Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-19

will point to the gambling, whisky
drinking, church member as an exam
pie of the man who processes to be
on the Lords side.
Some of the Advantages.
I am speaking to many people who
have never acknowledged Christ and
who will depart tonight without &C.
knowledging him. Let me tell you
some of the advantages of being on
the Lords side. | have been on both
sides. served the devil for twenty
five years. l can say truthfully that
the advantages are all on the Lords
side.
The man of the world will say that
if you serve the devil you can drink,
gamble, play cards, dance and throw
the rein upon the neck of every brid-
led passion and unholy desire and
there will be no master to say you
nay.
The Wages of Sin.
"The wages of sin is DEATH" l was
with Moody in the great worlds fair
campaign at Chicago One day there
came to town a beautiful young wom-
an with another woman's husband.
They stopped at the finest hotel in
the city. There was money, plenty of
it, and they enjoyed every pleasure
that that great wicked city could af-
ford. BY and by he grew tired of her
and one day he left her alone in that
great city without friends and with
out money. Upon the little table in
bo room, che oncInia6 opd Nrhpro CHI q
was found dead from a pistol shot
fired from her own hand, was found
only this little sentence: The wages
OF sin is death"
A Wonderful Machine.
The man who declares he cannot
know God, has wonderful thinking
machine in his head. He calls himself
an agnostic. Do you know what an
agnostic is? He is an ecclesiastical ig
noramus. He believes you cannot
know anything, that so far as you know
! tence. You can not know where you
came from or where you are going.
Eat His Tag.
| In town where | was holding q
meeting one day, a goat nicely Grated
was set off and put in the care of the
express agent. All inquiries coult
| elicit no information as to where he
came from or where he was going
Nobody knows" said the old darkey
| the goat himself don't know He's
done eat his tag So it is with the
agnostics; they have eaten their tags
They don't know where they have
/ rrbn tbo,
The Third Duck
/ Another kind of unbelievers declare
that everything is but the creation o
| the mind; that nothing exists in real
! ity. A young fellow came from col
lege. His mother prepared a special,
good dinner There We're two NIGEL,
baked ducks upon the platter. Thu
! young man said: Father, you thinl
there are two ducks on that platter
but there aren't. There are three.
well, said the old man, your mo
! ther and | see only two" YES" salt
the young man. there is one, and Their,
are two, and one and two make three
4 So said the old man. well, mothe
will take one and | will take the tw,
and you may have the three" Tha
was wonderful head the young MAJ
had upon him and wonderful think
ing apparatus inside of it.
4 The Bible is not behind the times
/ Science, with all its advancement. i
not yet apace with the Bible. Their
is no sane man in the world today, n
matter how degraded, who will no
tell you that the Bible is not the hes
book in the world.
Those who depart tonight withou
acknowledging Christ and turning t
the Christian life will not be in hell
half hour until they realize the ever
lasting mistake which they made i
not being safely on the Lords side.
challenge anyone in this audience tt
night to rise and tell this congregatio
of any of the advantages that ca
. possibly come from being on the de,
lis side.