Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-24


and choir, headed by the evangelists
own party, worked through the crowd
ed tabernacle and assisted in bringing
the people forward.
Four hundred employees from the
Dain Manufacturing company occupied
The front center section of the taber-
nacle and the audience was one of the
largest of the series.
The Sermon.
copyrighted by Rev. W. A. Sunday.
Psalms 142:4-"No man cared for
My SOUL"
Life and nature seem to be made
up largely of contrast Midnight,
mid-noon, summer, winter, heat
cold; hills, valleys, famine, plenty;
rain, drouth, sickness sorrow; vice
and virtue walk the street; joy and
sorrow look from the same window;
the hearse follows quickly after the
bridal procession; tears follow laugh
ter All lives are more or less of a
contrast. But no life, in history,
sacred or profane, to me presents a
larger number than that of David,
the author of my Psalm and text.
No Man to Know Me.
| am first introduced TO him when
shepherd lad, when he herded his
fathers focks, when Samuel was
sent of God to annoint him King OF
Israel The next vision | catch OF
David is that he has thrown the
shepherd crook on the ground, pick
ed up the crown climbed up and sat
down on the throne and swayed a
sceptre instead of shepherds crook.
The next vision | have of David is
that he has become sinner. He for
got the God to whom he was indebted
and trailed and dragged His name In
filth. He was a musician, too, and
charmed King Saul in his melancholy
moods He was warrior and led the
hosts of God to victory His son,
Absalom. had rebelled. Saul, jealous
of his popularity and success, sought
ito kill him and chased him from the
mountain like a partridge and David
went from pillar to post and at last
took refuge in the cave of Engeda
Then it was that the words of my
text were wrung from his heart. 81
looked on my right hand, and beheld
tbut there was no man that would
know me; refuge failed me; no mar
cared for my SOUL
1t seems strange 10 me that any
man, at any period of the worlds his
tory should be compelled to use
words like these. and that such word:
should be the honest expression O.
the lack of interest manifest TOWARD
him by those whom he knew and will
whom he came in contact; but il
Is more than passing strange TO me
that any man in your day and mine
with such opportunities to know God
with all the inducements that he has
his acknowledge Of Christianity
and he had seen that bigorty and SUI
perstition have been swept aside ant
we stand on a foundation Of common
sense say it does seem to me stag
gering and astoundingly strange tina
any man could use words like thes
and that they would be the homes
repression Of the lack of interes
manifest toward him by those VIII
profess to love and know the Lore
And yet it is true. mo man care
for my soul" 1t is as true in Ottun
wa as when David, from the cave i
the mountains, cried it out
Did you ever stop to think of III
great concern which is manifest 70
people in times of physical di!
tress? Let the cry Of child be hear
and we will drop our money, We wi
turn from the counter, we will sto
discussing politics or talking religion
we will forget our differences of cree
and color and will rush to the aid {
the helpless whose cry has called u
Physical Suffering.
And when the message came tel
ing us that San Francisco was lyir
in ruins and the hungry flames wei