Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-18

there Is no influence greater than
that of school teacher and I've only
aspired to one office, that Of member
of the school board, and the first thing
| try to do if | ever get the place, is
to raise the salaries of the teachers. +
think it is shame that the teachers
and preachers, the most Indispensable
people on the earth, are the poorest
paid. Why was in Rockford, III. and
found darkey bootblack who had
shoes, more than the superintendent
of the high school-you wait too long
before you warn. You wait until your
pupil staggers into your presence be-
fore you teach wine Is & mocker.' You
the United States that is more lied
about and villified than am I. 1t used
to worry me, and used to lie awake
nights thinking about it, but I've cut
that out. and wouldn't care at all If
1t wasn't for the hindrance it brings
upon the work of the Lord. The Bible
says to pray for them, though, and /
do my best. Just today the editor Of
a little jay-paper near here called me
a CRATER. Do you know what graf
ter is? He's thief wish some of
these people would call me CRATER
to my face. I'd backslide long enough
to knock them down. if had to pay
a fine for it the next minute. I'm go
ing to try to pray for this country
editor, but whether I'll succeed or not
don't know"
The same paper in it's last issue ex-
pressed the belief that If 1t were not
for the money in Sundays revival
work he would go back to ball playing
inside of three weeks. Mr.. Sunday
had answered that charge before it
was made.
Nobody called me CRATER when
1 was janitor of a fourteen-room
school building up in Story county,
with fire to build in every room.
and all of them to sweep, and had
to get up at two o'clock every morn
ing to get the work done, and all for
s14 a month--there we're not CRATER
charges then. Did people call me a
CRATER when walked up to the
cashiers window every four weeks
and drew $500 for playing on the
Chicago Nationals? No sir. Did peo-
pie call me CRATER when went into
Y. NJ G. A. work in Chicago at q
salary OF $S2 a month, and worked
for nearly year without hardly a
penny of salary, walking because
could not pay car fare, going with on
ly one meal on nearly every day, and
often only getting that one through
the kindness of my old friend j. B.
Farwell, when every week was re-
ceiving a dozen letters and tele-
grams offering me from $500 to 500
a month, with the. first months pay
advanced, If l would go back to ball
playing,-when turned down these
offers, when / didnot have enough to
eat, did people call me grafter?. No,
sir, they did not. And when, during
the early years Of my ministry, l
preached year after year not earning
enough money to buy food enough for
myself, did people call me a CRATER?
Not hardly But now when am get
ting enough money to keep me out Of
the poorhouse, these charges spring
UP. 1t makes me sick. and all these.
people say I'm in it for the money.
My, if it was the money was after,
would snap up the offer of q lyceum
bureau that has ollered me $3.50 for
each lecture / will deliver for them.
If I'd take that, in forty days | would
have earned enough to keep me and
my family in comfort for the rest of
my life. And yet people call me a
grafter!"
Mr.. Sunday is to be in Fairfield
about four weeks. He will preach Sc
sermons during this time. At the
price offered him by Tie lyceum
bureau he would receive $4,000 for
that amount of labor. Mr.. Sunday
w ! get a good collection when the
collection for him is taken. AS it is,
he frequently drops from 81 to SIS III
the collection for the expenses of the
meetings, he gives literally to every
worthy enterprise that comes under
has observation, and keeps a score
or more of families in Chicago sup
piled with. 1uel and food, although he
doesn't tell the newspapers about it.
saying that it's none of their business.
He pays his Jour assistants $500 a
month.
According to the unanimous opinion
of those who really become acquaint-
ed with him, Mr.. Sunday is not. a
CRATER, but an earnest christian do
ing what he can to extend the king
dom. of God