Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-05-07
churches from Bangor to San Francisco.

| churches from Bangor to San Francisco,
| and across Christendom. 1t Is not Il matter
| Of preference; it is u matter OF religious
duty. Oh, for fifty times more volume OF
sound German chorals In German cathe.
drals surpass us, and yet Germany has re-
,eiyed nothing Mt the hanls of God com.
pared with America; and ought the acclaim
m Berlin be louder than that in Brook lyny
soft, long-drawn-out music Is appropriate
Tor the drawIng-room aud appropriate for
The concert; but st. John gives an idea Of
The sonorous and resonant congregational
singing appropriate for churches when, IN
listening to the temple service OF Heaven,
he says: IL heard n great voice ~ the voice
Of great multitude, and us the voice OF
many waters, anl MS the voice OF many
thunderiugs. llalleujab, for the Lord God
cmnipotent TcIgneth.'
Join with me in crusade giving me not
only your hearts, but tho mighty uplifting
OF your voices, aud i beiievc we can,
through Christs grace, sing fifty thousand
souls into the kingdom Of ChrIst. An ar
gumcnt, they can laugh at; sermon, they
may talk down; but IN vast audience Joining
in one anthem Is irresistible. Would that
Queen Balkis would drive all her spicc-la.
den dromedarlcs INTO our church muse,
"Neither was there any such spice as the
Queen Of Sheba gave King Solomon"
A widowed mother, with her little child,
went West, hoping 10 get better wages
there; and she was taken sick, and led.
The oyerseer OF the poor got her boly
and put It IN 4 box, and pat it in Il wagon
and started down the street toward the
cemetery at fun trot. The little child
the only child ran after IL through tho
streets, barc.hcaled, crying: "Rrin. me
back my mother. BRING me back my
moLhero And it was said that rs the people
looked oil and saw her crying after that
which lay in the box IN the wagon---all she
loved on carth--it is said that tho whole
lar A.,1
great many OF you are doing chasing the
dead. Dear Lord, i there no appcascmont
for all this sorrow that | zee about mel
Yes, the thought OF resurrection and
reunion far beyond this scene
OF struggle and tears. "rhcy
shall hun.er no more. neither thirst auy
more, neither shall the sun light Oh them
nor any heat; for the Lamb which is in tn,
m DIST Of tho throne shall lead them to lIv.
ing fountains OF water, aud Go shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes" Across
the couches OF your SICK, AMI across the
graves OF your dead. fling this shower OF
sweet spices. Queen Ba ks driving up IL
the pillared portico Of the house OF cedar
carried no such pungency OF perfume az
eNhales today from the Lords garden. II
is peace. 1t is sweetness. Ii is comfort
1t Is infinite satisfaction, this Gospel ! com
mend to you. some one could not under
stand why an old German C1ri,tian schoa,
used 10 lie always 30 calm, and happy, and
hopeful, when he had 80 many trlas aad
scknesses. aud ailments. A man secrelel
himself in the hou.c. lie SAID
- mean 10 watch this old scholar and
Christian; :" and he saw the old Christian
man go 10 his room and sit dawn on the
chair beside the stand, and open the Bibl,
and begin 10 read. He read on and oS
chapter after chapter, hour after hour, un
til his face was all aglow With the tIdingi
ON heaven, aud when the clock struck
twelve, he arose, and shut his Bible. and sad
"BIcsSed Lord, we are on the sane old term
yet. Goodnight, Goodnight" oh, you
sIn-parchcd and you trounle-pounded. her,
il eomfoi t, here Is Satisfact on. viii YOU
come and get 1t? cannot tel you what th,
Lord offers YOU hereafter so well rs | c;i
tel you now. ''ltdoth not yet appear wha
we shut be-"
Through obluracy on our part ant
through the rejection Of that Christ VIII,
makes heaven possible, | wonder il any q
u, VIII miss that specIa le? | fear! ! lear.
The queen of the South will rise up in
judgment against this generation AMI cun-
denim it, bcrau,e she came from the utter
most parts of the earth 10 near the wi>dpm
of Solomon, and behold, greater than Sol.
ONION is here! Nav God grant that through
your own practical experience NOn may
find that religions ways arc the ways 81
pl.n>antne>s. and that all her paths are
paths of peaco-that it is perfume now AMI
perfume forever. And there is an abtnd.
nnrc OF sphc; ''neither was there any ~uch
spice rs The Queen of Shcba gave to King
Solomon"