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

hereafter is by faith in Jesus. That /
have been trying to preach to you
people for four weeks.
] read story a while ago about a
ship coming across the Atlantic. There
was an awful storm raging, and the
ship sprung a leak. The water ran il
and the ship began to settle; the cap
tain made his soundings and took his
bearings and he summoned the crew
and he said to them: AT the present
ratio of the increase of the water over
the power of the pumps to excel It, in
twenty-four hours Te will be on the
bottom of the sea, I have found the
leak. It is in the second hole In the
outer bottom. II is about the size Of
a mans arm. Have I got one in this
crew who will go and sacrifice bis
life and save the ship and the crew"
How a llero Died,
They said: Captain, we will pump
harder and back they Went to the
pumps, and they pumped and pumped
and pumped, and they fell at their
posts. And at last he summoned the
crew and said to them the second
time: Il have taken my soundinss
and at the present ratio of the in
crease of the water over the power
of the pumps to expel It in ten hours
we will be at the bottom of the sea.
Have 7 not one willing to go and sac
rifce his life to save the crew and the
ship? Have I not one7' Forth stepped
q stalwart young fellow and he saluted
the captain and said Yes, father, you
| have one"
What, my boy"
yes he said, as he stood theirs i'm
movable. = will go"
! He babe the crew good bye and kiss
ed his father and sent messages Of
| love to his mother He looked at the
sun and the sky upon which he would
never gaze again and then stepped To
! the matches and plunged into the hold
Of the ship. He found the leak and
he thrust III some rags, and sacks that
he had brought with him and showed
| in his arm and doubled his muscles
and gritted his teeth. They pumped
and pumped and pumped and at last
they found the body washing in the
roll of the ship. He found the leak
and showed in his arm and doubled it
IN ard died. Through his death they
brought the ship into the harbor.
Nineteen hundred years ago this old
world sprung a leak and all hell rush
| ed in and flooded it. It had begun to
sink, but God summoned his heavenly
crew, he brought the angels, Michael,
Gabriel and all and he said rs there
not one that will 60 and stop the
hreacho And none came, What,
Inoeh, Noah, Abraham, David, Solo
mon, won't you go? Daniel, Joshua,
Isaiah none came, and then God sum
moned them again and forth stepped
one and he said: YES, father, will
| go and swift as the morning light he
came. He struck this old world with a
thurnp and did not come up for three
days. He found the breach and showed
in his body on that Easter morning
| Out, uo from the tomb he arose, q
mighty triumph over the world. He
swept through the gates and they cried
Grown HIM" No." he cried, mo
haven't time to be crowned, let me get
ibetween God. and the sinner, and with
one hand showed the sword of justice
back into the seaboard and with the
other he stretched forth and offered
to give salvation to this sin-cursed
world
i Come on sinner, listen to me. The
time will come when the hand of sal
walton will be withdrawn. and H:
will draw his sword and lay aside his
meditorial robes and come and sit on
the throne Of judgment. and God pity
you if you turn him down How viii
you get out of it? You never can, il
you refuse my Jesus What will yov
do with him?