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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-11-19
THE INVALID.
There Is Place and q Service for Every
one In the Commonwealth.

| There Is a Place and Service for Every
one In the Commonwealth.
Laid aside by old age or by some form
| of invalidism from active work, many
a one would say to himself: For me in
| the commonwealth there is no place.
am hindrance, not help. Forbid
den to minister, living only to be min
istered unto, the Masters motto is not
for me. must linger, useless to others,
burden to myself, till death, more
| merciful than life, comes to set me free
from this imprisonment 3
The highest service one soul can rem
der to another is to give to it some gift
of life, and suffering is the door through
which the highest life is given. To be
is more than to do; and suffering is q
better test of character than is activity.
Let the weary invalid, laid aside by in-
trinity or old age, ask himself what was
the climax of Christ's service; when He
did most Divinely minister to the
world; in what did He give to it the
greatest gift. 1t was in the hour when
He was bound hand and foot to the
cross, when He could not go on any err
rands of mercy, could not reach forth
His hand in healing touch, could scarce
ly speak any continuous words Of COM
fort or instruction. The cross is at
once the emblem of Christ's greatest
weakness and His greatest power. The
the hour of His illimitable service, be-
cause the supreme revelation of
His illimitable love. 1t is Christ
crucified whom Paul declares to
be the manifest wisdom and the mani
fest power of God. And this is because
patient suffering is the greatest service
which one can render the world. -Suf-
fering, rot ostentatiously courted, but
patiently endured when imposed, is the
greatest service because it is at once the
greatest manifestation and the greatest
bestowment of life.
Blessed is the home ministered by a
sanity invalid. She softens all life's
asperities, evokes in young and old
their most sacred sympathies, min
listers to others by the gracious recep-
ton of their ministries, thus teaches
them that it is more blessed to give than
to receive-a lesson we learn only in
giving, and best in giving sympathetic
ally where there is no expectation of re-
turn-reveals the life of the spirit hid
den from those who know only the life
of abundant health and vigor and thus
spiritualizes the commonest cXpe-
riences. TO suffer patiently is to rem
der the highest possible service to hui
manity. #as"..
The infrm, the helpless, the invalid,
have their place and render their service
in the commonwealth-one requiring
greater heroism and furnishing no less
value than the most fruitful labor of
the most diligent laborer. There are
two persons in the complete nome
whose hands add nothing to it's wealth,
but whose presence is essential 70 its
perfection; the babe and the aged
grandfather or grandmother. IN. \.
Outlook. -.
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Philip ts determined, aggressive In
dividual, British in his prejndices, but
cosmopolitan in his official life. He has
drawn up more Joint notes" to his
imperial majesty, Abdul-Hamid, sui
tar of Turkey, than all other diplomats
combined. Sometimes these notes
smelleG of gunpowder, at other times
they bristlcd with bayonets; but, sad
TO relate, the eject on their recipient
always proved nil. The dyspeptic padi-
shah received SO many of them that
their value and Importance came 10 be
estimated at their true worth, and in
stead of protecting the lives of the poor
Armenians, for whose benefit they were
penned, they had an opposite result.
Joint notes" of ambassadors are
good thing when they are backed by
joint fleets and joint armies, but when
they are mere words they are equiva-
lent to one of Jim Corbett's or Sailor
Sharkey's bonn bastic 'defis." II would
seem that Sir Philip is beginning to
take this view of the matter, as his eff
forts at joint authorship are not quite
as prolific as they were few months
ago. However, the British ambassador
has done much to protect the persecut-
ell Armenians, and for this he is en-
titled to the thanks of the Christian
world.
Reverting to the settlement of the
SO called eastern question by means
of a peaceful understanding | am re-
minded of Il remark once made by
Irince Bismarck to the effect that
the whole eastern muddle was not
worth the life of one Fomeranian grcn-
adler. The astutc German statesman
realized many years ago that the only
obstacle in the way of permanent
settlement was the distribution of the
spoiis. Each of the powers hungry :or
share of the spoils was afraid the
ether would get more than it should
have. The rock on which the Berlin
conference of 1877 split is just as for
midable now as it was then, and the
creation of q few buffer states like
Servia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Rou-
mania has not diminished the pangs Of
jealousy nursed by the powers. Russia
wants Constantinop!e, but she is not
willing that Great Britain should have
Egypt. Austria desires an extension
of her influence in the Danube country,
but does not want Russia to control
the mouth of the river. Until these
misunderstanding can be settled the
Turk can continue his slaughter of IN
pocents, unless circumstances should
compel the powers to fight openly for
what they consider their own.
Prince Bismarck, by the way, man
ages to create CONSERVATION in the dip
lomatic world whenever inclination
moves him to arouse the ire of Europes
destiny makers. The other day he
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-11-19
THE BOY AND THE MAN.
An Inspiring Instance OF Manly Courage
and LOYAL Discipleship

An Inspiring Instance OF Manly Courage
and Loyal Discipleship.
Coleridge Patterson--a scholar at
Elton, one of England's famous histori-
cal schools-was a high-spirited lad,
and great favorite in the cricket eleven
of the school, for he was an uncommon
ly good player. q
At the club suppers 'Coley," as the
boys called him, was disturbed by the
questionable jests and stories of some
of the members, and at length declared
publicly that he should protest against
anything like indecency in the CONVERSE
ton or in the songs that were sung.
Notwithstanding this, at the next
meeting one of the boys began to sing
a salacious ditty, and Coley rose indig-
nantly TO his feet.
"If this sort of thing goes on, shall
leave the ROOM" he said.
The singer continued, and Coley
marched out. The next day he wrote to
the captain of the eleven, and assured
him that unless he received an apol-
ogy he should quit the club.
He was too important man to lose,
and the apology was sent. The trial
Of feeling to the young fellow who made
1t could have been no greater than the
trial of demanding it and risking re-
fusal; for, like all enthusiastic cricket
players, Coley was passionately fond
Of the game. But he loved character
betues- than cricket, and the outcome
was a victory of principle.
Here was the Kind Of boy of which
martyrs are made. The spirit that en-
boldened him to resent vileness sent
him afterward to present Christianity
to pagan people. A group of islands
north of New Guinea in the South Pa
cifc became the brave mans field of
labor, and there he fell a victim to
heather cruelty.
BUT death has not erased from the
memory of earth his example of man
ly courage and loyal discipleship. The
story of the boy of Elton and Martyr
Bishop of Melanesia" is told here-and
will be told for many year to come
to kindle fearless virtue in other minds
and impress noble lesson of Christ
like sacrifoe.-Youth's Companion.
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tween the bricks and on the edge o. tho

tween the bricks and on the edge o. the
sidewalk. and eating it greedily. They
were starving. OF course they attract.
ed attention, and investigation devel.
oped that their father and mother
were sick and starving in an unfur-
nished room without bed to lie upon.
And all this while money was being
raised to send to foreign countries to
cave the souls of Cinnamon and Hin
docs.
In the capital city of the country to
which attention is called there are up
wards of 5000 men with black skins,
and more than 1000 men with white
skins, who know no. church. know no
Bible, know no preacher or missionary.
Nobody sends missionaries to them, and
they never hear the story of Calvary.
They are heather nearer home, but
their souls are apparently regarded as
OF smaller value than the souls of NOR
tai men beyond the seas.
In South Washington and in West
Washington there are upwards of co..
00C people to whom the Gospel has
never been preached at all. In Balti-
more. a city near the capital of the
country of which write, there are mp
wards of 10000 people who never see
missionary and never have the Cos
pei brought unto them In Alexandria,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-11-19
WORDS OF WISDOM.

A dollar never buys much for
stingy man.-Ram's Horn.
Grace for efficiency in duty and
work is better than the knowledge Of
the hidden things of God.-United Pres
Lyterian.
When men learn to do good for
the sake of the good, and not for the
sake of self, they will come to know how
it is possible to glorify God.-Lutheran.
Enter into the sublime patience of
the Lord. Be charitable in view Of
it. God can afford to wait; why car
not we, since we have Him to fall back
upon?-George Macdonald.
God speaks, and suns fash into light;
God smiles, and flowers the fields adorn;
God breathes, and fragrance fills the air;
God loves, and human souls are born!
i. III. Farmer.
lie who receives q favor must re
tain recollection of it for all time
to come; but he who confers should at
once forget it, if he is not to show IL
sordid and ungenerous spirit. To re-
mind d man of kindness conferred
on him, and to talk of it, is little differ
ent from eproach.--Iemosthen
In proportion as we yield ourselves
10 Christ, and make room for Him in
the citadel of the soul, will He perfect
in us the work of His beginning. The
indwelling of Christ is the master work.
man shaping the life for eternity. Is
not holiness the ncblest OF all pursuits?
He who loves it loves God; he who seeks
1t seeks God; and he who finds il, Sc
cures that which makes him like God.
IS. p. Brite.
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Indifference.

Every now and then conscience,
among the men and women who live
easy, thoughtless lives, is stirred; and
some look up anxiously, holding up
some of the pretty idlenesses in which
such people spend their days and nights,
and say: "Is it wrong? Is it wicked to
do this?" And when they get their an
swer: mo, certainly not wicked" then
they go back and give their whole lives
up to doing their innocent little piece
of uselessness again. All! the question
is not whether it is wicked, whether
God will punish you for doing that.
The question is whether that thing is
keeping other and better things away
from you, whether behind it's little bulk
The vast privilege and dignity of duty
is hid from you, whether it stands be-
tween God and your soul. - Phillips
Brooks.
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INDIVIDUAL. EXPERIENCE.
The Essential and UnessentiaI in the
Christian DEVELOPMENT.

Christian Development.
When we bring all our powers and
submit them to Gods will, seeking only
to learn what that will is; when under
meath every volition Of ours there is the
conscious, though perhaps uneXpressed
"Not my will, but thine, o Lord, be
DONE" then, only then are we truly
free; free as the eagle as with strong
and steady wing he mounts up the
heights of air toward the sun. We
obey God, and that is to be obedient to
the law of liberty. Our life is such as
God loves and approves, it is our self
conscious freedom working in har-
mony with Gods great designs of
mercy for men. 1t is that which is
godlike in us moving in accard with the
Almighty's sight. So should it be with
us as regards spiritual sight. It must
in the nature of the case be an individ-
ual experience, and the vital thing is
to have the experience, no matter how
it comes nor how it manifests itself
However important these things are,
they are not essential. The question for
each one of us is not, do think or feel
or act like some one else? The question
is, am 1 conscious in the depths of an
honest heart that 1 love God and that
He loves me? We must beware lest we
permit ourselves to become slaves to
the experience of others, and thus
illustrate the grace of God."-N. Y.
Observer.
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pointed out that Germany should cui.
tivate Russia's friendship-a policy
pursued by him while he was chancel-
lor-and let Great Britain care for its
own hot chestnuts. Indirectly this bit
of advice brought out, in semi-otficial
way, a bit Of information which has
been n public secret for many years.
While Bismarck was busily engaged in
cementing the triple alliance, consist
ing of Germany, Austria and Italy, he
entered into secret alliance of Russia
binding the German empire to neutral
ity in case of an Austrian attack on
Russia, the Russian government bind
ing itself to remain neutral in case Of
a war between France and Germany.
This understanding, in direct violation
of the offensive and defensive articles
of the Dreiburd, was in existence from
1884 until Bismarcks retirement from
Office. Gen. Caprivi and Prince Hohen-
lobe, his successors in the chancellor
ship, repudiated the agreement With
Russia, but the publication, in Bis
marck's own newspaper, of its exist
ence for a period of six years has left
and Count Goluchowski will badly
demand a categoric reputation of all
trcacherous intentions on the part of
the present German government.
While the various foreign offices are
engaged in discussing this Bismarckian
double dealing, Turkey is preparing to
make final bluff for recognition as
real military power. To sustain the
pretense, the sultan has levied poll
tax and increased the taxes on sheep,
public works and education, the funds
so raised to be devoted to the arma-
ment of the Turkish reserves. Should
the porte succeed in eXtorting the new
taxes from its impoverished subjects,
the sultan will engage in fight for
existence. he has everything to gain
and nothing to lose by war. His
days in Europe, he knows, are num-
bered, and a plucky fight may secure
fer him recognition as an Asiatic mon
arch. A war begun at this time would
be Il holy war" 1t would be a titanic
struggle of Mohammedanism against
Christianity, of the crescent and the
| cross. 1t would be the cruelest cam
paign of the nineteenth century, with
Kismet on one side and the Cossack on
the other. But as it is hard to squeeze
| blood out of turnip, and as even
| Turkish tyrant needs money to feed
his troops, the possibilities of such
| conflict are, as Count Goluchowski haa
pointed out, rather remote.
| c. w WEIPPIERT
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-11-19
A BROADER LIFE.
Chrlst's Rule of Conduct Does Not Make
Men Narrow.

Men Narrow.
Jesus never advised men to follow
some rule Of conduct which would mar
row their lives or lessen their enjoy
ment. On the contrary, He came to
show men how wide and deep life is.
81 am come that they might have life,
and that they might have it more album
dainty" No one in all the range of his
tory asked men to do such great things,
climb to such glorious heights. or strive
after such magnificent rewards as
Jesus. His rule of self-deniai means to
turn aside from low aims to high aims,
to deny the baser passions for the good
of the higher nature. 1t means to fol-
low principle rather than passion; to
choose real rather than seeming good;
to live for life" rather than for meat"
for eternity rather than for time, for
God and humanity rather than for self.
1t covers the whole ground of conduct
which Paul proposed for himself, under
the direction of the Spirit. when he
said he would keep his body under and
bring it into subsection, but setting
soul and body together on the Christian
stadium he would press forward to-
wards the goal for the prize of the high
calling in Christ Jesus. 1t means all
the difference between the service of
Satan and the service of Christ, and the
ends to which these rival services lead
are as widely sundered as Heaven and
hell. 1t is to place the will of the Crea-
tor before the will of the creature, to
deny self when self conflicts with Gods
life plan for the conformation of man to
the image of his Son.-Men.
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arms. His idea is the calling together
Df an international congress, whose
members should be empowered to
agree upon division OF the spoiis.
When confronted by the united powers
of Europe, the count argues, the porte
would submit to the inevitable without
bloodshed, and European peace woald
be assured for many years to come.
Count Goluchowski is by no means Il
visionary. He was for many years at
tached to the Partisan embassy and
served a long term as Austrian minister
to Bucharest, the capital of Roumania.
He is, in fact, more en- rapport with the
aims and ambitions of the Turkish di-
plomacy than any other oontinental dip
lomat, and his confident assertion that
Turkey would not attempt to oppose
a genuine European concert is entitled
to more than passing consideration.
The friends of the count predict that he
will before long be recognized as the
greatest and most patriotic statesman
of the age. Although by heredity and
inclination a thorough aristocrat, he
ing descended from one of the mos dis
tinguished noble families of Austrian
Poland, he possesses the faculty Of at
tracing to his charming mental per-
sonaiity representatives of every
stratum of society. He is immensely
wealthy, fond of social life and pa
iron Of the turf and chase. His mar
riagn TO Princess Anne Murar, a
French woman of rare wit and vast
possessions, contributed not little to-
ward his social success at Paris. He
was born in 1876, and hence has just
reached the age when European states
men are beginning to be recognized by
their contemporaries.
: Count Goluchowski's liking for
things French reminds me of his friend
ship for the late M. Challemel-Lacour,
president of the French senate and at
one time ambassador of France in
London and minister of foreign affairs.
NJ. Challemel-Lacour was not an arts
&ocrat, nor the son of an aristocrat. He
was a scholar who started in life as
professor of philosophy in the
lycees of Pau and Limoges. His
first experience in political life
was as vitriolic opponent of
Napoleon Ill, who, after the coup
d'etat, banished him from France. In
1850 he returned to Paris and became
director Of the Revue Moderne, an cp-
position magazine of remarkable
strength. In 1868 he established the
Revue Politique, with which he was con-
nected until the surrender at Sedan in
1870. when the provisional government
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mortal man with a mulatto skin, who
cut her throat, almost severing her head
from her body. She was found three
hours later by the agonized family.
Two weeks later man named Irwin
went to sleep peacefully in his country
home within a few miles of the capital
city, and mortal man with white
skin entered and shot Twins whole
head off with a shotgun. Twins wife
was lying by his side when the deed
was done, and she narrowly escaped
with her life.
Right in the center of the capital
city an elderly man was going home
after day of toll, and in one of the
public parks he was robbed and beaten
to death by two mortal souls with
white skins, ard his body left out under
the stars.
These crimes were committed by
mortal men to whom the gospel should
have been taken. They speak our lam
guage. Missionaries would not need
to spend years of time and thousands
of dollars to learn the language and Gus
toms of the country in which these
heather live. One dollar expended in
spreading the gospel among the heather
of the United States would undoubted-
Iy prove more effectiv. than 500 sent
to heather in foreign countries.
Within radius of 100 miles from the
cap'tal building there are more than
100000 people, and the gospel ought
20 be taken to all of them. They ought
nlso to have food and raiment. Last
summer on Seventh street. in the heart
o? the capital city, three little children
we're found pulling UP grass from be-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-11-19
SOME MEN OF THE HOUR.
A Pleasant Chat About Some Eu-
ropean Notabilities.
yhe Rise and Personality of Count Cola
chowski--Recenv Diplomatic Revela-
tions OF International Interest
The Sultan's Last Hope.
Especial letter.

Stubby, fat and broad-shouldered,
Count Agenor Goluchowski, Austria's
minister for foreign affairs, is man of
germs whom you and / should know
better. Among all of the European
statesmen of the present day he is
the only one who believes that the
Turkish question can be settled with
out an international war Like the late
Prince Lobanoff, Prince Hohenlohe and
Lord Salisbury, he is convinced that the
sultan must be driven out of Europe,
but unlike them he favors reference
TO arbitration rather than an appeal to
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Food for tho Soul.

Sin is a condition of starvation.
Everything that lives eats. Tho flowers
Of the field feed on the early morning
dew and bright sunshine, and all things
else have to have sustenance. This
planet cannot produce anything rich
enough for the soul of man. God is
the food of the soul, and the soul Is
starving TINT is without Him.-Rey. T.
G. Ingleha<.
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FOR SUNDAY READING.
THY WILL BE DONE.


In passing through this life.
We weary grow; M
Our hearts are torn by strife NJ
Till tears do flow.
All grief will pass away
Like mists before the sun,
II we can truly pray:
Thy will be DONE"
Sometimes the wound is deep
And we rebel,
Death wooes our loved to sleep
Who loved so well.
But from that darkened day
Anew will shine the sun,
II we but truly pray:
''Thy will be done"
Unless dark clouds arise
We get no rain.
So sorrow doth baptize
The soul with pain.
Then from q darkened day
Well find blessing won,
If We but truly pray:
Thy will be done"
Like gold by fire refined
Free from all dross,
With childlike trust resigned
Well bear our cross
Assured that we shall there,
When our new life's begun,
Be saved forever. where
Thy will Is done.
William e. Sheffield. in Christian Work
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appointed him project of the Rhone.
In 1872 he was elected to the chamber
of deputies, and four years later be-
came senator. His appointment, in
1879, as ambassador to tie court of ST.
James stirred up considerable strife IN
the house of commons, many of whose
members objected violently to the am
bassador's revolutionary antecedents.
Nevertheless, he served for three years
when he WAS recalled at his own re-
quest. In 1868 he accepted the port
fblio of foreign affairs, and shortly
afterward, on the death OF M. Ferry, be-
came president of the senate, and at the
same time was elected member of the
French academy. After the assassina-
ton of Sadi Carnot he was a strong
candidate for the presidency of the re-
public. which went eventually to M.
Faure. The friendship which existed
between Count Golucbowslli, arch
nristocrat, and Challemel-Lacour, arch
republican, illustrates how two stub
born metals can be blended without in
turing the strength of either, and to the
advantage of both.
Another man who has won the adj
miraticn of the Austrian minister for
Foreign affairs is Sir Philip Currie, Brit
nh ambassador at Constantinople. Sir
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Another Kind of Meeting.

Mr.. Barlow (entering the parlor al
11:15 p. m. and discovering his daughter
and her fiance)-Hello, holding love
feast?
Miss Barlow-No papa; a protracted
meeting. Detroit Free Press.
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He Never Came Back.

Hell am going now.
She-That's a step in the right diree
tion.--Town Topics,