Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-08-16

thy goat buzz ,rd of the nations, leper
OF the centuries! Stand up. thou mon
ster infidelity! Part man. part pam
Their, part reptile, part dragon, stand
up and take thy sentence! Thy hands
red with the blood in which thou hast
washed. thy feet crimson with the
human gore through which thou hast
waded, stand up and take thy SEN
tence! Down with thee to the pit and
sup on the sobs and groans of families
thou hast blasted. and roll on the bed
of knives which thou hast sharpened
for Others, and let thy music be the
everlasting miserere of those whom
thou hast damned! / brand the fore
head of lnfidelity with all the crimes
OF self-immolation for the last century
on the part of those who had their
reason.
My friends, if ever your life through
its abrasions and its molestations
should seem to be unbeara BILE, and
you are tempted to quit it by your
own behest do not consider yourselves
as worse than others Christ himself
was tempted to east himself from the
roof of the temple; but as he re-
sisted, so resist ye Christ came TO
medicine all our wounds. In your
trouble prescribe life instead of
| death, People who have had it
worse than you will ever have it have
gone songful on their way. Remem-
Der that God keeps the chronology of
your life with as much precision as he
keeps the chronology OF nations, your
death as well as your birth, your
| grave as we'll as your cradle.
Why was it that at midnight, just
at midnight the destroying angel
struck the blow that set the lsraelites
| free from bondage? The four hun
dred and thirty years were up at -
o'clock that night The four hundred
and thirty years were not up at
IL, and / o'clock would have been
tardy and too late. The four hundred
and thirty years were up at II clock,
and the destroying angel struck the
blow and Israel was free. And God
knows just the hour when it is time
to lead you up from earthly bondage,
BY his grace make not the worst of
|
must take the pills do not chew them.
Your everlasting rewards will accord
with your earthly perturbations just
as Caius gave to Agrippa a chain of
gold as heavy as had been his chain
of iron. For your asking you may
have the same grace that was given to
the Italian martyr, Algerius, who
down IN the darkest of dungeons
dated his letter from 1.-The delectable
orchard of the Leonine prison"
And remember that this brief life
of ours is surrounded by rim, very
thin but very important rim, and
close up to that rim is great eternity,
and you had better keep out of it un-
til God breaks that rim and separates
this from that. TO get rid of the sor-
rows of earth, do not rush into greater
sorrows To get rid of n swarm of
summer insects, leap not into a jungle
of Bengal tigers.
There is a sorrowless world, and il
is so radiant that the MONDAY sun is
only the lowest doorstep and the
aurora that lights up our northern
heavens confounding astronomers Us
to what it can be, is the waving of the
banners of the procession come to
take the conquerors home from church
militant to church triumphant, and
you and / have ten thousand reasons
for wanting to go there, but we will
never get there either by self-immola.
ton or mpenitency. All our sins
slain by the Christ who came to do
that thing, we want to go in at just
the time divinely arranged, and then
the clang of the sepulchral gates be-
hind us will be overpowered by the
clang of the opening of the solid pearl
before us o God, whatever others
may choose, give me Christians life,
n Christians death, Christian S
burial, Christians immortality!
THE Presbyterian church in Canada has
a mission among the Chamars of Neemuch
Central India. They are low caste peo
pie, living at the entrance to the town
their houses built round a courtyard, in
which are wells and fine trees.