Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-23
Saturday Eusninn.

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'I3e sure your sins will find you out"
plumbers xxxii:2S) was the text Ut
Sundays sermon Saturday eVeqing.
mo man or woman he said, escapes
from the sins he or she has committed.
A penalty must be pad for every sin
that is committed. Don't think that 4
by doing wrong you can add little to
your bank account. sin pays. That is
the most stupendous mistake many
can make-Athinking that sin pays
1t may be that some in the audience
tonight are planning sins, that they
only came here in an effort to deceive
others, and that each moment Is bring
ing them nearer the time when they
planned to commit it. Stop, stop, be-
fore 1t is too late.
I'VE are not sure that we will die;
Jesus Christ might come tonight; this
may be the funeral sermon Of some of
you. We are not sure that the sun will
rise tomorrow. But you may be sure
that your sins will find you out.
"You may escape the human law
Of yes, but you cannot escape your
sins. You may not be compelled 70
pay at human court, but you will De
forced to suffer physically. There are
certain diseases that Will follow certain
sins just as naturally as water seeks
Its lowest level. The relation between
morality and health is close.
"All sins have physical consequences
some more thin others. If you would
eliminate all diseases caused by sins
you would be surprised how little
sickness would be left. BY statistics ii
has been shown that anger shortens
life, that sin overtakes you in that
way. In the sinners character there
comes change. You all know Of GER
brings to mind the thought of some
sin to which they are addicted. dom
believe fostering sore on your body
! Is half as bad as fostering character
| "A man can't lie without breeding
! poison in himself. He can't cheat ii
| business without hurting his reputa-
| ton; he can't wrong a man as to his
wages, husband sin against his wifi.
or a wife against her husband, read al
impure book, Or take in a leg show
without suffering for it.
There was a Chicago banker, ricf
and fast whose bank was the resting
place Of millions of dollars of working
mems wages, who spent his money OF
women and wine. who fled to Africa t.
escape punishment, but was brough
back. Go to Joliet today and ask ex
Banker Stensland If it paid.
4 Come with me to New York City
and walk up Fifth avenue to the cor
! ner Of 32nd street. Go into the won
4 derful Waldorf Astoria and up to tn,
twelfth floor, into suite Of room
where lies multi millionaire, strug
Cling with death, surrounded by tn,
most skillful physicians money can Sc
cure, and attended by retfnue Of ser
4 wants and trained nurses who antici
pate his every need.-L Listen Their
comes a, rap on the door and maj
and woman enter and lean over tn
] couch of the dying, man. He doesn'
know his own SON and daughter-in
1 law.
"In a moment he gasps, struggles TO
breath, his pupils dilate in his agon.
and then he expires.
THE proprietors Of the Waldorf AS
ktoria refuse to permit the undertaken
to bring a coffin into the hotel; fear
ing that it would cause stamped
among the guests Four colored ser
wants carry into the bedroom a lonl
wicker basket such las they use tt
carry dirty clothes ITO the laundry
They place the still warm body in /
and 1t doubles UP like Jack knife. j
few dirty sheets are at the bottom