Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-24

tnlS on until children are reared ana
educated and fairly started in the
world, and to do this amid all the
rivalries of business and the uncer-
tainty Of crops and the fickleness of
tariff legislation, with an occasional
labor strike and here and there a
financial panic thrown in, is a mighty
thing to do. and there are hundreds
and thousands of such heroes and
heroines who live unsung and die I'M
honored.
Solace of Christian Faith.
What we all need, whether up or
down in life or half way between, is
the indefinite solace of the Christian
religion. And SO we employ the word
Gomez" 1t will take all eternity to
find out the number of business men
who have been strengthened by the
promises of God. and the people who
have been fed by the ravens when 9TH
er resources gave out, and the men
and women who, going into this battle
armed only with needle or saw or ak
or yardstick or pen or type or shovel
or shoe last, have gained victory that
made the heavens resound. With all
the resources of God promises for ev-
cry exigency, no one need be left in the
lurch.
like the faith displayed years ago
in Drury Lane, London. in a humble
home when every particle of food had
given cut, and kindly soul entered
with tea anG other table supplies and
found kettle on the fire ready for tea.
The benevolent lady said, How is IL
that you have the kettle ready for the
tea when you had no tea in the house?"
And the daughter of the home said:
Mother would have me put the kettle
on the fire, and when l said, What is
the use of doing SO when we have moth
ing in the house?' she said, My child,
God will provide; thirty years he has
already provided for me through all
my pain and helplessness, and he will
not leave me to starve at last. He will
send US help though we do not yet see
how We have been waiting all day
for something to come, but until we
saw you we knew not how it was to
come" Such things the world may
call condolences, but l call them AL
mighty deliverances, and though you
do not hear of them they are occur
ring every hour of every day and in
all parts Of Christendom.
The Worlds Dismal Consolation.
What dismal work of coincidence the
world makes when 1t attempts to con-
dole! The plaster they spread does not
stick. The broken bones under theii
bandage do not knit. A farmer was
lost in a snowstorm on prairie of the
far west. Night coming on, and after
he was almost frantic from not know
ing which way to go his sleigh struck
the run Of another sleigh, and he
said, II will follow this rut, and it will
take me out to safety" He fastened
on until he heard the bells OF the pre-
ceding horses; but, coming up, he
found that that man was also lost, and,
as the tendency of those who are con-
fused in the forest or on the moors,
they were both moving in circle, and
the runner of the one lost sleigh was
following the runner of the other lost
sleigh round and round. At last 1t
occurred to them to look at the north
star, which was peering through the
N; ol.s, ...S ~. tL.. sss-~~ta~- or IiidI slaI
they got home again. Those who fol-
low the advice OF this world in time Of
perplexity are in fearful round, for
II is one bewildered soul following an
other bewildered soul. and only those
who have in such time got their eye on
the morning star of our Christian faith
can find their way out or be strong
enough to lead others with an all per-
suasive invitation.
But" says some one, you Chris
tian people keep telling us to come.
yet you do not tell us how to come"
That shall not be true on this
occas Come believing! Come re-
penting! Come praying! After all that
God has been doing for six thousand
years, sometimes through patriarchs
and sometimes through proplets and
at last through the Gu 1ination Of all
the tragedies on Golgotha, can any one
think that God will not welcome your
coming? Will a father at vast outlay
construct a mansion for his son and
lay out parks white with statues and
green with foliage and all a-sparkle
with fountains, and then not allow his
son to live in the house or walk in the
parks? Has God built this house OF
gospel mercy and will he then refuse
entrance to his children? Will gov
eminent at great expense build life
saving stations all along the coast and
boats that can hover unhurt like a
petrol over the widest surge, and then,
when the lifeboat has reached the
wreck of ship in the offing. not allow
the drowning to seize the life line or
take the boat for the shore in safety
Shall God provide at the cost of his
only Sons assassination escape for a
sinking world and then turn a deaf ear
to the cry that comes up from the
breakers?
Two Things to Believe.
"But," you say, there are so many
things have to believe and SO many
things in the shape of a creed that
have to adopt that am kept back.
No, no! You need believe but two
things-namely, that Jesus Christ
came into the world to gave sinners
and that you are one of them. But.
you say, Il do believe both OF these
things!" Do you really believe then
with all your heart? "Yes." Why
then. you have passed from death into
life. Why. then, you are son or &
daughter of the Lord Almighty. Why
then, you are an heir or an heiress o
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