Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-09-10
HOW TO BE POPULAR.

Vt ne 4oNetH our hdlion, ana ne naln
| built us a synagogue.-Lukey viii, 40.
| Shall you be peoples favorite? Verify,
when you become their lovers. Sweet
boon, bestowed by public press, by quick
/, pllse beat of our times, by all classes
! Thinking for themselves, sweet boon to
| believe that should we care deep down
| for fellow-beings, act our part exceeding
! well, to us will come a grateful recogni-
| ton, earlier than the cpitaph, dcarer
than sorrow after we are gone. Begin
| nearest you.
/ Somewhere wars ravage tore a lad cut
| Of parents arms. Dice-lot threw him
( slave to our texts hero to carry his spear,
| FURNISH his helmet, tidy his tent, go petty
errands. Sympathy for the little. lone
some fellow opened two hearts, the
slaves, the masters and Scripture says
he called the boy his child.
| Sickness smote the lad. and lying fever
tossed he seemed 10 feel his mothers
| hand again. No, it was faithful like
| hers, though only the rough captains.
watching tenderly the motherless captive.
| Then through soldiers quarters and city
| others, too, We're tender. \ fountain of
| good wishes went from his bosom every
whittier. Commotion outside. The Naz-
arene! Nazarene," cry populace astir.
! III ask him to CUE my darling ex-
| claimed our soldier, bending over bed
| side; nor was there heather or Hebrew,
street waif or sanctuary elder who did
not want to bear his message, Israeite
rulers rushing, supplicating, in his behalf,
eulogizing Roman.
The devil take your celebrities whose
fame rings loudest farthest from home!
| What do wife, husband, children, broth
! er, sister, domestics. employees. neighbOrs
| testify? Don't trouble yourself, tea en-
| er, to show diploma and directors COM
mendatiou and ancestral pedigree Let
! your pupils, keenest, cruelest, kindest
/ critics, bring verdict. Your blandish
ments of guests. OH drawing room host,
are given the lie or else eclipsed by wit
ness of their underlings. The roofs of
some families servants garrets are low
enough to keep the whole household out
of heaven. The man who says it might
about as well .irst pack his baggage for
leaving town; but TO treat employed as
Jesus would mast end strikes and the ev
erlaStingly worse-gettiug servant ques-
! ton.
Ideas of equality now pervade Ameri-
can common classes, and bright ambi-
tious men and women will not engage
themselves to be put at society's very bot
tom; will rather work for less and harder
elsewhere; hence the inevitable, a trihe
higher rank for mill and kitchen toll or
more anarchy and good-for- nothing cook
cry.
Meanwhile the lowliest ought to do as
Christ would in their places. immortal
! praise to Robert e. Lee for offering
! seat to laboring woman on train near
| Richmond and refusing those offered him
Immediately by officers and priyates, he
| protesting, "Gentlemen, if there was no
seat for that tired woman, there, can be
none for me-"
Additional crown to Queen Victoria
THAT she never discharged domestics for
| getting Old merely promoted them, as
! Miss Thornton, aged 50. invited guest in
| palace parlors at jubilee, served with re-
| freshments, spectator of her majesty's
| triuh hal departure, escort and return.
Grandest panegyric on David Living
| stone reckon fidelity of Susi and Chuma
and those black men who would have
known and despised his vices, fidelity
that carved inscription on Myula tree
where he died, buried his heart there,
wrapped his body with calico, bark and
| canvas, and later for disguise, mapira
stalks: fidelity that suffered everything,
risked everything from Africa's jungle to
! England's glorious abbey, conveying to its
grave the dust so dearly cherished, and
| in proof that love, Redeemer-like love,
never was wasted, never will be, never
can be; royalty. nobility. craftsmanship,
/ science a worlds veneration. bedecked
his bier with immortelles, while humorist
saddened into threnody. wrote:
He needs no epitaph to guard 4 name
! Which men shall praise while worthy
work is known;
He lived and died for loy be that his
fame!
Let marble crumble; this be his living
stone
Shal-vou be peoples favorite? Verify
verify. when their lover and serving their
highest interests "He hath built us
! synagogue" Look here. by Gennesaret's
embayed shore. her pearl-white strand.
| stumble across cornices deliberately
carved capitals wrought wOndrously,
inches and shattered arch-ruins of the
house of God, this Roman captain built
back yonder well-nigh nineteen centuries.
All. me. And Jesus pretcheG therein
Hail, ali hail, 10000 benevOiences gath
cred in one patriotism climaxed, epitom-
lied!
J Who proceeds more philanthropicnlly
than the church builder. Sabbath school
planter. Sabbath service supporter? Did
not Napoleon foresee no government
could endure without its citizenship be-
times at worship, Napeleonic religious
/ institutions reared accordingly? Men
! ton any financial inv, stnlent that view
ed from beyond the veil, viii crafty you
ceaselessly as dollars in hospital walls
and cots, dollars in Bibles and Christly
literature. strewn among mission stations,
dollars in sanctuaTles speaking Gods low
ing kindness unto mankind after your
voice is silent and your money grasping
hand is ashes How much sublimer that
Capernaum synagogue looms up when you
realize the donors modestyE Approach
the Lord-unft the centurion saw himself
so signifies his Greek word hikanos:
unfit he deemed himself in deepest soul
so signifies his Greek word exiosa Sin
cere-no bid for halo.
Directly people observe you boasting,
4 ike Nehuchadnezzar Wanting. rs not
this great Babylon that ] have built|
they are quite willing to let you also 90
to grass. Criterion or honest self-exam-
nation. evidence the atmosphere Of the
Hottest surrounds Us. il is as If we lee
smitten with self-disapproval, Job-iike.
meaning eye seeth thee
! Enter dark roorB-air apparently clean,
Turn shutter sI3t-r trough e1suShirst's