Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-24
PERSONAL WORK
"He That Ninneth Souls is WISE"
Was Yesterday Afternoon Sermon
AT the Tabernacle,

He that winneth souls is wise,''
was the subject of Rev. Sundays SER
mon yesterday afternoon The sub
ject had much to do with personal
work. Mr.. Sunday urged all true
Christians to work for the conversion
Of sinners personally. Before Mr..
Sunday began his sermon, Rev. Owen
Thomas of Sharon Pa, gave a short
testimony of the work done by the
evangelist in revivals in that city. Mr..
converted by that revival and all the
saloons in the city and in adjoining
counties were closed.
In part Mr.. Sundays sermon was
as follows: HE that winneth souls is
wise Now there is the wisdom of
hshlng. ten year old farmer boy
who has had experience in fishing can
catch more fish with a crooked pole,
common string and bent pin than
man who has never fished, and has
the best of tackles and studied every
fish book. printed Again there is the
wisdom CT farming. The man who
mas followed the piow across the
ground for number of years is more
successful than the man who sits in
the house and writes the checks to
pay for things and knows nothing
about farming
1t is the same way with personal
workers. 1t takes the person who has
had experience and knows how to get
at the sinners, not the person who
sits around the house all day doing a
lot of talking. Get out and work.
Some of you are like the life savers 1
have seen on the coast of Lake Mich
igan. When they would go out for
their daily practice they would move
SO slow and lazily and take so long to
| get into action that | use 10 think
| that if wreck occurred they would
never be able to save them And
they wouldn't either
A lot of you people are the same
way You go about in such slow
way at the work of God that when a
person is on the road to hell you are
too slow to save him. You are so
slow that the devil is up. dressed, had
breakfast, shaved and is forty miles
away before you have one shoe on
Get rid Of some of that dignity you
carry around Throw it away. You
can't take anything but your soul to
heaven. You'll have to leave your
fine homes. your clothes and money
behind you when you die. Some of
you people think, just because you
have p E. o. pin stuck on you, you
have through ticket to heaven in a
berth with orders to the porter to
awaken yo, when you head into the
| yards. All these nonsensical. idiotic
fol de rolls don't amount to a hill of
beans.
: When you see sinners going to
hell get out and get busy for Cod 1t
is not the church that is wrong, it is
! the big bunch of hypocrites in its that
, is making all the trouble. They go
! around with their tack hammers
, knocking everything that is put out
for the good of the sinners. You have
to go after some of those old fogies
with the truth with a hook on the
t end of it. When you see a keeper try
ing to make an elephant, bear, or
any other kind of an animal do what
!, he tells him, he doesn't take camels
! hair brush and tickle him on the back
I He gets a hook and prods him with
| it hard. Go after them in earnest and
e hit them hard.
!. If you people would jump into this
h work IN the same way the politicians
4 do into politics, determined to win
( and would work just as hard, you
o would be able to do something. With
some people, you might as well shoot
l peas against Gibraltar as to preach
/ TO them. But go after them; go al
them with the truth. Work for GOO
# like some Of the politicians did when
Y they passed the mulct law. Give
,. every sinner your sympathy but never
;. take his part against God. Take Gods
a side every time. Get move on you
: The church is like an ice wagon. Die
h you ever know anybody to hug the
" curb when an ice wagon was comins
y along? Let the church get on fire
Il for God and souls will be like firt
engine. Everybody will give RICH
away to the clang, clang of the on
d coming engine.