Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-01-05
GREELEY.

Rumor foretells of wedding bells.
Rural route from Hamlin was
showed under Tuesday.
Oscar Miller marketed hogs in busy
buzzing Hamlin Friday.
Robert Clark shelled. nice little
bunch of corn Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Hogueisson
were snow bound in Melville Tuesday
James Eagan and family spent
Christmas with his wife's folks in Mel.
vile.
Adrian Simmons bought fine three
year old sorrel mule from w. j.
Hartzell Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Miles Kness had the
care of very sick child this week.
Mr.. and Mrs Chas. Wilson spent a
merry Christmas at the Bert Trent
home in Nelson.
Long shall we remember
This day in December
Because of the blizzard
That blew out our gizzard.
Along the Sioux the blizzard bliouX,
And DER the land the snow it thriouX,
AS fiercely on its way it fliouX.
1t was the worst we ever kniouX.
We were forced to draw on the re-
serve provender to help our shivering
critturs battle the furious blizzard.
Rev. Mr.. Sells, of Missouri, is re-
viving the people in the vicinity of the
Union Baptist church with a series of
meetings which began Sunday, Jan.
/, 1905.
While endeavoring to avoid snow
drift over in east Greeley last Thurs
day, Noah Crane ditched his cream
wagon and broke the forward axle.
He summoned aid by telephone and
the cream arrived at its destination
o. X.
A small pox alarm has locked the
door of the Rose Valley school. The
scare originated with Grin Colee's
return from the Guthrie county high
school in which the presence of the ep-
idemic was confirmed after his de-
parture. Young Colee was only en-
posed, thus giving Eden Valley but an
exposure to an exposure and making
the chances for the disease, to break
out here very small indeed. However,
the precaution of Director Eagan is
justitiable and prudent.
The day of sensational revivals. is
past. If among the problems of life
there is one which, more than another,
demands cool reasoning and persis-
tent reflection, it is the problem of re-
ligiOn. Why permit evangelical spell
binders to lead us into ridiculous eX-
travagance? Why permit ourselves
to be carried away on the high tide of
fanatical religious excitement and
stranded in embarrassing situations?
| once heard an evangelist make per-
suasive material out of a very sad
tale about the death of a young lady.
a certain tender hearted yeung man in
the audience was brought to tears.
The evangelist directed the attention
of some influential church members to
the young man, whereupOn they gath
cred around him and, with undue per-
suasions, induced him to come to the
mourners' bench in advance of his
convictions. On the following even
ing he was urged to stand up and tell
what God had done for him. He rose
with reluctance. His testimony was
pathetically ridiculous and incOnsis-
tent. However it received fattering
approval and a loud ''amen," from a
score of those present. Two weeks af-
ter the meetings closed, this young
man slid, Shame-faced, back into the
world and became leader among the
scotfers. We would not for the world
do anything to retard Christianity.
The evangelizatiOn of the world is
problem that should be foremost in
every human mind. But "come let us
reason" together and advance under
standingly. Why not permit our con-
victions to mature and ripen into an
infexible stability in the sweet, calm
light of lone meditation and undis-
turbed reflection? Then we could fol-
low them unflinchingly into the great
battle with courage and fortitude suf-
ficient to bear us on to that victory of
victories-the cOnquering of self.
WHIMS AND ISMS.
God pity him chained to within
And dragged about the earth,
To bondage born, and blown by scOrn
From paths of steady worth.
He DER life's plain pursues in vain
An ignis fatuus light.
BY weird blast tits snuffed at last
And leaves him in the night.
In dismal swale unheard his wall
Dies on the poison air.
That he is gone, remarks no one,
Nor do they wonder where.
They are not grieved, they feel relieved
OF some obstruction in
The path that leads from wrangling
creeds-
A pious form of sin.