Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-01-08

Behold, also. as it is possible in no
other month of the ear the wondrous
anatomy of the trees in January. the
leaves OF the last year an gone and
not SO much as bad OF new botan-
zeal wardrobe appearing, the trees stand
ing with arms stretched toward heaven,
one Of the greatest evidences of the wis
dom and the power of the Creator. The
leaves appear only once and then die, but
these great arms are stretched up to-
ward heaven in silent prayer for scores
Of years, now mailed with ice, now robed
in snow or bowling TO the God of the tenn
pests Us he passes in the midnight hurri-
cane. In July the trees stand clarifying
the earth; in January they stand defying
the winter Under the same tree the
child plays with his toy and, growing up
to manhood, sits under il in sentimental
or philosophc mood and. having passed
on to old age, rests himself under its
shade. In these January days the trees
seem to say: The leaves that rustlcd
their music in the last summer are dead
and gone, hut the leaves that viii adorn
this uncovered brow and these bare arms
shall have as much beauty and glory as
their predecessors. Only wait.
The Increasing Daylight.
Behold also in this January month the
increasing daylight Last month the sun
/ went down at so. but in this month the
kdays are getting longer. The sunrise and
4 the sunset are farther apart. Sunlight
instead of artificial light, and there is
for our dear old battered earth growing
/ light The daysprng from on high hath
visited US. We shall have more light
/ for the home, more light for the church,
more light for the nation, more light
for the world--light of intelligence. light
OF comfort, light Of rescue, light OF evan
gelzation, light from the face of God,
light from the throne. The day enlarges
very little, and the reign of sunlight is
I5not much increased, but do not despise
the minute of increasing light each day
Aof this January, and do not despise the
fact that more light is coming for the
church and the world, though it come
slowly. AS we are now in this season
gradually going toward the longest day
of next summer, so our world is moving
forward toward the long day of enamel
patton and Christly dominion. 1t may
now in the state and the church and the
world be January cold, but we are on
orchards.
Do not read your almanac backward.
Do not 90 out and ask the trees hung
with icicles by January storm whether
they will ever again blossom in May and
leaf ia June. We are moving toward the
worlds redemption. The frozen tears
will melt, the river Of gladness win re-
sumo its flow, the crocus will come up at
the edge of the snowbank, the morning
star will open the door for the day, and
the armies of the world will ground
arms" all around the world. The Janu-
airy of frost viii be abolished. and the
balm and radiance of a divine atmos-
phere will fill the nations. If you do not
see it ard hear it for yourself. think
at the utmost your grandchildren will
see and hear it. The heavens will take
part in the conflict between righteous
ness and sin, and that will settle it, and
settle it Alright, ard settle it forever.
The month of January has seen many
of the most stupcndous events in the
worlds history and rocking of cradles
and the digging of graves that have af-
fected nations In this month American
independence vas declared, followed by
Lexington and Bunker Hill and Mon
mouth and Valley Forge and Yorktown
January saw the proclamation that abol-
ished American slavery. Though at the
time there We're two mighty opinions
and they were exactly opposed-those
who liked the document and those who
disliked it--there is but one opinion now,
and if it were put to vote in all the
States of the South, Shall slavery be re-
instated?" there would be an overwhelm-
ing vote of Mo-! The pen with which
the document was signed aud the ink
stand that contained the ink are relies
as sacred and valuable as the original
Declaration of Independence. with all its
erasures and interineations. The insti-
tuition which for seventy or eighty years
kept the nation in angry controversy has
disappeared. and nothing is left to fight
about The North and the South to-day
are in as complete accord as ever were
flute and cornet in the same orchestra
The North has built it's factories on the
banks of the Chattahoochee and the Ro-
anoke, and the South has sent many of
its ablest attorneys into our northern
court houses, its most skillful physicians
into our sick rooms. its wisest bankers
into our exchanges, its most consecrated
ministers into cur pulpts-all this the
result Of the proclamation of Jan. /.
1868.
birthdays of Great Men.
Furthermore, | notice that January has
beer honored with the nativity Of some
of the greatest among the nations. Ed
niund Burke was born this month, the
marvel and glory Of the legal world ::
Fenelon of the religious world, Benjamin
Franklin of the philosophic world. Viii
liam IL. Prescott of the historic world.
Sir John Moore of the military world,
Robert Burns Of the poetic world Poly
carp Of the martyr world, Peter the
Great Of the kingly world, Chrysostom Of
the sacred rhetoric world, Daniel Web
ster of the statesman world.
In this month, at Hampton court. 1904,
a new translation of the Holy Bible was
ordered There were Bibles of all kinds
abroad some Of them translations from
Hebrew and Greek by Incompetent men,
and the church and the world cried out
for a Bible translated 10y group Of the
good and the learned. King James dis
like ,e Bibles abroad and appointed a
commission Of ffty-four men, afterward
reduced 10 fOrty-seycu. Those men pre-
sented the world with "a Bible that held
mighty sway among the nations for moro
than 80 years. the revision Of the Bible
thirty years ago being founded On that
revision, which began under King James
Of 1904 The old translation. made more
than two and a half centuries ago. sus-
tanned the martyrs in the FIRE. dlumined
the homesteads Of many generations, was
the book that wa. read aloud ri the em-