Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-11-20

service OF God and righteousness, as they
will be. | veser to the telegraph aud the
telephone. II you think that God allowed
those two inventions to be made merely
to get rapid Information conc, Ling the
price of railroad stocks OF TO call up a
friend and make with him business en-
gagement, YOU have a very abbreviated
idea Of what can be done and will he done
with those two instruments. The intelli-
genee of the world is 10 be expanded. and
civilization win overcome barbarisln. and
ilhteracy will be eXtirpated. and the
promise viii be literally FULFILLED, "A ma
ton born in 4 day"
Let Hope say 10 the fereboding; DO all
YOU can with Bible and spelling book and
phiosophie apparatus, but toll with the
sunlight in your faces or Your efforts will
be a failure. The pallor in the sky is not
another phase of the night but the first
sign Of approaching day. which is as sure
TO come as tonight will be followed with
tomorrow. Things are not going to ruin.
The Lords hosts are not going to be
drowned in the Red sea of trouble. Miri-
ans timbrel will play on the high banks
Israel Delivered High hope for the
home. High nope for the church. High
hope for me world.
| Introduce the angel of Hope to those
who have through decease lost Christian
friends. How codld find them" says
a bereft soul, up ,hlre in the land of the
multitudinous:" Yod may find them by
inquiry, by heavenly escort and byN un.
failing memory u the guard at the gate,
And he carried me away in the spirit to
a great and high mountain and showed
me that great city. the holy Jerusalem,
descending out Of heaven f.'m God, hay
ing the glory of God, and her light was
like unto stone most precious. even like
a jasper stone, clear as crystal, aud had
wall great and lGgh and had twelve
gates and at the gates twelve angels.
So, you see. there will be an angel guard
ing each gate. As you 20 in ask the arm
ed guard. He saw your loved one pass
through and will know the direction to
take and by what fountain or in what
street of gold is the mansion prepared,
The blessed Christ knows where your de-
parted loved one is, and he will tell you
if no one else will. Fifty ways of fnding
out the whereabouts of your asceaded
one But will | surely know him wien
get there. for he will be so changed%
Yes, for you will be just as much chang
ed, and the old affinity will assert itself.
The soul will be as easily distinguished
by soul there as on earth the body is dis
tinguished by the body.
Angel of Hope Is Near.
Open that closed instrument of music
in your parlor that has not been played
on since the hand of the departed player
forgot its cunning. Put mp before you on
the music board the notes of the hymn OF
Isaac Watts and sing, There Is a Land
of Pure Delight" or James Montgomery s
HYMN. who Are These in Bright Ar
raw" or Fillmore BENEFITS Sweet Bye
and Bye" or Jerusalem the Golden.
Take some tune in the major key-'Ari-
Ell or Mount Pisgah." While you play
and sing the angel of Hope will stand by
YOU and turn the leaves and join in the
rapturous rendering. Reunion with the
loved and lost! Everlasting reunion! Nc
farewell at the door of any mansion, Nc
goodby at any of the twelve gates. No
more dark apparel of mourning, but
white robe of exaltation! Hope now is on
its knees. with face uplifted, but Hope
there will be on tiptoe or reckoning you
to follow, saying: Come and hear the
| choirs sing! Core and see the procession
march, Come and see the river of life
roll
From this hour cultivate hope. Do 81
| by reading all the scriptural promises OF
| the worlds coming Edenization an(
| doubt if you dare the veracity of the Al
| mighty when he says he will make thu
| desert roseate. and the leopard and III,
kid will lie down in the same pastur,
| field. and the lion. ceasinG to be carnivo
rous, will become graminiyorous. eating
straw like an o., and reptilian venom
shall change into harmless1c@s, so that
the "weaned child shall put his hand or
the cockatrice's den, and there shall b.
nothing to hurt or destroy in all Gods
| holy mountain. for the earth shah be full
of the knowledge of the Lord. as the wat
| ers cover the sea
Then cultivate hope in regard to YOU
own health. your own financial prosper
| ity, your own longevity, by seeing how il
other people God mercifully reverse,
| things and brings to pass the unexpected
remembering that Washington lost NOR,
battles than he gained but triumphed a
1 the last anu, Aui'h'i' ~ NAMING sure %
your eternal safety through Christ Jesus
understand that YOU are on the way t.
palaces and thrones. This life span
| long. ending in durations of bliss that mel
Their human nor lrchangelic faculties ear
measure or estimate-redolence of .
| springtime that never ends and fountain
tossing in the light of sun that nevel
sets. May God thrill us with anticipa
ton Of this immortal glce. "Whicl
hope"
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