Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-08

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and dancers in the church it would
stink and rot out.
The lowest down rascal in any com
munity is q dancing Methodist.
am not going to give any more
of these deliverances of the churches,
but | have more This is enough %
show you that anybody in the church
that does these things is at variance
with the church.
Wrong for All.
/ do not know of anything that is
wrong for a church member to do.
that is not equally wrong for those
that are not church members to do.
The only difference between the church
member and the wording is that the
church member has promised to re-.
frain and you have not
l tell you what l would do if I were
in the church. and I was bound to
dance and play cards. l would leave
the church / would not stay in it.
Get out and then you can be refer
red to as an ex-church member who
got divorced from Jesus Christ so that
you could dance with the devil.
You say, Mr.. Sunday, the church
is too strict with us!'
You lie! Who can charge the
young people?''
Churches Liberal.
The bars are so low down now that
any old hog can come and root and
crawl in. Any old lobster with two
or three suits Of clothes and a bank
account can break into most any
church. II one church won't another
will. ] tell you that the church loves
her young people and is indulgent
with them and hopes that they will
increase in common sense as they
grow in years.
Ho{,
Don't be like the old woman who
said TO me:
Mr.. Sunday you know that they
must SOW their wild oats
I felt like slapping her. That is the
biggest idiotic. fool nonsensical, sem
tence ever uttered. There is no leger-
demain about life. no way SOW vie
and reap virtue.
No wonder we nave backslidden try
ing to keep pace with the goddess
gang.
The dancing Christian never was a
soul winner. The dance is simply
! hugging match set to music.
| The dance is a sexual love feast.
This crusade against the dance is
| for everybody. not merely for the
| preacher of the old man or woman,
| that couldn't dance il they wanted to,
| but for everybody interested In NOR
/ ais, whether in the church or out OF
| the church.
| A Beautiful Girl.
One time I WAS halping DR.. Chap
man in New Jersey and some young
! woman said:
| There is q girl ever there, see il
! you can help her
| She had hair like a ravens wing,
| Grecian nose and great big brown
| eyes, oval face and Give complexion,
and long tapering fingers girl that
| one would turn to ;ook at a second
time-the prettiest sill that l ever
saw. except my wife.
| 7 found her on her knuees crying
and I said to her:
| What is the nlatter?'
| She said:
Il love to do those things that you
preach again
"Well, | preach against a GOOD many
| things
Well, she sighed and said 81 love
to dance
o, you poor little foolish Ounce
Here you are. You have heard the.
voice Of Jesus and you feel yourself
! drawn. and almost ready to throw.
surrender ALL and just about that
time you hear the caller say, Get your
partners for a, quadrille,' and you
say. Goodbye. Jesus. l have got to
go dance this dance
She got up, and oh, but she was
around the door jam like foxes tail
around brush heap.
! There was a little nreacher there
that didn't believe in preaching against
amusements. He thought that that
was matter Of conscience. A little
two by four. sawed-off preacherette,
and he talked to her.
Her Ruin.
After while we went to Brooklyn
and one morning l picked up the New
York World and saw a picture of q.
woman and read Of man who wss
foreman in factory where she work
ed. His wife had gone to SALAMANCA,
N. Y, and while there their two child
rem had been taken with diphtherpa.
The factory employees were getting up
their annual ball and this girl went to
. 1t with him. They were infatuated
with each other and they made an
agreement that she should go home
with him for the night
He had gotten a gas stove and the
rubber hose was too short and he
had tried to splice 1t with the garden
hose.
About o'clock in the morning he
walked up with a sitting feeling and
rushed to the window and opened it,
and was hanging out when a police
man went by. The officer rushed in.
and found the girl lying there partly
! nude. He dragged her to the window.
They got three doctors: worked over
her for hours At last she just became
conscious enough to look around and
, say:
] My God, what have done?" and
, she fell back dead.
That was the girl that / tried to
convert in the Baptist church in Pas
siac. n. J.
No harm ir it? She would not listen
. to NE. I tried to help her for God,
, and Gods truth.
Think what you are doing and what
! YOU are coming to when you turn from
= Jesus.
S Honeycombed With Rottenness.
| ] say that is is unspiritlnl Many a
l pastor is heart broken and is signing
t for new field because of the goddess
"a mob in the church. had rather have
! twelve women filed with the Holy
: Ghost, than hundred theater sad-
ders, wine guzzlers and frivolous
Y dancers. What unde" Gods heaven dc
5 you amount to- The church is honey
i combed with the rot-epness Of society
|. Somebody has got to come out ant