Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-03-19

M M VI It's HdAuAt hdQ up, anu
there was no flow of invigor-
atlng hope, and barely any
thing of pureness and sweetness issu-
ing from it. The emperor of the world
was at once "a high priest, an atheist
and god" The fairest and noblest In
life permitted their names to be in
seribed upon the "tabulae" of those
who had failed to maintain even the
cleanliness of the flesh. The human
race had gone to seed. But by the
overruling of Providence, One Life
had been prematurely maintained in
righteousness, true TO mans original.
Divine type. Mown down by the
sword of injustice this harvested seed
was sown in a garden in Jerusalem.
Sown, as the sower of wheat filings
his good grain into the soil, and sim
ply leaves it to the mercy of the Mas
ter of the earth and the Lord of lifel
AS the farmer merely closes the field
gate upon his seeded field and can do
no more than wait, Just as we SOW
the forms of them we have loved, set
a stone. or some mark to show where
we have laid them, and come away to
"-soothe ourselves with weeping
Till life's long shadows break in cloud
less love-
There is a wonderful vitality in a
seed. A wealthy man once built a
great stone tomb for himself and
carved upon 1t: This tomb, the ever
lasting abode of it's owner, must not
be opened to all eternity" Inadvert-
emily the workmen buried a tiny seed
with the impious dead man. Swollen
by the moisture from his decaying
corpse. it sprouted. found a crevice
where light shone through. grew TO It.,
and through it. and today tall tree
stands with it's roots in the odd tomb.
and the stones so laboriously built
into place are shattered and thrown
aside by the resistless growing power
OF what had been contained in that
tiny seed.
There is an immortal vitality about
humanity. That sown in the garden at
Jerusalem burst through the tomb,
and appeared again. as much more glo-
rious than the Body which had been
sown, as the field of corn is lovelier
as it waves in the autumn sunshine
than the bare grain the farmer sowed
in the spring "Sown in a natural
body, it is raised a spiritual body" f,
1t Is prudent thing. however, to ap-
ply the actual tests to the seeds of the
crop, upon the vitality OF which much
may depend. That sort of test was
applied to humanity at Easter time.
One of ourselves, bone of our bone
flesh Of our flesh. was sown, and By
the mastery OF the Master OF Life. the
resurrection process was accelerated.
and the innate vitality of man was
proved to be , great, glorious reality.
1t is the message Of spring 1t
comes to encourage us. just when we
are committing so much wealth to the
soil. and It's Master. II says to the
farmer. have no fear for results. since
the flowers have come through the
ground, your grain will also come. The
Easter lily is sign to you Of the gra-
clous beauty which viii crown your
hard labor which will follow what is
so disagreeable al the moment There
was nothing lovely about the lily
bulb, remember" The resurrection
message is a signal set up in the race
through life. reminding it that there
Ia nothing more certain than
THAI men may rise on stepping stonM
Of their dead selves to higher rhings
~He is not here said the heavenly