Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-04-09

Niagara. Here is Ruth. putting TO sham
all the modern slang about mott
ers-in-law rs she turns her back on he
home and her county, and faces will
beasts and exile ana death, that she ma
be with Naomi, her husbands mother
Here is Vashti, defying the bacchanal OF
thousand drunken lords, and Esther, will
ing to throw her life away that she ma
deliver her people. And here is Dorcas
the sunlight Of eternal fame gildiding he
philanthropic needle, and the woman wit
perfume in a box made from tho hills O
Alabastron, pouring the holy chrism on tn
head Of Christ, the aroma lingering al
down the corridor OF the centuries. Her
Is Lydia, the merchantess of Tyrian purpl,
| immortalized for her Christian behavior
! Here is the widow with two mites, NOR,
famous than the Peabodys and the Lenoxe
| Of all ages, while here comes in slow O
! gait and with careful attendants and will
special honor and high favor, leaning OIL
! the arm of inspiration, one who is the JOY
and pride of any home so rarely fortunat,
as to have one, an old Christian grand
mother, Grandmother Lois. VIE hal
more worshippers today than any beinI
that ever lived on earth, excep. Jesus
| Christ? Mary. For what purpose die
Christ perform his first miracle upor
earth? To relieve the embarrassment of q
womanly hOusekeeper at the falling short
of beverage. Why did Christ break ut
the silence of the tomb, and tear of the
shroud and rip up the rocks? 1t was TO
stop tho bereavement of the two Bethany
sisters For whose comfort was Christ
most anxious in the hour of dying ex crucial
ton? For woman, an old woman, q
wrinkle-faced woman, woman who in
other days had held him in her arms, his
first friend, his last friend as it is very
apt to be, his mother. All the pathos of
the ages compressed into one utterance,
Behold thy mother Does the Bible
an tagOnize woman?
Since you put the Biole on your stand in
the sitting-room, has the Bible been to you,
woman, a curse or blessing? Why is
it that Il woman when she is troubled VIII
go TO her worst enemy. the Bible? Why do
you not go for comfort to some OF the great
intidcl books? No. the silly. deludcd WON.
an persists in hanging about the Bible ver-
ses, Let not your heart be troubled"
'Al things work together for good
weeping may endure for night" Il am
the resurrection, " peace. be still"
Furthermore; rather than invite / resist
this Plague of lnfdelity because it has
wrought no positive good in the world and
is always a hiudrance.
There stands Christianity. There stands
inhdelity. Compare what they have d one.
Compare their resources There is
Christianity, prayer on her lip; beue-
dictiou on her brow; both hands full OF
help for all who want help; the mother of
thousands of colleges; the mother of thou
10 Of ay-lt.,
blind. the sick, the lame, the imbccilc the
mother of missions for the bringing back
of the outcast; the mother of thousands OF
reformatory institutions for the saving OF
the lost; the mother Of iunumerable Sab
bath schools, bringing millions of children
under drill TO prepare them for respecta-
bllity ami usefulness, TO say nothing of the
great future. that is Christianity.
lnfidelity scrapes no lint for the wound
ed, bakes no bread for the hungry, shakes
up no pillow for the sick, rouses no COM
fort for the bereft, gilds no grave for tho
dead. While Christ, our Christ, our
wounded Christ, our ri4es. C2;rist, the
Christ OF this o.d-fashionsd Bible-blessed
be his glorious name forever! our Chris,
stands this hour pointing to the hospital or
TO the asylum, saying: II was sick and We
my eye-sight, / was orphaned
and ye mothered my soul, was lost on
the mountain and We brought me home; in
asmuch as ye did it to Que of the least of
these, We did it for me-"
But ] thank God that this plague of
viii be stayed. Many of those
who hear me now by the Holy Ghost upon
their hearts will cease to he scoffers and
hppnmn I'D ,,,,n
arrive when all nations will accept the
Scriptures. The book is going to keep
right on until the fires of the last day are
llindlcd. Some of them will begin on ono
side and some on the other side of the old
book. They will not find bundle of loose
easily consumed like finder
thrown into the fire. When the fires of
the last day are kindled. some will on this
side. from Genesis toward Revelation, and
others will burn on this side, from Revela-
ton towards Genesis, and in all their way
they will not find a single chapter or
single verse out of place. That will be tho
first time we can afford to do
without the Bible. What will DO
the use of the Book of Genesis,
descriptive of how the world was made,
when the world is destroyed What will
DC the use of the prophecies when they are
oil fulfilled? What viii bc the use of the
or Pauline description of Jesus
Christ when we see him face to face?
What will be the use of his phOtogra
when we have met him in glory? What
will be the use Of the Book of Revelation
standing as you will with your foot on tho
CLASSY sea, and your hand on the ringing
harp, and your forehead chapleted with
eternal coronation, amid tie am ethyst inel
aud twelve-gated glories of heaven? The
emerald dashinc It's green against the beryI,
and the bcryl dashing its blue against the
sapphire, and the sapphire throwing its
light on the lacinth, and the iacinth dash
ing its fire against the chrysoprassus, and
YOU and l standing IN the glories of ten
thousand sunsets