Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-27

securities and has applied to his banker
for more; If the lots he bought have
gone up fifty per cent in value; II
he had hard work to get the door Of
his fireproof safe shut because of new
roll of securities he put in there just
before locking up at night; if he be
specializing in falling market or a
rising market and things take for him
right turn, he does not grow in grace
very much that week. Do you know
what made the great revival of 1857.
when more people were converted
to God, probably, than in any
year since Christ was born? 1t
was the defalcation and bankruptcy
| that swept American prosperity so fiat
that it could fall no fatter. | am
| speaking of whole-soulcd men. Such
men are so broken by calamity that
they are humbled and fly to God for re-
lief. Men who have no spirit and
never expect anything are not much
| affected by financial changes. They
are as apt to go into the kingdom under
one set of circumstances as another.
They are dead-beats wherever they are.
The only way to get rid of them is to
lend them dollar and you will never
see them again. | have tried that plan
and it works well. But am speaking
of the effect of misfortune ON high.
spirited men. Nothing but trial will
turn such men from earth to heaven.
1t is only through clouds and dark
ness and whirlwind of disaster such
a man can see the finger of God.
Why did not Columbus sink when
in early manhood he was afioat six
miles from the beach with nothing to
sustain him till he could swim to land
but boats oar? | wonder il his pres
ervation had anything to do with
America. Had the storm that diverted
the Mayflower from the mouth of the
Hudson for which it was sailing, and
sent it ashore at Cape Cod, no divine
supervisal? Does anarchy rule this
world, or God?
Nations also would do well to watch
for the finger of God What does the
cholera scare in America mean? Some
say it means that the plague will
sweep our land next summer. l do
not believe word of it. There will
be no cholera here next summer. Four
or five summers ago there were those
who said it would surely be here the
following summer because it was
on the way. But it did not
come. The sanitary precautions
esta blished here will make next
summer unusually healthful. Cholera
never starts from where it stopped the
season before, but always starts in the
filth of Asia, and if it starts next sum
mer it will start there again-it will
not start from New York quarantine.
But it is evident to me that the finger
that he is pointing this nation to
something higher and better. 1t has
been demonstrated as never before
that we are in the hands of God.
He allowed the plague to come to
our very gates and then halted it. The
quarantine was right and necessary,
but oh how easily the plague could
have leaped the barriers lifted against
it. Thanks to the President of the
| United States, and thanks to the
health officers, and thanks to the
| Thirteenth regiment, and thanks to all
who stood between this evil and our
national health, but more than all,
and higher than all, thanks to God
Out of that solcmnity we ought TO
| pass up to something better than any
| thing that has ever yet characterized
us as Il nation. We ought to quit our
national sins, our Sabbath breaking,
and our drunkenness, and our impuri-
ties, and our corruptions of all sorts as
people. The tendency is in self
graduation at our prosperity to forget
the mercy of God that has kept us from
| being blotted out for our crimes, and
| that still multiplies our temporal pros
perities. Forward, and upward! See
you not the finger of God in this pro-
tccting mercy?
rejoice that there are many encour
aging signs for our nation, and one is
that this Presidential campaign has
less malignity and abuse than any
| Presidential campaign since we have
been a nation. Turn over to the pic
torials and the columns of the political
sheets of the Presidential eScitements
all the way back and see what con.
tumely Washington and Jefferson and
Madison and Monroe and jackson went
through. Now see the al
most entire absence of all that.
The political orators | notice this year
are apt to begin by eulogizlng the hon
esty and good intentions of the oppos.
ing candidate, and say that he is
better than his party. Instead OF
vitriol, camomile flowers That we
seem to have escaped the degradation
of the usual quadrennial billingsgatc
is an encouraging fact. Perhaps this
betterment may have somewhat re
suited from the sadness lowering ovel
the home of one of the candidates, :
sadness in which the whole nation
sympathizes. Perhaps we have beer
so absorbed in paying honors to Chris
topher Columbus that we have
forgotten to anthematizc tn,
prominent men of the present
: No man in this country is fully hon
, ored until he is dead. Whatever b.
!; the reason, this nation has escape
many of the horrors that ordinaril
= accompany the Presidential contest
a But let us not pause too long in hilarit
S about the present and forget the fac
c that there are not only temporal possi
+ bilities far greater than those attained
+ but higher moral and religious poss
S bilities. The God of our fathers is tn
= God of their children, and his fingo
e points us to a higher national carce
| than Eany have yet suspected. Fc
n our churches, our schools, our colleges
t our institutions of mercy, the best day
a are yet to come.
: My friends, do not know how W
S are going to stand it'll mean the flu
!, thrush of that splendor Last summC
5 | saw Moscow, in some respects I'll
e most splendid city under the sun. I'll
n Enparor aftaryyard asked mo IL | II,