in the back room dying and you saw
her take those thin hands with which
she toiled for you so long and put them
together in a dying prayer that com
mended you to God, whom she had taught
you to trust-oh. she was the queen.
The chariotS of God came down to fetch
her, and as she went in all heaven rose
up. You cannot think of her now with
out rusA of tenderness that stirs the
deep foundations of your soul, and you
feel as much child again as when you
cried ON her lap, and if you could bring
her back again to speak just once more
your name as tenderly as she used To
speak it you would be willing to throw
yourself on the ground and kiss the sod
that covers her, crying, Mother,
MOTHER All. she was the queen-she
was the queen!
Now, can you tell me how many thou
sand miles a woman like that would have
10 travel down before she got to the bal
lot box? Compared with this work of
training kings and laeens for God and
eternity, how Insignificant seems all this
work of voting for aldermen and common
councilmen and sheriffs and constables
and mayors and presidents, To make one
such grand woman as / have described
how many thousand would you want of
those people who go in the round of god
lessness and fashion and dissipation, dis
torting their body and going as far to-
ward disgracefal apparel as they dare go
so as not to be arrested of the police,
their behavior a SORROW tG the good and
earicature of the vicious and an insult
to that God who made them women and
not gorgons, and tramping on. down
through n frivolous and dissipated life. TO
temporal and eternal destruction. oh.
woman. with the lightning of your soul
strike dead at your feet all these allure
ments to dissipation ana to fashion
Your immortal soul cannot be fed upon
such garbage. God calls you up to en-
pire end dominion. Will you have il?
Oh, give to God your heart give TO God
your best energies, give to God all your
culture. give TO God all your refinement
give yourself to him for this world and
the next Soon all these bright eyes will
he quenched and these voices win be
hushed. For the last time you win look
upon this fair earth; fathers hand, moth
er's hand, sisters hand, ehild's hand,
will be no more in yours 1t will lie night,
and there will come up cold wind from
the Jordan. aud You must start. Win it
be a lone woman ON a trackless moor
All, no. Jesus will come up in that hour
and offer his hand, nd he win say. You
stood by me when you were well; now |
viii not desert you when you are sick.
One wave of his hand, and the storm will
drop, and another wave of his hand ana
midnight shall break into mdnOon, and
another wave of his hand and the cham
berlains Of God win come down from the
treasure houses Of heaven with robes
lustrous, blood washed and heaven CLINT