Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-12-28
CORRESPONDENCE.
GREELEY GREETING.


Let school slide, It's Yule-tide.
Frank Duvall is building a ne,
cattle shed.
Tom Adair sold three loads of hog
at Extra Wednesday.
Mrs. Jane Blake has returned from
visit with relatives near Stuart.
Lou and Vic Anciaux have gone t,
Johnson county to spend the holidays
A persistent indisposition causes
Grandma Eagen to drive to Audubon
to consult DR.. Childs.
George Burt departed Tuesday will
his worldly paraphernalia for hi
new home near Extra.
Thos. Adair departed on Wednes
day for Oskaloosa to spend the holi
days with relatives and old friends.
The Christmas tree entertainment
in the Presbyterian church at Ole
Hamlin was delightful affair. A
tree artistically decorated was arrang
ed and after an entertaining program
was rendered the presents were dis
tributed.
CHRISTMAS DAY.
Today was born man, a perfect mar
Whose footsteps lead where death
cannot pursue,
Whose beauteous life compared tc
mine does make
or me a being wretched incomplete
The innocence God gave my baby
heart
Has persisted in the flames of world
ly lust;
Naught but the smouldering ashes
now remain
OF that sweet tender charge he gave
to me,
And now a sorry derelict / bow
All conscious of my frightful neg.
10! at my repentant, humble voice
A heavenly light gives battle to the
gloom
And bathes my trembling soul in
strengthening warmth.
Then in a flood OF happiness Tn
caught
And born away among the Christmas
bells,
Knowing full we'll that my Redeemel
lives:
He came today and led me by the hand
When, lost, / wandered DER 8
dreary waste,
Anb lit again the lamps of Faith anC
Hope
Hail! Christmas day-gem of tn,
dying year.
VII E-TJDE pEEI IT(,pIaN
The difference between us ant
Christ is the very formidable obstruc
ton that forbids our salvation. TIL,
mission of Christianity is TO eliminat,
this difference and give to man the
attributes of immortality. Man can
not hope for complete salvation unit
his thoughts and ideals are as pure
and holy as were Christ's. A close
and earnest study of the character oil
Christ followed by secret burning
desire to be like him is the most for
midable foe that Satan encounters in
his stealthy rambles about this
world. Listen! Here is man stand.
ing before the world tonight, and in 9
loud boastful voice proclaims that he
is q follower of Jesus and deems him.
self faultlessly eligible to enter into
eternal glory and participate in the
Seraphic melodies that maintain the
harmonies of Heaven, even were he to
meet Death this moment. All thi:
has he said right in the face of the
impudent and well-known fact that he
entered the house of God redhandet
from the. fretful pits of commerce
where he was painting and striving to
get possession of filthy worldly good:
without giving their equivalent in re-
tmn. What Is he? He is charlatan
hypocrite. He is the principal acto
in one of the most ridiculous farce'
played upon life's stage to day. Ii
more lenient terms, he is a forma
christian. From a financial stand
point it would be Improbable t.
strike his name from the church book
for he places great stress on his casf
contributions.
Here is another character, one re
servedly pleasant. | know he is {
christian, though he never told any
one so. How do | know? Because
have done business with him and h,
carried his christianity into his bust
ness. came in contact with it there
and was benefited by it. 1t left {
feeling Of good will and confidence
with me. Thus he goes about tn,
earth unconscious of the good he il
doing. He deems quiet reflection OIL
the teachings of Christ more essentia
than going to church-nothing agains
church going however.-His refug,
from trouble is his closet, where HI
holds secret meetings with Jesus
Worldly schemes dare not intrudt
upon his solitude. He differs from
the character first mentioned in tina
he shines from living light within
while the ''formal christian shine:
from brazen surface well polished
for special occasions, So noiseles:
is christianity that sometimes ash
myself the question, Have / ever
heard prayer?". 1t must be very
dim light that does not reveal it'
presence until we are told that il il
there.