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


enforcement Of the law he has broken
Punishment means suffering and par
don or salvation means rescue from
punishment. The law stands just the
same, the crime merely is forgotten.
God makes the promise that if we ap-
peal to Jesus we will escape punish
ment. But just as the state upholds
the majesty of its laws by the punish
ment of malefactors, just so God Will
uphold the majesty of His law by pun
ishment if you refuse to listen to Him
The authorities who hold the right and
power to infiict punishment have the
right and power to grant immunity
The county attorney can say to man
that if he will turn states evidence he
will run no risk of punishment. So
God names the condition by which we
may escape punishment for QUIZ sinsT
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and
thou shalt be saved
Now to be saved a person must
really be sorry for his sins, real con-
viction. This Is manifested in differ
sent ways in different individuals
Some people when they are convinced
feel the need Of help. There was Mic
odemus, a member of the Sanhedrin
with all his learning, felt the need OF
something he did not have. If there is
the least longing for a better life in
your heart. you have the sense of need.
You wouldn't come here every night
If it wasn't for your sense Of need
Jesus will satisfy it.
Some have a feeling of unWorthi-
ness. That's hopeful sign. l like
to see the man or woman that realizes
he or she deserves hell, and does not
feel that they are granting favor &c
God to came to church or to the tab
ernacle.
What Salvation Is Like.
Salvation for some is like going
from an ice house into an oven; for
others like going from very dark
room into one that is brilliantly light
ed; for still others there is very little
change they have lived clean, whole
some lives. but they have failed to
acknowledge Jesus as their Savior.
Some people are very much moved
when TIE conviction comes. | ren'ehl-
bier one fellow in an Illinois town VINO
came to the front one night. He Wept
as he sat a few moments. then drop
ped to his knees and in few minutes
he was lying face downward on the
floor moaning loudly. What's wrong
with that fellow?' l asked of the Meth
odist minister who was standing near
me. He's getting right with God was
the reply. ] said that to me it looked
as il he was getting a stomach acne
"a few minutes later young man
came down the aisle, grasped my hand
and said, Mr.. Sunday, l want to be q
Christian There was nothing in his
face showing emotion, his eyes We're
dry and his manner calm. Can you
say he was not saved while the other
fellow was?
Some people have a consciousness
of sin and fear of punishment :
would be afraid of hell, myself. don
| care whether you come to Jesus
| through consciousness of sin or fear
| they are converted,-Mrs. Sunday
doesn't. She doesn't know a time
when she didn't know Jesus. Now.
can tell you the place. day, hour ane
minute of my conversion.
God cannot save you unless you are
/ willing to forsake every sin. There is
no salvation for you unless you DO
| The sinner must remember that IT !:
against God and God only he has sin
ned and not until he is sorry for hi
sins will he be saved, but the Yer!
minute he is sorry for them, God vii
| take the burden from your shoulders
You may go back to Illinois, Ohio .
Pennsylvania, back to Germany, t.
your birthplace, you may trace eacl
dav of your life UP to now, you ma:
pile your sins up until they reacl
above the peak of Mount Everest, AIT
the Lord will lear them all. If you re
iect his offer, you must pay the pric
in hell Believe on the. Lord Jesu
Christ and thou shalt be saved.
i 81 have heard people declare tina
they don't see how God can gave 1'r
not emphasizing Gods part. but your
| We do not understand how corn, o
wheat or the apple tree grows, but on
part is merely to plant and care fol-
and because we do not understand w
do not refuse to plant the grains an
fruits. Your part is to believe, an
you dolnot need to understand God
part.
81 read that the Philippian jailer wa
baptized. I'm not standing up her
to preach immersion or sprinkling. It
my business as union evangelist t
persuade people to accept JESUS Chris
s and it is the duty of the ministers fo
whose churches you express q prefer
&A,ana To instruct in tho dnnt,inn