Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-01-19
GREELEY.

We feel the whip Of the old la
grippe.
Chas Minerman sold hogs in Ham
lin Thursday.
John Twist is storing grain in Au-
dubon for future use.
Lloyd Miller has improved his farm
with an ideal little poultry house.
Lew Anciaux is now enjoying a Wis
it from relatives in Johnson county.
Revs. Bentley and Sill took din
ner at the Miles Kness home Satur-
day
prospecting trip. He is still on the
fence.
The revival meetings at the Union
Baptist church survived the storm
and are becoming quite spirited once
more.
Friday evenings meetings at the
Union Baptist church had dramati-
cal after clap.
Miles Kness has sold his pedigreed
male pig to Chas. Boehme, of Audu-
bon township.
What we would have done last
Wednesday was decidedly vetoed by
that nor easter.
| There was q little editorial in last
weeks Journal which gave football a
sharp blow right from the shoulder.
| Miss Ellen Anciaux has gone to
North Dakota for visit of indefinite
length with her sister Mrs. George
Armstrong.
Oscar and Lloyd Miller and Mes
danes George Picking and Tom Cog
Ian fastened away to Fontanelle Sat-
urday to be at the bed side of their
mother who is seriously Ill with pneu
monia.
We believe in the teachings of
| Christ. We believe them to be the
only completely efficient remedy for
all the evils of human society We
accept and endeavor to apply them
with the same earnest confidence with
which we welcome and conform to
beneticient revision of our civil code.
Summarily, we believe his teachings
to be the laws to which society must
conform in order to reach happy
and painless equilibrium. Compare
tive retrospectiOn reveals the fact that
human society is slowly conforming
to these master teachings. Every new
| discovery in science, every new and
useful invention. bears us upward and
onward toward that very desirable
goal. Outside of the church the spirit
is moving with persistence cool and
| irresistible. Because of this, each
advance is permanent. There are no
relapses into former and less perfect
conditions. In the church we find
feverish anxiety, tickle fluctuations,
and thoughtless assertions tinged with
fauatacism. Here we often see profess
sion exceeding the possibilities of the
times, and thus preparing the soil for
hypocrisy.
Is the mental attitude indicated by
the above sufficient as an acceptance
| of Christ? Your minister will prob
ably tell you that it is deplorably lack
| ing and point you to a may route
through bewildering formalities out of
which you will emerge under the ex-
tremely dangerous delusion that you
have made your future happiness Sc
cure, and this, too, in the face of a
dark record of sin and folly and with
scarcely an appreciable change in
your ambitions.
1t is very gratifying to note that the
rapid growth of Christian sentiment
outside of the church is making this
deplorable defect in the church more
and more conspicuous. That the
church does give facilitating attention
to external symbols, is a notorious
fact. | shall not worry how / was
baptised. nor who drank with me at
the holy sacrament, if you give me a
Christianity that leads me each day to
the pfUw, to the harvest field, into bus
mess and approves of my conduct
each evening. We need our Christ
ianity more while we are in contact
with the gruff world Of the week day
than we do on Sunday when we have
retired beyond the reach of the most
dangerous temptations.
FAREWELL.
Farewell, farewell-ah! who can tell
The sad freight of these words?
| They're heaped with signs and sobs
and cries.
| They come like evil birds,
And hover DER the hearts they tore
In their first swift descent.
Anon they light from circling flight,
When through the cruel rent
Sweet peace and rest from out the
| breast,
Are waited on sigh.
Sad and bereft then are we left
To pine away and die.
o sad Farewell" | know it we'll
Thou art a deadly dart.
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