Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-24
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all men, to my mind, showed the
greatest lack of manhood, decency
or courage the world has ever gazed
upon.
What PLATE Had.
Now PLATE had many things to
encourage nlm-so have you, and he
had many things to discourage him
so have you.
When God brings influence to bear
to get you to decide favorably for
Jesus, all hell is at work to prevent
you from doing what you know Is
right, and the manly thing to do.
First, to help him he had the
dream of his wife. l do not know
who Mrs. PLATE was before her mar
riage. The story of her is very
briefly told in the Bible. 1t is all
summed up in one verse, so don't
know who she was before her mar
riage. neither are we informed what
kind of a woman she was after her
marriage. only as it is. suggested by
this incident.
God Revealed Himself.
Her dream was an unpleasant one,
while she slumbered in some way
God revealed something to her.
am sure he revealed to her that
her husband was about to mix up
with the greatest tragedy that the
world has ever known, and she sent
the message:
Have thou nothing to do with
this just man. If others want to
murder him let them do it--but
PLATE, husband don't you redden
your hands with his blood, or mix
with that goddess rabble clamoring for
his blood"
oh" but said a man, "Mr. Sun
day don't you know that in these
days of philosophical research that
the consensus of latest scholarship
when the consensus of the latest
scholarship says the Word of God
Is any other thing, the consensus can
go straight to hell am, not plnnlng
my faith to any old professor. | cling
TO the Word of Cod.
Take Your Choice.
Having made your choice of one OF
two things of course we must reject
the other. All right you cannot have
sin and salvation. Take your. choice.
What shall | do then, with Jesus
that is called the Christi
We have got to do something
There is no middle ground. What
you do with Him here will decide
what He will do with you up yonder.
If you treat Jesus with contempt
you have no kick coming if he treats
you with contempt.
Christ Historical Fact.
What are you going to do with the
historical Christ? You can no more
write history of the world without
Jesus Christ than one Of the United
States without Washington. He is
just as properly an historical char
acter as George Washington and
Caesar and Anthony, and Cleopatra,
the old fiat nosed enchantress of the
Nile
Refuse his divinity if you want to
and you have the warm, glowing, his
torical Christ standing before you
asking what are you going to do with
him, leave divinity out of the ques-
ton.
Julius Caesar lived and died forty
two years before Christ was BORN
the wall around China was built cen
turtles before Jesus was born.
Cleopatra's Needle.
Have you ever been in New York to
Central park, and seen the great
granite monolith standing there?
They have deciphered the hero
glyphics and that monument is over
$500 years old. Moses, Jacob and
Isaiah looked on that monument.
What are you going to do with
Jesus?''
EEe only lived two thousand years
ago You can almost reach back and
touch the hem of his garments today
What are you going to do with the
historical Christ?
Are They All Fools?
What are you going to do with the
Christ of Christian experience? Are
all these men who believe In Jesus
fools?
Is William J. Bryan fool? He is
believer and worshipper of Jesus
Christ. Theodore Roosevelt? He is
believer and worshipper of Jesus
Christ.
Every member Of the supreme court,
senators and representatives, mem
hers Of the cabinet to man--they are
believers in and worshippers of Jesus
Christ.
Are they fools? The head Of every
college (if we except Harvard, which
Is Unitarian) is Christian. Is Presi-
dent James of the University Of Illi-
nois g fool? Was William Mckinley
fool?
She Did Her Best.
lie had his wifes dream and advice.
She did all that she could do to
keep her husband on the right side
and you are to be congratulated with
thar kind of a wife.
he had another thing--he had the
personality Of Jesus.
If you brought a man before me
OH 9 jury would say the personality
of the man that stood before me would
enter largely into my attitude toward
him. Here was Jesus more beautiful
than a dream Of Pericles, the most
magnificent character in history. There
he stood before plate.
And the Miracles.
He had the miracles Of Jesus.
don't know that he had ever seen
Jesus perform miracle, but the mir