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

manned, but you can't preach Chris
| tianity without Jesus Christ.
The Risen Christ.
Without the death Of Jesus Christ
there is no atonement for sin, and
without the resurrection of Jesus
Christ we have staked our salvation
on dead Jew, sleeping in the tomb
Eof Joseph of Arimathea; SO in Jesus
u have my Way, my Truth and my
Life made clear and plain, and he
/ comes to me and says: 81 stand at the
door and knock, and IL you let me
come in will sweeten your life
where it is bitter, make it light where
| it is dark, where you drink make you
sober, where you are a thief make you
steal no more, where you are a liber-
tine make you pure, if you will let me
come into your life, and | will show.
through you to the world, that Chris.
ftianity is something more than going
through little Journalism and saying
La few clichety-click prayers when you
| go to church
| Let him come in. The service God
wants is service to humanity in the
name of Jesus / have got to come to
God, accept jesus Christ as my Savior
before I can render any service to
God that amounts to snap of your
finger
Common Sense in Thinqs.
l Tho, 90 nf 1. \
a deaf and dumb son. tha one day
an enemy drew a sword and was about
to thrust it through the king. when
the immirence of danger was so over,
PIONEERING that the son burst every
impeachment in his speech and for the
| first time in his life cried out: Don't
STAY the king"
| Great God, 7 should think. as you
would see the sword OF God hanging
over your husband to cut him down
lin sin. should think that the sword
lof God would burst every barrier
and impedilp ent and you would go ont
and rescue him in the name of God
Some of you have, spiritual locomotor
ataxia and You need little spiritual
disitalis TO get your old hearts work,
ling for God
Behold, ] stand at your door and
knock" Some man says. "Well,
give, but I give in humanitys name.
Do you? Yes They say 81 like to see
a hungry man fed" Yes. "And a naked
man clothed All right. II do these
things, Mr.. Sunday, but I do them il
the name OF humanity" Listen to me
a minute. The word humanity was
4 11r,fi1 : Il
the human Christ, who went abou.
doing good in His name. Where did
you get your idea of humanity
/, To hear some old fellows talk
YOU would think they had Just heard
iit themselves You are q wolf in
sleeps clothing when you take fror,,
Jesus Christ that which He gave ar,6
yet you are not man enough to give
Him back your life and say you are
indebted to Him.
| Morality could never survive the
death of Christianity, never in tbs
world. Whatever you do in the nar5
of Jesus Christ will live forever, Al
others will fade with the deed or mem
DRY, and I thank God tonight that the
world is forming in line around thu
cross Of Jesus Christ That is tht
name that makes home and builds
character. That is the name that !:
striking the shackles from the hearts
and lives of men, making drunkard
sober, turning intidels to prayer
Transforming this old world today
and all you and hope for. the glat
Utopia of our works and dreams, Il
the valleys between the mountains
and on the summit in the dark con
I tinents of the earth. and in the darl
fostering spots Of the city, all mus
/ come by and through the principles O
Jesus Christ. He is the one that stand
at the door and knocks. How UT
grateful to keep Him out OF you
heart and your life,
insratitude.
| was preaching il town in low
and told an incident and soldie
said: II saw that very incident, ,
one exactly like it. The enemies wer
fleeing before our charge and we wer
hurrying on. We saw man by tn
roadside, wounded, crying for hell
Our colonel dismounted, took blanke:
from the dead nearby, propped tn
man UP. left him canteen' of waite
and some food, wished him we'll an
started off. when the man he had thu
befriended seized his gun and with hi
fast-ebbing strength sent bulle
crashing through the man that had BIZ
friended him."
say to you that was an act of kline
ness; that was manly, noble, one {
the grandest acts I ever read or hear
of, compared to the man that keep
Jesus Christ out of his life. How III
grateful to keep Jesus Christ out {
your life! Behold, stand at tn
door and knock; if any man hears m
voice and opens the door I will com
in to him and will sup with him and b
with me-
"Behold stand at the door" Ths
is the Christ you are keeping out, tn
) Christ you pass up. You won't Il
) Him In or serve Him or do His will
No, not you
Wonderful Book.
Behold! This is wonderful boo
this book from which we take OF
texts in our desires to preach to me-
this book that teaches, in its vario,
aspects, man to love. Men will M
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