Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-12
DON'T OWN HOTEL
Sunday Denies Circulated Report
That He is Possessor of Chicago
Business House.

Business House.
81 suppose the story has been
circulated in this city that ! own
an interest in big hotel and sa-
loon in Chicago. In one city
where worked for several weeks
that hotel was Wortf, $4,000 when
began the reyivals, At the end of
three weeks it had Increased in
value to 100000, and before left
that burg the whisky gang were
sure that the hotel and saloon
fixtures cost no less than ono
million dollars. It's all a lie and
the men knew they were liars as
they repeated 1t. | don't own a sin
gle brick in Chicago. Hear me-!
vi give five thousand dollars to
any charitable cause you may
name If a man or committee any
where in this country can prove
that own a single bit of Chicago
property or am in any way con-
nected with hotel or saloon.
rent a small flat in Chicago. II
costs me twenty-five dollars a
month. rent 1t the year round
and haven't been in it for months.
That's the only home have. The
only harder thing | have to con-
tend with than being away from
my home and family is having
these miserable lies cast upon me
everywhere 90. But they don't
feaze me-"
About 700 people, mostly women
were in attendance at the tabernacle
yesterday afternoon. Mr. Sunda,
used no specific text. He used as thu
basis of his sermon the eighteenth
chapter of Luke, from The ninth
verse on.
Il want to talk about true religion
and not sham substitute" he said
1.-THE Pharisees were the most theolog
ical but the least spiritual of any elias!
that ever lived. They have and arr
propagating aheir species in thu
church.
Eve hear expressions Of regret thu
religion is so generally neglected b.
the majority of the people, ind no con
scientious man or woman can reflec
on that truth without anguish o
heart. We find that two-thirds .
what is rendered to God is absolutel,
useless, formal an. void of power
One reason for neglect is: Because
two-thirds of what we offer to Got
don't amount to a hill of beans. Tha
is the reason that the fellow outside
there passes it up.
Two men went up into the tempt,
to pray. the one a Pha7isee, the othe
Publican. The Pharisee stood ant
prayed thus with himself: God,
thank thee that am not as other me1
are; plunderers and adulterers; ol
even as this Publican; l fast twice II
the week; I give tithes of all that
possess And the Publican, standing
afar off, would not so much as lift vi
his eyes to heaven, lut smote upoI
his breast saying, God, be mer
ciful to me. a sinner I tell you thi.
man went down to his house justified
rather than the other. For every onI
that exalteth himself shall be abased
And he that humblest himself shall b.
exalted" h#
The Pharisees were church,,
crowd andsevery church is cursed nov
with them. If they cannot run every
thing, they will tie up their purs,
strings. Let them tie them up an:
go to the devil.
Decpises Dictator.
III the preacher told you how Il
run your business you would tell hin
that you knew more about it than ns
did. | despise the person who want.
to dictate and tell the church how t,
run its business. despise the whis
ky-voting church member. They viii
pray: Thy kingdom come and vot,
for the devils kingdom. You wondel
why the world is not being saved