Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-11-09

this forenoon Rev. DIR. Talmage touche
on a topic which is just now uppermosl
while the agitation in political circles ]
raging in oil parts of the land. The sermo
is pertinent and useful and is based on IN
text. Acts xix:32. Some therefore erie
one thing and some another, for the assem-
bly, was confused and the more part kI on
not wherefore they were come together
| And they drew Alexander out of the muI
titude, the Jews putting him forward AM
Alexander Eeckoned with the hard an'
would have made his defense unto the pee
pie But when they knew that he was
| Jew all with one voice about the space o
two hours cried out, Great is Diana of tn
Ephesians'
Ephesus was upside down. 1t wa
about the silver question. \ manu-
facturer of silver boxes for holdin;
heather images had called his labor
ers together to discus, the behavior o
| ore Paul, who had been in pub II
places a saultiug image worship, ant
| consequently very much Damaging
] that particular business. There was
! great excitement in the city. leopit
/ stood in knots along the streets, VIC
/ lcnty gesticulating and ealing eacN
/ other hard names. Some OF the peo'
pie favored the policy of the silver
! smith; other people favored tine poilcy
of Paul There were great moran
+ questions involved; but these did not
| b,ther them at all. The only ques'
ton about which they seemed to be
interes ed was concerning the wages
and the salaried positions. The silver
smith and his compeers had put up
factories at great expense for the max
ing of these silver boxes, and now, II
this new policy is to be iuaugurated,
the business will go down, tie
lab nrers will be thrown out OF en-
ployment, and the whole city will sui.
fer. Well, what is TO be done? 'Sall
Il convention says some one; Tor IN
all ages a convention has been
panacea for public evils. The conyen-
ton is called, and, as they want the
largest room in the city, they take
the theater Having there assem- led,
they all want to get the floor, and
they all want to talk at once. You
know what excitement that always
makes in n convention, where a great
many people want to talk at once
Some cried one thing, some cried an
other. Some wanted to denounce,
some wanted 10 resolve. After a
while a prominent man gets the Aoor,
an he begins to speak: but they very
soon hiss him d pwn, and then the con-
fus on rises into worse uproar, ana
they begin to shout, all OF them to-
gether, and they keep on until they
arc red in face and hoarse in the
throat, for two long hours crying out,
Great is Dana OF the Ephesians!
Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
The whole scene remi DIS me Of the
excitement we have almost every au-
tumn at the elections While that
GOODIES, Diana has ST her worshipers,
and her temples have gone into the
dust, our American people want to SGT
up q god in place of it, and they want
us all to bow down before it: and that
god is political party. Considering
our superior civiliZati | have t. de
clare to you that the Ephcsian idola-
try was less offensive in the sight Of
God than is this allah orbing Amer
can partisanship.
While there are honest men, true
men, Christian men, who s and in both
political parties, and who come into
the autumual electi ms resolving to
serve their city or their state or the
nation in the best possible way, have
noticed also that with many it is a
mere contest between the ms and the
outs-those who are trying to stay in
and keep the outs out, and tho who
are out trying to get in and thrust the
ms out. And one party cries, Great
is Diana of the Ephesians" and the
other party cries, Great is Diana OF
tn Ephesians" neither Of them hon
est enough to say, Great is my peck
etbook"
Once or twice year il is my custom
to talk to the people about public n
| fairs from what ! cali a Chri, tian
! standpoint, and this morning | have
! chosen for that duty. hope to say Q
practical word. History tells us of a
sermon once preached amidst the
Highlands of SEQ ,land-a sermon two
| hours long-ou the sin of luxury,
/ where there were not more than three
| pairs of shoes in the audience; and
/ during our last war good man Went
| into a hospital distri buting tracts, and
! gave tract on The Sin of Dancing
/ to u man both of whose legs had beer
amputated' But hope this morning
| to present an appropriate and adapted
word, as next Tuesday, at the ballot
/ box, great affairs arc to be settled
/ hCN' LII. FIN NUNS III Juc carly MS
! tory of our country, in Massachu
sets, preached about the cleo
! ton of Thomas jefferson to the
Presidency. Rev. DR., Mayhem OF
Boston, in early dayso OF our republic,
! preached about the repeal of the
| stamp act. There are times when
mini, ters of Christ must look off upon
/ public affairs and discuss them. We
! need 60 back to no example. Every
man is, before God, responsible for hi
| own duty. If the Norweg ian boasts
of his home ofroclss, and the Siberian
! is pleased with his land of perpetual
snow: if the Roman thought that the
muddy Tiber was the favor river in
he sight Of heaven, and if the Lap.
/ lander shivers out his eulogy Of his
| native climate, and if the Chinese
| have pity for anybody b IN outside
the "Eowery kingdom" shall not we,
born under these fair skies, and stand,
! ing day by day amidst these glorious
| civil and religious liberties, be public
| spi~ited? propose to tell the people
very plainly what ! consider to be
/ their Christian duty at the ballot box.
! First, set Yourself a.ainst all politi.
| cal falsehood. The most monstrous
lies ever told in this country are dur
ing the elections. stop at the door
| of democratic meeting and listen
and hear that the republicans are
liars ! stop at the door of repub-
| lican meeting and listea, and hear
/ that the democrats ATE scoundrels.
| Our public men microscopized and the
| truth distorted. Who believes a
| tenth part of what he reads or hears
| in the autumnal elections? Men who
at other seasons of the year are very
careful in their speech become ped.
| dlers of scandal Pc"
In the far east there is place
where, once year, they let the eco
pie do as they please and say what
they please, and the place is full Of
| uproar, misrule and wickednes~, and
| they call it the Devils day." The
nearest approximation to that in thi:
I country has been the first tuesday, In
| November The community at sucf
times seems to say, Go to, now; LEI
US have good time at lying" p. ON
inent candidates for office are de
nounced as unprincipled and rene
gadc A smart lie will start
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