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

you praying for that very thing?'
That's the trouble with most Christians
they don't put any faith in their pray
ers."
Scores Police.
In his other incident Sunday told of
a heart broken Ottumwa mother ask
ing him to get to her son to have a
talk with him. Sunday said he was
informed at the fellows working place
that he was probably at a booze joint.
But he declared he would go anywhere
to save soul and he started the
rounds to locate the boy. He was di-
rected to the nearest one. Entering,
he found big, slit eyed, bull necked
| well groomed son of perdition with a
diamond on his shirt front as bi. as
a hickory nut.
Hello. cul,' said the Stranger as
entered, ,'what'll you have, a gin tizz
or a cocktail?'
You've sized me up wrong, rum
my / answered.
What's that you're calling me?'
and the brute leered viciously.
'Aw, come out of it, I rejoined,
don't look as if l was over six? You
can't scare me. Say, have you seen
WILL
No, he said, go ask the corner
cop
Now to go against an Ottumwa cop
is the real thing. | found one stand
ing on corner. and like the dub in
the saloon. his breath would kill at
thirty yards. He didn't know anything
1 about the young man, so I went back
to the mother and together we went
out to the family home. 1t was sad
time out there with aged father and
1 mother praying and weeping for the
i boy. They showed me all the mag
j nificent property that belonged to the
i hayward son. That night at the SER
Twice went up to drunk man holding
i loosely to pillar and asked him if he
was Christian. He laughed at my
II first words, but soon sobered down and
in the end led him to the altar,
}, where he knelt before his God. There
was sudden cry, almost shrek,
from the rear of the room, and the
woman who had talked to me in the
Z morning came down the aisle and put
j, her arm around her son who had been
! born anew in Jesus Christ. 1t was
| prayer that wrought that"
Earnest, conscientious prayer and
lots of it, was one of the main themes
in last nights discourse. The text was
Genesis. xxi: %; where is told the
: story of Jacobs return to meet his
, brother Esau. Mr. Sunday compared
the presents Jacob sent to his brother
q fo he live
church members live in the hope that
they will stave off divine judgment
He paid his respects to everybody from
pastor Of the church down to the ole
reprobates who won't pay any atten
, ton to revival. handing bunch tc
the people who don't live their relig
|, ion and show 1t by cheeriness, bright
ness and smile on their faces
why" said the preacher, from the
looks of good many who profess tc
be followers Of God, the devil is the
only one offering enjoyment"
He told Fairfield people that when
! he was here last summer he saw al
/. once what, was the matter with them
!, you look as if you ate too much an6
are too contented to sit still while
thousands are going to hell. You are
intellectual and all that, but you are
i too easily satisfied with conditions tc
try to stop this flow to hell of human
souls. Get out and preach and live
the gospel of Jesus Christ as found In
: that old book over there. was advo
eating the most extended use of the
bible one day when man who pro
: fessed to be minister of the gospel
/ too, at that, came to me and said
Mr.. Sunday don't you know that the
: consensus of the latest opinions O.
| scholars and philosophers and Mr.
! Sunday mimicked the man of whom hi
| was speaking ITO the devil with the
concensus of the latest opinions O
3 scholars and philosophers 1t can q
5 straight to hell. I'm not preaching
that. If God didn't know more thar
: a lot of college 'profs' and othe,
stiffs, I'd have quit preaching lont
: ago
, "But lots of people don't follow tn,
!, bible in their lives. They go to churcl
: on Sunday and blindly repeat the creet
and the articles of confession, but g,
: out of the church lea
t ion behind them to live like the devi
3 for the other six days in the week"
: WILL CONVENE TUESDAY