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

give just as he does on how much
d notices when you throw a nlckle y
oIIar gold piece that you could afford.
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work. knowledge is valuable only
when it is put to use If you can shoe
a horse, no matter how excellently,
but don't do it, your knowledge of that
doesn't help the world any. It's the
same way witfA making dress or a
watch Unless you put into practice
your knowledge is of no value. Chris
tianity consists not in believing or do
ing, singly, but in both believing and
Don't Wonder Faith Lacks.
"The most successful preachers
against Christianity are inconsistent
Christians. You go to the church on
Sunday and pray, and go out and
cheat your neighbor in a horse trade.
You go on communion Sunday and
then put the wrong figures In your
day book. My God, isn't the fact that
half the church members are dead an
inducement for you and me to work?
Isn't the fact that men are tumbling
over each other on their way to hell
an inducement for you to work for the
cause of your Master? If it isn't /
don't wonder that the world is losing
faith in the church Of Jesus. The
church is facing the greatest oppor-
tunity of century, and we must
work.
We'll. Nehemiah cleaned away the
rubbish to make good foundations.
| That's what I'm trying to do. It's
hard to build a church on a deck Of
cards or a case of beer. There are 200,-
coo churches in America with 26,O00,-
600 communicates and seating ca
pacity of 57,000,000. One-third Of the
American people today are church
members, and If each one would bring
a soul to Christ we'd soon change the
appearance of the western hemisphere.
If a person don't bring one single
soul to Christ, he doesn't deserve to
get into heaven, and seriously doubt
whether he will or not. Lots of peo-
pie look on the preacher and choir as
entertainers.
But Nehemiah hadn't more than
got started until a bunch got busy.
That's the way with every undertake
ing; devils are everywhere to get in
their measly work You can always
| the amount of stir the devil makes
Some of the worst devils this side Of
hell are in the church"
Then turning to the press table, he
said, You newspaper people, I would
like to have you get this that I'm go
4 ing to say if you don't get anything
else at ALL Put it in box--I guess
that's what you call tat the top of
the column:
THE most effective means that any
man or woman can employ to public
ly demonstrate their Indifference to
decency and morals is to oppose a
work like this which has for its object
the making of men and women as God
wanted them to be, to make the thief
steal no more, the drunkard sober, the
libertine pure and the unfortunate
harlot virtuous woman"
Arc You Christian7
Then he continued: Il can walk up
to man and say, Are you a Chris
tian? and he'll get on a long face and
say. hope SO, dear brother, I'm trying
to be- Wouldn't you think man was
a fool if I'd ask him if he was mar
ried and he'd say. I hope so, I'm a-try-
in to be?' You know positively if you
are or are not Christin.
IF you have a. mind to work, you
will pray. If you are DOCTOR you will
put on the prayer cards the name of
every doctor In town that isn't a
Christian. IL you are a lawyer-well,
you'll have hard jobJ If you are a
Mason, an Odd Fellow you'll put on
your prayer card the name of every
member of that lodge that isn't a
| Christian. And you can be sure that
the Very first ones converted will be
the people whose names are on some-
body's prayer cards, I never saw it
fail yet.
The plowman who sings as he
plows to build up his little paradise on
earth for his wife and family is more
indispensable. think, than the afflu-
ent member Of the board of trade who
plays with fortunes as cat plays
with a mouse, and a truer type Of
| Americanism.
The unknown woman who visits
the sick, comforts the mourning, helps
in stricken house and does tlous-
and and one other kind Offices. 1 think,
is more indispensable and truer type
of womanhood than the bag, the soci-
ETY. devotee with jewelled ear rings
who moves around on Administer and
4 Persian rugs, and becomes nothing
1 but skin and bones to hang fashion
| able clothes on.
1.-The drummer who goes out, leav-
ing his home for a week, a month, or
six months at time, leaving his fam
| lily to exc a living, is entitled to more
credit than the grafters of Wall street
that juggle with the money that comes
1 into their control
With the Laborins Man.
"In this struggle between capital
| and labor, I'm in favor Of the laborer,
and I'll fight for the man with the din
ner bucket all the time.
we are all in an immense base
ball game with the devil in the box,
| the Lord as the umpire and all of us
at bat. The bases are Faith, Hope and
Charity. and some people are trying to