Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-05-27
Here And There

A sheen OF green meath the blue is
seen.
Otto Rubel put two loads of hogs on
the Hamlin market Thursday.
Miss Lille Crees is helping with the
household duties at the Grant Kness
home.
Marshall McNutt and wife spent last
Sunday at the Lew Moore home near
Extra.
Frew Hayes Hove into Hamlin Sat
urday with four-horse load of fine
porkers.
Monday, May "a, and some farmers
have blowing to do yet, some are done
planting, others are at it.
Hamlin is putting on a substantial
growth and will soon be OF a court
house size. Better look out!
The addition to the buttermaker' s
residence is nearing completion and
will add much to the comfort and the
beauty of his home.
Mrs. Grant Kness received a letter
from her sister, Mrs. George Lafoy,
at Milestone, Canada. containing the
news that the people of that vicinity
we're awakened on the night OF May ID
by what seemed to be very distinct
earthquake shock.
Congress is now thinking of putting
on night shift in order to relieve the
public pressure in regard to the pro-
duction of satisfactory tariff sched-
ule. That is the way we used to do in
the saw mill out in Oregon. That's
right, boys, Saw wood"
]. H. REYNOLDS who went to Omaha
hoping that an operation for gravel
would bring him relief returns dis
heartened because his case is so seri-
Gus as to defy the skill of the best
physicians. His son-in-law, George
w. Hoover, of Audubon, brought him
home last Saturday.
At three O'Clock in the afternoon Of
Sunday, May 30, a union temperance
meeting will take place at the Presby-
terrain church in Old Hamlin, Rev. r.
G.. F. Chambers a former pastor of the
M. E. church at Extra will conduct the
services. Mr.. Chambers recently re-
signed his pastOrate at Griswold that
he might devote his time to the Anti
Saloon League work in which new field
he has become a telling force for good
The pulpit, no doubt, has been a
great factor in lifting the human race
to the high plain of civilization we now
enjoy and in our reverence for chris
tianity we hesitate to conclude that it
is losing it's power for good, but when
a church permits mad gamblers of the
"Pit to take possession of its pews
and quiet their conscience by drop
ping part of their stolen goods into
the contribution box, under the gUise
of active christians, and when it per-
mits the gayrevelers of the obnoxious
Saturday night dance to appear in the
Sunday services and act the part of q
member in good standing, how can
that church hold the respect and rev.
erence of the outside world? aOw can
a church thus contaminated retain its
cleansing power? Will impure parts
make pure whole? Again, is church
the membership of which is being re-
plenished by sensational revival
gaining or losing strength? II we gain
a position of responsibility without
the adequate exercise of our reason
iPg faculties are we not likely to de-
fame or desert it because OF lack of
appreciation? So it does seem there
might be a significant difference be-
tween the member who is tossed into
the church on wave of excitement
and the one who is guided thither by
the light of reason. Christ was quiet
and consistent. We are prone to be
noisy and inconsistent. A constant
consciousness of this failing would
certainly be wholesome.