Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-22
FAREWELL RECEPTION.
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| have had in you in calling you my
people" that has gone by, and now
you come into this relation with this
dear brother, and you cannot tell how
his heart will 90 out to you and how
much you will help him as you show
him your loyal affection and your kindly
feeling towards him. l know you will
and you will stand by him, you will
stand around him, he will pray for you
and you will pray for him, and the
blessing Of God will be upon you and
upon him in the work trust God will
give him to do.
And now good, good friends, we say
be far away. We shall see you again
We shall meet you again, doubtless, if
God spares our lives, but not under cir
cumstances like these. And so good
bye, good bye; with grateful affection
and love to you all my wife and myself
say this parting word. May God bless
you, bless you richly, and may it be
true, as was expressed in these words so
kindly spoken, that bye and bye, when
we no longer have any home here in this
world, when the homes that have been
ours shall have been left and we shall
have crossed the mystic river, may it be
true we shall meet in that glad, glad
land in that blessed, bright home where
these severed friendships, these dis
united ties, shall be reunited and re-
newed, i'll that land where they will
grow stronger and sweeter through end
less years. God bless you, and bless
this dear brother and his family. Good
bye.
Rev. Cahill was then called on and
spoke as follows:
Some five week ago I had note from
DR.. Bailey, who said go over and-if
you don't you will understand minister's
slang-he says IF you don't give them
the best in the shop give them the next
best in the shop, because they have had
good preaching and they won't stand
anything else" and came with fear and
trembling, and as l have gone around
here some weeks there has been growing
upon me sense Of responsibility as to
how l shall follow you, Of whom the
people say, as one gentleman with whom
| stayed last week, that in the ten wears
here he had not heard You preach a poor
sermon. Evidently you have no barrel
to turn over; it is all new and fresh.
But while am not altogether child in
y
lem | have found how | shall follow
your work. But it is truly encouraging
to see, friends, this consciousness that
where there has been SO long a passionate,
and for the west very long one, that.
as the Stated Clerk of this Presbytery
said to me in letter this week "the
Audubon people are an exceedingly good
class OF Presbyterians, as Well as other
denominations" and so it is satisfaction
to one to know that one has to do with
such people, and L trust, sir, that
whether my stay shall be long or short
here am sure hope to attain to even
a small measure of the success you have
attained to, if the mantle of Elijah shall
fall in any measure upon Elisha, and I
am sure you will believe me when I say
l am exceedingly glad to be here this
evening, to see such a cordial expression
of good will in all these years. In meet
/ ing with the people here without an ex-
ception there has been one united test.
mony to your faithfulness and earnest
endeavor, and, perhaps this is selfish,
do trust if l stay four or five years or
perhaps longer than that, that if they
| greet me in this way when | am leaving
and give me, shall / say, cordial ex-
preston, a tangible expression of their
good will, am sure that it is a comfort
to know that one has to do with people
who can show such cordial appreciation
of minister's endeavor and effort May
God bless you and your good lady and
family