Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-18
Sundays Conversions
Reach Total of 159
7wenty Added. to List When limitation
I Was Made Last Night Evangelist
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him chance to tell what ne knows
to the Washington county grand Jury"
From the old testament story Of the
Shunammite woman, Sunday asked the
question of $500 people, SIS it we'll
with thee, is it well with thy husband,
is it we'll with the cnild?" CI Kings,
iv:26).
"This is an old testament story, an
incident of hundreds of years ago, but
think the words of my text are pc
culiarly applicable to this meeting.
According to the story this Shun-
ammite woman saw Elisha going by
her home frequently and said to her
husband that she perceived a man OF
God passing by. 1t was the woman
that saw that he was a man of God.
Women gre keener of perception when
it comes to religious and moral mat
ters 1t may be that wnen you pass
a woman on the street she says to her.
self. There's drunkard,' or there's
bum
AS said, woman can read char
acter quickly, and the Snuna mmite
thing by lot becoming associated with
the prophet that was passing by. You
know that If you want to develop your
self, you associate with broader men.
| If you want to be strong spiritually,
you cant gain by loafng around sd
loon or a poker table.
"She said to her husband, maybe he
was too busy with politics to notice
Elisha, Let us build a chamber, and
put in d bed and a table, and a stool
and a candlestick, SO that he may rest
here Her husband seems to have
fallen in with the suggestion, and the
room was built.
"When the Shunamnite wcman's
sons became i'll and dad, the mother
went to Mount Carmel 10 get Elisha's
aid. GehaZi, ne was sort of private
secretary to Elisha. ran to meet her.
The greeting he gave her from the text
have chosen, is it well with thee, is
lit well with thy husband, is it well
with the child?"
The remainder of the story tells
how the mother plead and plead with
the prophet until he went himself and
raised to life the dead boy. BY this
story, God wants to teach importantly,
and prayer, no matter what obstacles
the devil will put in your way.
Is 1t Well With You?
Il would like to make my sermon
so plain that it will apply to all. Is it
we'll with thee'-you personally? That
means you. Is it well with you? No,
not if you look In my face tonight un-
saved. | know men, their trials and
Temptations, what they say and do.
I've brought more men to Ch:ist than
women; not that l especially try to
reach men more-yes, do, too, for if
you get the men, you've got it all. The
women are already there. If women
were no better than men. God would
have dumped the whole world into hell
a long time ago.
Many man is in hell today. be-
cause of the influence Of his compan-
ions. Many man is in Ft Madison
Il and Anamosa because he was with the
wrong gang. Many here tonight are
on their way to heaven because they
happened to get in with the right gang.
We either advance or retrogade.
as it we'll with the occasional drink.
1 er, the gambler that plays only now
and then. the petty thief, the man VINO
swears only once in while, is it we'll
with them? No, no, ten thousand
times no.
II have men say. Well. I can't be
a Christian, was born with the devil
in me- If you were, then he born
again, with the devil out. If you live
in palace with bad hear. you will
turn that palace into a Stun. If you
take a polecat into the parlor, which
changes first If you are turned loose
in companions, society, business,
which changes first:
Don't blame the devil, he only
tempts you Don't put it up to the
devil, your parents, church, lodge
put it to yourself your own rotten
heart, that says you don't want to be
decent.
SIS it well with thy soul? No, not
if you are not Christian Is it well
with thy husband, the man by whose
side you sit, whose name you bear
who earns the food you eat, who fur.
nishes the nome in which you live
Is it well with him? God pity some
women. They have TO beat a path
alone to church Sunday after Sunday
while their husbands are loafing at the
you do or don't have chick, child OF
pug dog. But what have you done tc
help on the cause of God, you pusillan
imous hobo. You are great when II
comes to looking after the health anc
education side-but what about the
soul? There are lots of parents here
that. if their children go to heaven, il
won't be their fault. God pity the BIO!
or girl with such parents.
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