Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-21


form, it will be dead failure. In New
York it's chief work has been to give US
a change of bosses. We had a demo-
cratic boss and now it is to be a repub-
lican boss, but the quarrel is, who shall
be the republican? Politics will save
the cities the same day that satan evan
gelizes perdition.
The glorious gospel of the blessed God
as spoken of in my text will have more
drawing power, and when that gospel
gets full swing it will have a momen-
tum and power mightier than that
of the Atlantic ocean when, under the
force of the September equinox, 1T
strikes the highlands of the Navesink.
The meaning of the word gospel is
good news and my text says 1t is
glorious good news and we must tell 1T
in our churches and over our dry goods
counters and in our factories and over
our threShing machines and behind our
ploughs and on our ships decks and In
our parlors, our nurseries and kitchens,
as though it were glorious good news
and not with a dismal drawl in our
voice and a dismal look in our faces,
as though religion were a rheumatic
twinge or dyspeptic pang or mala-
rial chill or an attack of nervous pros
tration. With nine "blesseds" or hap
pys," Christ began his sermon OH the
mount: Blessed the poor, blessed the
mourner, blessed the meek, blessed the
hungry, blessed the merciful, blessed
the pure, blessed the peace makers,
blessed the prosecuted, blessed the re-
viled, blessed, blessed, blessed; happy,
happy, happy. Glorious good news for
the young as through Christ they may
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for life time all the angels of God
their coadjutors and all the armies of
heaven their allies. Glorious good news
for the middle aged, as through Christ
they may have their perplexities dis
entangled and their courage rallied and
their victory over all obstacles and hin
ORANGES made forever sure. Glorious
good news for the aged, as they may
nave the sympathy of him of whom st.
John wrote: His head and his hairs
were white like wool, as white as snow"
and the defense of the everlasting arms.
Glorious good news for the dying, as
they may have ministering spirits to
escort them and opening gates to re-
celVe them and a sweep of eternal glo-
RES TO encircle them and the welcome
OF loving God to embosom them.
Oh, my text is right when it speaks
OF the glorious gospel. 1t is an invi-
tatlon from the most radient being that
ever trod the earth or assembled the
heavens, to you and me, to come and be
made happy and then take after that
royal castle for everlasting residence,
the angels of God our cup bearers. The
price paid for all of this on the cliff of
limestone about as high as this house,
about seven minutes walk from the
wall of Jerusalem, where with an agony
that with one hand tore down the rocks
and with the other drew a midnight
blackness over the heavens, our Lord
set us forever free. Making no apology
for any one of the million sins of our
life, but confessing all of them, we can
point to that cliff of limestone and say,
There was paid our Indebtedness and
God never collects a bill twice. Glad
am l that all the christian poets have
eXerted their pen in extolling the match
less one of this gospel Isaac Watts,
how do you feel concerning him? And
he writes, Il am not ashamed to own
my Lord" Newton, what do you think
of this gospel? And he writes, "Amaz-
ing grace, how sweet the sound" Cow
per, what do you think of him? And
the answer comes, There is a fountain
what do you think of him? And he an
sWers, Jesus, lover of my SOUL" Ho-
ratius Bonar, what do you think of
him? And he responds, II lay my sins
on Jesus" Ray Palmer, what do you
think of him? And he writes, my faith
looks up to thee" Fannie Crosby, what
do you think of him? And she writes,
blessed assurance, Jesus is mine" But
take higher testimony: Solomon, what
do you think of him? And the answer
is, Lilly of the valley" Ezekiel, what
do you think of him? And the answer
is, PLANT of renown." David, what do
you think Of him? And the answer is,
MY Shepherd" st. John, what do you
think of him? And the answer is,
Bright and morning star" st. Paul.
what do you think of him? And the
answer comes, Christ is all in ALL" Do
you think as well Of him, o man, o wo-
man of the blood-bought immortal spir-
it? Yes, Paul was right when he styled
it 1.-THE Glorious Gospel" And then as
druggist, while you are waiting for
him to make up the doctors prescrip-
ton, puts into a bottle so many grains
of this and so many grains Of that, and
so many drops of this and so many
drops of that. and the intermixture TAX
en-, though sour or bitter restores the
health, so Christ, the Divine Physician,
prepares this trouble of our life time
and that disappointment and this per-
secution and that hardship and that
tear. and we must take the intermix-
ture, yet though it be bitter draught,
under the divine prescription it admin
listers to our restoration and spiritual
health, "all things working together for
good" Glorious gospel
And then the royal castle into which
we step out of this life without so much
as soiling our foot with the upturned
earth of the grave. "They shall reign
forever and ever" Does not that mean
that you are, if saved, to be kings and
queens, and do not kings and queens
have castles? But the one that you are
offered was for thirty-three years an
abandoned castle, though now glorious
ly inhabited. There is an abandoned
royal castle at Amber, India. One hun
dred and seventy years ago a king
moved out of it never to return. But
the castle still stands in indescribable
grandeur, and you go through braZen
doorway after brazen doorway and
carved room after carved room and I'M
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