Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-07-28

| your physical health failed, and YOU
had the means, you would go and spend
the summer in Germany, and the win
ter in Italy, and you would think it a
very cheap outlay if you had to go al
around the earth to get back your ply.
steal health. Have you made any eff.
fort, any expenditure, any exertion for
your immortal and spiritual health?
No, you have not taken one step.
o that you might now begin to seek
after God with earnest PRAYER. Some
of you have been working for years and
years for the support of your families.
Have you given one half day to the
working out of your salvation with fear
and trembling? You came here this
morning with an earnest purpose,
take it, as have come hither with an
earnest purpose, and we meet face to
| face, and | tell you, Grst of all, ii you
want to find the Lord, you must pray,
and pray and pray.
remark, again, you must seek the
| Lord through Bible study The Bible
is the newest book in the world. go"
! you say, lit was made hundreds OF
| years ago, and the learned men OF
King James translated it hundreds OF
| years ago." ] confute that idea by
telling you it is not five minutes old,
when God, 10y his blessed Spirit re.
translates it into the heart. If you
will, in the seeking of the way of life
through Scripture study, implore Gods
light to fall upon the page, you will
find that these promises are not one
second old, and that they drop strai ght
from the throne of God into your
heart
There are many people to whom the
Bible does not amount to much. II
they merely look at the outside beauty,
why it will no more lead them to Christ
| than Washington farewell address or
the Koran of Mahomet or the Shaster
of the Hindoos. 1t is the inward light
of Gods Word you must get or die. |
went up to the Church of the Madeleine
in Paris, and looked at the doors which
were the most wonderfully con.
structed l ever saw, and could
have stayed there for whole
week; but had only d little time, so,
having glanced at the wonderful cary
ing on the doors, passed in and looked
at the radiant affairs, and the sculp.
tured dome. Alas, that so many stop
at the outside door of Gods Holy
! Word, looking at the rhetorical beau.
| ties, instead of going in and looking
at the affairs of sacrifice and the dome
| of Gods mercy and salvation that
hovers over every penitent and believ.
ing sole!
o my friends, if you merely want to
study the laws of language, do not go
! to the Bible. 1t was not made for
that. Take Howe's Elements of Criti-
cism. 1t would be better than the Ri.
BILE for that. If you want to study
metaphysics, better than the Bible will
be the writings of William Hamilton.
But if you want to know how to have
sin pardoned, and at last to gain the
blessedness of heaven, search the
Scriptures, 'for in them We have eter-
nal life"
When people are anxious about their
souls and there are some such here
today-there are some OF, those who
recommend good books. That is all
right. But | want to tell yor that the
Bible is the best book under such cir.
stances. Baxter wrote, A Call to the
UncOnverted, but the Bible is the best
call to the uncouverted. Philip bod.
bridge wrote, The Rise aud Progress Of
Religion in the Soul, but the Bible il
tine best rise and progress. Johr
| Angel James wrote, Advice to the
Anxious Inquirer, but the Bible is tn,
best advice to the anxious inquirer
O,the Bib lie is the very book you need
anxious and inquiring soul! A dying
soldier sand to his mate: "Comrade
give me DROP The comrade shool
up the canteen and said: There ism
a drop of water in the canteen." 49,
said the dying soldier, that's not VIVA
| want; feel in my knapsacN for my
Bible" and his comrade found the hi
BILE and read him few of the gracious
promises, and the dying soldier said
"Ah, that's what | want. There ism
anything like the Bible for dying sol
der, is there, my comrade?" o, blessed
when we die.
But want you TO take the hint o
the text that | have no time to dwell
on-the hint that there is time wher
he cannot be found. There is a man in
this city, 80 years of age, who said to
clergymen who came in, "Doyou thinl
that a man at so years of age can ge
pardoned?' sob, yes" said the clergy
man. The old man said: Il can't
when was 20 years of age-I am nov
so years-the Spirit of God came to m,
soul, and felt the importance of at
tending to these things, but
put 1T off. | rejected God, anC
since then l have had no feel
ing" "Well," said the minister
wouldn't you like to have me pray
with you?" Yes" replied the ole
man, 'but it will do no good. You car
pray with me if you like to-" Tn,
minister knelt down and prayed, anc
commended the mans soul to God. Il
seemed to have no effect upon him
After while, the last hour of III,
mans life came, and through his de
lirium a spark of intelligence seemed
to flash, and with his last breath h,
he said: Il shall never be forgiven'
so seek the Lord while he may b,
found"
Curious Condensations.
The Metrol olitan Museum of Art il
New York has treasures TO the value o
1000, 900.
A Connecticut scientist calculate:
that there are 43, 600 mosquito Larvae t.
an acre of swamp land
Indiana has more Germans than any
other State. They constitute IS pc
cent of the population.
The soil of Hayti is very fertile