Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-11-07

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penses has these items among others:
Shillings. Pence.
One load OF fire fagots. ....3
Carriage for four loads OF
WOOD $3.50. ..........s
Item, post ................1
Item, two chains. 5000. ...3
Item, two staples.... $3.50. .
Item, four laborers. ........2 .
making in all 25s. Sd. That was cheap
fire, considering all the circumstances,
but 1t kindled light which shone all
around the world and aroused the
martyr spirit, and out from that burn
ing Of Latimer and Ridley rolled the
circle wider and wider. starting other
circles, convoluting. overrunning. cir
cumscribing, overarching, all heaven,
a circle.
The Echo of Past Misdecds.
You maltreat an aged parent. You
begrudge him the room in your house.
You are impatient of his whimsical
ties and garrulity. II makes you mad
to hear him tell the same story twice.
You give him food he cannot masti-
cate You wish he was away. You
wonder II he is going to live forever.
He will be gone very soon. His steps
are shorter and shorter. He Is going
to stop. But God has an account to
settle with you on that subject. After
awhile your eye will be dim. and your
gait will halt, and the sound Of the
grinding will be low, and you will tell
| the same story twice. and your child
rem will wonder II you will never be
taken away. They called you father"
once; now they call you the "old
man." II you live few years longer
they will call you the "old chap"
What are those rough words with
which your children are accosting
you? They are the echo of the very
words you used in the ear of your old
father forty years ago. What is that
you are trying to chew. but find 1t un-
masticable. and your jaws ache, and
you surrender the attempt? Perhaps
1t may be the gristle which you gave
| to your father for his breakfast forty
| years ago.
A gentleman passing along the
avenue saw a SON dragging his father
into the street by the hair of the head.
The gentleman, outraged at this bru-
tai conduct. was about to punish the
offender. when the old man arose and
said: Don't hurt him. It's all right.
Forty years ago this morning
dragged out my father by the hair Of
his head" 1t is a circle. Other sins
may be adjourned to the next world.
That circle is made quickly. very
| quickly. Oh, what stupendous
thought that the good and the evil we
start come back to us! Do you know
that the judgment day will be only the
points at which the circles Join. the
good and the bad we have done COM
ing back to us unless divine interven-
ton understanding back to us with
welcome OF delight or curse OF con-
demnation?
Oh. I would like to see Paul. the
invalid missionary. at the moment
when his influence comes to full orb.
his influence rolling out through An
tioch. through Cyprus, through Lystra,
through Corinth. through Athens.
through Asia, through Europe.
through America. through the first
century. through nve centuries,
through twenty centuries, through
earth. through heaven. and at last the
wave Of influence, having made full
circuit, strikes his soul. Oh, then I
would like to see him! No one can
tell the wide sweep of the circle of
Pauls influence save the one who Is
seated on the circle Of the earth.
should not like to see the counte-
nance of voltaire when his influence
comes to full orb. When the fatal
hemorrhage seized him at eighty three
years OF age. his influence did not
cease. The most brilliant man Of his
century. he had used all his faculties
for assaulting Christianity. his bad in
fiuence widening through France.
widening out through Germany. wild
ening through all Europe, wild
ening through America. widen
Ing through the 123 years that have
gone since he died. widening through
sAc oaAsht WiuchihB lhIouSh thc 6icdt
future. until at last the accumulated
influence OF his baleful teachings and
dissolute life will beat against his dis
mayed spirit. and at that moment II
viii be enough to make the black hair
OF eternal darkness turn white with
horror. No one can tell how that bad
mans influence girdled the earth save
the one who Is seated on the circle OF
the earth, the Lord Almighty.
Gods omnIpotent Mercy.
We'll, now" say some, ''this in
some respects is very glad theory
and In others a very bad one. We
would like to have the good we have
ever done come back to us. but the
thought that all the sins we have ever
committed will come back to us, fills
us with alright" My brother, have
to tell you God can break that circle
and win do SO at your call. can
bring twenty passages Of Scripture to
prove that when God for Christ's sake
forgives man the sins OF his past
life never come back. The wheel may
roll on and on. but you take your
position behind the cross, and the
wheel strikes the cross and is shatter-