Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-03

to conquer, running away from home
and ultimately landing in Spokane,
Wash. where he worked at various
Jobs for three or four years. When
fourteen years of age he allowed his
love for action to move him again and
he migrated to Montana and became n
cow-puncher and broncho- buster In
that work Fred was in his element and
wrangled horses and twist cayuses for
eight years and seven months, working
all during that period for only two or
three different ranchers, which is in
itself a remarkable record for man
of the plains
1t was at this stage of his life that
Fred. who had always been care free
and given little thought to the future,
first gave Christianity serious con-
sideration Fred took seriously ill and
his physician told him that he could
only live few days.
Il lay there on my bunk and thought
what fool I'd been them Seibert
said in giving brief review of his
life, land told the Lord that if he'd
only help me get well and let me get
back home once more that I'd work
for Him as long as lived"
SOeS TO drinking.
Seibert got better and returned TO
Waverly His illness held him weak
for months and it was while in this
discouraged attitude, Fred asserts that
he forgot his promise to the Lord and
took to drinking and gambling. i re-
member the night well when was
converted" Fred said. q had quite a
roll saved up when came home from
the west and l was going through it
fast. Three years after | came back
to Waverly bunch of us fellows had
been in saloon gambling all day.
had lost s175 at cards and couldn't
break my run of luck Just about dark
| got up and told the fellows | was go
ing to take walk around the block
to change my luck.
THAT walk around the block chang
ed my whole life An evangelist
named Wilson was holding meetings in
the opera house and ] saw the crowd
and went over and went in, just to see
what was doing. Say--by the time
that man had preached twenty min
utes would have sworn that he knew
my whole life and was telling the
crowd how I'd lived. When he got
through telling how no man was fallen
SO low that there was no salvation for
him-I just said to myself, That's
good enough for Freddie and / march
ed to the front"
With his conversion, Fred remen-
bered the promise he had made to God
while lying seriously Ill in Montana.
He entered the Moody Bible institute
in Chicago and graduated at the head
of class of over 400 students in per
sonal work Six years with Evapgel-
list M. B. Williams and two and one
half years with Evangelist French E..
Oliver, together with briefer periods
of service with other we'll known
evangelists brought Fredu up to Salida,
Colo, two years ago where he met and
learned to love Evangelist BILLY" Sun
day. Since then they have been insep-
arabic and if Fred has his way, always
will be-
Seibert's influence lies largely in his
tremendous earnestness. He is the
author of little book on personal
work called Rescue the Perishing, .
which embodies the secrets of the eff
fort which has won over 5000 men
| and women to Christ. Seibert knows
over 900 verses of scripture by heart
and Mr.. Sunday speaks OF him as be-
ing one of the best posted men on the
Bible of his acquaintance