Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-02-05

cd perpetually, and sometimes their heart
! fails them. Young man, tonight, at your
bedroom door on the third floor, you will
| hear'a knocking. 1t will be the hand Of
Jesus Christ, the young mans friend say
ing: 10, young man, let me come in;
| will comfort thee, i will deliver thee. |"
| Take the bible out Of the trunk, il it has
been hidden away. II you have not the
| courage to lay it on the shelf or table, take
| that Bible that was given to you by some
loved one, take 1t out of the trunk and lay
1t down on the bottom of the chair, then
kneel down beside it, and read and pray,
and pray and read, until all your disturb
ance is gone, and you feel that peace which
neither earth nor hell can rob you Of Thy
fathers God, thy mothers God, waits for
thee. o young man, Escape for thy lifew
Escape nowl 'One thing thou lackest"
But apply this subject to the aged. o
father of the weary step, o mother, bent
down under the ailments Of life. has thy
God ever forsaken thee? Through all
these years, who has been your best friend2
Seventy years of mercies! Seventy years
of food and clothing. o, how many bright
mornings! How many glorious evening
hours you have seen! o father, mother,
God has been very good to you. Do you
feel it? Some of you have children and
grandchildren; the former cheered your
young life. the latter Irvine your gray locks
in their fingers. Has all the goodness that
God has been making pass before you pro-
duced no change in your feelings, and must
it be said of you. notwithstanding all this:
zone thing thou lackest?"
must make application of this subject,
also, to those who are prospered. Have
you, my friends, found that dollars and
cents are no permanent consolation to the
soul? You have large worldly resources but
have you no treasures in heaven? Is an
embroidered pillow all that you want to put
you dying head on? You have heard people
all last weol1 talk about earthly values.
Hear plain man talk about tho heavenly.
DO you not know it will be worse Tor you,
o prosposed man, il you reject Christ, and
reject him finally-that it will be worse for
you than those who had it hard in this
world, because the contrast will make tho
discontinue so much moro appalling? AS
the hart bounds for the water brooks, as
the roe speeds down the hillside, speed
thou TO Christ. Escape for thy life. look
not behind theo neither stay thou IN all the
plain; escape TO the mountain lest thou be
consumed"
must make my application to another
class of persons-the poor. When you
cannot pay your rent when it is due, have
you nobody but the landlord to talk to?
When the -four has gone out Of the barrel,
and you have not ten cents with which to
go to the bakery, and your children are
tugging at your dress for something to eat,
have you nothing but the worlds chart
ties to appeal to? When winter comes,
and there are no Goals, and the ash-bar-
&aIrA
of you? Have you nobody but the over
seer of the poor? But preach to you a
poor mans Christ. If you do not have in
the winter blankets enough to cover you in
the night, want to tell you Of him who
had not where to lay his head. IL you lie
on the bare floor, want to tell you of him
who had for pillow a hard cross, and
whose foot-bath was the streaming blood Of
his own heart. o you poor man! o you
poor woman Jesus understands your
case altogether. Talk it right ouS to hi
tonight. Get down on your floor and sa
"Lord Jesus Christ, Thou vast poor and
am poor. Help me. Thou art rich now,
and bring me up to Thy richesw Do you
think God would cast you off? VIII he?
You might as well think that mother
would take the child that feeds on her
breast and dash its life out, as to think
that God would put aside roughly those
who have fed to him for pity and COM
passion. Yea, the prophet says: "a
woman may forget her sucking child, that
she should not have compassion on the son
OF her womb, but will not forget thee"
If you have ever been on the sea, you
have been surprised in the first voyage to
find there are so few sails in sight Some
times you go along two, three, four, five,
six and seven days, and do not see single
sail; but when vessel does come in sight,
the sea glasses are lifted TO the eye, the
vessel is watched, and if it come very near,
then the captain, through the trumpet,
cries loudly across the water WHITTIER
bound?" So you and meet on this sea OF
life. We come and we 20. Some of us
have never met before. Some of US will
never meet again. But hail you across
| the sea, and with reference to the last
| great day, and with reference TO the two
| great worlds, / cry across the water:
''Whither bound? Whittier bound?
| know what service that craft was made
| for. but hast thou thrown overheard the
rnmpaSS? Is there no helm to guide II?
| Is the snip III the mercy or the JempesL3 Is
there no gun of distress booming through
the storm? With priceless treasures
i with treasures aDOaru WOEtu llOEc tudu
| the lndies-wilt thou never come up out OF
the trough of that sea? o Lord God. lay
hold of that man! Son of God, If thou
vert ever needed anywhere, Thou art
needed here. There are so many sins to
| be pardoned. There are so many wounds
| to be healed. There are so many souls to
be saved. Help, Jesus! Help, Holy
Ghost! Help, ministering angels from
the throne! Help, all sweet memories oil
the past! Help all prayers for our future
deliverance! O,that now, in this the accept
ed time and the day of salvation, you would
| hear the voice of mercy and live. Taste
and see that the Lord is gracious. In thi;
closing moment of the service, wher
everything in the house is so favorable
when everything is so still, wher
God is so loving, and heaven is so near,
drop your sins, and take Jesus. Do MOI
cheat your: elf out of heaven. Do not dc
that. God forbid that at the last, when II
is too late to correct the mistake, voice
should rise from the pillow, or drop from
the throne. tutoring just four words-foul
sad annihilating words: lone thing thol
lackest"
Little Phir' Sheridan is now 10 year,
old. He is a warrior in embryo and i
said to DO the perfect counterpart of hi