Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-02-08
GREELEY GREETING.
A summer-like kiss,


A summer-like kiss,
Follows winters mad hiss.
Will Egan had the care of very
sick horse, Wednesday.
Lively lady-bidders were in evidence
ut the Jimmie Blake sale.
Frew Hays marketed three loads OF
fine hogs in Extra, Tuesday.
Mrs. James Egan spent much of
the week at the bedside of her father
in Melville.
Father Nc Donald of Audubon was
called TO the bedside of Grandpa Egan
Wednesday.
S. S. Berry is hauling his Timothy
seed to Extra, preparatory to ship
ping it to Chicago.
Miss Eva Egan is assisting with
the cares incurred by the illness Of
her grandfather, Mr.. Snyder in Mel
Vile.
Thos. Adair purchased some fine
blooded brood sows at the Blake sale
paying Sl6. per head for them which
was cheap.
An eight-hundred-p pound bell was
placed on the U. B. church, Friday,
Feb ,. Now we can't hear thing
but its ping-ring-ding.
Mike Ballman payed the fabulous
price of 1862 90 for an ordinary work
horse at the Jimmie Blake sale. He
was out-winded on the next animal by
Frank Nelson, who led IL off at 1854.
W. V. Shields and family contem-
plate starting for their new home in
Minnesot, Saturday, Feb. 10. May
their new surroundings yield them
greater happiness than they have here
tofore known.
One of our hogs took sick. We isO-
!, lated it from the flock" and fed it
slack coal, oats, oilmeal u We and warm
whey. 1t got we'll. Significant con-
clusion: "Don't know what it was,
don't know what cured it.
No less 'a'personage than DR.. Wool
sey Stryker, president OF Hamilton
College, and a recognized leader in
Christian thought says that there are
too many churches. at would be
better II many of the churches were
burned" said he ia n recent sermon.
This sounds fearfully radical at first,
but it requires but little observation
even herr in our own, country to make
his statement painfully clear. What
has brought about this deplorable
condition? There was a time, not
long ago when the forces of Christian.
ity were hampered, and the building
of another church meant increase Of
power and facilities. Then it became
the ambition Of nearly every young
minister to place church to his cred
it. The ambition was legitimate and
would have done the world no harm
had it been wisely checked. There
was D point reached where the build
ing of more churches meant debilita-
ting distribution of force. This point
was passed and churches sprung up
like mushrooms all over the prairies
| of the west, and now, to quote Mr..
Stryker, "they are living at a poor
dying rate" 1t is a pathetic sight to
see an ambitious minister with dy-
ing church on his hands. He becomes
decidedly parasitic because the forces
at his disposal are not sufficient to en-
able him to make adequate recon-
pense for the five or six hundred dol
lars that he sucks from the blood of
the community every year. 1t does
seem that no branch of society enjoys
complete immunity from corruption,
not even the clergy; and these start
ling remarks of Mr. Stryker are
doubtless disconcerting to those I'M
scrupulous little preachers who are
holding down village sinecures with
their thumb-worn roll of old college
sermons. l do not know that / ever
met with one of these contemplate
creatures, but their existence is an in
evitable inference from the disgusting
superiority of sects and church build
ings. Could Christianity tap the lat
ent energy locked up in useless chapels
and shake off the semi-parasites that
they harbor, it would feel an invigor.
ating impulse due to the recovery of
sissipated force.
A WINTER MORN.
IT'S oh, so cold, so bitter cold!
But still how sweet the skies!
Clouds dressed in pink, old gold, and
blue
Are loafing round sunrise.
And in the zenith high and far,
A little cloud in white
And bonny iridescent plumes,
Is seen in happy flight.
Along ripping shaft of gold,
/; floats serenely on
Into the throbbing outstretched arms
OF life-renewing Dawn.
Were l master of the brush,
With canvas now unfurled,
I'd snatch this scene from Natures
hand
And toss IL to the world.