Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-22

that you may carry with You and ever
be reminded OF the warm and loving
friends you leave in Audubon. Accept
them with our best wishes, and may our
Heavenly Father bless you and yours,
and may we all meet again in that land
OF perpetual sunshine where partings
are unknown. May "God be with you
| till we meet again"
MR.. DICKINSON RESPONDED.
My dear brother, and brothers and
sisters ALL as well as neighbors and
friends:
You will understand the situation. /
think, very clearly, as you think OF the
experiences of the day, of getting up
early and then getting left. As | told
one Of the friends tonight, when found
l was left there wasn't any strength in
my under jaw at all; it dropped right
down, but the coast lightened up little
when found / could get across the
country, and SO changed my course and
instead OF going to Council Bluffs, 1
went up to Carson and took the Wilson
livery lightning express" to Avoca and
by rough riding across the country
made the train to Atlantic But | am
very glad indeed to see 80 many here to-
| night, to look into these faces of those |
love sincerely and deeply, whom 1 have
known all these years that have SO
swiftly fled.
1t has been now little over two
months that l have been making my
home among those who were mostly
strangers when l went among them, and
when You remember that / have had
no home there and tell you that have
found very precious relationships in
those short acquaintance, you will be
glad with me for the true friends have
found there. Very loving and very
kind / have found them indeed. 1t has
been very pleasant there, but you will
all see, and see at once, that ten years OF
association with this people; these ton
years in which friendships have been
growing and ripening these ties that
have bound me- to you and you, l may
trust, to me, have been strengthening
with that acquaintance, feeling OF
home here, home sentiments in Audu-
bon. The roots strike deep and they
grow strong, and it is a very difficult
thing, and you will appreciate it as you
think of it, for one to root himself out OF
relations like these. l have enjoyed 20
full these years. u is hard wrenching
To give up all this home feeling and sur.
render this home sentiment, to turn
away from it all and feel that hence
forth Audubon, though it will never be
to me strange place, it will always be
to me place OF friends and friendships
yet Is no longer to be the place where
| am to have home. We have trans
ferred in tigurative sense, the lares
and penates to Sidney, and we re-habiIi-
tate our home life there and strive, by
giving, to gain the love without which
life is not worth living.
But, dear friends, these have been
pleasant years. 1t has been great de-
light to me to come here to look into
these faces | have looked upon 80 long.
l have seen in the pews. upon the Sab.
bath, many if not all OF you, more or
less. These faces that have grown de
llghtfully familiar, it is Il pleasure to
meet you all here under these most
pleasant circumstances, and, dear
friends. we shall always remember this
gathering, we shall always remember
this kindness, this kind expression you
have made OF your heart feelings toward