Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12
DIR. A.E. CRAIG TALKS
Delivers Address at Union Revival
Service Last Evening.
DR.. WHARTON TO BIZ HERE SUNDAY
Union Mems Meeting Sunday After
noon at 4 O'clock, Young Peoples
Meeting at $50 and Mass Meeting
at p. rn.-No Services Tonight.
IFrom Saturdays Daily.l

tFrom Saturdays Daily.l
Another large audience assembled
at the tent last evening to attend the
closing services of the first week. The
revival meetings have proven success
ful beyond the expectations of the
ministers of the city and the arrival
OF Evangelist Wharton Sunday will
no doubt give an impetus to the work.
There will be no services in the tent
this evening, owing to the ina
bility of many of the merchants and
their clerks to attend. Sunday after
noon at A o'clock a union mems meet
ing will be held in the tent. The meet
ing will be addressed by DR.. Wharton
and special music will be rendered un-
der the direction of Mr.. Geiger. In the
evening at $50 there will be a union
young peoples meeting and at 8
O'Clock the union service will be held
Evangelist Wharton will deliver the
address.
Good Music.
There was one convert at the meet.
ing last evening and the large congre
cation gave ample proof of the reli
gious awakening now being felt in
Ottumwa. The music was especially
good. There were two solos by Evan
gelist Geiger, one by Rev. J M. Bailey
and one by Rev. James Robertson.
d. d., of Edinburgh, Scotland. who is
in the city visiting Rev John Hastie
DR.. crais's Sermon.
The address of the evening was de-
livered by DR.. A. E. Craig, pastor of the
First Methodist church. He chose for
| his subject 1.-THE Relation of Character
to Destiny His text was taken from
Luke 1926, Between us and you
there is great gulf fixed. so that they
which would pass from hence to you
cannot, neither can they pass to us
that would come from thence" The
sermon was in part as follows:
No more sober thought could pos
sibly engage our attention than the
great subject of the, future towards
which our faces are turned. The past
has its interests. We would gladly
study the progress of nations, insti-
buttons, systems and men, but we can
afford to let the dead past bury it's
dead, while we attend to the living
things of the present.
There are distinctions in character
which we all recognize. Some men are
good, Others are bad. Many who pass
muster befc~~i our Judgment may fall
! far short OF - divine standard, while
| others seem beneath. even our condem.
nation who may stand blameless be.
! fore God Human judgment is not al
ways competent.
Hopefuness of Bible.
The line of separation between the
good and the bad in this present life
is not always distinct. There are many
things in common, so much that we
may even at times become befogged
into believing that we are all about
alike. Indeed, in this life there is a
constant passage from one class into
another. The good are constantly laps.
ing into the bad and the bad coming
over to the side of virtue. In this il
the nopefulness of the gospel. 1t
springs a radiant arch of salvation
across the gorge that yawns between
the good and the evil and invites the
vilest to return. But there comes a
time when the mandate goes forth:
he that is unjust let him be unjust still,
he that is filthy let him be filthy Still,
he that is righteous, let him be right
eous STILL Lifes purpose then is end
ed. 1t was probation, a great school
fitt'1g us for the beyond. But the day
comes when all must go into the world
and bear fruit. The reaper goes forth
and the wheat is gathered in the gar
iler, the tares gathered into bundles to
be burned
No Heaven for the Sinner.
Sin is not thing that can be alter
ed by change of garments or of resi-
dence. The murderer cannot clear him
self by washing his hands and chang
ing his clothes, or by fleeing to a for
eign country. He is a murderer still.
Certain acts lead to certain effects
as sure as effect follows cause. The
fool will come to folly, the spendthrift
to poverty, the drunkard to degrade.
ton, the dissolute to disease, the sinner
to hell as sure as the water of the
stream flows downward to the sea
There is no heaven for the sinner
The pure society of the saints would
repel him like Milton's satan, or as the
people of America would have repealed
the arch traitor, Benedict Arnold, had
he ATTEMPTED to return to the country
whose interests intrusted to him had
been betrayed.
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