Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31

In those days said, blessed is the Ro-
man eagle, the flap of whose wing
startles nations and the plunge Of
whose iron beak inflicts cruelty upon
its enemies" This young man re-
sponded, Blessed are the merciful.'
Popular opinion said, "An eye for an
eye. tooth for a tooth" In other
words, if man knocks your eye out
knock his out. If a man breaks your
tooth break his. Retort for retort, sar-
casm for sarcasm. irony for irony, per-
secution for persecution. wound for
wound. Christ said, Pray for them
that despitefully use you" They look
ed at his eye. 1t was like any other
mans eye, except perhaps more
speaking. They felt his hand, made
or bone and muscle and nerves and
flesh. Just like any other hand. Yet
what bold treatment of subjects, what
supernatural demands, what strange
doctrine! They felt the solid earth
under them, and yet Christ said. II
bear up the pillars of this world" They
looked at the moon. He said, 81 will
turn it into blood" They looked at
the sea. He said. 81 will hush it."
They looked at the stars. He said, 81
VIII shake them down like untimely
figs Did ever one so young say
things so bold? 1t was all against
him.
a general rode along the lines, al
though the soldiers were lying down
exhausted, they rose with great en-
thusiasm and huzzaed. AS Napoleon
returned from his captivity his first
step on the wharf shook all the king
doms, and 100000 men flocked to his
standard. 1t took 5000 troops to
watch him in his exile. So there have
been men of wonderful magnetism OF
person. But hear me while l tell you
of a poor young man who came up
from Nazareth to produce a thrill
which has never been excited by any
other. Napoleon had around him the
memories of Marengo and Austerlitz
and Jena, but here was man who had
fought no battles, who wore no epaul-
cts, who brandished no sword. He had
| probably never seen a prince or shak-
en- hands with a nobleman. The only
extraordinary person we know of as
being in his company was his own
mother, and she was so poor that in
the most delicate and solemn hour
that comes to a woman's soul she was
Obliged to lie down among drivers
| grooming the beasts of burden.
The Question of Lineage.
I imagine Christ one day standing in
| the streets of Jerusalem. A man de-
scended from high lineage is standing
beside him, and says; my father was
| a merchant prince. He had castle an
the beach in Galilee. Who was your
father?" Christ answers, Joseph. the
carpenter" A man from Athens is
standing there unrolling his parch-
ment of graduation and says to Christ.
Where did you go 70 school?" Christ
answers, Il never graduated" Aha,
the idea of such an unheralded young
man attempting to command the at
tention Of the world. AS we'll some
little fishing village on Long Island
shore attempt to arraign New York.
Yet no sooner does he set foot in the
towns or cities of Judaea than every
thing is in commotion. The people go
out on a picnic, taking only food
enough for day, yet are so fascinat-
ed with Christ that at the risk Of
starving they follow him out into the
wilderness. A nobleman falls down
fat before him and says, "My daughter
is dead" A beggar tries to rub the
dimness from his eyes and says,
Lord, that my eyes may be opened"
"A poor, sick, painting woman presses
through the crowd and says, 81 must
touch the hem of his garment" Chill
6ren who love their mother better
than any one else struggle to get into
his arms. and to kiss his cheek, and |
to run their fingers through his hair, |
and for all time putting Jesus so in |
love with the little ones that there is
hardly a nursery in Christendom from |
which he does not take one, saying, |
II must have them. l will fill heaven |
with these, for every cedar that plant
in heaven | will have so white lilies.
In the hour when l was a poor man
In Judaea they were not ashamed Of |
me. and now that ! have come to
throne l do not despise them. Hold
1t not back, o weeping mother. Lay
Il on my warm heart OF such is the
of heaven"
Victory Over Nature.
See him victorious over the forces of
nature. The sea is crystal sepulcher
IL swallowed the Central American
the President and the Spanish armada
as easily as any fly that ever fioated
on 1t. The inland lakes are fully as
terrible in their wrath. Some of ms
who have sailed on it know that Lake
ialilee. when aroused in storm, is
overwhelming, and yet that sea
'rouched in his presence, and licked $
MS Feet. He knew all the waves and .
ne wind. When he beckoned they
anne. When he frowned, they fled.
he heel of his foot made no indenta- :
ion on the solidified water. Medical :
cience has wrought great changes in
heumatic limbs and diseased blood.
tut when the muscles are entirely
vithered no human power can restore :
hem, and when limb is once dead II :
dead But here is paralytic-his .
and lifeless. Christ says to him. :
Stretch forth thy hand" and he !.
tretches it forth.
In the eye infirmary how many dis
asses of that delicate organ have been :,
ured! But Jesus says to one blind,