Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-11-30

you resolve TO serve the LORD all tne
days of your life?' And they said;
Tonight" / saw by the gayety of
their apparel that when the grace of
God struck them they were devouring
the prey; but | saw also, in the flood
of joyful tears, and in the kindling
raptures on their brow, and in their
exhilaranta and transporting utterances,
that they were dividing the spoil. II
you have been in this building when
the lights are struck at night,you know
that with one touch of electricity they
are all blazed. Oh, / would to God
that the darkness of your souls might
be broken up, and that by one quick,
overwhelming, instantaneous flash of
illumination, you might be brought
into the light and the liberty of the
sons of God
You see that religion is different
thing from what some of You people
supposed. You thought it was de-
cadence; you thought religion was
maceration; you thought it was high
way robbery; that it struck one down
and left one half dead; that it plucked
out the eyes; that it plucked out the
plumes of the soul; that it broke the
wing and crushed the beak as it came
clawing with its black talons through
the air. No, that is not religion. What
is religion? 1t is dividing the spoils, 1t
is taking defenceless soul and piano.
plying it for eternal conquest. 1t is
the distribution of prizes by the
kings hand, every medal stamped
with coronation. 1t is an ex-
hilaration, an expansion. 1t is inn
paradisation. 1t is enforcement. Re-
ligion makes a man master of earth, of
death and hell. 1t goes forth to gather
the medals of victory won by Prince
Emanuel, and diadems of heaven, and
the glories of realms terrestrial, and
celestial, and then, after ranging all
worlds for everything that is resplen-
dent, it divides the spoil. What was
glish evangelist, was doing when in
his dying moments he said: Christ is
ALL Christ is all!' Why, he was en-
tering into light; he was rounding the
Cape of Good Hope; he was dividing
the spoil. What was the aged Chris
tian Quakeress doing when at so
years of age she arose in the meeting
one day and said: THE time of my
departure is come. My grave clothes
are falling off?" She was dividing the
spoil
She longed with wings to fly away,
And mix with that eternal day
What is Daniel now doing the lion
tanner? and Elijah who was drawn by
the flaming coursers? and Paul, the
rafting of whose chains made kings
quake? and all the other victims of
flood, and fire, and wreck, and guillo-
tine-where are they? Dividing the
spoil.
Ten thousand times ten thousand,
In sparkling raiment bright,
The armies of the ransomed saints
Throng up the sleeps of light.
IT'S finished, all is finished,
Their fight with death and SIN;
Lift high your golden gates
And let the victors in.
Oh, what a grand thing it is to be
Christian, We begin now to divide the
spoil. but the distribution will not be
completed to all eternity. Their, is q
poverty struck soul, there is busi.
ness despoiled soul, there is a sim
struck soul, there is a bereaved soul
why do you not come and get the
spols of Christian character, the COM
fort, the joy, the peace, the salvation
that / am sent to offer you in my
Masters name? Though your knees
knock together in weakness, though
your hand tremble in fear, though
your eyes rain tears of uncontrolla-
BILE weeping-come and get the spells.
Rest for all the weary. Pardon for
all the guilty. Labor for all the
bestormed Life for all the dead. l
verify believe that there are some who
have come in here, downcast because
the world is against them, and because
they feel God is against them, who will
go away saying:
came to Jesus as was,
Weary and worn and sad;
found in him resting place,
And he has made me glad.
Though you came in children of the
world, you may go away heirs OF
heaven. Though this very autumnal
morning you were devouring the prey,
now, all worlds witnessing, you may
divide the spoil