Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-15
"PREPARE TO
MEET GOD
SUBJECT OF REV. BARRETT's SER.
MON AT ELDoN LAST EVENING
GREAT CROWDS PRESENT

Eldon, June 13-The interest in the
revival services being conducted by
Rev. Barrett in the big tent continues
to increase. Hundreds of people re
unable to get inside the tent at each
meeting. Last nights grand sermon
follows:
Prepare to meet God"
You are going to meet him and go
ing to hear Him at the judgment seat
/ once read of a man named Bill
who was guide in the Adirondacks
and who denounced even the idea Of q
hell While acting for tourist party
one day his canoe tipped him out III
went to the bottom. On coming to the
surface his straw hat was all he could
reach and down he ment again. The
rext time he came to the top he shout
ed Help, help!" And the party who
was near by on the shore heard him.
When they arrived on the scene only
old Bills straw hat and the upturned
canoe We're In sight. Bill was at the
bottom. They dove down and got him
| out. After rolling him on log until
the water was all out Of him, his eyes
opened, and the first one he saw was a
preacher, who said: bill what did
you call for help for? Was you afraid
Of help Bill replied: my doctrine
will do on dry land, but it won't work
.
will shout "Help!" when they come 10
| Gle, and their doctrine Of no hell will
go like Bilrs.
Like to Drift Along Easy.
| We have great many people in this
world who like to drift along easy with
nothing to mar the pleasure Of life.
They don't like to hoar the doctrine OF
hell because they are on dry land now.
Tbere is great deal of difference In
| the way you look at things.
| I hear men say, II don't take any
stock in sympathy or charity. I don't
give to any of them" I notice when a
note comes due at the bank and they
don't have the stuff to meet it they call
| for help like Bill did.
When you stand at the grave of lit
| tie Mary you will believe 1t and CRY
out to God for help. Anything will
do for dry land, but good boat for
water
| The reason you don't believe in hell
is the same as bad men. But you
know If there is no hell there should be
The man who promised the girl
when he married her, protection, ana
when trouble came to the home took tt
drinking to drown his trouble, is draw
ing a knife across the throat Of his
wife, and there should be hell for
him
| Here is church member who is a
moral leper and the people say that il
| he is a Christian, / don't want to be
one.
A wife who lives for ilersale and
starts out in sin. the tool IF any man
car drag more men to he'll IN Il shol,
| tine, knows there is hell.
She that despised Moses law died
without mercy.
Ee:c.ed, everything is running
/ smoothly now; the rain has ceased:
only one sick man in quarantine; gooo
health; plenty to do and to eat,-you
are having nice time, but let me tel
you something. You will have to meet
| your God.
I have faced death in war, sea, and
on land often. / don't know If l will
ever enter my home, away from which
have been for months but in the par
Tors of my home sometime ! will lay
in my casket; my wife and children
will weep over me. But my dear peo'
pie, YOU too. must die. The casket is
ready for some of you now. These
meetings may not close until some Of
YOU present are dead Prepare tc
| meet your Cod
You Can't ESCAPE Death.
You can't escape death; smile If yor
will, and go through life with grin
but remember that after death yor
must stand at the bar of God.
You cannot go through life Of sir
and not be lost, unless you are prepar.
ed to meet your God.
When was boy hell was popular
doctrine. Pastors were all up with
Moody preaching hell
In those days we had convictions and