Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-16
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Mccue Gives Figures.

Editor Courier:
l rise to point of order. The point
I make is found in First Cor. 14-4O.
and reads, "Let all things be done in
La becoming manner and according to
order" (Diaglott)
read in the Courier issue of We'd
nesday evening, where you make
Bishop Warne say, There are 315,
|0eG,0 villages Of from 1000 to 5000
inhabitants in India" To make this
mora earnest you state it as being ut
tered, twice. One thousand to 5000
in each village, this would make
the average 1900. Three hundred
fifteen millions multiplied by 1000
equals 630 900, 100000 of souls i'll India.
Please look up the population of India
when you have time. IT | am not
mistaken in my figures the round NUM-
bers of souls that have lived and died
since our father Adams day is twenty
eight billions 1t is a small matter, but
you, or Bishop Warne, seem to have
made a little mistake, of about 6O2,.
100000, not much of a mistake, hut
you should keep a better grip on your
pencil Then you make the bishop say
tina. in the past five years there has
been an average of 1000 converts OF
baptisms month, or $4,000 a year.
Now use your pencil again. midas
population. 100000, 900, divided by
$4,000 converts year, it seenis that
to convert India would take
matter of twenty-six million. two
hundred and fifty thousand years to
convert India What pencil syou
must have Where do you buy EN-?
II you have made the mistake of say
ing millions when you meant thou
sands, say so, and then figure how
long 1t will take to convert India. even
If the missionary appropriation Of 1910
be multiplied in dollars by 1000. Why
not take God at his word when he says
II will give thee (the complete CHRISTI
the heather for an Inheritance and
the uttermost parts Of the earth for
a possession
A. e. McCue.
Editor Courier: don't know who
Brother Reece is, but would like to
take him by the hand. He is the right
kind Of. stuff and will have plenty Of
company. Cummins has always been
q traitor to the republican party and
has only been kept alive by the demo |
Gratis who have supported him on ac-
count Of his constant treachery to the
republican party. We had expected |
better things Of Kenyon, but he has al
ready put on the Roosevelt Cummins
collar which reads am Cumminsite
whose tie are you?
Let every true republican stand to
his guns and purge our grand old
party of its enemies. Even II we have
TO elect every democrat in the state;
L will, be only temporarily, and we
would better have an enemy on the out
side looking in than an enemy on the
inside looking out, but truly these
zones shall rise again and the G. 0. p.
will live to kiss the pebbles on the
raves OF these bushwhackers and
and we will elect Will
lam Howard Taft this fall-that brave
Ind incorruptible patriot, who stands
or safe, sane and honest government,
or the people. Of the people and by the
people, and all the Ananiases and fol
overs OF King Ananias cannot change
he record.
J. F. Clarke.
Route 3, Ottumwa.
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