Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-16

ing, L felt like Fastening home so as to
be there when the millennium set in.
Take good stout run every day. /
find in that habit, which / have kept
up since at eighteen years l read the
aforesaid Todd's Manual, more recup-
Grafton than in anything else. Those
six men of Ohio will need all possible
nerve, and all possible eyesight, and all
possible muscular development before
they get through the terrific struggle
of this life
Word the next: Take care of your
intellect. Here comes the flood of nov
elettes, ninety-nine out of hundred be-
lifting to every one that opens them.
Here come depraved newspapers, sub
merging good and elevated American
journalism. Here comes whole perdi-
ton of printed abomination, dumped
on the breakfast table. and tea table,
and parlor table. Take at least one
good newspaper, with able editorial and
reporters columns mostly occupied with
helpful intelligence, announcing mar
riages and deaths and reformatory and
religious assemblages, and charities be-
slowed, and the doings of good people,
and giving but little place to nasty di-
vorce cases, and stories of crime, which,
like cobras, sting those that touch them
Oh, for more newspapers that put Vlr-
tue in what is called great primer type,
and vice in nonpareil or agate! You
have all seen the photographer mega
tive. He took picture from 1t ten or
twenty years ago. You ask him now Tor
picture from that same negative. He
opens the great chest containing the
black negatives of 1885 or 1875, and he
-
your memory is made up of the mega
tives of an immortal photography All
that you see or hear goes into your
soul to make pictures for the future.
You will have with you till the Judg-
ment Day the negatives of all the bad
pictures you have ever looked at, and of
all the debauched scenes you have read
about. Show me the newspapers you
take and the books you read, and l will
tell you what are your prospects for
well-being in this life, and what will be
your residence million years after the
star on which we now live shall have
dropped out of the constellation. I
never travel on Sunday unless it be
case of necessity or mercy. But last
autumn 1 was in India in a city plague
struck. By the hundreds the people
were down with fearful illness. We
went to the apothecary's to get some
preventive of the fever. and the place
was crowded with invalids, and we had
no confidence in the preventive we pur-
chased from the Hindoos. The mail
train was to start Sabbath evening. I
said, Frank, think the Lord will ex-
cuse us If we get out of this place with
the first train" and we took 1t, not
feeling quite comfortable till we were
hundreds of miles away. / felt we were
| right in flying from the plague. Well,
| the air in many of our cities is struck
| through with a worse plague-the
| plague of corrupt and damnable litera-
| ture. Get away from it as soon as pos
sible. 1t has already ruined the bod
| les, minds and souls of a multitude
which,, if stood in solid column, would
reach from New York battery to Golden
Horn. The plague! The plague!
Word the next AS soon as you can
| by industry and economy, have a home
| of your own. What do / mean by a
| home? 1 mean two rooms and the
| blessing of God on both of them; one
room for slumber, one for food, it's
| preparation and the partaking thereof
| Mark you, l would like you to have a
| home with thirty rooms, all upholster-
| ed, pictured and statuetted, but 1 am
putting it down at the minimum. A
| husband and wife who cannot be hap
| py with a home made up of two rooms
would not be happy in heaven If they
| got there. He who wins, and keeps the
affection Of a good, practical woman
has done gloriously. What do 1 mean
by a good woman? I mean one who
loved God before she loved you. What
| do 1 mean by practical woman? L
mean one who can help you to earn a
living, for a time comes in almost
every mans life when he is flung of
hard misfortune, and you do not want
a weakling going around the house
| whining and shifting about how she
had it before you married her. The
simple reason why thousands of men
never get on in the world is because
they married nonentities and never got
over it. The only thing that Jobs wife
proposed for his boils was warm poul-
tice of profanity, saying, Curse God
and die" 1t adds to our admiration OF
John Wesley the manner in which he
conquered domestic unhappiness. HIS
wife had slandered him all over Eng
land until standing in his pulpit in City
Road Chapel he complained to the peo-
pie, saying, Il have been charged with
every crime in the catalogue except
drunkenness" when his wife arose in
the back part of the church and said:
John, you know you were drunk last
night" Then Wesley exclaimed, THANK
God, the catalogue is complete" When
a man marries, he marries for heaven
or hell, and it Is more so when woman
marries. You six young men in Fay
cite, o., had better look out.
Word the next: DO not postpone too
long doing something decided for God,
humanity and yourself. The greatest
things have been done before forty
years of age Pascal at sixteen years
! of age; Grotius at seventeen; Romulus
at twenty; Pitt at twenty-five; White
field at twenty-four; Bonaparte at
twenty-seven; Ignatius Loyola at thir-
| ty; Raphael at thirty-seven, had made
the world feel their virtue or their vice,
and the biggest strokes you will prob
ably make for the truth or against the
truth will be before you reach the me-
| ridian of life. Do not wait for some
thing to turn up. Go to work and turn
it up. There is no such thing as good
luck. No man that ever lived has had
better time than i have had; yet
never had any good luck. But instead
thereof, kind Providence has crowned