Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-14

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Now am doing my best, and if>I
I, cannot do the best would like to do,
/ | always do the best that | can do, !
|rest' Oh that
Nobody can do the job that the Lord
has marked out for you.
/ You walk up to man or woman and
say:
Are you 4 Christian?
Well. | hope SO, Brother Sunday
am trying to be; pray for me.
Suppose that you come UP and say:
! Mr.. Sunday, are you married?
] say: | am trying to be.
You know whether you are married.
Well. then, you know whether you are
a Christian
Prayer Lists,
Take a prayer list and write down
the names of those whom you wish
/ converted. Write letters to them, call
them up over the phone, look around
in the meetings and see If they are
there. Get the name on the prayer list
if you want to help them and they will
flock into the kingdom of heaven like
doves to the windows.
! l knew OF little fellow who went
to a revival meeting and was taken
quite ill and died soon after the meet
ing closed. And they found in his
mattress a prayer list with the names
of thirty-siX of his companions. And
after each name was a little pencil
check
He used to ask:
Who went forward last night?
And then he would smile and he
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called him home he prayed thirtysix
into the kingdom.
A Penitent's Tear.
There was the story of the Peri In
Paradise. I'eri was promised that the
most valuable thing on earth would
secure an admission to heaven. So he
secured pure specimen of finest gold
and he winged his flight to the gates
of heaven. But the angel said:
eve have no use for gold; we do not
buy and sell in heaven. We pave our
streets with better gold than that"
And he returned to earth and Sc
cured some precious stones made up
in beautiful designs. and with his
hands full took his flight to the gates
But the angel said:
eve don't wear any jewelry here.
We have twelve gates and each gate
is made of one pearl and the foun-
dations Of the city are OF precious
stones"
Disappointed and chargrined he re-
turned to earth. He was wandering
along the bank of a stream and saw
q little child lying with face up
turned. asleep under tree. Near by
was hidden noted desperado--behind
the tree watchi g the child, and the
little child opened up on the canvas
/ of his recollection and memory. the
thought of his ..tnted mother and
tears rolled down his cheeks. And
he cried:
20, God. l wish that / were as pure
as little child"
And Peri ran and caught the tears
as they dropped aid he winged his
fight back to the gates of heaven,
and he heard the bolt drawn and the
gate swung on its jeweled hinges and
the angels bowed low and said come
in--you have brought the most valu-
able thing on earth in the sight of
Coda penitent's tears.
"If you've got the least sigh in your
heart for your defiance of God-its the
most priceless thing you possess.
Crowns of Heaven.
read of a girl who found so much
JOY in the new faith that she prayed
to go to heaven. She dreamed one
night that God answered her prayer
And she came up to the gate and the
|angel said:
ooh, it's you, is it Mary. Come in.
You just got in by the skin of your
teeth
And she started to follow the an
gel, and she came to a brilliant crown
She asked:I
Whose crown is that p The angel
said that it belonged TO the minister
"Oh.'' she said. "how glad he will
be when he gets here
Yes" said the angel, che never
was half appreciated. You remembe,
how they growled and grumbled ant
didn't like his preaching, and how
Old Money Bags tied UP his purse
strings when he reproved him. ant
the old ibertine when he drove it in
to that old scoundrel. You know
that they sent d committee up to con-
ference to pull strings and then the
elders got together and strokcd thcil
long whiskers and said: I'VE need {
new preacher-one that will draw
Things That Draw
Yes, horse will draw. and pipe
and a porus plaster. ! tell you wher
you put two hundred or three hun.
dred people up against one breaches
that is pulling for Christ you make
a rough house. God wants church
dignitaries that Will dig" and dea
cons that will "deac, and stewards
that will stew" and not make a lnuss
, of it. That's what's the ms tier with {
, lot of you Holsters.
BY and by they. came to anothe1
crown, almost as brilliant as th'
, first.
This is for Old Aunt Betsy" saic
, the angel.
! DO you mean the old colored woman
the one that washed for living?'
They hire her to wash twenty foul
! pieces for so cents and send twenty
four bed spreads and pillow sham
and skirts with IS yards Of insertion
and ruftles on them. Well. they pa.
, somebody What it is worth to wasl
, your dirty old duds aud socks.
# there is anybody on Gods. dirt tina
earns every cent that they get it is I;
woman that nanicures her finge
nails on the washboard.
; Il didn't think that she would 11av,
reward like that
But the angel said:
, "A whole lot of that bunch that yn,
!, , expect TO nave the front seats won
be in It."
. They came to a crown that had III
Jewels And she. said ''Nrl,o-e l.