Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-01

or three questions 1 would like to ask
you. ! would like to ask first il you
were kindly disposed toward me; seq
cnd, l would like to ask il you can
say anything to help me- third,
would want to ask il you knew what
| you were talking about; fourth.
would want to ask you If you practice
| what you preach.
! This vast audience proves that you
are kindly disposed toward me and
what ] have done in tho last twenty
two years shows that | have DISPOSE
ton to help men and the experience
that you have had with me proves that
| I know what ] am talking about and
| defy any man to show that have not
| lived up to the teachings of God as
| understand them In the last twenty
| two years.
Some of you are living for pleasure
but the life of pleasure will soon end
/ and after death comes the judgment.
The devil never lets a man think how
deceitful pleasure is.
1t does not make a man weak and
effeminate to be a Christian. He is on
ly asserting his highest manhood.
An Example of Christianity.
i l can make hundred yards in ten
seconds today. Christianity hasn't hurt
ME, has it? l can run the bases in
fourteen seconds. | always was handy
with my dukes before l was converted
and can use EN- yet. [ can give you
an example Of muscular Christianity,
IL you want it, men.
i The manifest man is the man who
acknowledges Jesus Christ as his Sa-
vior. Men trust you when you live
by the Book. Character is a~man's
best capital.
There was time when you couldn't
trust me TO stand on a street corner
five minutes to hold a yellow dog.
Some OF you men have characters
SO black that they would mark a lump
Of coal Christianity Is character Is
; it yours?
Riches do Not Damn.
, ] am nor against man because he
, is rich. There are lots of fellows who
harp and rail and damn and cuss
every man with money, while they sit
around on dry goods box or hand
l and chew and spit. When the coffin
lid is screwed down on them it will be
screwed down on nothing.
, It's when love of money leads to the
sacrifice of manhood that I preach
against 1t. Then condemn it ant
: ONLY then.
= But for some Of you men money
| spells failure.
It will be said of you as it was OF
Commodore Vanderbilt when he died
Somebody asked how much he left
E the answer was he left all he had
!. Naked we come into this world ant
naked we will go out of it and all the
y money we can pile up here could no
: buy water enough in hell to noistel
ones lips.
s. Why DRINK
Rejoice, O young man IN tn
G youth"
). But why drink?
, ooh, you say TT keeps me warm il
q the winter time and cool in the sum
u mer."
6 The fact Is that statistics show tina
v men freeze to death more quickl,
e when they have alcohol in the system
$. than without it. SiXty-two per cen
of the cases Of sunstrokes are of thos
;, Of liquor drinkers. If beer and win
= had no alcohol in them you would jus
% about as soon drink dish water.
e I can take my jack knife and put
g into a can Of beef extract and brin
e out as much nourishInent on the blad
h as there is in $50 gallons Of beer.
- think If hell ever had a jubilee
was when lager beer was invented.
c. L. Brown, who used to be
e brewer. but who is now attorney 70
10 the state food commission, says Their
Z. has been no pure beer made in tn
!. United States for twelve years, tina
n there is in beer a. dozen differer
II things that are injurious to the sys
=. tenn all the way from rosin to junipe
u berries.
n You stick your finger in the flesh {
N one of these men that has been Twin
re on rotten beer and twenty minute
after if you will look YOU will find tt
+ impression Of your finger still.
II Don't take my word for it, Try
- tonight when you go to bed.
=. Some Of you men never had a carpt
IN on the floor nor pillows on the bed an
re your wife hasn't had a new dress fl
er two years and you are jackass enoue
k to pay your money to the saloon keeI
Il or to furnish beefstake and dresses Il
~ his wife and children.
~ The bitterest enemy of the home, IL
es merchants, the travelling men, tt
OF schools, the church. the nation al
VI the flag is the open grog shop.
License.
ne You say can't we prohibit men fro
1g drinking?
ou No; Jesus Christ himself couldr
ok do that.
%. We cannot prohibit men by law fro
IN stealing. or from murder, nor fro
~ lynching, nor from arson, nor fro
~ burglary, but we do not repeal Il
laws against all these things. Wou
VIC DS w iiiiiio ~ lepSdi tliSSS laws e'i
make law that says for $1,000 "
can have license to murder nj
this year; or for $500 you can rap
:, for $3.50 you can seduce; for 500 "
9 can crack safe; for $50 you CT
burn business block? That would
be tommyrot and yet we license m
to make staggering, puking drunkar
To and every man of you that voted t
e." the open saloon is sponsor for t
ect wreckage that damns.
e Quits Ball Playing.
- Twenty-Five years ago l sat in t
lie street in Chicago listening to the 81
~ walton Army singing hymns. Hardne
,Ia and sin left Inc and I was back at !
-, mothers knee. I followed the cro'
- to the old Pacific Garden mission a
~ left sitting on the curb stone t
~, most noted ball players in the wo1
''S at that time. AS went 1 told the
ro- good bye and as I look over the liz
,rr now I see that nearly every one
g. them has gone to the devil.
i ~. 4.