Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-22

briefly upon the work that rested up.
on the people Of the city in connection
with the rescue mission of Ottumwa.
lie told the story Of the parable Of
the good Samaritan and cited that as
an example of the work to be ac-
complished by the rescue-mission.
The greatest qualification to make
yourself felt in this world and Of this
world is a heart of love- Mr.. Monroe
said. ''The good Samaritan had a
heart of love. He stopped and bound
up the wounds OF, the. injured man
and encouraged him. Jesus Christ
established the fact that the greatest
ministry any n on earth could do is
to raise the crushed and fallen and
those in trouble. That's the work that
is before you in this mission. You
must be hands for these people that
arc down; minds for them: feet to
run their erTands and hearts to en-
thuse them with new energy and new
purposes.
Against Liquor Business.
Every fibre of my being-and
there's a lot of tllem--for twenty-five
years has been against the liquor
business, Like Lincoln | stand for
Malice toward none; charity for ALL
| love the saloon men. In Chicago
they are my best friends. I've led
scores of them to Christ and think the
world Of them personally, but sure
do hate their business. I'm going on
fighting their business. but not the
men. My plan is to save the men
but ruin their business.
Hear me! Pm not q dreamer
over in Chicago the men who know
me give me credit for having some
common sense and I'm not merely
dreaming when ! say that I expect to
see the day when that little cloud of
prohibition, no larger than my hand,
that rose away off there several years
ago, will grow and grow until it en-
velopes this whole country. I say | e1-
pect to see that III my day.
This work Of raising the fallen men
and boys is q great thing for any city,
but it Is a terribly hard job to run q
rescue mission when you have forty
or fifty saloons here turning out
wrecks faster than one mission can
possibly gather them up. And I
want to emphasize one point that Is
too often neglected when a rescue
mission Is first started: when you
are going after the resurrection and
care Of the poor men and boys, for
Gods sake don't forget the poor
girls, Right here want to intro.
duce MY grandson, John Astro, who
Trotter and your committee have
wisely chosen to have charge of the
re~scue-nlission in Ottumwa. If you
look closely you can see the family
resemblance between US: Astro was
a conductor on the Pere-Marquetts
road for twenty years and the very
fact that a man can hold down q, lob
for that period is enough to recon-
mend him to anybody, to say nothing
of his other attributes which I will
burden you with now. He's the
mar for the job and I want you all to
rally around him and give him en-
c~ouragement and aid In his work.
Ruins Business?
Il Just want to say a few words
about the reports the saloon men are
circulating here to the effect that bust
ness will be hurt if the liuuor traffic
IS knocked out. I'm giving you actual
statistics now. Up in Michigan in a
town where W. A. Sunday led a SINH {!
lar crusade to this one here, the big
gest merchant of the city, a furniture
dealer, told me that twelve months
after the saloons had been closed that
his business showed a net gain of forty
per cent owe all previous years.
IN another town when the saloons
Went out there were a great number,
or empty roonls and buildings in tha /
city. In less than a year every ons
OF those rooms well located a ocals. !