Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-01-14
CULTIVATE SYM.
why We Should Have . Christ 4.
gard for the Erring and Unfor.

gard for the Erring and Unfors
Let us never restrain our mn
or dam them back. Pity and conn
sion for the woes of the world rlarily
the human heart and take off the shpr :,
edges of our disposition and malSdVus
grateful in the contrast. The unfor-
tunate were born of the same eterna,
Father, rocked in the same cradle of the
world, and at the same moment on the
same morning to hear the same resur-
rectionary blast that wakes the dead.
Cultivate your sympathies. The six
teen hundred millions of the race are all
united by chords of kinship, and those
chords after fastening us all together
reach up to the heart of God, so that we
are all bound together, all on earth one,
God and the human family one. When
workman with loaded hod on his
shoulders slips from the ladder and falls
to the basement, bend over him, Lit
him very tenderly; he is your brother.
When in the midnight tempest the sailor
slips from the ratlins and has his fife
dashed out on the deck, listen to that
awful thud; it is your brother. When
| you hear dementcd woman from the
corridors of Bloomingdale asylum, re-
member it is your sister, When her
ruin is worse than that, and body, mind
and soul have been tossed off the decliv,,
tiles of decent life and she hangs, with
mangled fingers, over the boiling bill.
lows of hell, do not laugh, do not carica-
tre, do not make hcartless remarks;
that Is your sister ooh, no, no." you
say; shat is impossible; you com,
promise my dignity by saying she is my
sister" Yes, she is. You belong to
the Lords family and she belongs to 1t,
and God is her Father, and he is your
Father, and does not that make her your
sister? God is not ashamed to nc
knowledge this, and you are not better
than God. Yea, If you scott at her you
are worse than she, for God has q
Heaven all ready for her as soon as she
repents, but for one who has no COM
passion for lost manhood or lost wom-
anhood. from Bible lid to Bible lid
there Is no promise. Feeling as you now
do, hard and uncommiserate, you will
not come within 100000 miles of
Heaven. May the blessing Of those
who are ready to perish come upon us.
In this day Of accidents we are not only
| to sympathize with the victims, but TO
do it wisely for our own safety. Let us
not make ourselves ridiculous by wan
| dering about, timid and nervous. eX-
| pecting every minute that something
will happen, but let us take every rea-
sonable precaution. On railroad trip
| 4 xync wary firal nnl + upf ~, tha Iocp-
motive with the engineer on the Illi-
nois Central, and If there Is anything
that will wake n man up, that is it. The
fireman and the engineer were very
communicative, and / asked all about
the machinery, and otter awhile said:
'What Is that bright, shining instru-
ment?" "rhat is a Westinghouse air
| brake" I said: "What Is the use OF
it?" "Well," he said, "when ] see an
obstacle on the track, or ] see that
bridge has fallen, or see the headlight
Of locomotive coming around the
curve on the same track, touch that.
| and as by an almost omnipotent reverse
| the train halts, the brakes falling on
the wheels OF all the cars all the way
| back" What n splendid arrangement.
| Then / thought, we are all on an ex-
press train. We are going ut 60 miles
the hour, 100 miles the hour, 500 miles
the hour. Ever and anon there are
perils across the track. Shall we Wild
| ly crash into them and perish? No,
there is an overmastering power willing
to take charge of the long train of life's
events, and with instantaneous spring
holds us back from destruction. What
we want Is not only n power stop when
IL Is safest to stop. A thousand times
between now and when we reach our
destination we will want an instan-
taneous and omnipotent brake.-Chris-
| tian Herald.