Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-01-07
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giided chariot commanding the Hector
and the charioteer to fay the poor that
impeded his pompous progress? No,
no, no! Art pictures Him in the squalid
shop. Legend represents Him as the
companion of the simplest and rudest
Villagers. Not one of all His boyhood
friends is mentioned IN history. When
the orlfa mme of His deity was radiat-
ing about Him and He was the most
stiil the answering democrat. Though
the Pilates and Herods and Caesars de-
sired TO see Him He never once crossed
their thresholds. Though the aristoc-
racy of wealth and rank rejoieed to en-
terrain Him and TO lodge Him in their
cOstliest chambers. He never went
back on the poor. His fayorite home
was at the Bethany cottage.
His illustrations were usually drawn
from the farm, the highway and the
barnyard. His solicitude was always
for the poor. The poor ye have with
you Away" was his pathetic exclama-
ton. What wonder the common PEG.
pie heard Him gladly" The humblest
rushed into His arms and He hurried
them into His heart. Their, as now, He
was the only true and changeless
friend they had. You will therefore
not be surprised at the trade He chose.
How he could have reveled in the
law. But He who is the Fountain of
all legal lore and justice and the Ar
bitter of all men and nations deliberate
ly denied Himself that delight.
How he could have gratified every
trembling instinct of His deity as Il
physician! But though the Maker of
every medieine-allopathic homeo-
pathie, eclectic and botanic-He left
that art TO others.
What an orator, statesman, minister
of finances or gentleman of leisure He
might have been. Yet all these He re-
signed aud submitted to such poverty
that he had TO appeal to Galilean
fisherman for money with which TO pay
his taxes and to make the humiliating
confession: THE foxes have holes and
the birds OF the air have nests, but the
Son of Man hath not where to lay His
head" And yet with all of His abstem-
iousness His glorified mind and heart
thrilled with delight at every tho ~ht
of the refined and elegant and
lime, And am l not right in saying thai
He is humanity's changeless and ON
nipotent friend?
Photograph His Cabinet.
Whom did he honor with the portfolio
of state? Paul, Tarsean tentmaker.
Whom did He appoint minister of the
exchequer? Judas, Mammon-worship-
ing farmer. Whom did He select as his
private chaplain and most intimate
companion? John, a Galilean fisher
man. Not one king, prince, priest,
preacher. philosopher commercialaire
or landed proprietor did He take into
/ His cabinet. Here was the great Prince
and Founder of Christianity making
up His cabinet, and every member of
/ it was a day laborer, sun-tanned and
weather-beaten. Were toilers ever so
throned and crowned and honored be-
! fore?
In conclusion: Consider His doctrines
Come unto Me. ali ye that labor and
are heavy laden, and l will give you
rest Take Ny yoke upon you, and
learn of Me: for am meek and lowly
/ in heart; and ye shall find rest unto
! your souls. For my yoke Is easy and
My burden is light. Go out quickly
! into the streets and lanes and bring
hither the poor. and the manned, and
! the halt, and 5he blind. For there is
no difference between the jew and the
Greek; for the same Lord over all is
rich unto all that call upon Him. For
whatsoever shah call upon the name of
the Lord sh;el be saved; though He
was rich, yet for your sakes lie became
poor, that We through His poverty
might be rich.
IF there come unto your church a
man with a gold ring, in goodly APP
parel, and there come in also a poor
man in vile raiment; and yet have re-
spect to him that weareth the gay
| clothing. and say unto him, Sit thou
here in Il good place, and say to the
poor, Stand thou here, or sit here IN
der my footstool. are We not then par
tial in yourselves? Hearken, My be
loved brethren. hath not God chosen
the poor of this world, rich in faith
and heirs of the kingdom which He
hath promised to them that love Him
What doth ii profit my brethren,
though a man say he hath faith. and
have not works. Can faith save him.
If Il brother OF sister be naked and
destitute of daily food, and one of you
say unto them. Depart in peace. he ye
warmed and filed; Notwithstanding We
give them not those things which are
needfrl to the body: what doth it profit:
Even so faith. if it hath not works. Is
dead, being alone"
My friends, Jesus is the great and un-
failing Pythias, He is serenading all
the poor, all the sorrowing. all the un.
fortunate. all who have been driven
away by the cold church, by the harsh
creed. by the Infeeling preacher, b.
the overbearing and neglectful mem
ber Beneath thy window lie sings
He woos He pleads, He bpseeehes,
with matchless beauty. and with bound
less love.
Throw open tho window Of thy som
inst now and answer: Yes Lord
blessed Christ Savior, Lover, Redeem.