Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-04-16

shoes for your feet. Better travef ON
toward eternity hareheaded aud bare
footed and houseless and homeless and
friendless than 10 90 through life with
out religion.
Other persons apologize for nor ente2-
ing the Christian life because il is ZINE
enough yet. That is very ike those per-
sons who send regrets and say, Il will
clne in perhaps at II or - o'clock;
viii not be there at the opening OF the
banquet. but | Will be there at the close. 3"
Not yet. Not yet! NOW. 10 not give
any doleful view of this life. There is
nothing in my nature. nothing in the
grace Of God, that tends toward dole
ful f!e'y Of human life. ! have rot mueh
sympathy with Addison's description OF
the Vision Of Mira" where he repre-
sents human life as being bridge OF a
hundred arches and both ends of the
/ bridge covered with clouds and. the race
coming on. the most of them falling down
through the last span. II is very dis
NAL picture. l have not much sympathy
with the Spanish proverb which says,
''Th- sky is good aud the earth is good;
that which is bad is between the earth
and the sky" But. while we as Chris
tian men are bound to take cheerful
view of life. we must also confess that
| life is a great uncertainty and that man
who says Il can't become a Christian
! because there is time enough vat" is
running n risk infinite You do not per-
haps realize the fact that this descending
| grade of sin gets sleeper and sleeper and
that you are gathering up rush and
velocity which after awhile may not an
swer to the brakes
The DeIusion in Delay.
| Be not among those who give their
I whole life to the world aud then give
their corpse to God. 1t is a great thing
| for man on his dying pillow 10 repent
better that than never at all; but now
much better. how much mere generous,
/ it would have been if he had repentad
| fifty years before. My friends you viii
never get over these representations.
| Here is a deluSion. People think, II
| can go on in sin and worldliness, but
after awhile / will repent and then it
will be as though | had come at the
! very start" What a mistake! No one
/ ever gets fully over procrastination. Ii
| you give your soul to God some other
time than this, You will enter heaven
with only half the capacity for enjoy
ment and knowledge you might have had.
| There will be heights of blessedness Won
might have attained that then you vii
never reach; thrones of glory on which
you might have been seated but which
you will never climb. We will never get
over procrastination. neither in time nor
in eternity.
We have started on march from
| which there is no retreat. The shadows
of eternity gather on our pathway. How
insignificant is time compared with the
vast eternity! This moment voices roll
down the sky and all the worlds of light
are ready to rejoice at your disenthrall-
ment. Rush not into the presence of the
King ragged with sin when you may
have this robe of righteousness. Dash
| not your foot to pieces against the throne
of crucifed Christ. Throw not youl
crown of life off the battlcnants. All
the scrbes of God are at this hour ready
with volumes of living light to record
the news of your soul emancipated
| Copyright. Louis Kiopsch. 1902