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

reproduction of offspring in so low
form of life as the moths and insects
why isn't it perfectly plausible that
he would do it with his own Son?
Surely He can do with the highest or
der OF life what He can do with the
lowest. That man didn't want to be =
Cnristian, Lots of you people are not
Christians because You don't will to be
Christians.
You live in q realm Of profanity.
booze-f1ghting. prostitution and the
very lowest cesspoois of sin and it's
no wonder You see no good IN religion.
You are too low down in muck to see
any good in anything. If you would
go home and read your Bibles cor
sistently and will to understand what
YOU are reading, YOU would cease ask
ing such silly questions,
Paul Was Big Game.
"a man said to me once. Yes. but
Paul was made to see the right way
in spite of himself Yes, you bet he
was. Paul was big game but you're
not. God don't need his forty four
shells to get you because this day and
age of the world no man is indispens-
able to God. He can get who he wants
today by using his smallest bird shot
and don't you forget that.
II keep nay body n shape BY using
it. II ! didn't use it regularly it
wouldn't, be long before lost the u.s.
of it altogether The same rule holds
good with faith. If you use your faith,
you'll always have faith and If you go
on doubling and sneering you'll lose
what little faith you already have.
Conscience is the last argument
that some men put vi, when get EN-
backed clear UP to the wall. They say
o, but | follow my conscience. Yes,
their are millions following their con
sciences today and they are so close
to hell that they have to keep using
their handkerchiefs to keep the sui
phur fumes out of the nostrils Over
in India if baby gets sick it's mother
will follow her conscience and throw
get well by having few chunks
Topped off its arms with a Ratchet
She followed her conscience alright
but If she did that over here they'd
either string her UP for murder or put
her in padded cell
You people want to remember
that you can't annihilate anything.
Your body dies but it is never entirely
destroyed. 1t becomes other chemicals,
but is never entirely annhilated
Nothing in your life is going to be for
gotten. Every act you perform is be-
ing baked in the plastic mould OF your
memory. God pity some of you when
your memory arises and confronts
you at the critical moment You cry
out, o Father I forgot but when
you stand up before God there won't
be a thing that you won't have en-
hlazoned on the front walls of your
memory"
The Story of the Pearl
In closing, Mr.. Sunday in most
dramatic manner, related story of a
man who had invested his all in a
beautiful pearl In showing his skill as
a juggler In throwing it up and catch
inc it under difficulties for the ap-
plause of the throne while on ship
board. he lost it. He likered this
unto men and women who will throw
away their chances of salvation and
life eternal for the passing plaudits;
of a crowd
That's what you men of today are
doing every day of your lives just
living for the plaudits Of passing
crowd. You'd rather crawl into the
arms of some girl in the red-lieht dis.
trict and propagate your hell-born spe.
eies, than live a decent life But
when you stand before the judgment
throne. you'll remember it. and don't
you forget it, You are going to toss
Your pearl for the last time and when
you miss it it's going to be gone for.
ever"