Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-07-23
it makes more racket. That is strange
house that can be dull with q child

| it makes more racket. That is strange
house that can be dull with q child
in it. How that child breaks
| up the hard worldliness of the place,
and keeps you young to sixty, seventy,
and eighty years of age. If you have
no child of your own, adopt one; it will
omen heaven to your soul. 1t will pay
its way. Its Gre wing in the morning
will give the day cheerful starting,
and its Slee at night will give the day
cheerful close. You do not like
children?
A pioneer in California says that for
the first year or two after his residence
in Sierra Nevada county, there was not
single child in all the reach of hun-
drcd miles. But the Fourth of July
came, and the miners were gathered
| together, and they were celebrating the
Fourth with grafton, and poem, and a
boisterous brass band; and while the
band was playing, an infants voice was
heard crying, and all the miners were
startled, and the swarthy men began
to think of their homes on the East
crn coast, and of their wives
and children far away, and their
hearts were thrilled with home sick
ness as they heard the babe cry. Bus
louder and louder, and the brass band
played louder ana louder, trying to
drown out the infantile interruption,
when swarthy miner, the tears roll
ing down his face, got up and shook
his fist, and said stop that noisy
band, and give the baby chance"
Oh! there was pathos in it, as we'll as
good cheer in it. There is nothing to
arocse, and melt, and subduc the soul
like chlld's voice. But when it goes
away from you, the high chair
becomes higher chair, and
there is desolation all about you.
My hearers, have gathered up the
voices of your departed friends and
tried to intone them into one invitation
upward. | set in array all the vacant
chairs of your homes and of your social
circle, and / bid them cry out this
morning: "Time is short. Eternity
is near. Take my Savior. BE at peace
with my God. Come up where ! am.
We lived together on earth,
come let us live together in
heaven We answer that in
vitation. We come. Keep a seat for
us, as Saul kept seat for David, but
that seat shall not be empty. And oh!
when we are all through with h s
worl and we have shaken hands all
around for the last time, and all our
chairs in the home circle and in the
outside world shall be vacant, may we
be worshipping God in that place from
which we shall go out no more forever.
| thank God there will be no vacant
chairs in heaven. There we shall meet
again and talk over our earthly heart
breaks. How much you have been
through since you aw them lastl On
the shining shore you will take it all
over. The heartaches. The loneli-
ness. The sleepless nights. The
weeping until your had no more power
to weep, bccau Sc the heart was wither-
ed and dried up. Story of empty cra-
die, and little shoe only half worn out
ne ier to be worn again, just the shape
of the foot that once pressed it,
Oh, how they bound in these spirits
before the throne. Some show with
gladncSs. Some break forth into I'M
comfortable weeping for joy. Some
stand speechless in their shock of de-
| light. They sing. They culver with
excessive gladness They gaze on the
| temples, on the palG c,s on the waters,
on each other. They weave their Joy
| into garlands, they spring it into
| triumphal arches they strike in on
! t.mbrclS and then all the loved ones
! gather in Il great circle around tho
| throne of God - fathers, mothers,
! brothers, sisters, sons and daughters,
| lovers and friends, hand to hand
around about the throne of God-thc
circle ever widening-hand to hand,
| JOY to joy, jubilee to jubilee, victory ia
victory. until the day break and the
! shadows flee away. Turn thou. my
beloved, and be like rot or young
hart upon the mountains of Bether.' y