Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-09-21
GREELEY GREETING.

VIM. Covault at the helm.
Miss Jessie McNutt, of o Id Hamlin,
is assisting in the Miles Kness home
during the presence of the threshing
machine.
Frew Hays has shielded his farm
from the rude invasious of hunters
by equipping his line fence with a
"No hunting allowed"
Tuesday, Wednesday, aud Thurs
day brought us such heavy rains
that put decided veto to thrashing,
and drowned many pleasant plans.
So far as the weather is concerned.
every day in Iowa is u surprise box
the contents of which we know nothing
until we have rummaged it from sun
to sun.
DR.. Childs, of Audubon. was
hurriedly called to the James Blake
home Wednesday,, where he found
Mrs. Blake seriously ill. AT this
writing, however, she is in a conva-
lescent state. 90
Matilda Jane Ayres, of Taylor
county, Kentucky, has been married
nine times. She has buried eight
husbands. She does not seem to think
marriage a failure. Nine Homogeneous.
Gee.
Smooth, waveless seas Debilitate. "
Typesetter, you're a lout,
You work Just like q cog wheel
With cog or two broke out.
Ira Johnson has rented the f.
Bilharz farm now occupied by Miles
| Kness. He will move onto the same
| just as soon as Mr.. Kness departs,
which date will be in early December.
Arthur Anciaux will till what is
| known as the Art Stouer place next
season. He will also continue to
farm the Samuel Atkinson eighty
There is nothing about this in any
way suspicious.
AS WE SEE 1T.
In justice to the Bible we should
read it circumspectly and with our
reasoning powers all alert. If, as
some maintain, all of the precepts in
the Holy Scriptures are to be regard
ed as int1eXible universals, applicable
to society throughout time and space,
| how are we to reconcile the following
utterances of Paul with present CON
| ditiOns, and progress?-"Lety your
women keep silence in the churches:
for it is not permitted unto them to
| speak," etc. l Corinthians l4-34.
Again in | Timothy PIP, "But
suffer not woman to teach, nor to
usurp authority over the man, but to
be in silence" Were we to regard
this as universal principle to be con
formed to throughout time, the results
would be disastrous. Our present
educational forces would be crippled.
Christianity itself would faint beneath
the blow and need reSuscitating. This
is surely local and temporary pre-
cept lmeant to eliminate evils of a
certain locality in Paul's time. A
certain total abstinence advocate was
| once delivering temperance lecture
he was soaring high on the wings of
eloquence, and had paused for app
| plause in the brilliant zenith of an
encomium on Water. Instead of
the intoxicating applause, an old man
far back in the audience slowly rose
and asked the speakers permission to
read little verse FROM the New Testa-
ment. Certainly, my dear friend,
certainly" replied the speaker.
Whereupon the old man called at
tentiOn to the following words of
Paul in l Timothy 5-23: Drink no
longer water, but use little wine for
thy stOmach's sake and thine often
intirmitieS." This passage is OBJ
viOusly particular statement. but
the old man was permitted to apply it
universally with the result that the
speaker fell from his lofty perch on
the mountain crags of eloquence and
lay pitifully hors de combat at the
threshold of an argument.
1t seems that Timothy's health was
impaired, and that he had appraised
Paul of the fact. Perhaps his com
munications were such as to cause
Paul to suspect that the water of that
certain locality was the source of the
allment. Therefore, he advises his
friend to quit drinking it and to use a
little wine. No direful effect can re-
suit from installing universal for a
particular statement because it's
application is unlimited, but to at
tempt the universal application of a
particular precept is often calamitous
and betrays deplorable lack of dis
elimination and ability to distinguish
between the living and the dead, the
current and the obsolete. 1t is a
fearful thing to become the victim of
a blind faith. 1t is in the calm glow
OF reason that our incipient beliefs
develop into a beautiful maturity,
and finally crystalize into guiding
faith. Lingering traces of paganism
cause some of our most powerful in.
tellects often to sink into puerility
before the Bible and do it a great in
justice by assuming an idolatrous
attitude and blindly accepting every
thing as infallible. Added prestige
is given to the Bible by its survival
of the severest criticism. In all that
we come in contact with it is good
rule to sift, select, and save: sift.
select, and save.
SEPTEMBER.
| deem it duty to speak of your
beauty, September.
! You have ignored the fairs and the
pleasures of man,
But with refreshing rain, Won the
Creators plan, remember.
The hills cease to mourn: they are
creatures newborn, meath your
breath.
You have sweetened the fea lures of
fruit-laden Fall,
And departing Summer filings back
| glad call. is death?
BENEATH THE CLOUDS.
| Betwixt the mud and restless scud,
I'm trying to be glad;
My thoughts are logged and water
logged
Life seems a monstrous fad.
The past, waste DER which I've
chased