Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11

jesus was telling the Jews that they
must not despise the Samaritans; and
the Samaritans and they must treat
the Jews right. The caste system
was curse in Judea just as it is in
many country today. Jesus wanted
1T overcome. But Jesus does mean
that when man asks you for help
you aren't to appoint committee to
find the color of his hair and the mum.
Der of his teath and argue whether
1t was due to heredity or environ
ment
Liquor and Tobacco.
Last year there was 81 400, 100000
for drink. The grain that was wasted
In the manufacture of this damnable
product that fills the penitentiaries
and insane asylums and orphanages.
ii made into .wo pound loaves Of bread
would pave street 10000 miles long
and 20 feet wide.
Last year we spent $900,000,000 On
tobacco, and show me one man that
was benefited in any way, made purer
or better to the least extent by the
use Of the weed. You ask, Can a
man be Christian and use tobacco?
Yes, sir, / maintain he can. But he
can be better one by far If he
doesn't. He can use tobacco and be
as good Christian as | am, but it
doesn't do any good You respect me
more than you would if came to the
tabernacle smoking a brier-wcod pipe
knocking the ashes out just before
came in and got up to preach with
a stream of tobacco juice running
down my chin.
Last year we spent $4,000 for
amusements, and l ask you to show
me one person who was helped by
them. We spent $2O0000,0OO for lodge
fees-mind you don't object to all
these, except the whisky, but l only
want to compare some things-we
spent S200,000,00O on dogs. Now 1
like a dog and have one at home with
pedigree that will reach as far as
from here to that stove, but the place
for a dog isn't in the arms and heart
of a woman where a baby ought to
be.
1--WE paid $7S,ooO,Ooo for confection-
airy and by SO doing enabled the
Standard Oil company, the rottenest
trust on Gods dirt, to pay a big divi.
de9d, because 60 per cent of the con
dictionary is made from parafine,
product of the Standard OIL We
spent S22,0OO,OU0 for chewing gum.
And this alone is more than was given
to missions by all the churches in
America.
Temper Sundays Weakness.
Everyone has same weakness told
you I'd tell you what mine is. It's my
temper. It's like a sheet iron stove.
will get red hot in two minutes with
a handful of snavings. But I'm work
ing to get it down to the baseburner
basis. The hardest job have to dc
Is to pray for the people that are con
stantly villifying me. Why one editor
of little jay-paper in a town near
here just the other day printed a
slandeKous libel about me- I'm going
to try to pray for that dub. Whether
| can or not Wen see. Nobody is
without some weakness. Yours may
be swearing, pride, passion, lying. or
something else.
I'm not sure that I've gotten to
the one cheek basis the Lord was
talking about. think If a man would
swat me on one cheek, I'd clear deck
for action at once.
tsYou know what the bible says
about marrying unbelieve-s. Well,
boys and girls are juvenile editions Of
their parents. Like produces like.
And it's natural for son of that kind
of parents to steal as not Fae al
daughter to turn prostitute as not. if
more daddies and grand-daddies had
been hanged, less sons would be hang
ed today. Like produces like. The
increase in church membership dur.
ing the past year was IL per cent;
of the population 2 3-4 per cent; Of
crime II per cent. Seventy-fve out
of every 100 persons never attend
church,, ninety-fve out of every hun.
dred are not members; and ninety
sevAp out of every hundred never give
anything to the cause of Jesus Christ.
Society Is Devilism.
Il believe in society, but in Chris
tian society. You call what we have
today society; I call it devilism l
believe that half the society people
today are going straight to hell Asl
society is conducted today l think it
is doing more to damn the church
an uncompromising enemy of the
liquor traffic.
why call we me Lord and do not
what | say-in society. l believe
that the day is coming when God will
step in and Interfere with society. It's
rotten and corrupt to the core. 1
don't know how he will do it, but he
will. You can't make me believe that
the San Francisco earthquake wasn't
sent as a punishment to- the wickedest
city in America. ).
do you do what he says in bust
ness, politics, social life, in whatever
line of work you are in. The church
of God needs business men who will
work for God in their duty, politicians
who work for God, editors who will
write for God.
why call We me Lord, and not Ge-l
the things which | say?"