Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-24

former, and he asked Jesus to perform
a few trick to entertain him. But
Jesus answered never a word, and
they sent him back to PLATE.
Herod Failure.
Herod had made miserable failure
of his life. Herod was the man who
went out to hear John the Baptist. And
can see him as he went back to his
palace, for John had told him:
you are an old adulterer. You
have no right to have your brother
Philips wife"
I can see him troubled. He would
like to have had his brothers wife
and Christ at the same time-and you
can't have both, sir. He wanted to
compromise.
l am convinced that the very in
slant you are ready to forsake every
known sin, that instant God will ac-
cept you, but you cannot compromise
the proposition.
The Slave Question.
When the southern commission
went to Washington to tell Lincoln
that they would compromise on the
ground Of state sovereignty-each
state to decide whether it would have
slavery, and the general government
to keep her hands off, and If state
wanted slaves it could have them, and
if the people did not want slaves, then
1t was to be free state-they made
the proposition to Lincoln, and Lincoln
listened to them and said:
Have You anything further to say?"
They answered:
"If you will agree, we will stop the
war tomorrow
Lincoln hit the table with his fist
and said:
''By the Eternal God, gentlemen, the
United States government will take
all or none''
All or None.
| will tell you, sir God, will take
all or he will keep his hands off you.
You can not compromise a proposition
with God. You can fool yourself and
your wife, but you can't fool God.
What shall do? l have got to
either accept or reject"
There is no middle ground. You are
going to heaven or hell. That is all
there is to it.
Just Your Will.
There is just one thing that with
holds from you the blessing of God,
and that is your miserable, stubborn
will. You have to put that beneath
your feet There is no compromise.
What shall l do with Jesus? What
shall l do?
You put it up to yourself.
What shall I do then with Jesus?
Some questions are international.
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districts. some concerns families but
this is personal question.
What shall l do? not with money,
with the Old Testament, not with pol
itics.
What shall I do? not with money,
not with society, not with the church.
But what shall l do with Jesus?
That is what you are up against.
What shall ! do with Jesus?
oh. butt says a man to me, ME-.
Sunday, I don't believe that Jesus is
the Christ
He is Anyway.
He is the Christ whether you be-
lieve it or not Simply because you
say you don't believe, that don't change
the fact You say:
Il don't believe that there is a
hell
But there is. whether you believe it
or not The Bible is the word of God
and your belief don't change it one
iota, or jot, or little.
Yon can't change it.
Closed Scrutiny.
Marvellous as is the mechanism of
that machine, it is nothing to the
scrutiny that you have to pass through
with when you stand before Jesus
Christ. All your culture and money
don't amount to a picayune before
God. The only ground is do you be-
lieve in Jesus Christ or do you not a.?
What shill l do with Jesus?'
What a name it is! The name of
Rockefeller and Astor and Armour
and Field, these names are potent in
the commercial world. Baron Klevic
and Agassiz are powerful in the realm
of science; and Irving and Carlyle
and Emerson are known as masters OF
the realm of literature; and those of
Napoleon and Wellington and Grant
are known as great warriors; and the
names of Decatur and Togo and Nelson
and Dewey are powerful on the sea.
Mightiest of All.
But more mightier in England than
the king and more mighty in Ger
many than the empror. and more
mighty in Russia than the czar, in
America more mighty than Roosevelt
or Bryan or Lincoln, or any Other
that ever will live is the name that
holds 100000, 900 Of the worlds in.
habitants bound tonight.
Potent Always.
1t is an enduring name. Go to the
graveyard and putt away the weeds
and read the epitaph Of man famous
twenty-five years ago--and you never
hear Of him now. Nowadays one
scarcely hear the names Of James G.
Blaine or Jay Gould or Cleveland men
toned. Today it Is Roosevelt anc
Bryan. In few years they will sell
! dom be mentioned.
But the name of Jesus is an endur-
, ing name.
Who cares for Caesar. Alexander
the Great, Catherine OF Russia. I.oui!
| XIV, Madam Gle Maintcnor, Madam
! Pompadour who cares for Cleopatra
who cares for that old libertine, Henry
| VIII, None so poor as TO do then
| reverence
| Others viii Help.
! The name of Jesus Will stand. w
are going to perpetuate it. There viii
| be other Raphaels to paint, Madonna
and De Ninci's Last Supper" ant
! Rubeu's Descent From the Cross
| and other Hcffmans to paint Chris
and Dores and 1fssots to paint Hi
| travels, and Mankacsy's Christ Be
| fore plate" Yes we will pprpet nat