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

be fool, because l haven't sense
enough to understand, and say that
he doesn't understand it? And are
you going to be a fool, because |
have proven the Bible is the word of
God and Jesus Christ the son of God;
and you never did are you going to
be fool and say there is nothing in
it? II you can't understand there are
other people that can.
Everything of human manufacture
can be understood. All human ma
chinery can be understood. If you
can't understand it somebody can.
Now, listen, To try and solve the
mysteries Of the Creation and at the
same time deny the existence Of a
Creator is just as big piece of
foolishness as to try and explain the
workings of steam engine and at
the same time deny the existence of
steam. To try and explain the mys-
teries of religion and at the same
time deny the divinity of Jesus Christ
Is just as big piece of foolishness
as to try to explain the mysterious of
these lights and at the same time
deny the existence of the dynamo.
The only grounds on which you can
explain religion is God, the Bible.
Jesus Christ. Great sticks, you must
be jack if you can't see that.
Skeptics don't believe in the Bible?
Why? Because they don't know
enough to believe the Bible, that's
all Say! Your father and your
grandfathers didn't believe in the
telephone, they didn't believe in the
trolley car, nor in the automobile,
nor in the battle ships, nor in the
submarine torpedo boats, nor in
electric lights. Why? They didn't
have sense enough to, that's why
they didn't. You don't believe in the
Bible. Why? You haven't sense
enough to believe it, old skeptic. No,
sir. IF any man will do His will he
will know" Do you want to know ?
Yes. All right, do Gods will. What
/ is His will? 1t is His will that you
believe in Jesus Christ, whom He
hath sent.
/ So Many Hypocrtes.
A man says, 81 would do 1t, MI.
Sunday, but there are so many hypo.
critics in the church" Shut your
mouth You will agree with me that
l don't spare that bunch. If there is
anything l profess to he an expert
and past master in it is skinning hyp
ocrites am specialist in that line
Say! | can skin hypocrite, rub salt
in his hide, tack it on barn door tc
dry while you are pickering your
old mouth to spit on your milestone
to start to sharpen your jack knife
to begin the operation.
Between You and He'll.
A man says, Look here, Bill,
would do Gods will, but I'm afraid
can't hold out" That's what you have
been doing. Some of you fellows have
been holding out against religion
against your mothers prayers, agains
your wife's pleadings until you haven
hair on your head between you ant
hell You have held out against ever.
: prayer, every sermon, every song
l every tear. every pleading that ha
ever been brought to bear to induce
3 you to be Christian. You have Tough
, against it. Ny God, if you have tina
l much grit, if you can hold out tina
2 long against God, you ought to max
|
+ and holding out against the devil. Yo'
0 have been Holding out against every
: thing decent and religious Come il
and show the devil you can hold GU
against everything that is damnabl
d and rotten.
t The Lord wants you to trust hin
f Never mind the stumbling blocks.
+ YOU begin to live out your beliefs the
Y will grow like Pygmalion's statue G
t Galatea. He had nothing but blac
Il unsightly piece of stone, but h
" worked until there stood before hir
t the form of Galetea and it SCENE
e that all that was necessary was TO
t God to blow on it and it woul
Y breathe. So, when you start to liv
V out your beliefs, they start to tax
Y form and shape and grow.
y It's the same in music. can
= read music to save my life, and
:. you would open that hymn book an
= say, Mr.. Sunday, let's sing numbe
= so-and-so, and if you would tell m
:. to sing it or die, I would have to di'
= Most people sing by ear or sount
y l venture we have lot of people
the choir that can't read music. That
! nothing, they can sing. can tie
: when Ackley doesn't strike the rigf
. key but I couldn't hum a tune. B,
- Fred knows it, Ackley knows it, tn
choir knows it. The men pick u
their fiddles and they all start and d
IL what those little sharps and flats an
u bars and treasures and quarter an
~ eighth notes and obligatos an
10 staccatos tell them and they run TT
II chromatic scale. Fred beats tim
Q you "willed" to know, and if you hs
l. never "wi;ied" you would nev'
}! know. It's rue in music. If you "wil
re to do you will know all about it.
10 had friend in Chicago, al
8 among his other duties he used
IT. work among the fallen to bring the
I'd to Jesus Christ. He worked one mig
is and when he got through he can
IN north on Clark street to Monro
,h caught north bound cable car. tt
I'll cable car went east on Monroe
IS Dearborn. turned the corner on Dea
IS born in front of the First Nation
10 bank, and company of young M
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