Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-11-20
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ants They rest not day Tor night" Why
rest when they work without fatigue?
Why seek pillow when there is no night
there l want 10 see you after he pedes-
trian!sm Of earth has been exchanged for
power Of flight and yelocities infinite and
enterprises iuterstellar, interworld.
Free from Limitations.
Am | not right in saying thar eternity
can do more for Us than can time: What
will we not be able 20 do when our pow
ers of loc0motion shall be quickened into
the Immortal spirits speed Why should
bird have 4 swiftnpss of WING when il
Is of no Importance how long il shall take
10 make its aerial way from forest TO for
est and we. who have SO much more inn
portant errand in the world, get ON SO
slowly: The roebuck oufruns us. the
hounds are quicker in the chase. but wait
until God lets us loose from all limita-
tons and Inducements Then we will fair
~ begin. The starting post will be the
tombstone Leaving the world will be
graduation day before the chief work of
our mental and spiritual career Hope
sees the doors opening. the victors foot
in stirrup for the mounting. The day
hreaks-first flush of the horizon. The
mission of hope will be an everlasting
mission, as much of it in the heavenly
hereafter as III the earthly now. Shall we
have gained all as soon as we enter
realms celestial-nothing more TO learn,
no other heights to climb. no new an
thems TO raise, a monotony of existence,
the same thing over and over again for
endless years? No! More. progress in
that world than we ever made in this.
Hope will stand on the hills of heaven
and look for ever Frightening landscapes,
other transformations of color. new glo-
ries rolling over the scene. new celebra
tons of victories in other worlds, heaven
rising into grander heavens, seas of glass
mingled with fire, becoming a more bril-
liant glass mingling with a more flaming
fire. (which hope"
Now, let me introduce this feeling into
the lives of some who are at times hope
less. There is a family whose son has
gone wrong. Father and mother have
about given him up he seems so head
long. so ungratefr'. so dissipated. and the
old folks do not know half the story of
moral precipitation. He has ceased writ
ing home, but they hear of him through
people who like to carry bad news, and
every time the report is more deplorable
He swears. he CANDLES, he drinks, he
goes into all the shambles of sin. His for
mer employer says there is no hope for
him, and all outside the family agree in
thinking he will never reform The father
and mother have not quite given him up,
and these words are to strengthen their
hope. That boy is going 10 come back.
You have hold on him that you must
not relax. Through prayer you may win
the eternal God for your side of the
struggle. You must enlist all the heaven
ly dominions, cherubm and seraphim and
archangel, in the movement to save your
son. Some day or some night he will call
a halt to his infamous practices.
Hope on, and, though you may never
hear of your sons reforma tion and others
may think he has left this life hopeless.
who knows but that in the last moment
after he has ceased to speak and before
his soul launches away. your prayer may
have been answered and he be one of
J., the first to meet you at the shining gate
TIE prodigal in the parable got home and
sat down at the feast, while the elder
brother, who never left the old place
stood pouting at the back door and did
| not go in Il all.
To another class of persons | introduce
the angel of Hope, and they are the inva-
lids. Perhaps after long watching or
overwork or towering grief your nervous
system is ruined Perhaps you have a
hidden disorder that the world knows
nothing about and which you cannot with
any delicacy speak of. Perhaps it may be
a rheumatism that distorts and inflames
| or neuralgia which runs its sharp knife
along the temples of your forehead. Per-
haps it is an indigestion causing food
which is recuperation 70 others to be-
come "A torture to you. Perhaps it is an
insomnia which keeps you as wide awake
at II o'clock at night as al II o'clock at
noon. and hour after hour. like one in the
| Bible times, you cry, Would God it
were morning"
cannot take the diagnosis of your dis
order. but let hope cheer you with one of
two thoughts. Such marvellous cures are
being wrought in our day through medi-
cation and surgery that your iuvalidism
may yet be mastered. Persons as i'll as
you have got well. Cancer and tuberculo-
sis will vet give way before some new
! discovery, | see every day people strong
and well who not long ago | saw pallid
| and leaning heavily on a staff and hardly
| able to climb stairs.
Take the Hand of Hope.
But if you will not take the hand of
| Hope for earthly conyalescence let me
point you to the perfect body you are yet
to have if you love and serve the Lord
Death will put Il prolonged anesthetic
upon your present body. and YOU will
never again feel an ache or pain, and
then in his good time You will have a
resurrection body about which we know
nothing except that it will he painless
and glorious beyond all present apprecia-
ton What must be the health of that
+ land which never feels cut of cold or
blast of heat and where there is no east
wind sowing pneumonia on the air, your
/ Aeetness greater than the foot of deer
YOUR eyesight clearer than eagle in sky
perfect health in country where all the
| inhabitants are everlastingiy we'll. You
/ who have in your body an encysted bullet
| ever since the Civil War. you who have
! kept alive only by precautions and self
/ denials and perpetual watching of pulse
| and lung, you of the deafened ear and
/ dim vision and the severe baekache. you
who have not been free from pain for ten
! years. how do you Ike this story Of
/ physical reconstruction, with all weak.
ness and suffering suhuacted aud every
! thing iocund and bounding added
Again. let me Introduce the element Of
+ hope to those good people who are in de-
spair about the worlds moral condition
/ They have gathered up appalling stats
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