Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-27

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the first city Billy Sunday mentioned
last night when he described the reign
OF evil that commences when the sun
goes down. THE devil, like a beast
Of prey" he said, stalks forth with
the setting Of the sun Midnight on
earth ID mid-noon in hell. Is Ottumwa
asleep as am speaking? Is Burling
ton, New York or Chicago? The deni-
8enS OF hell are awake and they are
commencing their revel at the banquet
of Bacchus. Now is the time for for.
hidden, ltcentious amusements. Now is
the time that Jezebel is weaving her
plots. now is the time that Delilah is
tempting Samson on, and fool that he
Is, he Is laying his head in her lap.
Nov the dance is at its height;
now the beer, wine, champagne, flow
like water; now the click of gam
blers chips is heard. Now around the
saloons, theaters, brothels and hotels
q are the cormorants Of darkness. f1ends
OF both sexes eager and anxious to
lead astray all that fall into their
clutches.
Ho. policeman, look into this face!
Don't those leering eyes spell sin and
hell? Don't those unholy peals of
laughter rival the shrieks from the
, pit OF hell?"
Talks at LibertyviIle.
Libertyville yesterday morning and at
ter the sermon two turned to the
Christian life. Last night he preached
TO $500 at the tabernacle and ten gave
their hands to Mr.. Sunday and their
hearts to God when he finished. Twer-
ty more declared their intention of
making a. decision for Christ and ask
ed for prayer.
Amusement Sermon Tonight.
Tonight comes the sermon on
amusements. There will be seats re-
served for the families of the factory
workers until o'clock. There will be
a collection taken tomorrow" SAID
Sunday, partly because we need lit
tie money for the expenses of the re-
Yival and partly because the sermon
is worth IT.. We're going to commence
q little early with the sermon because
it'll take couple of hours for what i
want to say" At yesterday after
Moons meeting the evangelist said
when get through preaching my SER
mon on anusenents tomorrow even
ing, will be the. most cIssed man in
Fairfield. p
Sundays subject last night was the
Atonement, and he made the imposing
! subject simple with his clear and
forcefui explanation.
When Adam sinned death passed
into human life. II he had not have
einned there would be no death: no
one would have died. God looked on
Adam as the head of the family, and
when he sinned God passed death onto
all OF his postefity. But when I ac-
cept Jesus Christ as my Savior get
favor back from God and am consider
ed as IL i had never sinned
have read good deal of infldel
literature arguing against the atone
nefit, but have yet to read the first
one that showed common sense for five
minutes. Any fool however, can tear
up rose, but it takes God to make
one. ANY fool can make fun Of the
plan OF redemption, but can you make
IA better one?
IT Is a rule of life that the innocent
4 suffer with and for the guilty more
than the guilty themselves Take the
I young wife, when the strains of the
4 wedding march have scarcely died
! away, and the perfume of the orange
blossoms has scarcely faded, she waits
alone for the husband who promised
TO love and cherish her Who suffers
Il the more when he reels in drunk and
fresh from his debauchery, the damn
able low down, corrupt, moral peryert
or the wronged wife? You know the
innocent suffer the most if they are
yoked to a husband like that. Jesus
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the guilty to open up way to keep us
tout OF hell.
Your religion is a slaughter house
I religion, said an infidel to me once
right, you son of perdition, if you
San keep out Of hell without it, all
right. The Bible would be a mere jar
gon OF words without the blood of
Jesus. It or any other religion woulo
go straight to hell with the blood Of
Jesus left out. Your body would ba
no good without the blood. Neither
would Christianity, or any isms or
DEVIL
When the Ship Sprung Leak.
Did you ever hear the story of the
snip that sprung a leak at sea? All
the pumps were put to work, but still
the water came in faster than 1t could
be pumped out. The captain sounded
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