Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-02-20
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1D.1stlan people VINO are worrying tlell-
saves out in managing the affairs 9 the
inverse They have undertaken to- big
job. They are trying to drive too long
and fiery a team. They have all the af-
fairs of church and state on hand. and
they fret about this, ard fret about that,
and fret about the other thing. They
fear that China will be divided up among
the nations and there win be an entangle-
ment causing wars such as we have never
heard Of. They fear that Edward VII,
VIII not be as wise king as his mother
was queen, They are appalled, at the
accumulated national debt. They fear
society is going to pieces by reason OF inn
noralities. They ap2rehend that Ameri-
ca will be Overcrowded with foreigners
They say the newspapers are getting 50
bad thar this country is going to be utter
~ demoralized. They are all the time APP
prehensiye Of social and religious aud pos
litical calanii;ies, and il IL telling on their,
mental health, depressing their physical
health. AMI instead of removing their
youth like the eagles they are initiating
the eagle who would sit in his nest of
sticks lined with grass on the rick,
mourning about the woes of the orIIitho-
logical world. the loneliness of the peli-'
can. the fthiness of the ytilture; the
croak of the raven, the reelllessness of
the albatross. Would that improve
things? No 1t would be hioiting pro-
cess for that eagle which would neyer
close, and it would only get bl1anen and
more gloomy and less able to gain FOOD
for its Young and less able to enjoy a
landscape as it appears under twenty
mile fight on Il summer morning under
the blue heavens.
The 0mniscient King.
| do not advise you to be Indifferent TO
these great questions that pertain to
church and state and nations. but not to
fret about them. Realize that it is not
an anarchy that has charge of "F irs in
this world, but divine government. At
the head of this universe is a King whose
eye is omniscience and whose arm is ON
Impotence and whose heart is infinite love.
His government is not going TO be a fail
ure. He cannot be defeated. Better
trust him in the management of his world
and of all worlds. All you and have to
do is to accomplish the work that is put
in our hands. That is all we have TO be
,, responsible for. In a welI-managed or
chestra the players upon stringed and
wind Instruments do not watch each 9TH
er. The cornetist does not look to see
how the yiolinist is drawing the bow over
the strings, nor does the flute scrutinze
the drum. They all watch the baton of
the leader. And we are all carrying our
part, however insignificant it may be. in
the great harmony of this world and of
the universe which our Lord is leading.
and we all have TO watch his command
md df, hau nd l,op
about the success or failure of other per-
formers. If you want to renew your
youth. better stop managing the affairs
of the universe.
Another mode of rejuvenescence is
much of the time associating with those
younger than yourself rather than with
those who are as old or older. If you
have no children Of your own. better
adopt child. Tlare are in this country
and in all countries orphans by the tens
| of thousands. Go to one of the asylums
or institutions where friendless children
| are cared for and select some little one
with an honest eye and good disposition
and take him to your home. Put around
| him all the elevating and happy infiu-
enees you can provide. In two years he
| will become part of your life, and his
company to you VIII be indispensable 1t
will make you twenty years younger He
| will be an illumination to the evening of
your life, and he will speak your praise
long after you have departed from this
world, and in heavenly places you will
have been rewarded by the great friend
| Of children. the Lord Jesus.
Help for the Waits.
It will take all time and all eternity to
| fully appreciate the work Of Van Meter
on this side of the sea and of Barnardo
| on the other side in putting poor orphan
| children in good homes in America and
| England. Through that process waits of
! the streets have passed up from poverty
and wretchedness into bright homes and
| churches and pulpits and legislative halls
and senates. and many have already been
| crowned in a better world. the work be-
| gun in asylums on earth completed in the
palaces of heaven.
! Whether by such adoption of children
or in some other way. call around you
| the young. Become their associates, their
| con6dants. their encouragement. While
! you do them good they will do Won good
! The old eagle while companioning in the
| nest with young eagles will feel new
! strength coming into its wing, new light
| into its eye, new ambition to cut circle
nearer the sun. and for the time will for
! get hurricanes that have ruffled it's
| plumes and the storms of many years
| that have swept over its mountain eyre
! The closing years of life ought to Ne the
| best part of it. as an arri, al in port ought
| to be happier than emb. rkation. 1t is
! better to have the cyclones benin. you
! than before you. Some one will say.
| David might renew hii youth, bpt
I have been through so much there Is no
! such thing for me as reviyi jcation." iou
| are wrong. You have not gone thrc Ugh
as much as David went thr ugh. He had
| all the experiences of sher 5erd boy. or
! NOR bearer. kings bodygua u. hunter IF
| wild beasts. WARRIOR and n, 9narCh. Ye
| was 40 years on rocking throne lie
| was the oriental hero in ma ~ Il BATS
made moral mistakes enough to desires
| him, Frustrated giant with one stroke
| was the father Of Hebrew poetry an.
! wrote poems which all the subsequent
/ centuries have been chanting. dramatic.
/ cd delnentia to escape assassin ton. ran
against Abithophefs betrayal nd Saul's
| jealousy and Absalom's insure, sion. and
made Jerusalem the religious apital of
/ the world If after all that he could re-
new his youth. you ought TO be Die to do
/ the same.
! Again. remark. going out of .his life
| to the Christian is rejuyenesccnce. What
J a holy glee it must he for those who in
| this world had the aches and pains aud
/ limitations Of old age, The hating gait