Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-09
CLOSING SER V ICE
REvs. cRossLEY AND HUNTER
WILL CONDUCT FAREWELL
MEETING TUESDAY NIGHT.
Will Talk on "cards and Theatres At
First Methodist Episcopal Church
This Evening Large Attendance
May Be Lessened.

This Evening Large Attendance
May Be Lessened.
! From Mondays Daily.
| Tomorrow evening at the First
Methodist Episcopal church will be
held a farewell service by Revs. H. T
Crossley and John r. Hunter, the
Canadian evangelists who for the past
/ few weeks have been conducting Sc
ries of revival meetings in this city.
A closing service for the young peo'
pie will be held at the church tomor.
row afternoon at AIS o'clock.
Tonight the evangelists will talk on
Cards and Theatres" which Rev.
Hunter characterizes as twin devils,
and a special invitation is extended to
everyone to attend these closing serv-
ices. Yesterday was a busy day for
the evangelists. Beginning at 10
o'clock they conducted service at the
A. M. E. church and Rev. Crossley
preached at the regular services at the
First Methodist Episcopal church and
Rev. Hunter at the First Presbyterian
church. In the afternoon there was a
union meeting for men and women at
the First Methodist Episcopal church
and Rev. Hunter spoke to an audi
ence that taxed the capacity of the
church. In the evening Rev. Crossley
spoke at the First Presbyterian church
and both Rev. Hunter and Rev. Cross
ley addressed the meeting at the First
Methodist Episcopal church.
Lessons From Daniel.
Rev. Hunter read the sixth chapter
of Daniel as the scripture lesson and
] in closing told of the conversion of
/ Sir John Macdonald. In his opening
remarks he said:
"There are three things that begin
| with B that want to warn you
against. The first is the billiard
room. The billiard room should be
avoided, not because of the game, for
it is scientific game, but because of
| its associations.
SHOW me young man who spends
the most of his time in the billiard hall
and will show you a young man who
you would not want to trust in store
Merchants, if you have a clerk who is
spending most of his spare time in the
billiard hall, you had better watch
him. 1 know whereof | speak, have
heard too many confessions along that
line.
The Ball Room.
Second, there is the ball room. 1t
is dirty room. l call it the devils
drawing room. Husbands, if your wife
goes to a dance hall, you go with her
or watch her closely, for she may be
dancing with some of the lowest men
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places. Boys, when you want wife,
do not go to the ball room for her. Go
to the prayer meeting. The great ma
jority of divorces are born and bred
in the ballroom.
Third, there is the bar room This
is what call the devils back kitchen.
If you was ever in a saloon you would
notice that they have troughs all
around, just the same as they do in
a hog pen. These places should have
written over them, This is the way to
hell l know of no place where so
many men are started on the road to
destruction as the bar room
Daniel was faithful l want to so
live that when die it may be truth
fully written on my tombstone. faith
full. Faithful to my country, faithful
to my family, faithful to my God.
Daniel was man of good companions,
he was man of faith, he had the
courage to say no. Oh young man,
have the courage to say no. You hear
great many men say that they can
not be a great and successful man and
be Christian.
81 might refer to Washington. to
Lincoln, Garfield or Mckinley, you all
know what their lives were. In clos
ing Rev. Hunter told of the conversion
of Sir John Macdonald, one of the
greatest statesmen Canada or the
world has ever known, who publicly
protested Christianity when he was 70
years of age at a meeting conducted
by Evangelists Crossley and Hunter.
Rev. crossIey Talks.
Rev. Crossley took for his theme,
Render Unto Caesar That Which is
Caesars" and said in part:
First, have some profession or
trade 1t is best to have something
you can do when you are thrown upon
your own resources. Do not disobey
the command of the Lord: Six days
shalt thou labor Work six days
whether it be with your hands, your
brain or with your means, like Car
negie who uses his wealth for doing
good.
Second. do not merge your man
hood or womanhood with your bust
ness or profession. Do not let it be
said that you were born man and died
lawyer, or doctor, or merchant
To be true man or woman is the
highest thing
Third, do not confuse the profess
ing Christians with Christian. Do not
keep pointing to some one who is not
living according to their protesting
Christians with a Christian. Do not
keep pointing to some one who is not
living according to their professions,
and say there is an example of your
Christians Christianity is the straight