Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-10
IMMENSE THRONC HEARD SUNDAY
AT THREE SERVICES YESTERDAY

She arches her eyebrows, hoists up
her diaphragm and sticks her nose up
in the air and says, Sir. since when
did, you become my fatheh-confessoh?
! says, I'm not--the devil is and If ne
look like you don't want to meet
him. ] sure handed 1t 10 that OLD
woman No sir--I'm no ones father
confessor. If she or any other women
would rather go out and mix with the
dirty. sinking, riff-raff and scum OF
this earth and wallow around in the
uuagmires of filth and cesspools OF he'll
than walk with decent people let EN-
go. She couldn't join the church be-
cause there We're hypocrites in 1t,
But she would go and associate with
the very worst class of humanity and
call that being In sas-si-et-ee.
when you find a. man that says
there are Inconsistencies in the Bible
you'll invariably discover that he's
keeping q woman Just around the cor
rer from his business office. re-
member the specific case of an III
nois man who told me there were too
many Inconsistencies In the Bible fro
him to take it as Q guide. That man
had ruined more girls than any other
old bu1l.necked stiff In the city.
What a. man wills to be be will be.
A farmer tills the soil because ne will
ed to be farmer The same way
with preachers, bankers and every
other class of men. I'm g. Christian
because wtlled to be Christian
twenty-five years ago.
Cain and His Wife,
n never go anywhere without some
did duffer asking me where Cain got
his wife. | don't think he's half as
much interested in Gains wife as he
is in the wife of the man that lives
next door Where did Cain get his
wife?
From his fatherin-law. I guess.
II, however, you do sit down and read
the scripture you will find that Cain
was 1913 years old when he went
counting Darwin, that old infidel
quoting from other writer's of his like.
says that the population will double
twice in twenty-five years and allow
ing seven pairs, when Cain was 1913
wears old there must have been 11.940
people, on the earth at that time. "
is reasonable to suppose that half OF
these were females, which would
mean that there were 500 buXom
damsels for Cain to choose from. and
that was enough to satisfy the most
fastidious.
81 guess Cain could pick a wife out
of that bunch no matter what matri-
monial dreams were busting his bel
fry.
Broke Up Saloons.
"I once asked a barkecper why he
was in the dirty business and he SAID
that II 1t wasn't for the church votes
he couldn't be. 1t makes me mad TO
have Stalled, blear-eyed rummy
throw it up in my face that If i
wasn't for the church votes he could
not run his detestable business. Hell
will be SO full of such Christians that
their feet will stick out of the Win
dows This internal traffic fills the
way with squalor, and degradation.
No wonder they laugh at God, because
they have the church people by the
neck. When all the Christian people
get together and follow Jesus Christ
and say to that dirty business, you
creep into HE'LL it will creep and it
only exist today by virtue OF the
church and defy you to contradict
1t. The Bible says, Woe unto him
who puts bottle to his brothers lips
"They don't like Bill Sunday over
In Decatur. No wonder they don't.
knocked old Anheuser-Bush out oil
s350.O00 in annual business in five
weeks. I closed ;ixty-three saloons
and put 'em on the bum there in nt
time. There's no law, either Of God
man nor devil that that gang respects
I'd rather be devil in the hottest
part of hell than have my name or
some dirty old saloon petition. There
isn't a dirtier business this side d
hell. / was told when I came hect
that Ottumwa would be my grave
yard. The laws of this land give {
man the right to protect himself an'
I'll do it--don't you forget 1t for I
minute. If any attempts are made t
wreck this tabernacle some one'il b'
shot so full of holes his hide won
tan for leather and his carcass viii
assay lead and I'll pay the fees for thu
man that is prosecuted for the act.
This liquor traffic is a dirty hellisi
business and I'll fight it as long as
am able. God didn't give me an eS
cellent physique for nothing, I'm il
training every day IN the year. Tn
not very big but can sure go SOM
for few minutes and I'm ready t
get up and go few rounds any oil
time the hat drops. If any one tackle
me he'll not think he's at pink tie
when we get through mixing. Thes
damnable saloons take out $1,000
from the legitimate channels of trad
for every $1,000 they pay for licenses
Fifteen saloon. in a town will tax
out enough money in year to pave
street sixteen feet wide and forty-fv
miles long. Oh. this saloon bushes
has got me going some and I'm woun
up tight.
IF good preaching would hav
saved this old burg, Ottumwa woul
have been saved long ago. You nee
something else, and by the grace {
God I'm going to give it to you
other Skeptics' Arguments.
Rev. Sunday then took up one at
time the charges that skeptics hav