Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-12

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! the road to perdition.
Society is fastening to the judgment
that overlook Pompeii and Hercuan-
cum and sometimes may be buried in
cinders and ashes thirty feet deep.
don't know what method God will use
to purify society, whether it will be fire,
or pestilence or famine. If America has
the vices of Babylon it shall get the
damnation of Baylor. The only law
some people recognize is the law of
their own desires.
There is nothing enduring and
abiding but the religion of Jesus. The
CAV will come when the pyramids of
Egypt will be but memory; when
complete ruin and Mars hill shall
/ Society will change; but the church
of God will never change. The gos-
pei is the same yesterday, today and
forever. The trouble is now that
you don't want your sins rebuked; you
4 Christians don't want to be shown up'
ures of the world and it will take some
hard blows to straighten you out, but
| will do my best
Sunday Had Hardships.
When ] quit playing ball went in
to Y. NJ. C. A. work for $50 month,
| or to be exact $3.50 I-S. For six
months l went without drawing a SAL
airy and received kilograms and let
tiers every day asking me to go back to
baseball at bigger salaries than got
before. ! would work till midnight
and go to bed hungry. I would leave
home in the morning without knowing
where my wife and babies would get
anything to eat I frequently would
have gone hungry all day long if it
had not been for John V. Farwell. That
winter was a hard one. Business
10 inc nff ,.te CHI
and left. j. w. I said one day. are
you going to lay Off your-men? Not
hardly he said When we were MAX
ing money they helped us to do 1t. 1
ruess now the firm can afford to keep
them He told me afterward that
ing those hard times cost him ss7,-
900 in that one winter In those days
there were no insinuations of my be-
ing CRATER ! tell you God has
blessed and been kind to me. never
asked a man for a dollar. What have
has been given to me and those who
gave did not kick or criticise me. l
won't ask you for cent.
Slap at Cheap Politics.
why call We Lord Lord, and do
not the things which I say? In poll
tics I'll not be bound by party lines.
| If candidate is a man I'll vote for
him, whether he is Democrat or Re-
today has no more heart than a
Florida alligator or a society woman
The old type Of statesman, such as
Webster, Calhoun and Clay, have
been supplanted by a lot of dirty. rat
eaten, peanut Drained, in-horn, TWEEN
tieth century politicians that rot our
land. There is no God in politics, but
you can just bet that there are plenty
of devils. What / would like to see is
d political party that would have the
backbone to insert plank in its plat
form something like this: We be-
lieve, in God--the God who gave us
victory In the war of the revolution,
in the sos, who helped us to knock
the shack@es off Of Cuba and free her
from old cigaret smoking Spain; the
God Of pure men and noble women.
When a party does that they'll have.
the biggest victory on record. Some of
you say, hold on, that leaves out these
that don't believe in God. You bet it
does. Those are the ones who have
kicked God and the Bible out of the
public schools and the country. No
wonder we are drifting to ruin. All
good and noble men believe in God. 1t
has been my privilege to take by the
hand many Of the leading politicians
I of the country who are professed
l Christians
Ends With Beautiful Story.
Mr. Sundays stormy sermon end
ed with a beautiful story:
"In Indianapolis a man gave a stere
optican lecture. and for some unex-
plainable reason the pictures didn't
come fully up to the expectations of
the audience. The lecturer flashed on
the screen a picture of the father of
his country, George Washington; 1t
was greeted by Kisses, yells and cat
calls. 1t disappeared, then came a
view of Washington. sciences of the
Hudson river and the country where
twenty years followed. Again they
We're Kissed. q Following this outburst
he flashed another picture, then came
Alexander Hamilton: again they
/ Kissed; he showed them Jefferson
and Franklin. They all disappeared.
In another instant he flashed on the
| screen the picture Of Jesus Christ
! wearing a crown of thorns. Instant
~ hush like the grave fell over the
vast audience You could hear their
heats beat. They sat stiff; suddenly
a woman's voice rang out from the
gallery, clear as a bell, Jesus. keep
ME near the cross, free to all a heal
mountain AS the song died away
AMI the picture vanished they were
quieted as they went through the doors
i and became units and slowly mingled
4 with the great world outside as they
went UP the streets into their homes
The sight Of Jesus Christ had stilled
the tempest A sight of Jesus Christ
will quiet politics; "a sight Of Jesus
Christ will settle all social questions;
will settle all questions in the home:
will settle all questions of personal
conduct will settle all questions Of
benevolence, and will redeem the ma
ton
/ Sundays Prayer.
Jesus! Jesus! We thank you for
your love. all of which is undeserving,
but we partake of it through the graf
itude in our heart for the unspeakable
gift of Jesus Christ. We pray wherever
we may have failed that Thou wilt
help us to measure up to the standard
that will meet with your smile and ap-
prevail. Wilt Thou be with us. our
God. We pray for the ministers-we
have learned to love them already;
ttey seem to be ready to go to the last
ditch for Jesus Christ. We pray for
the church membership. We pray for
Thy blessing upon the officers of the