Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-29
GREELEY.

Marvin Wilson, of North Dakota,
is here visiting with his parents.
John Butterton's trim outfit shelled
corn for Marsh McNutt, Wednesday.
Clyde Mccall, of Drake University,
is spending his holiday vacation at
home.
Chel Adair has returned from his
pleasant visit with relatives in Oska-
loosa.
Hartzell and Jayne shelled corn for
Frew Hays and John Shoesmith on
Tuesday.
James Blake sold a fine batch of
cattle to John Mcclure, of Melville,
Saturday. N,
Mr.. and Mrs. Cliff Carter, of Mel
vile, visited Mr.. and Mrs. Miles
Kness, Wednesday.
The Nonpareil man was in this
vicinity this week looking after the
interests of that great paper.
S. Berry and family and Mrs. VIM.
Benton and daughter attended the
Ruhs-Taylor hymenial near Ross,
Wednesday, December Il.
Twas neither white nor green, r.
This joyful CHRISTMAS day.
Dark, sullen clouds were seen
Flapping their wings of gray.
The Union Baptist Ladies Aid So
ciety has disposed of the rag carpet
left over from the church fair to Oluf
Jensen, of Extra, for forty cents per
yard. S..
To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
Taylor made goods are the best, you
know.
Nothing like Taylor-made clothes,
Bnt, say, when it comes to a Taylor
maid bride,
You may know you are plucking
a rose.
Get out of the way. There comes
Miles Kness with his head in the
clouds and taking the whole street
with the majestic sweep of his arms.
He is thinking Of that nine pound boy
that came to gladen his home, Tues.
day morning, December 20.
Among the many beautiful and use
full presents that adorned the Christ
mas ladder at the Union Baptist
church was a magnificent gold watch
chain. 1t proved to be a gift from the
Ladies Aid Society to VIM. Rucker,
expressing appreciation for the valu-
able aid he has rendered in connection
with church fairs.
We revere the Bible because of its
lucid portrayal of q standard of liv-
ing which when attained to would
make impossible the conception of
anything preferable to realities
Christ came into the world and lived
up to this standard, and thus demon
strated its practicability. In the
strict sense of the word, Christian,
or Christ-man, Is one who has attained
to this standard OF life. We know of
none. In more loose sense, we term
a Christian one who is on the way to
it, or striving to reach it. OF these
there are many. Before man can at
tain to this acme of excellence the
fatal idea that Heaven is definite To-
cality to which souls are transported
must be displaced by the energizing
truth that Heaven is condition re-
sulting from complete victory over
all evil. Some thoughtless person re-
marks that there would be nothing left
for which to strive. My friend, we
think you are mistaken. Establishing
happy conditions is one thing, and
maintaining them is another. The
latter requires more mastery effort
than does the former. Thus it would
be with man in his heavenly state
He would have nothing before him but
the eternalfy delightful task of main
taing his blissful condition. Hewould
hnnnnnn ~ he,
absence of evil. 1t is only the evil
within US that saps away our vitality
and brings US exhausted to death.
Good and truth are vitalizing. They
are life, and when we are filled with them
we have reached the fullness of life.
We cannot die. We cannot become
weary, nor sad because we are in con-
tinuouS correspondence with that God
energy that permeates the universe.
This immortalizing energy seeks us.
We have the power to permit its pre-
dominance within US. We have the
power to choose between it and the
siren music that death plays upon the
Tyre of sensuality. Shall we, just to
please the world, dance to the latter
and die, or permit the world to nail
US to the cross, after which the nail
holes in our hands and other marks of
cruelty will be our credentials to a
state Of eternal peace? Shall we
choose the venomous delights of
crown of gold, or the sanctifying
thrust of the cruel thorns?
LOVE.
II love yOu-oh." says she, "Ivetold. ,"
Our bOsoms pressed together throb-
bed.
OF all else would | fain be robbed
Leave only this my arms Unfold.
Those words, 81 love you," oh, how
sweet,
That upturned face, those lips, those
eyes
With the stolen blue from summer
skies
One wild desire-repeat, repeat.
Though your pure lips could frame
but this
One sentence you haveconquered all
And rescued man from his dark fall:
Restored again his Eden bliss.
Although it bruised her tender breast,
With outstretched arms Love caught
the world
When it old Satan hellward hurled.
Now will she soothe it back to rest.
Rector of ST. luke's Ashburnham,
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