Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-05
c o N V E r $40 N S
Total announced previously. 1924
Thursday afternoon. ....... sS
Thursday evening. ........... SO
Total to date.

Mothers, to whose influence ALI
great men owe their eminence; whos9
pluck Is superior to the bravest leais
ers in battles, whose kiss will inspira
with courage where only fear raI
manned, whose music lives long after,
the minds have ceased to remember,
tho echoes Of prima donnas andl
virtuosos, and whose love Is seconds
only to the love of God for man.
were both the subject and audience Oh
meeting held yesterday afternoon at!
the Sunday tabernacle that crowded.
the huge structure TO it's utmost ca-l
pacity and was then inadequate tos
the thousands that gathered to hear
the sermon.
1t was estimated that two thotlsv
| and people were turned away from the
F, tabernacle. All standing space was
| packed. even the aisles on the plat
form being full of women anxious to
hear the evangelist's famous addressi
to mothers. In response to q CALI
by Mr.. Sunday for all out-of-towni
women in the audience to raise their
hand, over 800 visitors responded.
The mother Of Moses, who Sunday;
said. did more for the world than alLa
the kings of Egypt ever did, was sea-
ected by the evangelist as the ideaN
mother. The career OF this womanl
was followed by the speaker as a patti
tern that should be used by the moths
ers today. The fact that after de-
erecting that all male children ahouldI
die, Pharaoh really furnished the
money with which Moses mother was,
paid for taking care of her own child.l
was given by the speaker as paras
OF the reward received by the wonanA
for her steadfastness
Mothers Were Prominent.
| The day and service were prs-emk
nently mothers Mothers, old and9
young, grandmothers and grent-grRnda
mothers were in the audience Theys
came walking, in carriages. wheeled
chairs and on crutches. The sea OF all
myriad white flowers blended withS
the whitening hairs Of mothers, whoa
occupied the entire front section Oh
| the tabernacle.
/ The service was an impressive nTreA
The very air of the tabernacle waas
teeming with an unusual atmospheraA
u reverential calm.
In sympathy with the older genelr~i
tion present at the meeting NM
Fischer, the music director, conducted
ed song service composed entirelms
of old favorite hymns, known toi
practically every woman in the house,
Before the song service was ended "a
tear glistened here and there on MI
scanned wrinkled face and by thaS
time Soloist Butler had rendered @Tel5
Mother I'll Be There hundreds ind
the audience were crying
/ A solemn, attentive hush peryadedi
the tabernacle during the sermon
and at the close, when Mr.. Sunday3
extended the invitation, eighty-fivel
people, mostly mothers, crowded for-s
ward processing their desire to BEL
come Christians and to exert fhe props
er influence over the younger genera-l
ton. marked feature in the con-
verts was the number Of women pasti
middle age. Mn Sundays sermon,
which created such results on thai
mothers, follows in part:
Exodus 2:9-'Take this child andi
nurse il for me, and will give thee
thy wages"
The story of Moses is one of the!
most beautiful and fascinating in all
the world. II takes hold on us and
never for an instant does 1t lose itsl
interest. for it is SO graphically told
that once heard it is never forgotten
have often imagined tie anxiety,
with which that child was born, for
he came into the world with the
sentence of death hanging over him.
for Pharaoh had decreed that the
male children should die, and the
mother defied even the command OF
the king and determined that her
child should live, and right from the
beginning, the battle Of right against
might was fought at the cradle.
Moses mother was q slave. Sha
bad TO work in the brick yards or