Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-09-30

house. All gain resulting from the
saloon business is the gain of oppres-
sion and meets with Gods disapprov-
al. That man who will rent his
building for an unholy business or
in anyway be partner in a business
that dishonors God and damns men.
that man puts character and soul on
the block and sells out to the devil.
In that hour of temptation Greed Of
fered brides to Conscience and Avar-
ice drew near and choked Justice.
Some men will do anything for dol
lar. They will sell their Lord for
thirty pieces of silver. This Is an
age when by trickery some are max
ing money by the hods full and are
trying to buy ticket to- heaven
on the installment plan.
In his greed for gain man has
come to live on the land like thesfish
live in the sea the big ones subsisr
upon the little ones. This part Of
Gods standard of a Christian was
given in defense of the little fish.
HE that despiseth the. gain of opS
pressions. Some construe personal
liberty to mean personal license, but
this text prohibits that interpreta-
ton. II you were the only man in
town you could drive an auto down
Main street at forty miles an hour.
you could build. slaughter house in
the public square, and fertilizer
factory in your front yard for gain
on any other purpose, ii you so de-
sired. But when there are thousands
of other people here. your liberty
ends where their rights begin and
your gains must cease when 1t means
oppression to others. God is no re-
spector of persons, and we ought not
to be, but IL man goes to your hen
house and carries home an old roost-
err. he is called dirty thief" and is
hustled to Jail. But IL he steals a
bank or by trickery renches three
hundred thousand dollars from the
pockets of the common people he TAX
es a trip to Paris for his health. and
his deed is dignified by saying he
"confiscated' or "embezzled." In
stead of being in Paris that rascal
ought to be in the penitentiary.
At the close of the Civil war. Stock
holders of the infamous octopus of
the devil, the louisiana Lottery, APP
preached Gen. Robert 4. Lee and
rendered him the presidency of that
company. Lee was without position,
property. or income, but he regarded
this as the gain of oppression and
he modestly declined the position on
the ground that he did not under
stand the business and did not care
fence is needed. We know how to
run the business. We want you as
president for the influence of your
name, remember the salary is
twenty five thousand dollars a year. I"
Lee arose and buttoned his old gray
coat over his manly breast and re-
piled, Gentlemen I'm poor and my
people in need, my name and infiu-
ence are all have left from my
mother and they are not for sale.
You can't buy Robert E. Lee at any
price" Rather than receive the
gains of oppression he taught the
young men of the south the princip-
les of right living on a salary of one
thousand dollars year. May the
Spirit of God send such revival up.
on us here as will lead us to place
manhood above money and so con-
duct our business so as to receive no
gain that means oppression.
V--HIS HANDS
THAT shaketh his hands from hold
ing of bribes." Gods description of a
Christian does not omit the hands,
those prominent actors for good and
for evil. We have been hearing
much of bribery of late and some
would think il was new sin sprung
up in the twentyieth century but,
Brother. read your bible and you
will find bribery is of no recent Nor-
igin. God and the Bible are against
bribery. Samuel says of his two sons
who became judges, They took
brides and perverted Judgment"
David says of some of his pursuers,
Their right hand is full of brides. -
Amos says of some men in his day,
They take a bride and turn aside
the poor in the gate" In Job we
have the crushing bolts of Gods in
dignation, declaring, Fire shall con-
sumo the tabernacle OF bribery" This
is one of the DEVILS most effective
temptationaL He tried II on Jesus