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

recognize God, and appeal TO MIN FOL
his blessing There is power higher
than the ballot box, than the guber
Material chair, than the Presidential
white house. 1t is high time that we
put less confidence in political plat
forms and more confidence in God.
See what weak thing is human fore.
sight How little our wise men seem
to know. See how, every autumn,
thousands of men who are clam bering
! up for higher positions are turned
under. God upset' them. Every man,
every party, every nation, has a
mission 10 perform. Failing to per-
form it. down he goes
God said to the House of bourbon,
Remodel France, and establish
cquity.n House OF bourbon would not
do 1t. Down it went God said to the
House of Stuart, make the English
people free, Godfearing, and happy"
/ House of Stuart would not do it,
/ Down it went God says to the
/ political parties in this day, "By the
( principles of Christianity remodel.
/ govern, educate, save the people. ="
/ Failing TO do that, down they go, bury
I ing in their ruins their disciples and
/ advocates. God can spare all the
I political intriguers of this day. and
can raise up another generation who
shall do justice and love
mercy. If God could spare
Luther before the Reforma-
tion was done; and if he could spare
Washington before free govern.
ment had been fully tested; and il he
could spare Howard before more than
one out of q thousand dungeons had
been alleyiated: and if he could spare
Robert M'Cheync Just rs SEQ land was
gathering to his burning utterances:
aud il he could spare Thomas Clark
son while yet millions of his fellow
men had chains rusting to the bone
then he can spare any man, and he
can spare any party. That man who
through cowardice or blind idolatry
of party, forsakes the cause of right
eousness goes down, and the armed
battalions of Go march over him.
o, Christian men, take out your
bible this afternoon, and in the light
of that word make up your mind as to
what is your duty as citizens. Re-
member that the highest kind of q
patriot is Christian patriot. Conse-
crate yourselves first to God, then you
will know how to consecrate yourse yes
TO you country. All these political
excilements will be gone. Ballot
boxes and gubernatorial chairs and
continents will smoke Ia the final con-
hagration; but those who love God
and do their best shall come to lus-
trous dominion after the stars have
ce sed their shining and the ocean
has heaved its last billow, and the
closing thunder of the Judgment day
shall toll at the funeral of a world.
Oh, prepare for that day. Next
Tuesday questions of the state will
be settled; but there comes day when
the questions of eternity Will be de-
cidei. You may vote right, and get
the victory at the ballot box, and yet
suffer eternal defeat. After YOU have
east your last vote, where will you go
to? In this co lntry there are two
parties. You belong / the one or he
other of them. Likewise in eternity
there will be two parties and only
two. These shall go away into ever
lasting punishment but the righteous
into life eternal" To which party
will yon belong? God grant that,
while YOU look after the welfare of
the land in which God has graciously
cast your lot, you may not forget to
look after your soul-blood bought.
Judgment bound, immortal. God save
the people!