Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-09
Here And There
Spring in her beauty
Is doing her duty

Henry Carter spent the week with
his sister Mrs. Robert Twist.
The Standard oil man wendell his
way out to North Branch Monday.
That presidential bee has got Mr..
Taft pretty we'll stirred mp.
Sam and viii Johnston spent Sat
urday night and Sunday at the Grant
| kuess home.
i. +. and Chas. Colee put some
oats on the Hamlin market Monday.
Say it would be Joke on Taft il
| that ball would pass his big nit and
drop ia Hughes basket.
Dick owen put several loads Of fine
hogs on the Hamliu market Tuesday.
viii and Sam Johnston will accom-
pany Ed Young To Canada leaving
over the Northwestern Monday, April
sixth.
The Jones boys are hauling the ma
terial To build an up-tO-date hog house
SO foul is filthy politics
With vicious Joys and woes
That nearly every time you vote
You have to hold your nose.
After you vote you blush and wilt
And feel like some old rag
Then sneak around behind thehOuse
And reich and heave and gag.
There is just one thing about the
Des Moines plan that we do not like:
and that is its tendency to monopolize
the columns of the Register & Leader.
For goodness sake. turn on the blue
lights.
We read of two men who engaged in
a deadly combat over a ten dollar bill
which they found lying loose in the
business world; again. we read of two
aboriginal apes that fought to finish
over some nuts they found in the pri-
meval forest. What is the difference
between these two struggles.
SACRED SECRECYI
Let me steal away from the noise to-
day
And in some quiet place
With no one there but God and me
Kneel down with upturned face
And bare my sin-soiled soul to him
And through repentant tears
Look far beyond earth's lurid rim
Into the coming years.
SABBATH REFLECTION
A wretched blind beggar sat by the
roadside Poverty and affection had
dragged him to the verge of dark de-
spair He heard footsteps. People
we're passing on their way to the pass
over feast at Jerusalem. He made in
quiry of the passerby and was told
tnat many people, among whom was
Jesus of Nazareth, were on their way
to the feast at Jerusalem. Poor blind
Bartimeus. he had heard of Jesus
such reports as caused him to ejacu-
late faith-laden prayer. When they
told MIN that Jesus was near he cried
out from the depth of his miserable
soul, Jesus, thou son of David, have
mercy on me. Jesus came into the
world to comfort the wretched: there
fore, he was very sensitive to such a
cry. He paused and told those near
by to call Bartimeus to him. Then it
was that this beautiful message of
salvation was given by Bartimeus,
''Be Of good comfort, rise, he calleth
thee. Bartimeus hurried into the
| presence of Jesus. Jesus asked him
what he wanted, Bartimeus answered
My sight, Lord. - go thy way, "
said Jesus, Thy faith hath made thee
| whole. " At that moment Rartimeus
opened his eyes and was delighted to
see the beautiful world; flowers, but
terfiies, and the green hills blending
with the blue sky and the beaming
couutenance of his savior. We love
to linger over this Sabbath lesson be
cause it wildly portrays the power of
| Christianity over human wretchedness.
1t reveals Jesus in the act Of lifting a
human being from the depths OF misery
to the summit OF happiness. retiec.
tive persual of this lesson puts one in
in possession of the golden thought
that when betrayed by the world and
left to grope about in the dismal
neighborhood of despair there is one
who will hasten To our rescue II we
but cry out Jesus have mercy on me.