Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-12

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while she bathes her pillow with tears
Of anguish, and sobs with q, broken
heart Who suffers. the most, that
drunken loafer or that innocent
mother. You only have to be IN
fortunate enough to be the mother
TO know.
Look al the Young Wife.
Look at the Young vile, waiting fof
the coming of the foot steps of him
who 3 few months ago promised, amid
the perfume of the orange blossoms,
to be true to her as long as sky and
waves were blue. Sne Sits and longs,
with her face framed in the window
pane, and when at last IN the early
hours of the morning he walks into
her presence, stamped. with the foul
stencil Of his unfaitntu;ness and sin.
who suffers the most? Look at her
blood shot eyes. her cheeks sunken,
her lips ashen. Who suffers the most,
that Goddess, good for nothing. in
famous ubiquitous, lowdown Cod
for saken, black-legsel degenerate of
scoundrel Or that pure innocent.
broken-hearted wife that has kept
he womanhood and virtue for the
man she promised TO love, honor. cher
ish and obey and whose name is
woven in the fihers OF her heart? You
only have to be unfortunate enough
to be tied up to a eoG,ess scoundrel
like that to know who suffers the
most, the innocent or the guilty
/ say, don't come to me and tell me,
that the plan of redemption doesn t
appeal to YOU because you don't be
lieve in the innocent suffering for the
guilty They suffer for them every
day. and they suffer naore, .ey MI,
This incident occurred in Chicago
in the police court a man was ar
rested charged with Tagrancy. 4 let
ter which he had receiTed from his
wife was admitted as evidence, and
it read Dear Husband: The money
which you left when you went away
to f1nd work has been spent for medi-
cine and house rent ana I am COM
PEELED to take the children and go out
and wash TO earn money TO buy food.
Tom can't go TO school. Lucy is i'll and
baby is sick. and people don't like to
have woman arou-.d with a baby,
especially a sick baby, and I can't get
very much TO do, and if anybody gives
me work todd it is only through kind
ness and pity. : hope you will nor
have far to go or long to look before
you can get work to get money enough
TO have us all together again"
The Judge said: Il have no alter
native in this matter. ] must send
him to the BrideWell. bat this is only
to prove TO you that 70 man lives unto
others. Others are made happy or mis-
cradle by the way lie lives. Police
men wept like babies The judge
wiped the tears from his eyes. Who
suffers the most, that goddess, drunken
loafer, sleeping off his drunk and pay
ing tbs penalty Of it n the Bridewell,
or that poor, broken-Eearted, fratl
woman, leaning over the wash-tuo;
with nothing but her frail body and
arms between that little brood and
starvation? You only need TO be I'M
fortunate enough to be the wife of g
man like that TO know who suffers the
most, the innocent or the guilty.
have your sympathy than, my friends.
and I tell YOU. that from the fall OF
man down until now ! see no surceass
from sorrow. until the innocent SUI
fer with and for the guilty, even more
than the guilty, so don't you have the
audacity to sit there and charge the
plan of redemption, which came out OF
Gods heart of love and Gods superior
judgment and knowledge. don't sit
there and sheer, God pity you. Don't
sneer at the plan of redemption, IN
less YOU are g, fool an inbecilssS ian
flattery at that. 1t Is the only plan
of all plans that you find exemplifled
every day.
The blood stands fir several things.
First, it stands for poured out life;
The life is in the blood a great deal
OF our hyn1nologv is misleading.
never like the clarifying process OF
the blood. think ne blood flowing
from the wound of Jesus would have
stained your linen or your dress as
much as the blood flowing from the
would of any old skeptic or libertine
would have stained vouT linen or your
dress, and when it is charged upon
us that our Bible is g, bloody Bible
our gospel a bloody gospel and our
religion a bloody religion, ! want to
say to you preachers and you people
I never will apologies for the charge
It is a bloody Gospel 1t is a bloody
religion. It is a bloody Bible., and
saw to YOU take the blood of Jesus
Christ out of the plail Of redemption
and that Book isn't worth the paper
it's printed on. You take the blood
Of the atoning sacrifice of Jesus
Christ out of the Gospel and it would
be no more use than ! our body woulc
be worth with the blood out of it
What would YOU be? A dead, ife-less
lump, waiting for the undertaken
wagon to haul you to TIC graveyard
And you take the blood of Jesus Christ
| out of the Bible and it becomes a Ia
borious dissertation and a meaningless
| tumble and jargon of words
! An old infidcl said Il don't believe
| in your slaughter-house religion" YOU
| listen to me! If you are ever kept ou
of Hell it will be by and through re-
pentance and faith in this slaughter,
! house religion, as somebody sneeringlN
terms it. And there is no other way
| AS long S the blood is on the mercy
seat the vilest sinner NAV come. ant
the blood stands for poured out. life
! It stands for redemption. You are no
| redeemed with corruDtible things
such as silver and sod. but by, tn
precious blood OF Jesus Christ. Re
! demption is more than salvation. Tn
viest sinner has been redeemed. Whel
| Jesus died on the cross he made |
POSSIBLE for the vile5t sinner to b.
saved. Jesus paid the price for the sal
walton of the vilest sinner on earth
Jesus paid the price II" the salvation
Of everybody. but everybody won't b.
saved. Everybody won't be saved be
cause everybody won't repent. and
they don't repent they will be damned
in Hell, Ter the mouth of the Lore
hath spoken It," God has provtde'
redemption, and God say "Whosoeve