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

talk he would say II can't" And sup
posing T would say But you can; if
you don't I'll whip you to death
When asked him to do it | knew he
couldn't, yet told him | would whip
him to death If he didn't and in say
ing that I would be Just as reason
able, as an earthly father as God
would be if he would ask you to do
something you could not do and he
knew when he asked you that you
couldn't do 1t and yet he would damn
you If you didn't do it.
TWO Glasses of DisbeIievers.
Ever since God saved my soul and
sent me out 10 preach, ] have pray
ed him to enable me to pronounce two
words. and put into those words all
they will mean to you il they ever
become reality, God pity you. One
word Is LOST" and the other is
ETERNITY.
Ten thousand years from tonight
we will all be somewhere. Ten
thousand times ten thousand times
ten thousand years, and Eternity has
just begun Increase the multiple
God. should commission bird to
carry this world. particle by particle.
TO yonder planet, making round
trip once in a thousand years. and IL
sfter the bird had performed that
task God should prolong it's life and
1T would carry the world back, par
ticle by particle. making a round trip
once in 3. thousand years, and put
everything back as it WAS originally,
after 1t had accomplished that task
you would not have been five minutes
in Eternity, and yet you sit there
with Just heart beat between you
and the Judgment of God,
What is your life! A hairs breadth
yes, hairs breadth-yes one single
heart beat and you are gone, and
Iyet you sit with the judgment of God
Ehoverins over you. What shall the
end be-
! never met any man or woman
In my life that dishelieved in Chris
,tianity that could not be classified
UNDER one of two headings:
First: They who, because Of sp
utter disregard of Gods claims upon
their lives, have, by and through
that disregard, become poltroons
marlplots, or degenerate scoundrels
and have thrown themselves beyond
the pale of Gods mercy or any hope
of salvation
Second: Men and women with splen
did, noble, magnificent abilities which
they have allowed to become absorbed
in other matters, do not give to tbs
subject of religion SO much as pas
sing attention. They have the audacity
to claim for themselves an intellec
tua1 superiority to those who believe
the Bible. which they sneeringly tern
that superstition.
But you don't give eo religion, vol
don't demand of yourself the same
amount OF research that you would de
Inand of yourself if you were COINS
10 buy a piece Of property to find gu
whether or not the title was perfect
You wouldn't buy it if you didn't know
the title was without flaw, and We
you will pass the Bible by and claim
you have more sense than the person
that does investigate and find out
accepts and is saved.
What is the gospel that peopl
ought to obey it? 1t is good news
glad tidings of salvation through
Jesus Christ.
o but somebody says, do you cal
the news of that book that l am OF
the road IT, hell good news? No, sir
that in itself is not good news, bli
If it is the truth, the sooner you fin
1t out the better 1t will be for you.
Now, Gcd doesn't tell you tina
you are lost and on the road to he
and then leave you, but he tells yo
that you are on the road to hell an
he says: RI have sent a guide, m
Son, to lead you out, and to lea
you back to peace and salvation.
That's good news; that's gospel, tina
God is kind enough to tell you tina
you are Inst and on the road t
hell and that He sends a guide, wht
II you will sun1bit to, will lead 70
out of YOUR condition and lead 20
to peace. That's gospel; that's goo
news. That tells a man that b
needn't go to hell unless he want
10.
All, my friends, hear me. We wer
all mortgaued to God, had nothin
to pay with and infexible justic
siezed upon us and put us in th
prison of condemnation. God too
find some one to pay our debt. jest
Christ stepped forth and said: II
co. I'll become bone of their Dor
and flesh of. their flesh God gay
man the Mosaic law---"Without tt
shedding OF blood there is no fo
giveness OF sin If Jew sinned |
was compelled TO bring turtle do,
or pigeon. or heifer or bullock
the high priest. Once year the his
priest woull kill the sacrifice. puttiI
Il on the altar That made atonemel
for the sins of the people during ii
wear Then they would put the
hands on the hand of the scape-gos
lead 1t out in the wilderness and pitt
It out over the precipice.
Jesus Christ came into the wor
horn of a woman. They nailed Hi
10 the cross. When He shed His blot
He made atonement for our sins G.
says: eff you will accept of Jes
Christ as your Saviour will put