Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

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ooKLYN, July 22.-Rev. DIR. Tai
who is now touring in Australian
has chosen as the subject for
US sermon through the press:
Nrth Living" the text being taken
Lamentations ri: 80, Where
Edoth. a living man complaint
1--WE leave to the evolutionists to
q where we came from and to the
Aogians to prophecy where we
eoing to, we still have left for con-
alton the important fact that we
there. There may be some doubt
t where the river rises and some
1T where the river empties, but
can be no doubt about the fact
we are sailing on it. So ] am not
rised that every body asks the
Ntion, rs life worth living?"
lomon in his unhappy moments
it is not Vanity" "vexation of
Rt" mo good" are his estimate.
fact is that Solomon was at one
polygamist and that soured his
osition. One wife makes man
by; more than one makes HIM
ched. But Solomon was converted
n polygamy to monogamy, and the
words he ever wrote, as far as we
read them, We're the words ''moun-
) of spices" But Jeremiah says
&y text life is worth living
a book supposed to be doleful,
iugubrious, and scpulchral, and
lied Lamentations, he plainly
mates that the blessing of merely
ag is so great and grand "a blessing
n though man have piled on him
,nisfortunes and disasters he has
light to complain. The author of
text cries out in startling intona-
to all lands and to all centuries,
lerefore does n living man COM
NJ" A diversity of opinion in our
as well as in olden time. Here is
lung man of light hair, and blue
and sound digestion, and gener-
salary. and happily affianced, and
he way to become a partner in a
mercial firm of which he is an inn
ant clerk. Ask him whether life
Forth living. He will laugh in
face and say: Eyes, yes, yesw
B is a man who has come to the
les He is at the tip-top of the hill
fe. Every step has been STUN
and bruise. The people he
ted have turned out deserters, and
money he has honestly made he
been cheated out of. His nerves
out of tune. He has poor appe-
and all the food he does eat
y not assimilate. Forty miles
bling up the hill of life have been
i'm like limbing the Matterhorn,
there are forty miles vet to go
n, and descent is always more
'gerous than ascent Ask him
ether life is worth living, and he
drawl out in shivering and lugu-
Jus and appalling negative, mo,
mol"
tow are we to decide this matter
tteously and intelligently? You
find the same man vacillating,
Hating in his opinion from dejec-
to exuberance, and if he be
\ mercurial in his temperament it
depend very much upon which
I the wind blows If the wind
" from the northwest and you ask
|, he will say, Yes" and if it blow
Ia the northeast and you ask him,
will say, No" How are we then
ret the question righteously an
red? Suppose we call all nations
ether in great convention on
.ern or western he misphere, and let.
those who are in the affirmative
"Aye" and all those who are in
negative say No" While there
I'D be hundreds of thousands who
I'D answer in the affirmative,
re would be more millions who
aid answer in the negative. and be-
Sc of the greater mum Der who have
low and misfortune and trouble the
pes" would have it. The answer /
II give will be different from either,
it will commend itself to all who
r me this day as the right answer
-ou ask me s'Is life worth living?"
iswer, it all depends upon the kind
life you live.
4 the first place, remark, that Il
of mere money getting is always a
ure, because you will never get as
IN as you want. The poorest peo-
in this country are the richest,
next to them those who are half
.ich. There is not a scissors grind
IN the streets of New York or
oklyn who is so anxious &c, make
1ey as these men who have piled
fortunes year after year in store
ses, in government securities, in
ement houses, in whole city blocks
/ ought to see them jump when
Y hear the fire bell ring. You
hit to see them in their excitement
IN some bank explodes. You ought
ee their agitation when there is
posed reformation in the tariff.
,ir nerves tremole like harp
ngs, but no music in the vibration.
~ read the reports from Wall
et in the morning with concern
1T that threatens paralysis or apo
Ky, or. more probably, they have
graph or telephone in their
l house, so they catch every
ath of change in the money mar
The disease of accumulation
eaten into them-eaten into their
rts. into their lungs, into their