Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-09

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Do you know that in bees and silk
worms Is found virgin birth. If God
permits such thing in the lower
Kingdom. it does not seem at all un-
reasonable to me that he could pro-
duce such a thing in the higher world
Does it to you?
Did you ever pray and then get up
and try to live 1t out? If you did you
find the Bible Is true.
But this or that agnostic comes TO
me and says that Immortality bothers
him. He says that his COW, dog ana
horse have memory, will power and
imagination, to a certain degree just
like man, yet we say he has no soul
and wants to know how that can be-
Those are faculties of mind, moth
Ing more. dog has not faith. .Oh,
but, shouts the infidel, my dog has
faith in ME. Yes, when he's seen you.
You never saw one Of the lower AMI
;aal kingdom with faith in anythin,
he hasn't suen. Then 1t is memory. A
lower animal has no more faculty, ard
you can't give. 1t one by teaching. 1t
Eas no conscience, man Is the only
creature with that. These three facul-
ties are facultieseGf the soul A lower
animal does not possess thep.
An infidel says, Well. u I had
faith, I'd believe Don't you know
that the powers Of nature are lost
through disuse? No wonder he doesn't
up again. Nothing is more reasonable
than religion.
1t may be that when you come to
stand on the narrow strip OF land,
your feet laped by the waters Of eter-
nifty. you will cry 20. God, ] forgot
But If you eevr knew and accepted
yo1 cannot forget. There will come
back to you this scene. this taberna-
Gle, you will see me again and think
OF the efforts that were put forth to
save you Ancient Babylonian wax
tablets have been found with the early
history Of the ancient city written on
tnem The tablets are hard and last
Ing now. Tonight is being hxed on
the plastic wax Of your mind, these
truths which you never cnn forget"
Afternoon Meeting.
The Sunday afternoon sermon was
strictly battle cry. He exhorted the
church Of God to fight, fight, fight In
an impassioned and eloquent dis
course. He took Luke XIV, 40, Tar
ry We in the city of Jerusalem until ye
ne embued with power from on high"
Every nation has Its army and
navy organized for its protection, ev-
cry state has its militia, every county
all we'll organized. The Holy Spirit
protects the cause Of Jesus Christ and
organizes Its members into huge ar
my of soldiers or grenadiers. In these
days OF graft and rottenness, monop.
oily. and corporations, the cohorts Of
evil are working unrelentingly. and
the church must have men and women
who can be depended upon. Nothing
VIII ever be accomplished unless It
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the text. A true church member is the
Holy Spirits soldier and through you
and me God hopes to win men from
evil
Jesus Christ had to show by his
works what he was, and we have to
do more than stand up to get our
pledge on the church roll Lots OF
people are good windjammers when It
comes to saying they are Christians.
But when It comes to standing up for
Jesus Christ socially when 1t comes to
manner, when in political convention
1T comes time to denounce corruption
as IS right. lots of people fail. Don't
be mere pawns upon chessboard
Discusses Catholicity.
Some people ask me why I don't
preach against the Catholic church.
Simply because there is too much filth
In the dooryards of the Protestant
churches for me to do anything but
", work to clean them UP. If | ever get
It done I'll help the Catholic church
tooth and toe-nail to clean. UP any
corruption she may have. I've got this
to say, though. There are just as many
Of the truest Christians that ever lived
In the Catholic church as any other,
and Just as many hypocrites. Some
OF my closest friends are Catholics.
You don't find the Catholic clergy
going off on tangent. You don't find
any Of them among these higher criti-
cism folks. You don't find any OF the
of Christ. Not by long shot. There's
another thing the Catholic church, and
the Episcopal, too, is Just right, and
that's the divorce proposition. No d.
vorced person should marry again, ex-
cept when divorced for adultery, and
not then If the other person is living
The only scriptural excuse for divorce
is adultery and there's no mention of
the privilege of re-marrying under
any circumstances no matter how
much you legislate. The day is COM
ing when no minister Of the gospel
Will marry divorced person. It's
come right now for me.
Why, in Chicago the other day a
fine looking fellow and a pretty girl
came to my house to be married. He
admitted he had been divorced, so
just said 'Shiddoo.'
The Oath.
Church people should be strength
ened by the public oath they have talk
en-. Do you realize how binding an
oath really Is? Why, away back In
the Old Testament King Darius la
bored until sunset to seve Daniel from
the den Of lions. But Daniel had to
go. because Of the oath the king had
taken.
when half nude salome did her SER
pentine wriggle before old Herod and
excited all his passions and lust ana
ne promised her anything she asked.
He feared to keep his vow and deliver
the head Of the fearless man Of God
who had huyled anathemas against the
kind Of Herodias. but It was an oath
and must be kept.
DO you say the oath you took when
you Joined the church is nothing?
I'VE see the power Of the oath in