Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-28


| to talk and pray with some one in the
hospital who was dying. That being
my friends duty he got on a car and
; hurried to the hospital He found
the warden in the Office and when he
made his errand known the warden
said: mo, you cannot see that
young man for several reasons. 1t is
past visiting hours. which are to /.
You are not an ordained minister.
They have access at any time. And
third, that young man is i'll the emer-
gency ward with malignant disease.
You can't see him.
My friend told him why he was
there at that unseemly hour and plead
ed so hard that the warden said:
well Mr.. Smith, you can see him.
will go with you If you want to talk
and pray with him you may: that's
your privilege. Catholic or Protestant,
/ but you can't touch him"
! will not tell you what my friend
saw, for two reasons. First | haven't
the language to describe or express it:
and second, you would not have tha
time nor the disposition to hear it, But
A suffice to say in passing he looked upon
4 a young man who was a mass Of putre-
faction and corruption from head to
Y brows fallen out great chunks OF
4 putref1ed flesh dropping from his
4 bones. His fingers were separating,
\ his teeth dropping out, and when my
4 friend looked upon the young man
he recognized the naughty, Goddess,
1 arrogant young man Of two years be-
fore. When my friend made himself
3 known, the young man gazed, and
4 said: my God. isn't it awful sir?
4 Look at me. will you? would give
the world if could be back where I
was two years ago and needed your
advice" He fell back on his pillow
Il and beckoned to my friend. He step
n ped to his bedside and the poor fell
q low. weak from exhaustion, said: "Mr
h Smith, wish you would tell tho
B young men of Chicago that they can.
u stem the tide of life. neither can they
Il win it's battles, without Jesus Christ.
B If they think they can, tell them about
& me, will your
A Blame None but Yourself.
n And | take it up young men Of OF
a tllmwa and bring it to you, for the
n same devil that damns in old Chicago
81 is the same devil and the same sin that
NJ will damn you in Ottumwa. that will
Il damn you in your home. and you can
a not win without Jesus Christ. No. IL
IA it well with thee? Not If you are
q here without Jesus Christ for your
N Saviour. God pity you! NO you can't
n win without Jesus Christ.
Say, why? Why are you not as pure
IA as sunbeam? Why are you not az
III sweet as dew drop? Why are you
81 not as lovely as the sun-kissed Alpse
Why are you not as unchanging as =
,7r{r hir,5
TX song? Why? I'll tell you. sir. God
u made those things and God can make
"a YOU like those things if you will only
IA let Him
N If you lived in palace and had a
Il bad heart in you. you would turn the
ID palace into q slum. You can't cure
"a smallpox or diphthera by crawling in
between clean sheets. It you turn a
n pole cat loose in q parlor you know
n which will change first. the pole cat
" or the parlor. Sin doesn't start in "A
IL grog shop or in a brothel. Sin start
III ed in the Garden of Eden, so ssp
~ don't blame society: you area part OF
IN it Society is what it is and It you
rs have helned to make it what it and
N wanted to be different why didn't You
N follow Christ and set the example!
N So don't blame the church. That's the
"a place for you to go TO learn to do what
M Won ought to do Don't blame th|
w devil; all he can do is TO tempt you
E and there are not devils enough ir
III hell to make you sin if you don't want
FL to, and there are not angels enough
IN in heaven to make you Walk Mons
sober if you don't want to. SO be fas1
= aud square. Look yourself square j,
mic the face. Put 1t I'D TO yourself Don
1aE1Lc-
=, O., the church. or Adam and Eve, Phi
on it up to Yourself and say: I'm tn
ca, lobster: this is the fellow. Be de
,ha cent. Is It well with thee?
Vn. Is il Well With Thy Husband9
nj The man that sits by your SIDE; tn
/ man whose name you boar, the MAJ
ING for whose comforts you WoEs. IN
IA man TO please whom you stand an
md toll; the man who is the father OF you
! children, the man by the sweat G
me whose brow and the expenditure 6
vel whose brain and muscle force. buy
I'M the clothes that cover your body an
the food that satisfies and appsase
ere you: the man whose image is wove
~ in the fbres Of your heart: the ma
10. for whose footsteps you listen; th
man you sworo to love, honor an
2F cherish; the man for whom you left
orE good deal better home than he ha
ted ever given YOU. is il we'll with tn
IL hushand?@
On" believe this series of meetings ]
0" Ottumwa is the bell of God tolling OF
zen, the destiny Of human souls, I believ
he as I breathe that if men and won1e
ana are not saved in these days, etern
pE" damnation is for them
any There are women who have bee
o living beside man for twenty-h'
ling ears and they never heard him ia
about heaven You never heard hi
10" mention tho name OF God except as
our cursed God. You never heard hi
mention the name of Jesus Christ e
N cept as he swore and blasphemt
'rss- around the house. and, hear men,
that man died tonight, you, the neie
TUT bors and the community would Il
IT'S have to guess twice where he Went.