Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-15
by being man-nobody on Gods
The Devil for Jesus.

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dirt.
The Devil for Jesus.
4 Then it is hard for you to give up
/ the devil to get Jesus Christ, if you
/ become Christian think of what you
get.
That is what the student. thinks.
| He will put in four OF eight years
study, and what he gets pays for
what he gave.
Then look at religion from a sensi-
| VIII be withheld from them that
| walk uprightly
| Whatever may be Your views about
| the inspiration Of the Btole if / found
. verse that was especially written
for Qttamwa, it is that one.
THE fear of man brlngeth snare"
And when the invitation is given.
multitudes know that hey ought to
be Christians, but they get cold feet
right there, and sit glued to the seat,
and all heaven could not induce them
to take q stand for Jesus. They are
afraid that somebody will laugh. They
are afraid that some member of the
lodge would laugh at them or that
some old whisky soak will give you
the horse laugh.
Better So.
Say, ! had rather be brave and de-
cent, and brave enough to walk on
the side OF Jesus Christ and live for
him, and let some old devils here in
OttunlWa laugh at me. because l did
it, than to refuse to do it, and let the
devile laugh me through eternity, be-
cause / was not man enough to take
q stand.
Every Spark Needed.
l tell you this a God-hating, a
Bible hating, and christ-hatins
world, and it takes grit and manhood
to live for Jesus. 1t does not take
every spark to be Christian.
Another says:
well, my trouble is that l am
| waiting to be convinced? You have
| been listening for four weeks and are
still waiting to be convinced" You
saw Just as soon as am convinced
that Jesus Christ is the Son Of God
1 am going to take my stand"
| If you want to know God, let him
food you with evidence until you can
not get away from it. You are wait
ing to be convinced IL your way. but
not Gods way.
We'll" man says, I am pretty
good sort of fellow. ! don't profess
to be perfect
If you did you would lie. 81 am not
perfect, but the good overbalances the
evil.
You and might agree on minor
moralities, but what about when you
reject Jesus Christ?
The rich young ruler came to Jesus
and he went away from Jesus. He
was not a Sabbath breaker nor a lib
ertine, but he went away from Jesus.
Some go away. but they are not a
thief not a CRATER, not scoffer, not
9 murderer not impure but are go
ing away from Jesus Christ and he
| cannot save you.
Submit.
You must submit to 40 his will and
keep his commandments.
Supposing a man is good to every
body but one person, ne Is generous
and will help anybody IN trouble. But
there Is one person IN town that he
treats with contempt, and that is his
own mother. He would drive her from
| his presence, and make the neiehborS
furnish her with food and clothing.
Would the fact that he was good to
his wife and children and gave his
money generously would that atone
for the fact that he treated his old
mother like a dog?
No, you would say he was the most
I good for nothing, low born citizen you
had.
You're Kinder 20 Brutes.
All right-better than mothers, wife
or children is Jesus Christ A lot of
you men are good TO wife and to
mother and generous in your lodge,
but you treat Jesus Christ like a
| brute.
man when you turn Jesus Christ
down. Does it meet the highest de-
mands of your conscience? Does it
stand the test? Not mush it won't.
Hypocrisy.
A fellow says: II would give you
my hand. but there are hypocrites in
! church"
think that is the iggest fool ex-
cuse on earth. Certanly there are
hynocrites, but 1 don't believe the hy-
pocrisy in the church has kept any
man out that honestly wanted to serve
God and do right.
I think that you lie and are trying
to use their hypocrisy us screen be-
hind which to hide. If you hide be-
hind the hypocrite you are the small
est specimen Of humanity that I ever
looked at.
A Favor to Science.
Some old bugologist would do a
favor to science by Dickling you in
alcohol and keeping you for public in
spection as the littlest Thing.
Say. when you go t. he'll you will
have to associate with the same peo-
pie at whom you turn your nose up
i,ere, for there are no hypccrites in
heaven.
"what is that to thee. follow thou
me-
In hundred Christians there will
be ninety good, noble men and
wcren and one miserable little mil
dewed hypocrite and YOU turn your
back on Jesus for thai one.
Waiting.
= Somebody says: Il am waiting for
my friends" 81 am waiting for my
husband"
The husband is waiting for the wife
Some girl is waiting for her com
panion Probably there Is a semblance
of reason about that excuse.
You take stand for Jesus and
those that love you will follow, il
they love you as nluen as you love
them. You take your stand for Jesus
Christ and put it up TO them what
they ought to do. You let them fol-
low you, don't you follow them t.
hell.
You'd Get Out Quick.
If you were in building that was
burning, and should say to the one
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