Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-21
SUNDAY GIVEN AMERICAN
BEAUTY ROSE FOR EACH
Of HIS A6 YEARS OF LIFE
Some Sundaylsn1s

''The way lot of people live
In the church of God, you would
naturally think they had a
through ticket to heaven in
Pullman palace car and were
waiting for the porter to wake
them up when they head Into the
yards of the New Jerusalem. God
pity you. You will be sidetracked
with a hot-box, sure"
"lf | mad hundred tongues
and every tongue speaking dit-
ferent languages in a different key
at the same time, | could not do
Justice to the chaos that the
world-loving, dancing, Whiskey-
guzzling, card-playins crowd in
the church brings to the cause OF
Jesus Christ"
a don't expect any of those os-
sfied, petrified, dyed-in-the-wool,
stamped-on-th -the-cork, blown in the
bottle Episcopalians or Presby-
terians to shout Amen but it
would do you good to loosen you
up.'
81 am a rube of rubes. | am a
hayseed of the hayseeds and the
nalodors of the barn are on me
yet, and it beats pinaud or Col
gate, too | have creased my hair
with goose grease; blaciscned my
boots with stove biackeningi
drank coffee out of my saucer, and
eaten with my knife, and expect
to get to Glory just the same"
81 have crept and craWled out
of the sewers of poverty; am
graduate from the university of
noverty and hard knocks and have
taken postgraduate course"
at costs too much to say, THY
Will be Done That Is the rea-
son YOU lose out. That's the rea-
son you have moral curvature OF
the spine That's the reason
your spiritual batting average is
not up to Gods league standard"
"-rhe truth isn't always pleasant
to hear. When a fellow is going
to be hanged he doesn't like to
hear the sheriff read the death
warrant"
"Ask a vestrynan about some
church goers. He'li say, Yes, he
or she Joined The churcI, at such
and such a time They are the
ones who live such a good Lord,
aood devil. milk, cider, milk, chalk
and vinegar sort of life that it is
hard to tell where they are
"a lot OF our churches are moth
ina more tlan social organizations.
The members are wrapped up IN
business and society and the pur-
suit of frivolity that they lose
track of the Lord"
.put little mark after all that
you see et prayer meeting. You
will find that the biggest bunch
of them are nearer the wine and
beer dinners, and nearer the card
party than to the cross of Jesus
Christ"
"The nearer you get to Jesus
Christ the more elbow room you
have. The nearer you get to God
the less crowd every time"
"Judas bought ticket to He'll
for thirty pieces of silver, and it
wasn't round trip ticket either"
"You can summon all your
theatre-going, card-piayina, beer
drinking crowd, but 1t hasn't the
power to cast the devil out of a
kid as big as peanut"
"Some people say: The old
devil docs well, let him stay. We
must have the license from the
saloon to pave our streets and
liaht our city Let the saloons
stay every saloon gives the
devil a better chance to get your
boy, and want to tell you, IL you
want better world, then do some
thing to keep the devil from
getting your boy"
"Every brick in your street or
pebble In your sidewalk put there
by the brawr Of mankind by
license money from the damnable
saloons is adding more torture Of
heilsh fire around your old
carcass