Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-03-20

who all night long will be saying, 'NV ould
10 God ii We're morning. How many
| bruised and disappointed and wronged
soa.s of earth would be glad to get a let
ter from you. Stir up that eonsolatory
inkhorl.
Al Christend0m has been waiting for
great revivals OF religion to start from
the pulpits and prayer meetings. l now
suggest that the greatest revival of all
time may start concerted and organized
I movement through the inkhorns of all
Christendom, each writer dipping from
the inkhorn nearest him letter Of Cos
pei invitation. gospel hope, gospel warn
/ ing, gospel instruction. The ink is all
ready on hundred thousand tables, and
beside it are the Implements with which
to dip it out. WHY not through such
process, have millions of souls brought TO
God before next summer? BY letter you
could make the invitation more effective
than by word of mouth. The invitation
from your lips may be argued back, may
evoke querulous reply, may be answered
by Il joke, but 4 good warm, gospel let
ter, written in prayer and started with
prayer and followed by prayer, will be
read over and over again and cannot be
answered in a frivolous way. 1t will
speak from the table by day and night
or, il pettishly torn up, will. in its scat
lstered fragments. speak louder than when
it remained whole. Within arms reach
of where you sit there may be fluid that
YOU may put on wing with message of
light and love. Oh, for the swift flying
angel of mercy which Ezekiel saw in Wis
ion with writer's inkhorn by his side"
The Inkhorn of Gods Mercy.
The other angels spoken Of in my text
were destroying angels, and each had
what the Bible calls a slaughter weap-
on" in his hand. 1t was a lance or
| battleax or a sword. God hasten the
time when the last lance shall be shiy-
cred and the last battleaX dulled and
the last sword sheathed, never again TO
leave the scabbard, and the angel of the
text. who. Matthew Henry says, was the
Lord Jesus Christ, shall, from the full
! inkhorn of his mercy, give a saving call
! to all nations. That day may be far off,
| but it is helpful to. think of its coming
| AS DIR. Raleigh declared, that when fifty
miles at sea off the coast of New Eng
| land the cattle on board the ship, as we'll
| as himself secuted the clover on the New
! England hills, so we. amid all the tossing
waves of the worlds controversies, in
| hale the redolence of the white lilies of
universal peace. Is it not time that the
| boosted invention of new and more ex-
plosive and more widely devastating
weapons ci Geath be stopped forever and
the gospel have chance and the ques
| ton be not asked, How many shots can
| be fired in q minute? but How many
/ souls may be ransomed in q day? The
! W orld needs less powder and more grace
| fewer fortresses and more churches, less
! power to destroy and more power to save.
| Oh, am sick of the warcries and the ex-
tingushed eyesight and the splintered
| bones and the grave trenches and the
| widowhood aud orphanage and childless-
ness which sob and groan and die in the
wake of the armies on both sides Of the
sea, Oh, for less of the slaughter weap-
os and more of the evangelizing inkhorD
| Oh, for the stopping Of the science OF
assassination, that crime of crimes. that
woe OF woes, that horror of horrors, that
hell Of hells-war, which this moment
stands reeking with blood and washing
Itself in tears and disappearing the heay-
ems and pushing off the edge of this life
!
| you and | have and blasting homes in
which there dwells as much loneliness as
| in orr owni Would that the merciful
! angel of my text take the last weapon of
war and fling it off and fling It down with
! such force that it shall clarg on the low
! est round of the perdition where the first
| keen edge of human strife was sharpen
| ed War! In the name of Almighty
! God and of all the homesteads it has de-
| stroyed and is now destroying, hate it.
| denounce it, | curse it,
If our Bible is true-and no other book
| that was ever printed is as true as that
book, which Moses began and John fin
! ished--then the time win come when all
the weapons of cruelty will stop and the
inkhorns of CHARACTERIZATION will have their
way. In the museums of the world the
| carbine and the cannon and the bomb
| will be kept as euriosities, and children
| will be incredulous as parents tell them
| that civilized nations once employed such
| instruments of death and more incredn-
| lous when told by their parents that the
| army that killed the most men was CON
! sidered the most glorious army. The red
horse of carnage that st. John saw il
vision, and the black horse of famine.
and the pale horse of death will be
stabbed, AMI the white horse of prosperity
and peace. mounted by the King of
Kings, will lead the great army with ban
ners. Through the convictng, convert
! ing, sanctifying power of the Eternal
| Spirit may we all march in that process
sion. Hail thou Mighty Rider of the
/ white horse in the final triumph, Sweep
down and sweep by, then Angel of the
| New Covenant, with the inkhorn OF the
worlds CHARACTERIZATION. The mountains
| and the hills shall break forth into sing
! ing. and all the trees of the field shall
| clap their hands Instead of the thorn
! shall come up the fur tree. and instead Of
the brier shall come up the myrtle tree
! and it shall be to the Lord for a name
for an everlasting sign that shall not be
cut off,
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