Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-05-24
TELLS STORY OF
THE BLIND SEEING
Or. e. J. BULGlN POINTS OUT WAY
FOR SINNERS TO GAIN
SALVATION.

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| lRelating the story of Bartimeus, the
blind man, whose faith restored his
eye sight, DR.. E. J. Bulgin, in the huge
gospel tent In East Ottumwa last
night, drew an inspiring picture oil
how to gain the light of salvation. The
subject tonight will be, What Must
Do to Be Saved" a lecture on the
seven cardinal truths of Christianity
A cordial invitation is extended to the
public to attend. The tent is located
at the corner of Elm and East Main
streets.
The story of Bartimeus, In part, as
given by DR.. Bulgin, follows:
"One day blind beggar sat by the
roadside shaking an old leather cup as
he solicited penny from the more
fortunate travellers that passed him
This mans name was Bartimeus,
which means the son Of blind an,
cestors, so he was the son of mis-.
fortune. He was In no wise to blame
for his blindness. Suddenly man &C.
costed the poor old beggar, saying
Friend, you don't need to be blind any
longer for saw a great doctor heal
blind men yesterday in Jerusalem and
the poor flocked to him because he
charged nothing for opening blind eyes
unstopping deaf ears and raising the
dead What's his name?' asked the
beggar intensely interested. Jesus OF
Nazareth, and the priests say he Is in
the line of David. I'd 60 see him II
were you. Good day
you may be sure that Bartimeus
paid little attention to his profession
that day and when he reached home
he had no pennies to give the faithful
wife, for he was thinking of this great
news which suggested the possibility
of being delivered from his bondage
Of darkness. Jesus of Nazareth, the
son OF David played over the vision
Of the blind man all night and eating
no breakfast and confiding his great
secret to no one he was led out to the
four corners next day and he hadn't
been there very long when he heard
great commotion; for this great eye
doctor, riding the foal of an ass, was
coming; his way accompanied by a
multitude crying Hosannas to the
king, and Bartimeus casting aside his
garment ran out to the son of God and
cried, Jesus Of Nazareth, thou son OF
David, have mercy on me- And the
king of the universe stopped his cor
onation procession to hear the cry Vol
an old blind beggar. No other king
ever did such thing and no other
king ever blessed man as the master
blessed Bartimeus that day, tor no soon
er was that cry uttered than pair o.
new eyes showed up In those evel
sightless sockets. +.
"They needed an extra tenor in the
choir for the boys who had travelled
SO far in the dusty road were getting
husky and Bartimeus followed the
son of God in the way but towards
evening he turned home and what q
commotion there was in the Barti'
meus household that night
"'But,' you say, 'Bulgin, the bible
doesn't say anything about that; your
Imagination Is running away with you
Say don't tell me that man blind
from birth left home blind as bat at
six o'clock and returned at sunset
with a pair Of good eyes in his head
and his family didn't notice the fact
no SIR
my first point is this then: When
the son OF God opens a blind mans
eyes somebody is going to find it out
and IL you claim to see and nobody has
noticed 1t you can't see. You are
lying about it. When 1t takes q
microscope to detect the difference
between a church member and q
worldly man the great eye doctor
needs to be called in to minister to
that church member. He hasn't got
his eyes open yet. Bartimeus didn't
know very much about this doctor but
he put what knowledge he had into
action and he got the blessing. He
didn't let what he did not know inter.
fere with what he did know, although
without doubt, what he did know far
outweighed what he did know. Drive
astab down there, honey, and hitch
up to it!
when the Jews tried to question
him about Christ his testimony was
, this, One thing l know, l was blind
and see' He was the hardest case
the Jewish school of philosophers ever
bumped into. Some people are going
to hell over lot Of non-essentiaf ques-
lions nobody ever will know this side
Of heaven. Nobody can realy explain
eye sight but wouldn't you be fool
to, tell me can't see. There is mys.
terry on every side in the physical
world.
"Bartimeus made bible cry. He
had Jesus named so closely the master
had to stop or deny his very identity
You come to God just as the bible tells
you to and you can know him tonight
your eyes will be opened.