Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-05-08

opseENdtOFleS at Albany ana washington
stretches ont its baud toward the oppos
Ing scientific weapon. CRYING. There is
none like that; give Il me-" / was read
ing of Herschel, who was looking at a
meteor through telescope and when il
came over the face OF the telescope it was
so powerful he had to avert his eyes
Aho it has been just so that f4any an as
troL Nmer has gone into aa observatory
and .ooked up into Inc midnight heavens
and 1h- Lord God has through sonie
swinging world famed upon his vision,
and the learned man cried out: who
am II Undone. Cnclean. Have mercy.
Lord Cod
Temptations of the Traveller.
Again, | remark that the travelling dis
position of the world, which was adverse
10 morals and religion. is TO be brought
on our side. The man that went down to
jericho and fell amid thieves was a type
of great many travellers. There is
many man who is very honest Mt home
who when he is abroad has his honor
tilched and his good habits stolen. There
are but very few men who can stand the
stress of an expedition. Six weels at
watering place have ruined many q man.
cling men for the purposes OF trade be-
cause Of the corrupting influences attend
ing il. A good many men now cannot
stand the transition from one place to an
other. Some men who seem to be very
consistent here in the way of keeping the
Sabbath when they get into Spain on the
Lords day always so out to see the bull
fights. Plato said that no city ought 10
be built nearer to the sea than ten miles
lest it be tempted to commerce. But this
travelling disposition of the world which
was adverse TO that which is good is to
be brought on our size. These mail
trains why, they take our Bibles these
steamships, they transport our mission
aries; these sailors, rushing from city to
city all around the world, are TO be con
verted into Christian herads and go out
and preach Christ among the heather ma
tons The gospels are infinitely multi
piled in beauty and power since Robinson
and Thompson and Burckhardt have
come lack and talked to us about Sloan
and Capernaum and Jerusalem. pointing
out TO us the lilies about which Jesus
preached. the beach upon which Paul
was shipwrecked, the fords at which Jor-
dan was passed. the Red sea bank on
which were tossed the carcasses of the
drowned Egyptians. A man said: Il
went to the Holy Land an infdel.
came back a Christian. | could not help
it."
l am not shocked. as some have been.
at the building of railroads in the Holy
Land. / wish that all the world might
go and see Golgotha and Bethlehem How
IN ot,Y i,o aopIJ pot fford Dnrr,
easily buy tickets from CoGstantinople to
Joppa. Then let Christians travel. God
speed the rail trains and guide the steam
ships this night painting across the deep
in the phosphorescent wake of the shin
ing feet of him who from wave cliff TO
wave cliff trod bestormed Tiberius. The
japanese come across the water and see
our civilization and examine our Chris
tanity and go back and tell the story and
keep that empire rocking till Jesus shall
reign,
Where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run.
And the firearms with which the inf
del traveller brought down the Arab
horseman and the jackals Of the desert
have been surrendered TO the church. and
we reach forth our hand, crying, There
is none like that; give i !ae.'
UniversaIitr of Religion.
So it has alsc been with the learning
and eloquence of the world. People say,
Religion is very good for aged women,
it is very good for children, but not for
men, But we have in the roll of Christ's
host Mozart and Handel ia music Cano-
va and Angelo in sculpture, Raphael and
Reynolds in painting, Harvey and Boer-
have in medicine, Cowper and Scott in
poetry, Grotius and Burke in statesman
ship, Boyle and Leibnitz in philosophy,
Thomas Chalmers and John Mason in
theology The most brilliant writings of
a worldly nature are all aglow with Scrip
tural illusions. Through senatorial
speech and through essayist's discourse
Sinai thunders and Calvary speaks and
Sloan sparkles.
Samuel l.. Southland was mighty in the
court room and in the Senate chamber,
but he reserved his strongest eloquence
for that day when he stood before the lit
erary societies at Princeton commence
ment and pleaded for the grandeur Of our
Bible. Daniel Webster won not his chief
garlands while responding to Hayne nor
when he opened the batteries OF his elo-
quence on Bunker Hill, that rocking Sinai
of the American Revolution but on that
day when in the famous Girard will case
he showed his affection for the Christian
religion and eulogized the Bible. The elo-
quence and the learning that have been
ON the other side come over TO our side.
Captured for God. There is none like
that; give it me-
So also has IL Laen with thn uictup,,
making Of the world. We are very anx-
ious on this day to have the printing
press and the platform on the side Of
Christianity, but we overlook the engrav-
er's knife and the painters pencil The
antiquarian goes and looks at pictured
ruins or examines the chiseled pillars Of
Thebes and Nineveh and J'ompeii and
then comes back to tell us of the beastl-
ness of ancient art, and it is a fact now
that many of the finest specimens-mere-
~ artistically considered-of sculpture
and painting that are TO be found amid
those RUNS are not fit to be looked al,
and they are locked up. How Paul must
have felt when, standing amid those inn
purites that stared on him from the
walls and pavements and bazanrs of Cor
nth, lie preached Of the parc and holy
Jesus. The art OF the world on the side
OF obscenity and crime aud death.
Much of he art Of the world has been
in the possession Of the vicious. What to
unclean Henry VIII. was beautiful pic
ture of the Madonna What to Lord
Jeffreys. the unjust judge. the picture Of
the Last Judgment What to Nero.
the uuwa she'd a picture Of the baptism in