Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-07

/, honorable and dignifed surrender, as when a
| small host yields to superior numbers. IL Is
| no humiliation for thousand men to yield TO
| ten thousand. IL is better than to keep on
| when there can be no result except that OF
massacre. But those who surrender to sin
make a surrender when on their side tbey have
| enough reserve forces to rout all the armies OF
perditioB, whether led on By what demono-
| grapher calls Bel al, or Beezebub, or Apollyon,
| or Abaddon, or ARIEL. The disgraceful thing
| about the surrender at Sedan was that the
| French handed over 4l9 field guns and
mitrailleusis, 5000 horses and So, 600 armed
| men. And Il Is base for that man to surrender
| to sin when all the ornaments Of Almighti-
ness would have wheeled to the front to fight
| his battle II he had waved one earnest signal
| But, no! He surrendered body, mind, soul,
reputation, home, pedigree, time and eternity,
while yet all the prayers OF his Christian an
cestors were on hts side aud all the preferred
| aid-supernal, cherubic, seraphic, angelic.
deillc.
We have talked so much the last few weeks
| about the abdication OF Alexander Of Bull
garla, but what paltry throne was that from
| which the unhappy king descended compared
with the abdication OF that young man, or
mddleaged man, Or old man, who quits the
throne Of his opportunity and turns his back
upon a heavenly throne and tramps off into
ignominy and everlasting exile! That is an
abdication enough to shake universe. In
Persia they will not have blind man on the
throne and when reigning monarch Is jeal-
GUS Of some ambitious relative he has his
eyes extiuguishcd so that he cannot possibly
ever come 10 browning. And that suggests
the difference between the way sin and divine
grace take hold of man. The former blinds
him so he may never reach a throne, while
the latter illumines the blind that he may
take coronation
PLEADING FOR YOUNG STRANGERS.
Why this sermon! l have made up my
mind that our city life is destroying too many
young men. There comes in every September
and October large influx of those between
10 and "a years Of age and New York and
Brooklyn damn at least thousand of them
every year. They are shoveled off and down
with no more conjunction than that with
which coal HEAVIER scoops the anthracite into
dark cellar. What with the wine cup and
the gamblers dice and the scarlet enchant-
ress, no young man, without the grace of
God, is safe ten minutes.
There is much discussion about which Is the
worst city of the continent Some say New
York, some say New Orleans some say Chi
cago, some say St Louis. What / have to
say is, you can not make much comparison
between the infnties, and in all our cities
the temptation seems infinite. We keep a
great many mills running day and night Not
rice mills or cotton mills. Not mills of corn
or wheat, but mills for grinding up men. Such
are all the grog- Bishops, licensed and unli-
censed. Such are all the gambling saloons.
Such are all the houses Of infamy. And we do
the work according to law, and we turn out a
new grist every hour, aud grind up warm
hearts and clear hearts, and the earth about a
cider mill Is not more saturated with the
beverage than the ground about ali these
mind destroying institutions is saturated
with the blood Of victims. We say to Long
Island neighborhoods and villages: Send us
more supply, and to Westchester and Ulster
and all the other counties of New York:
Send us more men and women to put under
the wheels" Give us full chance and we
could grind up In the municipal mill 500 a
day.
LED BY CHRIsT's WOUNDS.
We have enough machinery; we have enough
men who can run them. Give us more homes
to crush! Give us more paternal hearts to
pulverize! Put into the hopper the ward
robes and the family Bibles and the liveli-
hoods of wives and children. Give us more
material for these mighty mills, which are wet
with tears and sulphurous with woe, and
trembling with earthquakes of an incensed
God who will, unless orr cities repent, cover
us up as quick and as deep as in August of
the year 70 Vesuvius avalanched Hercuianeum.
o, man and woman, ponder the path of thy
feetl See which way YOU are going. VIII
YOU have the destiny of Edward or Methodist
On this sacramental day, when the FURNISHED
chalices stand in the presence of the people,
start from the foot of the cross for usefulness
and heaven. Plutarch tells us that after
Caesar was slain and his twenty three wounds
had been displayed to the people, arousing an
uncomfortable excitement, and the body of
the dead conqueror, according to ancient Gus
tom, had been put upon the funeral pile ana
the flames arose, people rushed up, took from
the blazing mass torches, with which they ran
through the city, crying the glory of the as
estimated ruler and the shame Of his assas-
sinatOrs On this sacramental day, when the
five bleeding wounds Of Christ, your king
are shown to you, and the fires of his earthly
suffering blaze before your Imagination, each
one of you take a torch and start heavenward
"A torch with light for yourself and light for
others; for the race that starts at the cross
ends at the thone. While the twenty-thrce
wounds of Cesar wrought nothing but the
CONSERVATION of the people, from the five
wounds of our Conqueror there flows trans
forming power to make all the uncounted mil
lions who will accept it forever happy and for
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