Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-15

doing it at the sacrifice of comforts
and even the necessities of life. We
could make larger salaries, more mon
ey, in other lines of work. Why do
we and Mr.. Sunday do this work? Be
cause we are stockholders in the great
corporation headed by Jesus Christ,
whose business is to save souls. Not
one of those men hold stock in this
| corporation. When they do join us.
then and then only have they any right
to say what shall be done with the OF.
ferings of the people to Christ's mes
| sengers.
It's the same cid trick of the devil.
working in the sarla old way Two
thousand years ;.go woman came
with costly ointment and poured it on
the feet of Jesus. Here's a mai that's
| been pouring out his very life 1T Jesus,
feet for the past twenty years He
and others of us have been giving our
very lives to this work. This free-will
Offering Sunday is not for minister
it is not Tor Mr.. Surday-we give it
to God. It's Gods offering.
| who will have the audacity to say
what shall be done with this present
to God-who but Judas? Who but
traitor? | never heard of any of
these men writing letters against the
three big circuses which were here
this past year. They left a trail Of
dirt and filth behind them and took out
more money from the city in one day
than Mr.. Sunday will after five weeks
[ of the hardest labor. l never heard of
these men saying word against the
dirty carnivals which have been here
i wit 81,
Every man who loves Jesus Christ
must take that letter as an insult 10
Jesus Christ from these men. They
have insulted Mr.. Sunday and through
him nave cast slurs upon Jesus"
T. D. Foster Speaks.
An ominous silence followed the
heated words of Rev. HORNED and then
a prolonged roar Of applause, whistles
and clippings broke out and reverber-
ated through the tabernacle for min
utes. AS Mr.. Foster walked immedi-
ately to the platform and advanced to
the pulpit with another copy of the
Courier in his hands the applause
broke out once more.
There it is. Same old story and
the same old Judas!" Mr.. Foster said,
shaking out the paper before him. 'If
there are any of the men in the audi
ence who signed that paper please
stand up. Let us see you. Let us
take snapshot of you and have some
pictures from which to make plates to
send out over to the press of the land
as cuts of the modern Judas
Il am surprised at the names l see
Those io
neramuses. Many of them are college
graduates; smart enough to know
right from wrong. They know that
there is nothing at all fair or square
about that petition Those men who
have signed that petition, who | have
classed heretofore as my friends, are
honest. They don't believe what they
have signed AS Roosevelt said once:
They told an untruth, but they are
known by shorter and ugiler term
They are trying to steal from one
of Gods noblemen his character and
influence. just want to mention one
or two points to show the incongrui-
ties of the petition they have signed
They say he has an income of from
$4,000 to $4,000 a year-they leave
wide margin to crawl out of. I say
If he gets $4,000 a year-and I don't
admit he does-he is entitled to every
cent of $4,000 and more too.
when you consider that John D.
Rockefeller pays his legal advisor
100000 year merely as a retaining
fee what's wrong with Mr.. Sunday get
ting $4,000 for his great work
Archbishop of Canterbury.
What does the archbishop of Can
terbury get? $4,000 a year and fur
nished palace without rent. Does he
do as much good as Mr.. Sunday? Not
by jugful. Suppose we write to Mr..
Rockefellers legal advisor and ssav.
Here, $4,000 of that 100000 is
enough for you to use-you give the
| other 100000 to the poor He'd take
us for lunatics. He'd be right, too
What would the archbishop of Canter-
bury say if you asked him to give
S65,000 or his $4,000 to charity? Mr.
Sunday has no more right to be ques.
toned as to what he shall Go with the
| free-will Offering of the Ottumwa peo-
pie than I have to go to these other
two men and ask them to give the big
gest share of their salary to the poor.
1t was not any great interest in
the poor of Ottumwa that inspired
these men to write that letter. 1t was
done to belitlte Mr.. Sunday and Chris
tianity. Now Mr.. Sunday hasn't been
knocking at our door for three years
to come here to take collection next
| Sunday. We have worked hard for
three years to get him here and we
feel highly honored that he chose OF
| tumwa from over 10U other cities
which wanted him. We are glad he is
here after working so hard to get him
here. Sunday we're going to make
him a present. It's a bloody mean
thing when you give man present
to direct what he shall do with that
gift. l want to emphasize this-that
Mr.. Sunday does not want cent that
is not given freely and in gratitude for
his work among us and the good he
has done the city.
Not man on that list who signed
the petition will be approached for a
cent f5r this offering Sunday We
won't accept a penny from them. We
rril1 Lot F1ll e