Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-24

I think I have nerved myself ana anu
prepared for anything" The doctor eA.
amined the child's eyes carefully, tneh
led the little. one out and said 10 the
mother: 81 am sorry to tell you, Dul
ontic nerves are acected and 1t Is De-
yond the skill of man to cure your
child. in three months at the longest
If will be stone blind" The motner
threw her arms around the little one
and her shrieks of agony rang
through the hall as she cried; MY
Cod my baby blind"
God says you had better be mann
ed. and halt and blind than to go 10
hell. You fail to realize that without
Jesus Christ you are lost. | Woula
rather lose my eyesight and grope ana
stagger my way to the coffin than ~
walk into hell would rather hobble
through life with one limb gone anu
one arm gone and go up, and look
Jesus in the face and hear him say
"Well DONE than to walk to hell.
Save the Hundred.
Sometimes you might think people
don't care 10 talk about religion. NOW
YOU listen! Where you will find one
man or one woman that would treat
Won disres Dectfully, you will find one
hundred that will listen to you and
thank you Lecause you came. Ihen LEI
the one go to hell and try to get the
one hundred If a man is low down
and sood-for-nothing, and God-forsak-
en- enough that he would treat you
ldisrespectfEily if you would go anu
| talk to him about Jesus CHRIST, l
have not patience with him You Will
| find some har-brained people just
like that, but there are not very many.
They are ir, such a sad minority that
they are scarcely worthy of passing
attention But believe people will b.
disappointed if you don't talk to them.
You must have your eyes in the PACK
of your head if you can't see that
Gods spirit is sweeping over Ottum'
wa as you never saw it before. You
have never seen the time when 1t was
easier to talk religion than it is today
Why, that's all you can hear. Go into
any store, into any office. The CONVEX
sation will open and Immediately
switch and they will go to talking re
ligion.
Every town has few leaning posts
moral and immoral. Every town has a
few men. and whatever they do the
town will do. If they go to hell the
town will so, and the trouble is with
a good many towns that the wrong
gang got there first and settled 1t. Sc
God will have to wait until he can ge'
them and their offspring out Of the
way before he can do much.
in Time Of Trouble.
In time of trouble go to fellow
who has lost his property, he has
tried hard to make things go, but he
has gone to the wall and is ny
against it. When he was prosperous
and successful men would cross thu
street to shake his hand and say
"How do YOU do?" Now he goes t.
the postof1ice, get a bundle Of letters
and like Shylock of old. they demand
100 cents on the dollar He goes home
reads the letters, throws himself pros
trate and cries: mo man cares TO
my soul, only 100 cents on the dollar
. In time of trouble.
Mr. friend. Prof. Knox, was telling
me an incident that happened in
town in Iowa One winter plague O
diphtheria was in the city; sixty-thre
children died in less than three weeks
; mostly all from homes of non-profess
ing Christians. AT last the drea
> scourge reached the home of ma
who edited an infidel paper His wifi
, had gone to premature grave, brol
en-hearted over his scorns. He ha
;. two children, boy associated wit
him in business, and little girl, eigh
years old. whom he idolized. and VIII
;. was stricken. Of course the home wa
, quarantined.
The girl asking and begging he
papa to send for DR.. Knox. She use
= to go to the Presbyterian church ;
Sunday school. He had never above
>, preacher in his home, and he curse
:. the little one when she asked hin
= But every day she asked for D
= Knox and finally the fathers hea
softened and he sent for my frien
:. who told me the incident. He sal
: that as he walked up the steps he MI
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