Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-14
"CLEAR AWAY RUBBISH"

"CLEAR AWAY RUBBISH
Evangelist breaches Eloquent Sermon
on the cleansing Of the
Temple"
While Cleansing the Temple" was
the subject, and particular attention
was given the fact that the people of
Ottumwa must clear the rubbish out
of their hearts and churches before
Christ would enter, Rev. w. A. Sun
noon, with his usual far-reaching
words and scope, managed to get in
some hard jabs at every class of sin
full humanity and every conceivable
form of evil.
Miss Frances Miller, the Bible
teacher with Mr.. Sunday, was intro
duced to Ottumwans for the first
time at the meeting. Immediately at
the close Of the sermon Miss Miller
conducted g Bible class on the plat
form, which was attended by several
hundred members of the audience.
Every afternoon Immediately following
the regular service Miss Miller will
conduct this class for thirty minutes.
Messrs Fischer and Butler sang
BLESSED Jesus Keep Me White" just
before the evangelist preached.
Mr.. Sunday chose his text from il
Chronicles xxx: 27: "And when the
burnt Offering began, the song of the
Lord began also
The Bible Story. u
The evangelist first told the Bibls
story concerning the text. He stated
that Ahaz. the king who had preceded
Hezekiah in Judah was goddess man
and had done everything In his power
to degy God So great was the iniquity
of Ahaz, Mr.. Sunday said, that when
he died the people of his country
would not even bury him in the sepul-
chre with the other kings of Judah.
He was succeeded by Hezekiah, the
son of good mother who immediate,
ly commenced to undo the WRONG
which Ahaz had encouraged and coun-
itenanced for so many years. The
cleansing Of the temple of God was
one of the new kings first acts.
The speaker drew on his inexhausti-
BILE fund of stories and incidents for
examples all through his discourse.
His stories abounded with hun1or and
pathos each emotion ever ready at his
command. The rich people of the coun-
try who were religious when in poorer
circumstances, but who gave up
Christianity for social obligations as
their bank accounts grew, were bitter
|lv censured. In this connection Mr..
Sunday stated that one of the greatest
triumphs the devil ever obtained was
in getting family to give up their
prayer-meet;ngs and private prayers
for social duties"
Preachers were scored for not hav-
ing courage to preach against sin;
mothers were blamed for the thous-
ands of young men and women that
5 90 wrong every year as the natural
, result of bad home Influences. Sabbath
breaking was condemned in the most
scathing words.
: The Sermon.
"Now I'm through with my introduc.
, ton and III! deliver my sermon" Rev
Sunday said, after speaking for about
S forty minutes He drew on rapidly to
l the close, summing up his assertions
= briefly. "Ahaz was the eleventh king
: of Judah. He was reprobate. He put
0 idolatrous affairs on every street cor
ner and for sixteen years led the peo-
pie from Christ. He cut up Christ's yes
e sells in the church and did everything
n possible to show his spite for the
/. teachings of God. He died, and the
a people would not even bury him with
v their other kings.
It "Then came Hezekiah, who had a
good mother and by the way, il
p she'd been little pug dog society flip
u it would have gone mighty hard on Ju,
If dab at that time. He Immediately he
s gan to undo the evil wrought by his
predecessor. He cleaned the temple
s and lit the fires under the sacred al
e tars. He made sacrifices and prepared
- to cleanse the people of their sins. The
is priests began to sing, And when the
ID burnt offerings began the song of the
Lord began Also Peace and the salts
ID faction Of good living filled the land.
- "What are you going to do here.
- Keep on wading through the rubbish
In your lives or clean out your hearts
s, Are you going to let brawls and dis
e, sensions clog up your church or are
re YOU going &c clean out the temple anc
II let the song Of the Lord begin?
1e Springfield Wants Sunday.
le Springfield, the city of Illinois S.
ar prominent at this time because Of re
er cent race demonstrations and the
50 pending Lincoln Memorial celebration
~ is anxious for BILLY" Sunday to.
I'd rive there. Mr.. Sunday is booked e
I'd Springfield for six wees, beginnir
r early in February The Lincoln cell
I'll bration will be held February 5. TIL
- evangelist had heard that this cale
d. bration was to last several days an
ve not wanting to interfere with the es
~ ercises, he wrote the committee 70
r postponement of the date for a fey
IN days The request brought a veritabl
at storm of protest. Among the influentia
at people of the Illinois city that hav
wired Mr.. Sunday today are ,Tudg
in III. O. Humphrey of the United State
nut district court and chairman of the Lii