Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-28

room in the house that had paper on
the wall. 1t had paper on it that had
a little border about that wide. and the
| figures in the wall paper and the
Figures in the carpet matched. There
| were polliwogs, lizards, alligators
and snakes.
My grandfather made the bed and he
made the laths. The bed was made
! of black walnut and on the top were
great round balls and each post look
| ed like Atlas holding up the world.
| 1t had no springs or Stats. It had
pegs in the rails, and we used to
string ropes across. It had stuff
| hanging down below, cloth, they call
(, ed 1t balance. 1t always had a
spookish appearance to me. When,
ever stranger would come to our
house they always had the honor
| of sleeping in the spare room. They
, had my sympathy. They never open
| ed the doors or the windows of the
| spare room except when they wanted
to air it out to keep. it from mil
dewing l wouldn't have slept in that
spare room If they would have given
me the farm.
|
they have Him locked up in the
spare room. They have kept Him
| there so long He is chilled. What
little life He had is nearly gone. Go
home and rap on the door of the
spare room and say: Jesus, are you
in there" And you will hear His
voice family say: Eyes, but you have
nearly chilled me to DEATH You
have given your parlor to hel! and
have kept Jesus locked up while you
turn your children over to the devil
| Go open the door and call Him out
He will come.
l. l thank God some people are open
ing the door and letting Jesus out OF
the spare rom Go home and let
Him out. Bring Him down and let
Him out Bring Him down and let
1 Him sit with you in the family circle.
Say to Him: Jesus we are going to
talk about you and Of your wander
ings Will you kneel with us and
pray? Sit right down there, Jesus.
My husband is business man, a
/ banker. merchant, his scales are a
little shy, but he Is going to change
them today" Just lock arms with
Him and He win so with you and
see that you give SIS inches in every
yard and is ounces in every pound,
Get Him out of the spare room and
let Him get in your heart, He says:
Behold, l stand at the door and
knock"
Two things and then I'm through.
You stand tonight with your hand
on the bolt and you keep Jesus
Christ out Of your life for two rea-
sons
First; For what He will cast out
when He comes in. Or,
Second, For what He will bring
with Him when He comes in. There
are things in your life which, II
, Jesus comes in, He will throw out
! and there are things that are not in
your life that if Jesus comes in He
will bring with Him, and for those
two reasons. and those alone, do mer
refuse to be Christians. If Jesus
: Christ comes in, out goes your beef
bottles, out goes your pack of cards
out goes trickery, out goes suspicion
! out goes that reyengeful, malicious
, unforgiving spirit, out goes lust, out
goes a lying tongue, out goes bias
phemy. You will keep Him out fol
!, one of two reasons.
You say: Hold on. Mr. Sunday
= don't see how I can forgive Jesus
says: Very well, then, don't see
! how can forgive you.
? The Whole Heart or None.
And you keep Him out for one o
two reasons: For what He will cas-
out when he comes in. Or for wha
He will bring with Him when H
r comes that you haven't. What will
u you do with Him? Listen! If yol
a are not willing to make the sacrifice,
! have nothing more to say. There i
~ no salvation for you. There are peo
pie here tonight who are not willing t.
Y give up their cards. Say. if had m!
y way I would put cards and whisk,
! in hell before midnight. I would do
v for generations that are living and 70
;, generations yet unborn. Whisky is al
right in it's place. but It's place is il
}. hell just as quickly as you can get i
q there. There are fathers and mother
n who will not give up the beer in thei
k home or drinking wine in society, i
4 they knew it would save their boy
- from becoming drunkards and thei
girls from being prostitutes. They 6
L on doing these things. If Jesus Chris
u comes in. out goes your drinking, OH
L
d pride, out goes your pleasures. 70
!, will have to disgorge your pocketbool
You are holding some political offc
,, you have never been elected to. Yo
have to change everything if Jesu
" Christ comes in. You will have t
n clean up your life. 1t means some
" thing to be a Christian. Forgive +!
= Out In town where Mr.. F'ische
and I We're holding meetings, a ma
and his wife quarrelled and separated
II He went over to the county seat an
IS there applied for divorce and tn
lr case was pending before Judge Donald
d A newsboy came along and threw 0
,e the steps of the home one of the Chi
=, cago papers. The woman picked it u
and on the back page she read a littl
poem of three verses entitled "ForgiV
d and Forget" She cried and said
e why we can fix it up She hurrie
" to the telephone, called up the count
u, seat called the Judge and said to- him
:" "Wait, wait don't grant the divorce
u wait" She hadn't put in a Bill of Elk
g. ception. And the judge said: 1T
already granted" She got her hus
band on the phone and she said, Wal