Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-07-07
LARGE NUMBER
HEAR SAM SMALL
GAVE AN EXCELLENT ADDRESS
ENTITLED, his MAJESTY,
THE DEVIL
SCORED MULCT, LAW
The Most Damnable, RepuIsive, De.
grading, vilest of All Laws, Al
lowing Robbery of Law, Said
the Speaker.

Rev. Sam Small, the famous south
dress last evening on His Majesty,
down town churches, held at the First
lecture in part follows:
We are gathered together for an
hour to try and solve the problem OF
the devil. Some people say there is
no devil, that it was simply a ficti-
tious character gotten up by the priest
craft in ancient times to scare the
people into religian. But what is that
strong uprising in ourselves at times.
which we can hardly control?
Evil Microbes.
Some scientists say 1t is certain
kind of belligerent microbes which
float through the air and which we
breathe into our bodies as we inhale
the atmosphere. Now believe that
If there was certain kind of germ
that caused sin there would be some
Yankee invent a devil germ killer and
you could go down to the drug stores
tand get a bottle of this germ killer,
take it according to the directions
printed on the label on the outside and
within few hours be a full fledged
angel almost ready to enter into
heaven.
The Gossper.
If he has the strong drink germ
the most desperate and dammable of
all diseases, we now have way Of
grabbing him up and sending him to
some Keely institute and in few
weeks they send him back red nosed
angel ready to slip into glory. Now
en- gossipers- I don't say that you
have but suppose you had. One that
dusts the dust off the back fence,
hanging over it talking about her
neighbors. She makes it so hot
around the house that the children
| hike off just as soon as they can and
the old man sneaks biscuit Off of
the kitchen table and slides over the
back fence and takes a sneak down
the alley to town where he spends the
day hanging around billiard halls
saloons, and slaughter houses rather
than stay at home. Then at night he
sneaks in the back door and catches
| his foot and takes a header into the
baby cradle, and the old woman raises
up in bed and says, John is that
you?" And he replies of course it is
She says, what makes you come in
at this time Of night?" And he re
plies that all the other places are
closed.
Charged to the Devil.
Now what that, old woman needs is
two or three injections of a germ
killer that would stop her inferna
gossiping. / remember while study
ing law, as many Of you older mer
will also remember, that when mar
committed crime, in the warrant i
charged the devil with the crime. L
made no difference whether it wa.
for stealing black hog or for killing
his mother-in-law, it was charged t
the devil How many here would
know the devil if they should NEE
him on the streets here and shake
hands with him? How did he lool
the last time you were with him?
Painted Wrong.
Pictures have been painted of hin
by artists to suit the ideas of the pee
pie as being a long lean peaked nose
high eye brows, large starry eyes
J long curved mustache, pointed goatee
with horns on his head, long bird-lik
claws for fingers, hoofs like COW 70
!, feet and a long tail with an arroy
head at the end. thunder and light