Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-10
TABERNACLE A MECCA FOR ALL
CHURCH PEOPLE AND MANY
EAGER ONES suRRouNnEns
THE BUILDING
OTTUMWANS TOLD
THEY ARE sTINGY
pAYs COMPLIMENT TO j. r. JER,,
seY IN SATURDAY NIGHT Apa
DREss- ELoauENcE AND G,NI
GER MIXED.

GER MIXED,
=, c,laa M,aa about SIX thousand people
retber j., Dn ~. Tue seats and crowdius to-
ceiuah,a ~ .ne aisles and every con.
tahsrun . ~, Standing space In the bis,
to the h,aa neV. W. A. Sunday talked
h.s a olsgest crowd last evening that
day nieh. sreeted him at first Sun.
dit,on ,'sut meeting in any city. IN ad.
manaoa, .ne immense throng which |
inp all. 70 gain access to the build !
eitber 10y TWO thousand people were
tr.naaa rer standing up around the :, an
the hni,,1, 'he outside or LETT out oel
'h9 building altogether. o1e "
ax.n,s MS own career as r. telI,no.
on tha - Tue speaker dwelt all eyenine.s
wiu,ad - ensihe that what man realIv
dn ha ~ 40 and made up his mind n
tory ~ e, mouid do. Incidents from his, i
stor;es iom IN everyday life and Biblical,
discnmrs oihcned his arguments. His
descri,tte spounded In climaxes and
satire % .pa,ons. an bis bottomless supply or
ereat a a,iu sarcasm was used WITH
patho. ~, rs well as his powers of
pA.hos and sympathy. po"o'' Vi
before the sermon =, 49,
glowin nuay took occasion to nav =
editor So itpute TO the late A. W. Lee
r. po,,a ~ tne ottumwa Daily Couriar
torv uwsu nau, this with few lauda. i
and nnhIt ents on editors in yenera,
fha cn,,.,. pc'y thanked the press ~ i
llfcity tha. TOT the support and pnb.
work. hinseif and his
1,,tt,s 4 SOLO 70, BY y, Fred Fischer Gould !,
closad 81. ~ OF Sunshine Find place -,
inp III, ene song service OF the even.
nv A piece is an original number
sscra,a, 80 a. p. Ackley. Sundays pianist and
tbe SCI se,aa., :, and Mr.. Fischer rendered. !,
voice. slrong, musioal}
The Sermon Proper.
s,,ndo ns tue basis for his sermon. Mr.
unuay t"na used the following nassaaa
~ I'm Jonn VII: II: III any man will
~, n'e WIN. ne shall know OF tha de-
,,.t m whether 1t be from God ~,
%neener 1 speak OF myself. Mr. srn
DAY said in part: w. sun
oil t.,a a'e Always had sympathy WITH
a., al those who have trouble intel,ao.,,
aas' morally or spiritually. and 10
saa la ASSIST them In any way 7 shall ba
s,au % 40 IT, and lead them 10
me r,easer conception of their duty to-.
ward God and their fellow mon "a
lust as soon help some good ch,.,a
liah 10 clearer idea or his dut,as
as convert some men that never NO,
1essed to be a Christian
Ihe skeptics, sneerers and do,,,.
ers said to Jesus, How do swe nnan.
mat you are what you claim to bes,
he replied to them, If Won vii, T.,
dod's Will then you will know wbatha,
am or not II you want to 1,,aam
Wnether there is anything 1ike re.
ilsion, try to live like a Christian .na
you VIII find out The proof nf INC
pudding is not in smelIinp the atr;ns, q
or chewing the rag; it's in tba aat'
ing. Lots Of men try to pet SOM ;daa
OF the pudding by nosing around The
bag iouiio the
Counterfeit and Genuine.
AS long as the United States
mlnts make coins there will be found Z
men who atteampt to counterfeif
them. That doesn't detract from the
Vaiue OF the genuine 1t rather accen.
tuates 1t. Brown paper nor infde1itv
are never counterfeited Only good
lnines are initiated. I once saw
thousands OF dollars. counterfeit
wh1chlJohn Wilkie, chief Of the United
States secret service showed me :
mad good dollar in my pocket at the
time but l didn't walk. to the win.
dow and throw it away Just because
had seen all those bogus coins. I
would have been fool TO do that.
! say you're fool il you pass IN
heaven just because you see some
hvpocrites in the church who are an
the road to hell You will find all
kinds OF birds In a church, from 4
humming bird to turkey buzzard.
There isn't a lodge, society or union
organization in old Otturnwa that
hasn't got hvpocrites on the mem
bership roll. Is that an argument
against that lodge in general? No.
sir. A man that uses that as an arg1I-
ment against the lodg. IS a blatant
fool and jackass. Well, then, ifa
man has no use for church because
there are Some hypocrites in it. he's
a fool and d jackass also.
She Looked Like the Devil.
One day down in Missouri saw a
stifr, stately looking dame out In the
crowd. She was sitting up so straight
thought she had poker down her,
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