Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-12-03

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knew, or felt, and then giving you the power 7,
take hold OF the clew line and draw through
your mind the long train with indescribabl
| velocity--one thought starting up q hundred
and this again thousand-a the chirp OF ont
bird sometimes wakes whole forest OF voices
| or the thrum OF one string will rouse an orches
| ira.
Watch your memory-that sheaf binder tina
goes forth to gather the harvest of the past ant
| bring 1t into the present Your power ant
velocity of thought-thought OF the swift wins
and the lightning foot; thought that Outspeed:
the star, and circles through the heavens, ant
weighs worlds, and, from poising amid wheeling
consultations, comes down TO count the bios
SONS In tuft OF mign,tiette, then starts agar
| TO try the fathoming Of the bottomlcss and the
| scaling OF the insurmountable, TO be swallowed
up In the incomprehensible, and lost In Cod
| In reason and understanding, man is alone
| The OK surpasses him in strength, the antelope
| In speed, the hound in keenness OF nostril the
| eagle In far-reaching sight the rabbit In quick.
| ness OF hearing, the honey-bee in delicacy OF
| tongue, the spider In fineness of touch. Mans
| power, therefore, CONSISTENT not In what he can
| lift, or how fast he can run, or how strong a
wrestler he can throw-for in these respects the
| Ok, the ostrich, and the hyena are his superior
| but by his reason he comes forth TO rule all;
through his ingenious continuance TO out
run, outfit, outwrestle, outsee, outhear,
| Guido. At his all-conquering decree, the forest
that had stood for ages steps aside to let him
build his cabin and cultivate his farm The
sea which raved and foamed upon the race has
become a crystal pathway for commerce TO
march on. The thunder-cloud that slept laZily
above the mountain is made to come down and
carry the mail-bags. Man, dissatisfied with his
slowness OF advancement, shouted TO the Water
and Fire, Come and liftl" Come and draw"
Come and help" And they answered, GAY,
~, we come" and they joined hands,the fire lire
and thu railtrain rattles on, and the
steamship comes coughing, painting, flaming
across the deep. He elevates the telescope TO
the heavens and as easily as through the stetho-
scope the physician hears the movement of the
lung, the astronomer catches the pulsation Of
distant systems OF worlds throbbng with life.
tie takes the microscope, and discovers that
there are hundreds OF thousands of animalculus
living, moving, working dying within circle
that could be covered with the point of pin
animals to which q rain-drop would be an
ocean, a rose-leaf q hemisphere, and the flash CT
FREELY lasting enough to give them light to
several generations.
1 take a step higher, and look at mans moral
nature. Made in the image of God. Vast ca
pacity for enjoyment; capable at first OF eternal
JOY and though now disordered, still, through
the recuperatiye force OF heavenly grace, able
to mount up TO more than its original felicity:
faculties tina may blossom and bear fruit mex
haustibly. Immortality written upon every ca
pacity: a soul destined to range in unlimited
spheres OF activity long after the world has put
on ashes, and the solar system shall have
snapped its axle, and the stars that in their
courses, fought against Siscra, shall have been
slain, and buried amid the tolling thunders OF
the last day.
You see that God has adapted every.
thing to our comfort and advantage.
ear; beauty for the eye; aroma for tho nostril;
kindred for our affections; poetry for our taste;
religion for our soul. We are put in a garden,
and told that from all the trees we may eat eX-
rcpt here and there one. He gives the sun to
shine on US, and the waters to refresh u.s. and
food to strengthen us; and the herbs yield
medicine when we are sick, and the forests
lumber when we would build house, or cross
the water in a ship The rocks are transported
for our foundation; and metals upturned Tor
our currency; and wild beasts must give
ms 10 m
Iunneled TO let us pass and the fish OF the sea
come up in our net; and the birds OF the air drop
Mt the flash OF our guns; and the cattle on
thousand hills come down and give US meat
For us the peach-orchards bend down their
fruits, and the vineyards their purple clusters
To feed and refresh our intellect, ten thousand
wonders in nature and proyidence-wonders
OF mind and body, wonders Of earth, and air,
and deep analogies and antithcses; all colors
and sounds lyrics In the air; idys in the fields;
confiagrations in the sunset; robes OF mist on
the mountains; aud the Grand March" OF God
in the storm.
But for the soul still higher adaptation; .
fountain in which II may wash; ladder by
which 1t may climb; a song of endless triumph
that 1t may sing; o crown of untading light that
il may wear, Christ came to save it-came
with a cross on his back; came with spikes in
his feet; came when no one else would come, to
do work which no one else would do. See how
suited to mans condition is what God has done
for himl Man is sinner; here is pardon lie
has lost Gods image; Christ retraces it, He il
helpless; Almighty grace is prolCred. He Is
lost wanderer; Jesus brings him home, He is
blind; and at one touch OF him who cured Bar
timeus, eternal glOrieS stream into his soul.
Jesus, sing thy graccl Cure of worst diseased
Hammer to smite of heaviest chainl Light
for thickcst darkness Grace divine' Devils
scon At IT, and men reject ii, but heaven Cele-
brates It'll
| wish you good cheer for the nation al health
PCStilcnce, that in other years has come to
drive out its thousand hearSeS TO Greenwood
and Laurel Hill, has not visited our nation. 1t
is a glorious thing to be well. How strange that
we should keep our health when one breath
from marsh, or the sting of AN insect, or the
slipping Of foot, or the falling Of tree-branch
might fatally assault our life! Regularly the
lungs work, and their motion seems to be
spirit within us painting after Its immortality.
Our sight fails not, though the air is so full of
objects which by one touch could break out the
souls window. What ship, after years toss
ing on the sea, could come in with so little dam
age as ourselves, though we arrive after years
voyage today
wish you good cheer for the national harvest.
Rcaping machines never Swathcd thicker rye,
and corn huSker's peg never ripped out fuller
ear, and NOW poles never bent down under
swectcr hay, and wind-mill's hopper never
shook out larger wheat Long trains of white
covered wagons have brought the wealth down
to the great thorOughfares. The gamers are
fun, the storc-houses are Overcrowded, the
canals are blocked with frcights pressing down
to the markets. The cars rumble all through
the darkness and whistle up the fagman at
dead OF night to let the Western harvests come
down to feed the mouths of the great cities A
race OF Kings mas taken possession or THIS lanu
king Cotton, King Corn, King Wheat, King
Rice, King Grass, King Coal,
/ wish you good cheer for civil and religious
liberty. No official spy watches our entrance
here, nor does an armed soldier interfere with
the honest utterancc OF truth. We stand here
to-day with our arms free to work, and our
tongues free to speak. The biblc-it is all I'M
clasped This pulpit-there is no chain around
about it. There is no swapping Of musketry in
the street. Blessed be God that to-day we are
free men, with the prospect and determination
Of always being free. No established religion:
Jew and Gentile-Arminian and Calyinist
- Trinitarian and Unitarian - Protestant
and Roman Catholic-on the same foot
ing. II persecution should come against the
most unpopular of all sects, believe that all
other denominations would band together, and
arm themselves, and hearts would be stout,
and blood would be free, and the right
OF men TO worship God according to the
dictates Of their own conscenccs would be
contested at the point Of the bayonet, and with
blood flowing up TO the bits Of the horses
brides.
For mercies temporal and spiritual let con
secrated lives be offered. Wherever Gods
light shines and Gods rain desends, and Gods
mercy broods, let the thanksgiving arise!