Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-11-06
SAYS FALSE IDEA
CAUSES SUICIDE.
DR.. HENRY HARaETr SAYS IT 10
A RESULT OF "EAT DRINK AND
BE MERRY" SPIRIT
breaches First Of a Series Of sermons
on "The Culture 81 the Sour Rev.
r. AdelsteIn johnson Also Begins
Series Of Sermons.

From Mondays Daily. +.
Suicides are the result Of the De-
lief best expressed In the phrase, Eat
drink and be merry for tomorrow we
may die," said DR.. Henry w. Hargett
in his address on 1.-THE Soul Man Is"
delivered last evening before his con.
gregation at the First Methodist
Episcopal church.
DR.. Targets address was the first
OF a series Of sermons Culture Of tho
Soul" He said In part:
1T was Gunsaulus who said, The
Soul of Culture Is the Culture oftSoul.'
I'VE are apt to exalt the body and
think after all that 1t Ii man, but the
body Is only the work room in which
the soul is nodded and perfected for
graduation in the next world.
THE body changes md changes
again but the soul remains the same
forever. 1t is the soul that gives man
identity. The soul was that which
was given when God breathed into
our bodies and gave us life, and At is
the soul which shall return to Him. It
is believed in Oriental countries that
when soul passes into the unknown
It Is stored away to be used again In
the creating Of new life, re-incarna-
| ton, that Is, and that We sometimes
remember vaguely some incident Of
our former existence. Some people be-
lieve that the soul of Adam was hand
ed down to us by heredity, but the
soul is individually created when man
| Is created.
Suicides are the result Of the
thought that everything ends with the
body, and in seeking to destroy bodily
pain men destroy the body, SO that
the soul returns to IT'D creator imper.
fected. 1t is the result OF the belief
pr0pounded in the phrase Eat. drink
and be merry for tomorrow We may
die"
| 1--WE belong to Cod" Or. Hargett
urged In closing, and must live for
God and develop our souls for their
return to God. We should not sell the
house In which our soyl resides to
| worldliness and sin but must allow the
hardships Of this world to develop our
souls, through our bodies, for perfec-
ton in the world to come"
A special musical program was fur.
nished. The next Of the series Is en-.
titled "The Workroom Of the Soul"
and is to be given Sunday evening.
November III.
At the Congregational Church.
Rev. P: Adelstein johnson, pastor
Of the First Congregational church,
delivered the first of d series OF Sun
day evening sermons on "The Men
sage Of the Prophets to the Men Of
| Today" last evening, taking TOR his
subject "The Message Of the Prophet
tsnos" Rev, Johnson said in part:
The men that have seen visions
and dreamed dreams are made fun OF
during their lifetime. The masses
love the man Of action, the man that
Is doing something at the present
time. The poet or the prophet are
not thought Of until 100 years or
more after the time In which he lived.
The same is true with the prophets OF
the old testament, the dreamers and
the men Of vision, but are they not az
vital today as they were centuries
ago. The dangers and problems Of
Amos time were the same as those OF
the twentieth century.
4 During the time In which Amos
lived everything was prosperous but
this prosperity brought an evil day.
The people became selfish. The rich
oppressed the poor. They sold them
as slaves. Justice, why there was no
justice. The poor were bought and
sold while the rich became richer,
| more hardhearted and more cruel.
| Amos, the poor and obscure man,
was chosen by God to be his prophet
and to deliver his message to the
| Israelites. His first lesson was to
teach them the sovereignty OF God
that for wrong done they must give
| account to him alone. Those that do
evil will be punished.
The third lesson was that God ia
no respecter Of persons or nations.
Unless one obeys his commands he
will be called ito an account. The
fourth lesson brought out this point
tGat religious ceremony is not sub.
stitute for downright honesty. But the
last and most important lesson was
that repentance towards God alters
the situation in many cases.
Seek God and live for Him. Do
not worship any false God only seek
Jehovah and live the Christian life.'.