Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-09
ASKS THAT vERITABLE WIND
STORM OF SALVATION SHALL
SWEEP OVER FAIRFIELD
HE SCORES 0TTUMwA
Tells of Experience in Local Saloon
and Hits City PoIce-Denies that
He Is a erafter-calIs Man, Who
Made Charge "Liar."

Fairfield, April Cob Lord. visit
Fairfield with cyclone Of salvation"
prayed Sunday last night. Let tidal
the streets of the old town across the
public square, through the side streets,
along the @ and Rock Island railroads;
oh God, make thyself felt in Thy
power and come to Fairfield people
Save the students, the faculty, the SUI
perintendent of schools. the county Off
GERS, sheriff. clerk, treasurer, auditor,
supervisors. recorder, superintendent,
/ attorney surveyor; Oh God bless them
all, and the city officials from the
mayor down; the police, oh, God, If
they have any here, but from what I've
seen since I've been in Fairfield, I
i don't think they need any. Bless them
with all the spirit Of Thy love.
"Show thy mercy, we pray thee,
upon everybody in the community,
bankers postmaster, youths, the aged,
these trimming with the joy of ado
4 lescense and those decripit with many
4 years, the young men and women,
boys and girls. Save the merchants
and help them to be honest. Help men
to pay their debts, to talk to their
neighbors about the love of Jesus
Christ. Save the doctors, the law
yers, the BARRIERS, the hotel men, the
livery stable men. the railroad en-
ployes, the draymen, the express men,
don't miss any, Lord-oh yes, the mail
carriers. Come down on them with in
, thy divine love.
Transform Fairfield. Give, grace to
the ministers. the churches, the Chris
tians, the sick, the afflicted. Convert
the unsaved. Lord, give estrength to
!, the travelling men that chance to be
here. Help the boys to sell goods out
On the road and to Withstand the many
temptations they have to fight. Defeat
) the devil. Guide and bless us, we ask
in Jesus name. Amen"
Such was the prayer Billy Sunday
poured from his heart at the tabernacle
/ last night, and the multitude before
| him was reverent with bowed heads.
) In spite of the humorous expressions,
the slang that seems second nature
, to the man, as he uttered a prayer
such as never was heard before in
Fairfield, he touched everybody by his
sincerity and earnestness, and many
of those who were loud in disapproval
of the man before he came are begin
ming to see traits in him they cannot
help .admiring.
"Liar," Says Sunday.
|, He took another shot at the CRATER
charge last night 1t was called forth
by speech by Rev Charles Long of
Burlington. In it Long repeated a con.
versation with man who declared
Sunday to be a CRATER. He's a liar
, came with startling suddenness from
Sunday. After Mr.. Long had testified
! to the lasting qualities of Sundays
converts as he had met them in his
church in Burlington. Sunday leaped
to his feet and to the front of the plat
: form like shot.
"A CRATER is man who takes pub.
lie money for his private use," he
! said I'm plain words, he is thief,
and if some of those people don't quit
calling me thief pretty soon I'll land
them behind the bars Of the peniten.
tiary. I wish one of them wouldn't
; say it behind my back, but would have
the nerve to step up to my face and
call me CRATER. GOO! I'd back
slide long enough to give him one
soak that would stretch him on the
sidewalk So that he would be glad tc
take the count, if I had to pay fine
for it the next minute. Why, if | was
working for the money get, could
earn enough in two months to keer
me and my family in comfort for the
rest of my life. I'd snap up the Offer
of Chautauqua bureau that has offer
! ed me $3.50 day for forty lectures
: What do you think of that? And yet
these people say I'm a CRATER. Why
if when the collection for me is take1
], only get enough to buy my ticket
back to Chicago, you won't hear 6
. whimper from me. although I'd lose
money, for have to pay my assistants
' $500 to help me in this revival.
] IF one of those people who shou
CRATER SO loud gives away as much il
! a year as do, I'll shut up. wonder
: how many Of them pay the rent anc
buy coal for score or more of widow
{ women l know in the city of Chicago
that try to support a family for three
s or four dollars a week, all they cal
earn? don't blow around much t.
the newspapers that dc this; it,
none of their business.
TWO Ottumwa Incidents.
During his sermon he related two in
It cidents that happened in Ottumwa
II was in Ottumwa,' said he, land
youno, man cana tn mo and asked If