Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-09
SUNDAY IS
STIRRING
FAIRFIELD
EVANGELIST CONDUCTING MEET.
ING in HIS CHARACTERISTIC
MANNER DOES NOT SPARE THE,
CHURCH MEMBER WITH HIPPO
CRITICAL LEAN.

Fairfield, April Sunday was
big day in the Rev. w, A. Sunday re-
vival that is being conducted here. The
attendance totaled over 5000 in spite
of the fact that the morning and
evening were both threatening bad
weather. In the evening the taberna-
Gle was damned, fully S,100 people
hearing the sermon.
The evangelist has gotten good
start and has dropped much of the
graphic expressions that caused 40
much criticism to be heaped on him
He Is preaching earnestly and work.
ing hard and winning many friends.
Yesterday was easily the greatest
day of the revival so far. His SER
mons in the morning and afternoon
were Of a militant nature and In the
evening he aswered fully ad satisfac-
torily the arguments propounded by
infidels.
Sunday Evening.
The comnionest arguments put forth
by atheists and agnostics against
Christianity We're riddled unmerciful-
ly by Rev Mr.. Sunday Sunday night.
The objections he had met with he
took up separately and proved logic
ally and convincingY their utter fall
sity His text was John vii, II, "If any
man will do his will, he shall know OF
the doctrine, whether it be of God, or
whether I speak of myself
The sermon pointed out that to
make an attempt to do Gods will was
to learn what was expected. But
those who object to the teachings Of
the Bible because Of hypocrites In the
church are standing on weak ground.
Why, ike any lodge in America to-
day. You members Of them know
very well that every member of any
lodge doesn't live up truly to the oaths
he took when he Joined that lodge. To
be a Mason you have to believe III
God, and to be a knight Templar you
must accept Jesus and the New Testa-
ment. Yet how many non Christians
are today in that lodge. They DON'T
live up to their; vows. Is that an ar
gument against the lodge, because
there are hypocrites in 1t? No. Only
a fool would use such an argument,
and he's a fool If he does. Can the
fact that there are hypocrites in the
church be used as an argument
against the church? No. Only fool
hearted fool If he does. You don't
need to go into a church to find hypo-
critics. Do you remember that Let
him that Is without sin cast the first
stone? II that were followed today,
every arm would become paralyzed
and every stone would fall to the
pavement.
Women and Styles.
Some agnostics say that the Bible
Is inconsistent. The trouble with them
is that the Inconsistencies lie in them.
selves, not in the Bible. Talk politics
to them and they will talk sense. Try
business, and they will talk sense.
Talk to woman about styles and
fashions and she will talk sense Talk
to any one Of them about religion and
they'll all talk nonsense. There never
was a man found who declared he
didn't believe in the Bible but who
was living in some sin denounced by
the Bible.
When you hear the 'holler' about
Gains wife, you can rest assured that
whoever springs it is more concerned
about his neighbor's wife than Gains.
Why, 1t must be remembered that
Cain had reached the youthful age Of
1913 years when he started accounting,
and according to the figures of the
greatest statisticians 1t was possible
when the matrimonial bee buzzed IN
Gains belfry for Cain to choose q buzz
ON girl from among five thousand odd
members of the fair sex who were liy-
ing at that time
He'll Full Of Church Members.
Il had saloon keeper say to me
that the saloon couldn't live as long as
the church members signed the niulct
petition. Whenever the day comes
when the church Of God says stop to
that mighty evil, the damnable bust.
ness will stop at once and you know
it. / defy anybody to contradict me
on it. hell is so full Of mulct-petition-
signing church members that their
feet stick out of the windows. The
saloon laughs God in the face because
1t is those that profess to be his fol-
lowers who make such an institution
possible.
Some can't understand the divine
birth. of the Savior. There would be
something repelling to the thought il
human were the father Of Christ