The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-21

never tasted another drop.
And we who know what prayer can
do, realize it was only another of the
wonderful answers to prayer, that
came from an arnest wife's lips.
Last Nights Services.
The revival service at Trinity
Methodist church drew good sized
audience last evening, considering the
weather. The usual song service was
INDUCED in, and this was followed
with prayer by Rev. Kendrick.
Miss Ora Cook sang a solo entitled,
mo Burdens Yonder," with the choir
/ joining in the chorus.
The text for the evening sermon
was now announced as found in the /
i twenty-second chapter of Job and the
/ fifteenth verse: Hast thou marked /
the old way which wicked men have
I trodden.'
Rev. Potter called attention to the
/ fact that all men without regard to
nation or occupation make tracks.
That he wished it might be that the
waves of obi, ION might follow on the
track of such men as Ingersol, Vol
taire so that men would not follow
after them. and also referred to the
fact that we lesser folks follow the
I blazed trails of those gone before us.
He announced that there is no such
thing as original thought, but that
there are some new combinations.
There are people that think certain
things the. believe are new, when
really these same things are six
thousand years old
Professional and business men who
have the right idea follow after the
great masters ahead of them.
The preacher, if he is wise, will
save all the money he can get, put
this into books, embracing the mas
ter authors works and then study and
: get these books into his head, for all
we can hope to be is good copyist.
Men who have gone before us did
search out the great men and follow
after them.
Now in regard to good and bad, they
may be looked at in the same way.
t You will say, | want to be like this
t one or that one. You are consciously
+ or unconsciously moulding your life
! after some ideal.
n Suppose the man selected Is bad
e man instead of good one
y Do you suppose the men in the sa
n looms and brothels are reading the
Bible and are men to pattern after!
:, No: their thoughts are low down
a such matters as pugilism is fair
/ example of the things that their
l. minds feed on. For instance: jim
Jeffries dirty, low down saloon
S keeper in California, is their ideal
|. and has also become the ideal of many
:. boy in this country today.
n If you tell me who is your ideal
e and who you pattern after | can tell
you what your future life will be-
e The old way is as old as the gar
den of Eden, and started in the pres
g ence of God, and never since that
e time has it changed or improved III
It the least The world has advanced
y and made marvellous progress, bur
S the old way has not been improved
Y and still leads down to hell. The ole
e way is the way of doubt, way OF
l. darkness, way of danger, way ol
st death, and lastly a way to eterna
1t death.
d The Bible is the only lamp in the
e world that out-shines the sun.
t. For how much of tomorrow will be
d ilun mated by today's sun.
S The Book it shines more and more
4 unto the perfect day.
Do you think skeptic men love the
e Book? No, they would blow out tha
a. light if they could, for They love
darkness rather than light
If And again, The soul that sinneth j
,e shall die"
S THE wicked shall be turned int
70 hell with all nations that forget God
d Man is made a free agent. Got
ID cannot control him in regard to th
d way he shall walk consequently MAJ
n, is alore responsible for the way il
ly which he goes
1T This illustration was now used: 4
in train run by trainmen leaves the city
I'd down the line it goes, and lands il
e. Kansas City You are aboard; yo'
ar have an easy seat and sit openin
I'd your newspaper to read bit. At Kan
Y, sas City you wake up, the train maste
I'd never told you to get aboard and g
W to Kansas City. God never told yo
or to get on that train; you are on tn
in wrong train, the thing to do is to &c
le of at once You do not have to wal
on until the next station is called; sc
ar right off without injury at once; star
at Immediately on the way that leads t
On eternal life.
be Decide to bring up you life into ha
nd mony with God.
be The invitation was now extended fc
nd those who felt that they were in th
ps way leading away from God, an
&C wanted to take the right path tn;
lie leads to eternal life. To this appe
MT quite good number arose to the
he feet. and five came forward to tt