Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-19
EVANGELIST SUNDAY LEAVES
BURLINGTON AFTER MON
sTER REVIVAL
TOTAL CONVERTS $500
In Five Weeks Baseball PIayer-Preach-
er Has Completed an Enormous Task
Free Will Offering of $4,000 Given
Him by People.

Burlington, Dec. 1S.-(Special.) y
The five weeks revival by Evangelist
William Sunday closed last night. He
received a present Of $4,000 from the
people and made $500 converts.
AT the meeting last night there
were 1000 people packed into the tab
ernacle, with at least 5000 outside un-
able to get in.
Not Far From God.
The change in the tone of Mr.. Sun
days sermons, from slang and bluster
to more dignifled language has been a
noticeable one. In his Saturday night
sermon he took for his subject, Chou
art not far from God" and that was
the message sent to one class of peo-
pie from the tabernacle pulpit plat
form. The remark was originally made
as recorded in the thirty-fourth verse
OF the twelfth chapter of Marks his.
tory OF the career Of Jesus.
man may be very near but still
lost and believe of all cases none are
SO sad as the man or woman who re-
fuses to take the last step for some
reason that you think justifies you"
Ihus began the sermon with an cpl
tome OF Its argum ent IN one sentence.
as happens SO often In Rev. William
A. Sunday sermon
The difference between a live and
dead person, between midnight and
noon Is not of degree but of kind. A
man who has been dead ten minutes Is
as dead as one who has been dead a
week" and a soul dead in sin at all is
as certainly not saved as the soul far
OFT -Nf tho q r1y Of, ,,{o
Hngton people are near the final steps
OF conversion, but'if they refuse to take
that step they will soon fall back to
their old sins, their old practices, their
old gang
The Sadness Of the Lack.
Then poetic pastoral picture of a
clock, which after all was an automa-
ton and not a man. It is sad to see a
man lacking one thing.
God has high ideals about you men;
God has high ideals about you WON en-.
But God wants you to call Him to
come to your soul with his mysterious
power. But you lack one thing.
*+* | stood in the round house today
and looked at the magnificent engines
that pull the fast mail trains, but they
were useless because they had no
steam. There's an arch but it has no
keystone; there is music without a
keynote: there's watch, but it has
no handspring. II is sad to see a
man who lacks one thing"
The agencies that bring one close to
God are the Christian home and Chris
tian companions And a little later
"The most reasonable thing in the
world is religion; the most reasonable
man in the world Is a Christian; the
most unreasonable man in the world is
an inf1de]." And also
'Thank your stars, my man, if you
have a praying wife Her prayers are
head from the deserved stroke of
Gods hand"
There ar etwo routes into the soul
by the head and through the heart
and Mr.. Sunday reiterated that he ap-
peals to reason. AS a corrollary:
Lawyer and Christianity.
Lawyers live in an atmosphere of
argument; they train themselves to
weigh evidence; they teach themselves
to ignore the emotions; they want to
know how you know and be sure that
you do know. 1t would be natural if
the lawyers were skeptics of religion.
But the brightest lights Of the legal
profession have been Christians
"It's marvellous how little some peo-
pie think of becoming Christian" he
continued, and that he would rather a
thousand times over that people make
objections than that they be simply
stolid, apathetic and careless.
Then a sturn to the text and the
circumstances of the talk of Jesus.
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