Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-21
HAS BUT ONE JOB

f1AS bU OISE JUH
F$ f1ttgl , L.-..- MI
Emphasizing that the church of to
day and its members have but one
task before them, THE saving 6ft;soills
for Christ. Rev. Sunday preached +
continuation of his sermon on person
al work yesterday afternoon on the
same text from Proverbs X:30 He
that winneth souls is wise
In response to~a request made by
several members Of the audience
Messrs. Fischer and Butler. sang the
same duet that made such a deep i'm
preston Wednesday afternoon, Let
The Lower Lights Be Burning
In part the sermon follows: Soul
saving is the work Of the church.@.and
it has no. other, Jesus said, Follow
me and I'll make We fishers of men
The great trouble With TOD many
Of the. church members today is4sthat
they are following some other god
money, fashions. cards, society or
clubs. They are afraid to get out and
let their amusements take second
place to Gods work for fear some one
will ridicule them.
Il don't care turn #of my hand
whether | please anybody with my re
marks or not The decent people in
the church are pleased With my
preaching because they know ii is Of
God and I don't care a rap whether
everybody likes IT or not. like to
have men afraid OF me and run away
for fear I will talk to them about
being saved. Are they afraid of you?
Fifty weeks in a year are devoted to
preaching TO the church ard two
weeks are devoted Ito saving MI souls.
That order ought to be reversed. II
we'd preach to- save souls. fifty weeks
each year. two weeks would be. enough
for the church, The; church of the
future must be a soul winning CHURCH.
I'll bet there are. people here looking
me in the face who have been profes
sing Christians twenty-five years and
have never saved "a soul,
tiestnene in .0ttumws.
''Lots OF people want to be mis-
sionaries and get out among the heath
en- where they can make srandstandi
plays, Do you know whataa heather
| is? A heather is anyone who doesn't
| believe in God. There's some of@the
biggest heathens On earth right here
| in the corporate limits Of your little
old city and yet some of you want 70
pass them UP and go away to work. X,
cts just another excuse to get out
OF doing Gods work. Let me tell you
right here that every. excuse, you Of
| feI, to, get out Of doing. something fol
| God is Of the devil | urge every
church member in OttumWa to. put
their excuses behind them and get out
and do something for COG. -
4 IF a farmer left his grain II the
granary how large d. crop would he
+, harvest in the fall? None That's
just what the churches are doing to-
day-youre not sowing seed SO how
can you expect TO reap? It's high
time the membership was waking ,ur
and beginning to SOW seed on. all
sides.
THE law of God allows every child
of God every privilege that, q righteous
conscience approves Of. 1t may moi
hurt you TO play cards or to go 10
;, thcaters, but b., so doing YOU influence
; hundreds of others to do the same
Il thing and Il your conscience let's you
: keep on leading people FROM Chris
there's something radically wrona
with it.
Those WHO refuse to do personal
: work have some sin i'll their life. Eve
! found that TO be so by long 81
. perience in this great work. 'ITnffs'l
: the last thing the devil lets You de-
y 90 out and Wort, Individually aalGNs
VI She masses 10 bring men to y Christ
4 You mist get tie sins out OF your oY
1 lives before you start 10 bring other!
}. IN. SHOW me a dried UP, Wjtheret
n church and I'll show You a member
ship thai doesn't 10 personal works.
q Every institution has its husiness
e and its 5ha business Of the church I
= save. That's all The church e&isf
g for There's not enough power u;
D. the church. today--lilse z squirrel in
l, cage--tkore's lots CT connection goin
l. Oh bEi YOU never get anywhere. "
5, are giving about as5n!nch attGntiony.t
g the dining room. kitchen and stoves j
= our new churches as We are the pu
Y epit aud chcir-loft These thfngsH ar
c 81 right hut tho should be secondary
Il not primary Everybody can tasing'EU
e preach but VIC can al Go persoffe
= work every hour Of every dag. e yo
people would oniy go out andEdo reg,
d to;sdburt, so hard about how to kee
IS up the membership; you'd have II
plan Some way t5 provide for E!.th
At souls Coming in. -,
i 500 FAiRFiEEDERs COMM,
Garfield. Nov. Especial -
ii5cxcursion to the Sunday reyiytii 'Ffi,
sa hundred strong and accompanied by.
: brass band is being planned togo fro
~ Fairfield next Tuesday. While TN
-; ;:iarge a number may rot go on tn
~ tytlayl.andr they may not be abs to s.
O. cure the F'airfiold band for the Qcqi
III sion, il is certain that several shundtl
n viii attend. Sunday conducted d r
j. vival here eighteen months ago ands
n. Just: as, popular eas the day HE I'VE
il. F;iway. Since the revival in Ottumg
Itcommenced there have. beent.a par
ii of Fairfield tDsopie in attenCIan nee aye