Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-10-21

bleeding sacrifice of heavens King
moved with the story of the Fathers
love, sufficiently to turn and say to
Jesus, Lord, l thank you?" Listen
to the charge of Jesus, Were there
not ten cleansed? but where are the
nine?" Wonder of wonders is the
sin of ingratitude. III l were you and
expected some time to go to hell, |
would stop once a Gay long enough
to thank God l hadn't gone there yet.
A fractions team getting from the
control of their driver was running
tward a steep embankment. and the
only passenger in the carriage was a
little girl. A man who CHANGED to see
them coming, realized at once the
imminent danger of the child losing
its life, risked his own life to save
her He leaped to the bride reign
of one of the horses andwas dragged
and trampled until, when picked up,
he was in a state of Inconsistencies,
and though to be dying. He was rush
ed to hospital and ii was not until
the next day that consciousness was
restored. He opened his eyes and
asked Where am -" When told
he anxiously inquired, Did | save
the little girl?" Yes, she was taken
at once to her parents unframed. q"
Have they been here TO see me?"
mo, they have not been near. ."
did they call up to learn how badly
am hurt?" When told they had not
it is said great tears came in his
eyes and he pitifully moaned and in
q 70 n Ina1 nd "a
doctors said he died of a broken
heart, and if there had been an ex-
preston of gratitude from those par
ents he would surely have lived
A mother who drank from the cup
of widowhood when her only child
was but two years of age, soon had
sorrow added to sorrow. Her prec-
ious baby became the victim of a
fever which affected it's spine and left
it ever after an imbecile, never able
to take one step nor speak a single
word. The frail little woman with
the devotion of true motherhood laid
her life on the altar for her child
and it was the marvel of all her
neighbors what she was able TO en-
dure. Prematurely bent and gray
from pouring out the full measure
of her love, her neighbors one eve
ming came to comfort her in the sor-
row of deaths visit. After twelve
years of constant suffering the little
one had departed. They II ed to get
her to see that it was a merciful prov
idence which had taken the little one
from its pain, before she should be
taken and it left 10 suffer at the
hands of unwilling servants. They
assured her she had done all it was
possible for any mother to do, and
expressed their surprise at what she
had been able to endure. Yes" she
said. 81 know little jeanette is bet
ter off. and she and God alone know
what l have tried to do for her. But,
Oh, II she could only have spoken
what | know she felt in her heart,
Mama, | thank you for what you
have done for me-" would have paid
a thousand times for il all" In her
sorrow her heart was breaking for
the expression of gratitude
The blacklist sin for which men
will have to account when they stand
before God in Judgment is the sin of
|ingratitude. Don't attempt to ex-
cuse yourself by saying you are not
a very bad sinner If you have never
turned to Jesus and said. Lord, l
thank you for all you have done to
save me-" Hear the pathetic words
from the broken heart of the Son of
God, 30 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how