Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-29
SUPREME QUESTION
IMPRESSIVE MEETING CONDUCT
ED AT FIRST METHODIST
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

ED AT FIRST METHODIST
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Rev. crossIey Talks on 1.-THE Supreme
Question or the Governors CONVEX
sion"-Many Respond to Invitation
at the After Meeting.
From Thursdays Daily
The meeting at the First Methodist
Episcopal church last evening, con-
Quoted by Evangelists Crossley and
Hunter, was one of the most impress
sive and effective of the series up to
the present time, and number Of per-
sons responded to the invitation to ex-
press their desire to become Chris
tians by going to the altar. Solos by
Rev. Crossley and music by the Welsh
chorus were features of the service.
In making the announcements for
the week, Rev. P. A. Johnson, pastor
of the First Congregational church,
stated that he believed that the spir-
itual momentum was increasing and
that people all over the city, many of
whom had not as yet attended the
meetings, were feeling the effects of
the services. Sunday afternoon there
will be a meeting for men at the Grand
Opera House to be addressed by Rev.
Crossley. At the First Methodist
Episcopal church Sunday afternoon,
will no for =
Rev. Hunter will speak on "The Model
Woman"
The Touch of Faith.
Rev. Hunter read from the eighth
chapter of Luke, telling of the woman
who pressing through the throng,
touches the garment of Jesus and Is
healed. He said in part:
Jesus although jostled by the
throng did not notice it but knew in
stantly when touched by the finger Of
faith. wish to call your attention to
five points regarding this woman. Her
desire, her earnestness, her determin-
alton, her faith and her confession.
Some one had told her about Jesus,
and she thought if she could just get
to touch the hem of his garment she
would be made we'll The moment she
touches him, life courses through her
veins. oh, if the people of this city
would only approach Christ. But
Jesus also raised the dead, bringing to
life the daughter of Jarius.
He has that same power tonight to
give life to dead souls. Her spirit came
again. Not in the form of spooks or
rappings or table moving. I have no
faith In that kind of spirits. Jesus
commended, gave her meat He alone
can raise the dead, we ministers can
only give the meat.
A Wonderful Chapter.
This is one of the wonderful chap
ters Of the bible. Here we learn some
rejected Him while some received.
So it is in Ottumwa. So it is all over
the world. What drove this man to
Jesus? Trouble sickness, death. Yes,
trouble brings the rich, the poor, the
careless
Jesus conquered devils. He has the
same power today. Finding a man that
was possessed of devils he commanded
them to leave him. The devils entered
into a herd of swine and the swine ran
into the sea and were drowned. And
the people besought Jesus to leave
that part of the country They cared
more for the swine than they did for
3the man. So it is today Many think
more OF their business than they do Of
their souls. They are selling their
Lord for some little thing.
I'VE learn also that Jesus had power
over diseases. Yes. there is such a
thing as disease. When you are sick,
you call physician and that is right.
! believe in faith healing, but not as
taught by some faith healers
aJesus had power after death. But
you must invite Him to your home.
Some people have no room for Jesus
in their business, or politics, amuse.
ments, reading, conversation or even
in the church If we would only let
Christ into our hearts, what life ours
would be-"
The Supreme Question.
"The Supreme Question, or the Gov.
ernor's Conversion" was the subject
of the sermon by Rev. Crossley. He
spoke in part as follows:
"The subject refers especially to the
governor of the Jail at Philippi His
question was. 'Sirs, what must I dc
to be saved?' AS we consider this
question various thoughts come to us
First, 1t is polite question. 1t is an
intelligent question You who are moi
Christians do not appreciate this. PEG
pie who are living way from Christ dc
so because of moral lunacy. We read
of the prodigal son that when he came
to himself he said: I will arise and &C
to my father Before that he was moi
himself, he was off his base. He was
In state of moral lunacy
A Necessary Question.
ut is necessary question. If you
ask what must do to be lost, the an
swer is, do nothing. If we are not
Christians we are not fit to live or fit
to die. 1t is a personal question
Some people say have just as good
chance as good many church mem
. bers. There is no chance about it..
Others say, there are so many hypo
critics in the church. Do not let the
hypocrites keep you away from God
Do not wait for some one else but take
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