Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-10

I have never said thar
ers are in agony. ordins ia Lnox.
dies as he has lived. If yog how 90
a nan has lived, you know Witho,t
Of 100 die. If they live am ore re
they die without God, II thesa snat
doesn't go that much ores. n 80.
called deathbcd repentantod for. :, l
think, a most miserable: gulMons III
ing, low down, u%nmanly,se TO s%Enly
thing for a person to reflHsssAE&erve
and follow ,Godliness in tneff days of
health and strength, and wait until
God throws them on theih back and
shakes a shroud over them and when
the doctor tells them they haven't
long to live, to then send for the
preacher. Let them send for the
preacher. We will go. l speak for all.
We will come any hour of the day or
night. We will Go u level best with
you, sir, but you don't give US a fair
chance. You wait until the shadows
OF life lengthen into lines, until the
death dew is on your brow, before
you begin to look to. God Almighty.
You haven't any use for the preacher
when you have your health, but when
you haven't long to live you send for
the preacher. No, sir, don't go that
much on these so-called death-bed
repentances. I don't say that lone
are genuine, but I don't go that much
on them. Listen! If you have
friends or relatives, when they die
for Gods sake don't expect the
preacher to come and pack his fun
eral sermon full OF a lot of lies and
preach the old sinner up to heaven on
a front seat when everybody knows
he went 10 hell.
It's a hard place to put a preacher 1t,
I want you to understand that. He
wants to be faithful and true to his
position as a minister Of the Gospel
of Jesus Christ and he has to be
faithful to the people that sit and
listen to him. Don't think you can
slip him a hundred dollar bill and
that he can, preach the old %reprobate
into heaven. I don't go much on
d~eath-bed repentances. Ordinarily
men die as they have lived. l have
stood by what was supposed to be the
death-bsd Of a great many.
aas Died as He Lived.
When | was secretary of the Y. NJ.
c. A. in Chicago, among my duties l
had to visit the hospitals, and I have
talked and prayed with lots of young
men whom the physicians said were
dying, and many of them did die.
Others got well, but l have never
known one Of them that promised me
on his supposed death-bed that he
would be a Christian if God would
raise him up. that kept his promise
when God did raise him up. not one
Of them. They all made the promise
but / don't know one of them that
kept It. ] met one staggering and
/ spewing down the streets Of Chicago
not long ago that had promised me
in Cook County hospital that if God
would raise him up he would live q
Christian life.
God is Divine and Loving.
Ingersoll used to say, IF God
CANNOT forgive sins He is not di-
vine; if he WILL not. he is not low
ing But God is bound by laws He
cannot break. God can't forgive you
if you reject Jesus Christ n more
than God can make you live if you
refuse TO breathe. Neither is there
salvation in any other way than by
accepting Jesus Christ, There is no
other name given on earth whereby
we must be saved.
Gods Appeals to the Heart,
All manner Of sins, God says, He is
ready and willing to forgive. And. I
4 tell you, when that mob nailed Him
on the cross He would have forgiven
them If they had asked Him.
Some people say this. They say;
How does it happen that so few aged