Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-11-25
'WOMEN'S NIGHT"
At ALBA REVIVAL
EVANGELIST OLIVER ADDRESSES
IMMENSE CROWD AT THE
TABERNACLE.
SUPPER FOR THE GIRLS
viii Hold Monstrous Mems Meeting;
Some Extracts From The Talks
On The Home And
Husbands.
Especial Correspondence.)

Especial Correspondence
Abba, Nov 22.-More women at
tended a religious service In one as
sembly last night than ever before IN
the history of Monroe county. 1t was
"Woman's night" at the tabernacle and
they certainly did take advantage OF
the opportunity to all get together
Women ushers met the attendants at
the doors and found them seats. Won
en- collectors took up the offering and
cared for it, Women hushed crying
babies and carried out the stray logs
who came to the meeting. In fact on
ly one or two men could be seen about
the building beside the speaker ana
they made themselves very scarce.
Evangelist Oliver had most impor-
tant message for his hearers and they
listened with earnest attention. Some
Of it was very plain talk and there
was no misunderstanding of his posi-
ton on many of the current evils OF
the day. He made strong plea for
a clean home life and the bringing
I'D of children in the proper atmos-
phere. He advocated the latest eugen-
ic ideas as to marriage and sexual
teaching in the public schools and be-
lieves that the day Is not far distant
when these reforms will be made into
laws. At the close of the service
there were large number Of women
who came forward and knelt at the
front signifying their acceptance and
confession of Christ.
Serve Supper To Girls.
A very prominent feature of the
days service was supper served at
the First Presbyterian church to the
business girls of Abba. More than
one hundred were In attendance and
they then came to the tabernacle IN
body. At the church they were ad-
dressed by Mrs. Oliver and Miss
Myrtle Scott of the evangelistic party.
Sunday will be a big day. In the
morning will be the usual service es-
pecially for the church members. Sun
day afternoon will be for men only
with Purpose and Destiny" as the
subject. The tabernacle will likely be
packed for this service and on Sun
day night there will not be room for
all who will want to get in.
divers Eplgrams.
Some of the epigrammatic sentences
from the address to women follow:
"The world has been slow to show
its debt of gratitude to the faithful
woman of America in her endeavor TO
keep the home pure. 1t Is my firm be-
lief that the women Of our country
form the basis Of most of the moral
sentiment and moral influence in the
nation"
sThe best creature God ever created
Is a pure, true woman. The worst
specimen Of debauched character the
devil ever turned from his workshop
ia a degraded woman. The pure wom-
an is placed above the angels as an
inspiration and blessing to man. The
immoral woman is placed below the
devil as a force for abandoned charac-
ter"
1.-THE fashionable dance Is doing
more to cause young men to doubt the
existence Of what Is called modesty
In young women than any one thing
nameable."
"The power of suggestion is a vital
reality. Perhaps you are not feellng
we'll today and some one comes along
and says. my, you are looking fine
this morning. You must be feeling I'M
usually we'll" You pull yourself to-
gether and feel better instantly. Some
one else says, Dear me, but you do
look bad. Are you sick?" Immediate
" you feel shivers creeping up your
spinal column, visions of the cemetery
rise before you and before long you
are on the way to doctor. 1t was
merely the power of suggestion.
"ln choosing a mother we must
recognize the fact that blood will tell
II you want to produce good child,
begin with the grandparents. We nave
talked a whole lot about blooded chick
ems. blooded pigs, blooded horses and
blooded dogs and very little about
blooded children. Many a child Is
doomed before BIRTH
young men who SOW wild oats are
sure to bring curse upon unborn
generations. Whatsoever a man SOW
eth that shall he also reap, is an I'M
alterable truism. Wild oats bring a
harvest of wild oats just as sure as ap-
pie trees bear their kind
character building begins before
birth. Prudery, mock modesty, and
ignorance concerning sexual hygiene
are, to my mind. the prime causes OF
the production of stunted, dwarfed and
emaciated children. The day will
come. the day must come when these
great physiological, moral and spirit
ual truths will be taught in the schools
of America. The preparation OF child
hood before birth is one of the great
est subjects than can consume the
thought Of the women Of any nation
Race suicide Is a crime. but the
murder of unborn children Is the bu-
bonic plague, the Asiatic cholera, the
blighting tuberculosis of the social
fabric of the nation.
"I am often asked to tell why men
who seemed very attentive to the wife
when first married now spend their
evenings in the club, saloon or billiard
hall. Possibly, it is because the wom-
an did not get anything when she mar
ried. Possibly the man did not marry
ANYTHING when he got you. Here is
an expert opinion. You ladies remem-
Der how you won your husbands. Dur
ing the sweet days of courtship, you
arrayed yourself in purple and fine
linen. you possibly had carnation in
your hair, and certainly, you had roses