Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-14

ih6s IllSut.
You kneel at the communion table
one day and Their go out and perse'
cute tbe poor. Tou sing about Cal.
vary and heaven, and put the wrong
figures on the; ledger
Sufficient lnducement.
The farmer works through the long
days OF sunshine and rain. What are
the inducements? A granary filled
With grain and food for the winter.
Is not the salvation of a. man from
hell sufficient inducement for you to
bend your knee in prayer? Is it not
q sufficient inducement for you to so
and to pay your debts and quit gossip
ing about your neighbors? Is it not
sufficient inducement for you to go and
talk 10 a man about Christ?
To Him That Wills.
Kossuth said to the heroic French,
man who swan mile and half to
the vessel from which he was forbid
den to land How in the world did
you ever do it,"
oh" said the Frenchman. with a
smile, there are no difficulties to him
that Wills
Kossuth looked at him and grasped
him by the hand and said: Say that
again, will YOU
That is what l am trying to do.
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Thank you. sir. that shall be my
watchword until the day that l die
There are no difficulties to him
that Wills
That is what men put into prac.
tice in business, and law, medicine,
farming and railroading. Then let
us do It in religion.
Clear Away the Rubbish.
That is what ] am trying to do.
have learned from long experience
there is no use trying to build up re.
vival on the ball room and a pack of
cards, demijohn, a case of beer
or outlawed debts.
Surprising this building should
burn down or fall down, and you
would let the contract to an archi.
tect and he put the foundation OH the
old rubbish you would say that he
was bug-house."
Cost of Conversions.
A formidable array of statistics
compiled from actual church records
were given in this connection to show
what 1t had really cost per capita to
bring about conversions in many of
the larger churches of the land. The
figures were immense- in many
cases showing that it actually cost
several thousand dollars each for con-
versions in some churches of the me-
tropolses. "And yet people call me a
CRATER because we take up collec.
tons in these revival meetings to pay
the current expenses. II you good old
church members would get out your
little pencils and go to figuring, you'd
find that Billy Sunday is the cheapest
leader that Christ has," the evangelist
wound up.
Some Big Facts.
Listen to some tremendous facts
There are 17S,0O0 churches in the
United States. There are $4,000, 600
communicates in the churches, Cath
olic and Protestant. There is room
enough in the churches for $4,000, OOC
of our people.
Now all you need to do is for each
one to save one year, and i'll three
years we would save the United
States for Jesus Christ
But after 1900 years of preaching
the world is being born into sin, near
ly 20-to-1 faster than into the king
dom OF God. think that is downright
hypocricy to pray for a thing that We
are not willing to work for.
Prayers are worth no more thar
what you are willing to redeem ir
work.
Work; Don't Knock
Be workers, not knockers. Let US
be believers, not iconoclasts- help
ers, not critics There is whole bunch
of people that will tear out pairs o.
holdbacks to one pair of tugs. There
is bunch in the church that is riding
in the preceding all the time.
No sooner does work begin than OPP
position rises. But emergencies in one
case may make expedients in the 9th
| err.
What Wars Bring.
| Wars make heroes and heroines
The war gave Grant and Dewey and
Schley a chance to show what kind o.
stuff they were made Of They were
already made, but the war gave then
chance to show the world what the.
were made Of and they were no
made out of the kind OF stuff tina
turns to water when they go W
against difficult proposition. These
things bring out the best manhood
and womanhood.
Story Of GROWER.
| heard Of fellow in a. church wht
always growled at the way that thu
other people were doing things. Thu
prayer meeting was humdrlm. th'
preacher was too dry and prosy. anC
he didn't believe in revival, there
was too mich excitement. He didn'
like the people coming into church be
cause they might drag in a LOT OF dir
on the carpet.
He didn't like anything. Finally a 10
F.; Of brothers got together and said:
What shall we do with this fellow
He fever does anything himself, an
he grumbles and growls at every on
else"
| Finally one Of them. real goo'
man, said: Let us pray for him,
and asked another, "Will you?"
I mo won't pray for him"
Finally they found one who SAT-
that he would try, and they agree
/ that the prayer should be a public one
\ So at nrnver meeting this poo