Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-15

away. Birds left their lodgings in
their nests, and their eggs, and flew
away and would not go near it, and
one morning the people bought, and
sold, and danced, they laughed, they
cursed, they blasrhened. At 8
O'Clock all was sunshine and joy and
at minutes past eight, 10000 people
lay dead They heard, but they would
not heed.
The Only Salvation.
1t is great because it is the only sal
/ walton. The scheme of salvation. the
coming Of Jesus, are proofs positive
! that God wants men and women to be
saved whether they will be saved or
not and the reason men and women
are not saved Is because of their own
I free choice Of evil, not Gods desire to
punish them, and the bitterest dreg
4 you will have to mix in your cup is
that you have nobody to blame but
Yourself. If you are ever in hell, you
will have no one to blame but your
self.
1t Is great because it saves from
great sins. God uses the worst terms
he can fnd in order to tell you and
me what men have done and that
/ God forgave them and He will forgive
us.
Il Reaches to the Depths.
It is great salvation that can
reach doWa into the depths of str.
/ pull out young man and send him
out to hunt bis mother and fill her
days with sunshine. 1t is great sal.
( walton for it saves from great sins
never heard man say, 81 was a
! great sinner until I graduated from
the university or ri was great sin
ner until | became a lawyer" OF u
was q great sinner until mastered
( my trade or science, or studied Huxley
or Darwin" | was a great sinner I'M
I'll l accepted Jesus Christ as my
/ Saviour. It's great. I want to tell
4 you that the way to heaven is blood
! stained way No man has ever reach
ed 1t without Jesus Christ and he
never will. Your education, your
| morality, your culture, your refine
ment, all those things will fail utterly
fail, to take you in. It's giving your
self up all the way that will get you
! there.
Don't be like oar-r'-r r-',t
he put his thumbs in the arm holes
OF his vest, rocked on Las Toes, ea4u
CIV 4"f' YOU what Ill do"
"What?"
EN- cut out the booze and get on
the water wagon
Good, what else!"
Il guess III Q.lL my cussing."
"Au right. / think man is as
low down as he can get when he
cusses. What else?"
"Of course | am gambler; I'll
quit gambling and I'll never touch a
pack Of cards"
All right; what else?"
life aN 'SA NV '4
Good what else?"
He said, "If / quit these things l
think they cover about all. I'll quit
drinking, swearing, stop gambling
and ri quit being irnnure"
/ said, Good; give ME your hand
and say you'll accept Jesus Cl!l is, as
your Savior Is 1T
He said, mo, / won't. If stop
those things won't need to do that"
Is that so? That's mans way Of
salvation; that's not Gods way Of
salvation. Those are simply reso-
buttons Resolutions have to do with
the present and the future, but never
with the past.
Supposing you owed a man 500
and you would go and say to him.
I've made up my mind that Pm
going to pay cash for what get from
now on"
Good; I'm glad Of the resolutions.
But You owe me 500, what about
that?n
20, if I pay cash from now on. that
will call us square,
You try to pay the debts you owe
God by simply reforming and see
where you lose out.
You Are Lost or God Lies.
Surprising man in this town
would break into building and
crack a safe. He would leave here and
abiding citizen for ten years. The Off
GERS Of this county would hear Of it. |
arrest him and bring him back for
trial Would the fact that he had |
lived a law abiding citizen for ten
years atone for the fact that ten
years ago he cracked a safe? Not
much NO matter how q man lives |
from there UP to here. it won't atone
for what he did from there up to
here.
All your education, all your culture, |
all your morality, all your resolutions
don't amount to 8 snap of the finger
with God. There is nothing but
faith in Jesus Christ. that can ever
blot cut the past That's all under
Gods heaven that can do it, The way
to heaven Is blood stained way. You
turn your back on Jesus Christ and If
anybody tells you that you can be
saved and reject Jesus Christ I tell
you they lie. Paul says, tsIf any man
preach any other gospel unto you than
you have received, let him be ac-
cursed There is no other gospel. |
There are multitudes of men that can
preach this gospel better than I, but
you can't find a man on God Al |
mighty's earth that can preach a bet |
ter gospel. There is no other gospel
but the Gospel Of Jesus Christ.
Great In Forgiveness.