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

then. hear me; Here is a man that
want to be generous. He finds him.
self rasping, grasping. wrenchins, |
twisting, squeezing in his disposition.
Here is man that wants TO be pure
and pollution soils his garments. Here
is man who wants to reach out in
benedictions to the world and help
pull people from sin. and here isl
where he has doubled his fists ana
felled his fellowman. Here is man
that wants his mouth filed with mes
sages OF love. and TO his frequent sur
prise and chasrin it is filed with
obscenity and profanity. Here is a
man that wants to tell the truth, and
he lies. Here is a man that want 60
be kind. and he curses his wife and
swears at his mother Hear me!
Every man that starts out to live the
kind of life ne ought to live, soon
or or later something will happen to
make you realize how Far short you
come OF being tho kind Of a man you
want to be. Here is a man that wants
TO be sober and he gets drunk. He sits
down and says, Woe is me- cm I'M
done: who will deliver me from the
away my lying tongue? Who will put
within me a desire to be sober? Who
will make me kind? Who will make
me pure? Who will make me gen
Grouse" And he says. We'll. I will be
satisfied when | awake in His like
ness Listen! Whenever YOU reach
the point in your life that you ask that
Jesus Christ walks up and steps i'll
front OF you. When You say. Here
is what am. there is what I ought to
| be- l ought to be generous and I'm
penurious. | ought to be pure and
I'm impure. | ought to pray and |
swear. | ought to tell the truth and
l lie. | ought TO be sober and I get
drunk. Now, what am | going to do?"
Whenever you reach that time in your
life Jesus Christ walks up and steps
in front Of you and says: The only
power on earth that is able to take
you out Of what you are and put you
| into what you ought TO be is Jesus
Christ. That's the only power in the
universe that can do it. And one Of
the purposes of the incarnation was TO
tell men and women that God is able,
here and now, to take you out of what
you are and put you into what you
ought to be. We have more damnable,
good-for-nothing hellish, false heresies
| being promulgated-we nave more
schemes being preached 10 the people
and being talked about, and PROPOSE
tons to make to take people out OF
what they are and put them where
| they ought to be. On comes that fol-
| de-rol, idiotic, asinine nonsense called
| Christian Science and says: You are
not what you think you are, and you
! imagine what you are, so never mind
what you are" On the scene comes
the old Universalist who says: Never
mind what you are: we are going to
! be made what we ought to be and
we will all be saved" You lie! You
| lie! You lie!
! On the scene comes the Unitarian,
who says Jesus was mere man..
pay your debts. be good and kind, and
that will take you out Of what you
are and put you into what you ought
to be-" And you lie. You lie!
On the scene comes the old Spirit
!, ulist jackass who says: (Mr. Sunday
goes through facial contortions) and
that will take you out of what you are
and put you into what you ought TO
| be-
On The scene comes the Culturist
who says: 90, boost yourself with
books. join literary society, and that
will take you out of what you are and
put you into what you ought TO be.
And, say, we have more schemes
proposed today, and they are damn.
able, and Sinking, and hell-born, blind
leaders of the blind. There is just
one way under God Almighty's heaven
for you to get out OF what you are in
/ to what you ought to be, and that is
by faith in Jesus Christ, and if you
don't do it, you can go to hell.
Christ Rocks the Cradle.
The world is a great big cradle and
Christ stands by it and rocks it AMI
rocks it ard as He rocks it He says
to the world: 81 am going to make
great men and women, make impure
men pure, going to make drunkard%
sober: going to make blashphemers
Christians. going to make thieves not
to steal: going to make them all who
are obscene, vile and iniqutious anC
transform them He rocks the cradle
called Christianity. and he pours OH
Paul. the greatest preacher ant
teacher and philanthropoist the work
has ever known. Accept the Apostle
Paul and his transformation without
the incarnation of Jesus Christ ant
you insult and SANDER Jesus Chris
He rocks the cradle and from i
comes Augustine. Account for Angus
tine being transformed to a ST. Angus
tine without accepting Jesus Chris
and you insult and SANDER God. He
rocks and rocks the cradle and fortf
comes Martin Luther, Germany:
great monk; who blazed out the wor.
Of God and nailed it ON the door o
the church. Account for Martin Luthe
and his reformation without Jesu
! Christ as the Son of God and you in
suit Martin Luther and history ant
: SANDER GOD.
FIe says: Here men, you were no
what you ought to be- He took Paul
The murderer, and made him al
apostle. He took Augustine ant
, made him a saint. He took Martil
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