Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-11-18
CONVERSIONS BEGIN; many ANSWER
To THE CALL OF EVANGELIST OLIVER

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| girls and high school boys. Bushes!
| girls, those who make their own way
are not neglected and there are specia
meetings for them. Every phase o
the field is covered and the creates
religious revival In Iowa has ever seer
| TO- a city of this size Is expected.
| Extract Of the Sermon.
Following is an extract from Evan
gelist divers Sunday morning sermon
The subject was 1.-THE blood of souls
and the text was from Ezekial 1919
"The words of this text form the
most important warning to the church
| Of God and to the individual Christian
ever given. The first section of the
| text deals with a military law which
establishes the integrity of the city
| by trusting the patriotism and honor
of the Waterman. who is placed upon
! tho wall with instructions to blow the
trumpet at the approach of the enemy
, and his life for his service; If he. like
the traitorous Greek who revealed the
secret pass at Thermopylae, sells his
fellow citizens into the hands of the
enemy, he is guilty of the blood OF
all who perish! Such treachery on
the part of the Waterman was crime
punishable with death, and Is today so
considered by all governments of the
world. If any man in Ezekiel's day
heard the Waterman sound the warn
ing, and he refused to heed the trlm-
pet blast and with foolhardiness rush.
ed into danger. his blood was upon
his own head 49,"
. The spiritual application Of this
eternal responsibility to every profess
sing Christian, and we discover, in the
light of these fearful words, that God
has set us as watchmen with instruc-
tions to give the wicked warning from
His mouth If we do not tell the wick
ed that he shall surely die, and urge
him TO flee for refuge to Jesus, he
shall die in his iniouity; but his blood
will I require at thy hand Gods
eternal pronunciamento! Oh, the
Judgment Oh, eternity!
But the trouble is not physical dis
tress at present; it is spiritual dis.
tress. Men and women, boys and girls
are under the curse of broken law. You
associate with them year after year.
You talk about pandemics. endemics,
epidemics; you talk of politics, the
feasibility of prohibition, the necessity.
of the gold standard, or the Importance
of gripping corporate greed, and the re-
ductiOn of passenger rates and freight
rates; the conversations range over
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and wicked1ess contaminate with NAL,
odorous incense the life's journey. How
seldom do the conversations in places
of business, banks. law Offices. school
rooms, parlors-yea the very churches
of God, turn toward the personal sal
walton of the lost! Many time the
preacher will preach a sold year IN his
church and never give a personal In
vitation to a sinner to repent. There
are mothers and fathers all over the
country who profess to be in the ark
Of salvation, yet who stand as idle as
painted ship upon painted ocean.
or :, like the everlasting hills. when
you try to get them to plead with
their own children to repent and serve
God.
I wonder how many people there are
in this audience who by indifference
have allowed their friends and loved
ones to slip past them into the charnel
house of the dead without God and
without hope! / am positive the un.
saved of the average community will
turn when you warn them and put the
responsibility upon their own heads.
they will understand the Importance OF
making their peace and election sure.
Sermon On "Hell."
Following are extracts from the
evaugelists lecture on hell:
Weary Of mans ignorance and In
ability to cope with the question OF
the text you may meet the Judge OF !
all the earth at heavens gate and He
will answer: The law is inexorable,
the Scriptures cannot be broken; there
is no answer to the text. And then
you decide that in hell the secret must
be kept, and you dash away through
space and stand at the gates of hell
and present the question of my text:
fiendish grins and groans
may be seen and heard; no answer can
be given by the ones eternaily incar-
cerated to the question: How, shall! /
we escape if we neglect so great saliva I
ton? recorded in Hebrews 2:3.
Hell is as much of a part of Gods /;
love story as heaven. Unregenerate, |
sinful man or woman, if God should
take. you into heaven tonight. your
guilty nature would shrink from God
and you would dash over the battle
ments of glory and falling through
space you would pass multitudinous
systems until at last you would strike
the far remote shores of the dread
sea Of oblivion, a, lost soul. Lost to !,
loved ones, lost to hope. lost to re-
pentance, lost to all but the Omnlsci-
ent eye of God and an eternity of woe /
and death. ...
Hell was not made for man. Hell
was made for the devil and his angels:
But, hear me! If you live for, the devil
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