Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-10-08
Oh Christian man, oh Christian

Not a general engagement for God, but
q particular engagement, and made in
answer to prayer. If there are Il steen
hundred million people in the world,
there are sixteen hundred million differ
ent missions to fulfil, different styles of
work to do, different orbits in which to
revolve, and ifyou do not get the divine
direction there are at least fifteen hun.
dred and ninety nine million possibili'
ties that you will make mistake. On
your knees before God get the matter
settled so that you can firmly say: ITO
this end was born"
And now / come to the climacteric
! consideration. AS near as can tell,
You were built for happy eternity,
ali the disasters which have happened
to your nature to be overcome by the
blood of the Lamb If you will hartily
accept that Christly arrangement. We
are all rejoiccd at the increase in hui
man longevity. People live, as near
as | can observe, a bout ten years longer
than they used to. The mo FERN doc
tors do not bleed their patients ON all
occasions Us did tn. former doctors.
In those times If man had
fever, they bled him, if he
had consumption they bled him, if he
had rheumatism they blcd him, and if
they could not make ont exactly what
was the matter they bled him. Olden
time phlebotomy was deaths ccadjutor.
All this has changed. From the way
| see people skipping about at so years
of age, conclude that life insurance.
companies will have to change their
Ia ole of Iisks and charge man no more
premium at seventy than they used to
II. rl,nv, Ia ,x-fr nd
prem rm at fifty than when ho
was forty. by the advarccm cnt
of medical science and the wider
the fact that people know better how
to take care of themselves, human life
is prolonged. But do you realize what,
after all. is the brevity of our earthly
stale? In the times when people lived
seven and eight hundred years, the
patriarch Jacob said that his wears
were few. Looking at the life OF
the youngest person in this assem-.
bly, and supposing he lived to be
Il nonagenarlan, how short the time
and soon gone, while banked up
in front of us is an eternity SO vast
that arithmetic has not figures
enough to cypress its length, or
breadth, on de, tn, or hight. For
happy eternity you were born unless
you run yourself against the divine
intentions. II standing in your
presence, my eye should fall upon the
fecbleSt soll here as that soul will
appear when the world lets it up,
and heaven entrances it, l suppose
| would lie SO overpowered that
should drop down as one dead.
You have examined the family
Bible and explored the family records,
and you may have daguerro,ypes Of
some of the kindred of previous gener-
| ations, you have had photographs
taken of what you were in boyhood or
| girlhood, and what you were ten years
! later, and it is yery interesting to
! any che to be able to look ba k upon
| pictures of what he was ten, or twenty,
or thirty years ago; but have you ever
had pictu C taken of what you may
| be and what YOU will be if YOU
| seek after God aud feel the spirits re-
| generating power? Where shall I
! plant the camera to take the picture?
| / p ant it on this platform. direct it
| toward Won. Sit still or stand while
take the picture. 1t shall be an instan-
taneouS picture. There, | have it. II
is done. You can see the picture in its
imperfect state, and get some idea of
what it will be when thoroughly
developed. There is your resur-
rectcd body, SO brilliant that the
monday sun is Il patch of mlduight
compared with it. There is your soul,
| so pure that all the forces of diabolism
could not spot it with an imparfection.
There is your being, so m ghty and SO
swift that flight from heaven Mer.
curry or Mars or Jupiter and back again
to heaven would not weary you, and Il
world on each shoulder would not
crush you. An eye that shall never
shed tear. An energy that
shall never feel fatigue. A
brow that shall never throb with pain.
You are young again, though You died
OF decrepitude. You are wei again
though you coughed or shl cred your
self into the tomb. Iolr everyday
associates a:e the apostles anC
pTophets and martyrs, and most CO
alted souls, masculine and feminine, ol
all the ccntu les. The archangel to
you no Embarrassment. God himself
your present and ever asting joy. That
is an in tantaneous picture of what YOU
may be. and what | am ure some OF
ycu will be. If You realize that 1t is al
imperfect picture, my apology is wha
the aroSt ohm said 1T doth not YET
appear what we snail be- TO thi:
end was born" If did not think 81
| would not lie overwhelmed with mel
ancEoly. The world does very vel
for a little while, eighty, or Il hundrc.
or II hundred and fifty years, and
think that human longevity IN" yet |,
INK roved up to tina, rrolongati N, foI
now there is so little room tctweeI
our cradle ana our grave we ca j
not accomplish much, but VIII,
woald want Ia dwell in this world foI
all eternity, Some tn nix this cartl
will tn lily lie turned into heaven
Perhaps it may, bat it would have t,
undergo raCi al repairs, and througl
Examinations and evolutions ana re o
lutionS and transformation infinite, I,
make 1t desirable for eternal resi-
dence. All the east winds would hay,
to become est winds. and all the win
tiers changed to springtidc, and the
volt anoes exiting he'd and tn
. oceans chained to their beds an
the epidcmics forbidden entrance
and the world SO fled up that Tim
it would take mJre to repair this Ole
world than to make an entirely ne,
one. But mus say ! do not car
where heaven is if we can only ge
there, whether gardenized America
! or an emparadisei EUROPE, or a worl
central to the whole universe. -.
tins end was ! born" II ca Ii one q
us could say that, we would go wit,
, faces shining and hopes eXhilcrant ami
earth's worst misfortunes and trial.
Only little while and then the rapt
ure. Only little while and then tn
reunion. Only little while an
then the TRANSPORTATION.
In the seventeenth century, al
: | Europe was threatened with a wave c
, Asiat.c barbarism, ard Vienna was e.
' pecially bcsieged. he King and hi
|. court had fed, and nothing colld saw
:. the city from being overwhelmed III
!. less the King of Poland, job
Sobleski, 70 whom they had sen
:. for help, should with his arm
:. come down for the relief, an
:, from every roof aud tower the inhabi
!. ants of Vienna watched and waite
|. and hoped until on the morning {