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

coHles unto him may be saved; ne
does not wish any to perish.
All Deserving of He'll.
We all deserve hell if we get our
just deserts, for salvation does not
come as reward of merit. Every
body is weak, but Gods strength IS
made perfect in weakness. Don't look
at your weakness, but at the Saviour
that you have. Well, then, why don't
you come to Christ?
Fool Excuses.
Well, hope tonight, with the help
of God, to answer a few fool excuses
people offer. l don't know whether
God himself, would answer them all Or
would try, but / will try to answer a
few of them.
In the first place because of sin. Sin
has kept multitudes away from Christ.
Sin is keeping many man from
Christ. You know that you would
have to cut out the whisky OF regu-
late your life, and your way of living.
With others it is the love Of money.
Many know that if they become a
! Christian that they would lose money
by the deal, and there are certain
'nss in your business that you would
We to give up If you became Chris
tan and took your stand for Jesus
Christ.
Many man will not sacrifice the
crooked business Or the crooked price
of an honestt business.
Chooses Larger income.
There is many a man chooses a
larger income and turns Jesus Christ
down. Many man would have to
give up his situation.
Suppose that you get $1,000 a year
and live for twenty years, that would
be $4,000, and you would sell your
soul to the devil for $4,000?
If l should tell you you are not
worth that, you would be offended,
yet you sell your soul for less than
that.
l said to two girls one night in West
Pullman:
"Why don't you give your hearts to
Christi"
They said:
Mr.. Sunday. we clerk in depart
ment store. and on special days we
are compelled to stand behind the
counter and misrepresent goods. and
we cannot do that and be Christians .
hell any merchant that will make his
from his shelves, in order to put mon,
ey in his till. He will damn you, who
ever you are.
Legal Robbery.
There is many man grows rich by
overreaching his neighbor. He robs
| the widow and the orphan. He does
| it by legal means, he is too slick to
get caught in the meshes of the law
He lives in magnificent home. and
| he rolls down the street in faultless
| equipage, and some old fellow with a
! child stands on the street and says:
| There goes Mr.. Soand-Soi And
his name is known and honored, and
its only necessary to attach his name
to any project, to insure success. !
wish you to do nothing more than to
grow UP to emulate mis- example"
Pow-Wow over Sinner.
Bye and bye he dies and there is
an uDrcar and a fuss, and q now WOW
over his old carcass at the funeral, and
they pass resolutions as long as FROM
here to the back door, and send copy
10 his wife and members Of the club
and the lodges, and all the othaI
things he was member Of, stating
wnereases and whereases and re
solves. etc, while tie bones of his vic
tins lie rotting yonder in the potter
field.
Tell me there is no hell for scoun
drel like that?
Man will live with no thought about
| God in business, home, society or tbs
company that he keeps.
| had rather undertake to save ter
drunlards than one old money shark
it would be easier.
All the wealth Of the World cannct
give up assurance of life. You dom
know but that you are listening te
your funeral sermon tonight.
Nobody Loses by Manliness.
The world can give you no hope This
love of money is keeping many mar
away from Jesus. don't believe tina
any man ever lost by being decent.
was in business and could not serv;
God in it l would get out of it. No
: body ever lost by being decent an!