Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-04-14

the one slain by his tolls and the other
J for lifetime invaded. The greatest
pictures of the world had, in their
richest coloring, the blood of the ar
fists who made them. The mightiest
oratorios that ever rolled through
the churches, had, in their pathos,
the signs and groans of the composers,
who wore their lives out in writing the
harmony. American Indenendence was
triumphant, but it moved on over the
lifeless forms of tens of thousands of
men who fell at Bunker Hill and York
| town and the battles between, which
were the hemorrhages of the, nation.
The Kingdom of God advances in all
the earth, but it must be over the lives
OF missionaries who die of malaria in
the jungles or Christian workers who
preach and pray and toll and die in
the service. The Saviour triumphs in
all directions-but beauty and
strength must be torn down from
the palm trees of Christian hero
ISM and conservation and thrown in
his pathway. To what better use could
those palm trees on the Southern
shoulder of Mount Olivet and clear
flown into the Valley of Gethsemane
put their branches than to surrender
them for the making of Christ's journey
toward Jerusalem the more picturesque,
the more memorable and the more
triumphant? And to what better use
could we put our lives than into the
sacrifice for Christ and his cause and
the happiness of our fellow creatures?
Shall we not be willing to be torn down
that righteousness shall have triumph
ant way? Christ was torn down
for us Can we not afford to be torn
down for him? If Christ could suffer
50 much for us, can we not suffer a
little for Christ? If he can afford on
Palm Sunday to travel to Jerusalem to
carry a cross, can we not. afford few
leaves from our branches to make
emerald his way?
The process is going on every mo-
ment in all directions. Christ is again
on the march, not from Bethpage to
Jerusalem, but for the conquest
of the world. He will surely
take it, but who will furnish the palm
branches for the triumphant way?
| Self-sacrifice is the word. There is
n-Ire money paid to destroy the world
than to save it. There are more build.
ings put up to ruin the race than
churches to evangelize it. There is
more depraved literature to blast men
than good literature to elevate them.
Oh, for power to descend upon us all
like that which whelmed Charles G..
Finney with mercy, when, kneeling in
his law Office, AID before he entered
upon his apostolic career of evangelical.
ton, he said: THE Holy Ghost de.
scended on me in manner that
seemed to go through me, body
and soul. could feel the impression
like a wave of electricity going through
and through me. Indeed it seemed to
come in waves and waves of liquid
love. 1t seemed like the breath Of
God. can recollect distinctly that il
seemed to fan me like immense wings
wept aloud with joy and love. These
waves came over me and over me, one
after another, and, until, recollect,
cried out: Il shall die if these wave:
continue to pass over me- l said
Lord, ! cannot bear any more" And
when a gentleman came into the office
and said: MIR Finney, you are in
pain?" he replied: "No, but so happy
that cannot ve."
NV hearers. lifetime will come when
upon the whole church of God will de.
scend such an avalanche of blessing
and then the bringing of the world to
God will be matter of a few years,
perhaps few days, or few hours.
Ride on, o Christ! for the evangelizatio
of all nations. Thou Christ who didst
ride on the unbroken colt down the
sides of Olivet, on the white horse OF
eternal victory ride through al
nations, and may we, by our
prayers and our self-sacrifices
and our contributions and our consecra'
ton, throw palm branches in the way
/ clap my hands at the coming victory
feel this morning as did the Israelites
when on their march to Canaan, they
came not under the shadow of one palm
tree, but of seventy palm trees, stand
| ing in an oasis among dozen gushing
! fountains, or as the Book puts it.
"Twelve wells of water and three score
and ten palm trees" Surely there are
more than seventy such great and glo-
rious souls present to-day. Indeed it is
mighty grove of palm trees, and i
feel something of the raptures which
| shall feel when our last bat
tie fought and our last bur.
den carried and our last tear wept, we
John describes clothed in white robes
and palms in their hands" Hail thou
bright, thou swift-advancing, thou
everlasting Palm Sunday of the skies!
Victors over sin and sorrow and death
and woe, from the hills and valleys OF
the heavenly Palestine, they have
plucked the long, broad, green leaves,
and all the ransomed some in gates OF
pearl, and some on battlements OF
amethyst, and some on streets of gold
and some on seas of sapphire, they
shall stand in numbers like the stars
in splendor like the morn, waving taeil
palms!
The Natty Partisan Rainy-Day CostuDae
Attempts have been made to popular
ize in America the ''rainy-day costume
worn by some of the most exclusive
leaders of fashion both in Paris anC
London. Unlike many of the cos
tunes of the reform" type, this sui
is as pretty as it is useful, and is mad,
variously of Harris tweed, homespun
Scotch cheviot and plain unpatternet
English serge. The skirt is goret
slightly on the front and sides, and i,
full in the back. 1t is unlined and
faced with waterproof to the depth o
eight inches underside. The skirt is very