Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-10

THE old ways of bringing men 10
Christ are all right if they can deliver
the goods. But if they then the
new ways should come out Then II d
man comes along with new methods;
brings men to Christ by using
idiosyncrasies, peculiar methods ana
introduces ideas not conforming with
old stale rules-the reople stab him
in the back
There are more ways advanced to-
day to get men to Heaven than at any
time before in the history of the world.
mere are as many ologies, isms.
schisms, connections and tommyrot as
there are men Of different opinions.
Some of them even don't take the
word of God as the basis of their ad-
vocacies. | believe that this Bible is
the word of God and that it's teach
ings are good. 'Nhere S only one way
to get to HeaTen and that is by the
repentance of sin.
To He'll With cholarship.
There is only one way and that is
to cut the devil hip and thigh Don't
let the devil bluff you. Use any old
thing you can get hold of and soak
him. He's been here thousands If
years and he can give you hearts and
spades anG can beat you cool, hands
down every time when it comes to sin.
| believe the Old Book from cover to
cover and I'll see the latest consensus
of scholarship in hell before I'll take
1t in preference to the blble as an in.
depreciation of Cod. I don't suppose
you people will all agree with every
thing I say nor my methods If you
do. | must be wrong.
I've had more maledictions cast up
on ME than any other man in the
country and I def the whole gang
who are attempting to harm me-.
Blessed is he who is reviled and per
secuted, for great is his regard in,
Heaven Say. what an awful lot the:
Lord must have saved up for me up
there!
These men pour and vomit and
puke their slop-buckets Of Shiny filth
over me and | defy them all You'd
be fools if you growled and kicked at.
the big political leaders going over the
country working for their leaders and
parties from trains. opera houses and,
every other old place: then you are
fools if you growl and kick at me. Ny
leader and my party are greater than
any of these
Objections to REVEALS.
you are against revivals, but you,
will have a political revival and one
OF you old buffers here will get out and
carry torch and let the grease run
down your back. But you put the
same old duffer in prayer meeting
and he is like a bump on a logic
will just shut up and when somebody
comes along to preach Jesus the old
son of predition begins to growl and
say, don't know about it.
Some people say that the revival
puts the community to disgrace be-
cause some people have to acknowl-
edge to the community that they have
backslid--bless your soul, you do not
tell the community anything that Il
did not know The revival is simply
a rain shower. but you will feel its
power for months. The work of
Jesus Christ was only temporary 50
far as His death upon the cross was
concerned. but the world feels the eff
feet of the drops of blood shed on
Calvary
You say that it exalts the evange-
list? 1t does nothing of the kind. I'm
CRATER? o yes-Tm a CRATER all
right Do you know what can do?
I've had an offer of $4,000 by a big
Cnautauqua if I would give them ten
weeks of my time and I've turned it
down. Why? Because it would take
ten weeks of my time from the Lords
work and would use me up so |
wouldn't be fit for service for several
weeks more. O, I'm a CRATER all
right. The man that says that never
gives this cause any money and if he
did we don't want his filthy money.
It's dirty
Day Of Specialists.
''These are the days of specialists.
An evangelist is sort Of specialist
for God. We have eye, ear and nose
specialists; why not specialists here,
I never could be pastor of a church.
If got call would buy a round trip
ticket. | think though, would go and
tell you I would skin the bunch once
any way. I would hold some of those
old geezers over the fire and let them
smell sulphur fumes.
Il have great resp ct for the preach
er who stays twenty-five years in n
cuuTCl. L nat man WOulQ be q hat
failure as an evangelist. And an evan
gelist would be fla failure as a pas
tor God calls special men to do spe-
cial work. 1t is no argument again st
winner
These good men can not do the
work I am doing. Some women are
good housekeepers and some are not
Some are good cooks and some are
abominable. .-ut this is not saying
anything against womanhood
Don't any of you pastors ask me
to use your vocabulary. I can't do it.
You ministers couldn't stand I'D in
your pulpits and tell the story Of
David and Goliath as can
Rev. Sunday then delivered his YER
sion of the old Bible story, and when
he had finished, he raised a deadly
finger and pointed it out in the
crowd.
"Bili Sunday Is VuI-gah."
Hey! there's a woman back there
about to faint from that. Catch her
somebody. Sa-a-y l II bet she's one Of
the worst literary old danes in the
city in her club. She can sit and spout
and expurgate and enjoy Bill Shakes