Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-11
HERE AND THERE
Suggested by a Sermon


What is salvation? What does it
mean to us? Why do we seek 1t
so diligently? If salvation means
anything at all it means that there
Is something about us capable Of APP
preciating Joy and happiness, and
continues to exist after the material
body has been destroyed by death.
Now, the all important question con-
fronts us; namely, how can we de-
yelop within us this immortal thing
that fiutters free from our crushed
body and scars away into the realms
of eternal peace? Does our conduct
here on earth have anything to do
with its growth? Does certain way
of living encourage and develop it?
Does another certain way of living
blight and destroy it? We cannot
avoid the conclusion that the way we
live here has much, If not all, to do
with it. Death bed salvation must
be fake. Is it not both dangerous
and ridiculous for preacher to
stand over the corpse of libertine
and insinuate that his soul is in
heaven because at the finish of a
sixty-year debauch he coined his final
gasp into God Have Mercy" Dam
gerous because it leaves the impress
sion on the young mind that self de-
NAL is not necessary, that he can con-
tinue to hug and fondle his besetting
sins until the last hour, then kiss
them a fond farewell wheel about,
slip into heaven, and walk down the
golden street with the man who made
this world better by three score
years of holy usefulness. i repeat,
Ridiculous and Dangerous" A
young man turns his face heaven
ward and sincerely cries God, give
me pure heart. give me strength
to live right, and guide my footsteps
toward Thee that those who may fol-
low in them may not be lost" Many
years of patient humble toll in the
holy vineyard is his record. Another
young man regularly rolls his cigar
cites, tips glasses with the harlot at
the slum dance and carouses away
his earthly years. Now, can we thus
diverge on earth and meet in heaven?
II so, do not ask me to desert my
follies. Let me wander far out over
the fields of vice and sin and pluck
the fieeting blossoms of mad delight.
Nine hundred and ninety nine times
out of a thousand / shall catch the
football of approaching death in
time to cry out God Have Mercy"
when, 10! the portals of heaven
swing open and ! enter shoulder to
shoulder with you who, from boy
hood to old age so diligently follow
ed the footsteps of Jesus. / tell you
the doctrine of Death Bed Saliva
ton" is absurd, ridiculous and dam
gerous. 1t is wonder that God does
not literally clap a material hand
over the mouth that utters 1t.
A ghostly army of snow drifts re-
pulsed the big crowd that would have
made the Hamlin masquerade ball a
grand success Saturday night. Only
a few broke through ghostly lines,
but those few were repaid for their
trouble by a very pleasant time. The
dance as IL was to be, was postponed
until Saturday night, Feb. 13.
Mrs. Hans ]. Hansen who was TAX
en- to an Omaha hospital and operat-
ed on for stomach trouble some time
ago is convalescing nicely and will
soon rejoin her husband and child
rem.
Mrs. Marshall McNutt departed
over the Rock Island Sunday for Cal
ifornia to visit for month at the
home of her brother, Harry Bradley
in Bakersfield.
The Misses Martha and Marie Pet
ersen of Kimballton came to Hamlin
Saturday evening and visited over
Sunday at the X. ]. Petersen home.
DR.. Franklin was summoned to
the Chas. Garnett home Monday,
where he found the infant boy suffer-
ing from an attack of bronchitis.
Miss Lucia Petersen, who clerks
in the Wilson & Freeman store,
spent the week at her home in Ham
lin because of indisposition.
DIR. Brooks was called to the home
of Victor Nelson to prescribe for
Mrs. Nelson.
1t seems that January passed lot
of unfinished business over to Febru-
airy.
Jake Warner put fifty fine hogs
on the Audubon market Monday.