Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-06-04
BISHOP QUAYLE
DISPELS DOUBTS
THE ANNOYING OF" WAS MADE
THE TARGET OF CHURCH.
MANS ELOQUENCE
ARGUED FOR FAITH

ARGUED FOR FAITH
Would Have Hearers Help to Faith
and Cast Out Doubts; Cited
John as Example For
Preachers.
IT. Rev. William A. Quayle of St.
Paul bishop Of the NJ. e. church,
|spoke to large crowd in the First
NJ E. church last night. The topic was
a stirring one. It's object was the re-
moval Of doubt and reception Of faith
among his hearers. The friends made
on the previous visits of Bishop
Quayle in Ottumwa were present in
hundreds to hear the renowned Meth
odist churchman and his sermon was
received with apparent interest and
appreciation. The opening prayer was
led by Rev. J. F. Robertson and the
scriptural reading was by the pastor,
DR.. T. w. Jeffrey. The choir under
Edward Weeks rendered special music
for the service at which the bishop
was the spokesman.
At the outset of his sermon Bishop
!Quayle said that he would divide his
subject into three parts, namely:
John Came and Preached" Then
Cometh Jesus to Be Baptised," and
when the Tempter Came, He Said
IT,"
"The devil said what he should not
have said, John said what he should
have said, and Jesus came doing what
he should have DONE" said Bishop
Quayle. The we'll known churchman
. then launched into a word picture OF
John the Baptist and depicted the man
of the hills, the wilderness and the
open. The person swarthy and with
| the eye of an eagle; with hair combed
by the west wind and a voice that de-
fled the tempest and the elements,
who would be heard when he spoke,
and who spoke of God. He alluded to
the man of the type of John and the
man of the college type, saying that
while the college does good, man
often loses part of himself in his pas
sage through college, while what he
learns living with God in the hills and
the open, he does not sacrifice any
part of himself to acquire. Humor-
ously abiding to such mode Of speech
as "cawnt, shawnt, baathe," etc., he
said it is a pleasure to meet someone
like John from the hills who talks as
he is without the frills caught while
passing through college.
Says Devil Is DeviIish.
"The devil is never so devilish as
when he seems not to be a devil at
ALL" said Bishop Quayle as he sought
to drive home the necessity Of his
hearers being alert against the "if' Of
the devil and the doubt that the evil |
one suggests. He then pictured an
angel and said that about the only
way to know an angel is not an angel,
is when they talk. MANY an angel be-
comes devil when the argument be-
gins"
Speaking of doubt he said, "If is
the intersection of the devil, who came
to SOW the minds with the spurious.
The greatest friend we can have is
one who can SOW faith. Anyone can
trip US up-can help to doubt Many
mans stock in trade is the virulent
interjection of the if The doubts
were cast aside by the speaker, who
said that if man could walk to the
grave with a number Of doubts re-
moved, the world would be better. No
one, said he, has right to repudiate !
Jesus with an "if'' unless he has a
means Of saving damned SOUL He
pointed out that the progress Of the
world was not established on ifs
"Whither shall we get by the
philosophy of if?'" asked the speaker
RI have seen men racked with doubt
until there was no stable place to put
ones foot no monday sun in the
armament for them. When shall we
get big enough to know that the
of doubt is a frozen
nomenclature? 1t is the devilishness of
the deviltry to be always insinuating
doubts" The bishop then alluded to
the people who never tell anything
themselves, but simply reiterate what
they heard others say. Some Of these,
he said, are classed profound thinkers,
but they are really superficial parrots.
Illustrating the Importance Of care
with ones "ifs," the speaker said that
the push on the ice may break n bone
in your neighbor, but if the push takes
place on the highway of the soul
through doubts insinuated, a soul may
be lost.
Do Not Plant Doubts.
The speaker dwelt on the gift of
speech. saying that it is gift of God
and should be watched by all. He
urged that all study the doubts in
their souls and to pull them out. "Da
not plant them or cultivate them,'
said Bishop Quayle, for they are as
noxious weeds and poison the SOUL
The preacher came in for treatment
by the speaker who said that the
preacher tells what is in his heart and
if he does not live up to the strict ;,
letter of the behavior that he urges on
his hearers, he should not be criti.
cised. He pictured Peter as the great
backslider, but said that he sought to
climb higher and closer to what he