Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-11-05
SUNDAY SAYS
|0WANS BLESSED
EVANGELIST CALLS IOWA GODS
FAVORED STATE-URGES
PERSONAL WORK.

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| graphs are copied from this mornings
Des Moines Register and Leader:
| Three thousand persons who gath
cred at the tabernacle yesterday af-
ternoon heard the church. it's men,
bers and ministers arraigned, scored,
ripped up" and laid open by Billy
Sunday as he charged back and forth
across the platform laundering his
opinions of the average church and
the persons who make it.
The evangelist set forth as some
of the principal failings Of the av-
erage modern church such weaknesses
as pride, envy, jealousy, lack of self
denial, general apathy and lack Of
love and Christianity.
| Some of you church members have
bible in the house SO big that it
takes a Sandow to move it," he storm
ed, land I'll venture that you haven't
read in weeks
IF there is anybody on earth who
ought to get down on his knees and
thank God for his goodness it is a
citizen Of this God favored state Of
Iowa. He certainly has favored the
people of this state. Other states
!
other granaries have gone empty and
people have starved, but never in her
history has such been the case in
Iowa. God has favored your state
more than any of the others"
you people can pray till you're
black in the face and bald headed he
Numbered as he stamped to the edge
of the platform and Bonded low toward
his hearers, "but unless you live your
religion you'll never be blessed. Re-
ligion is matter OF conduct not Of
creed. I don't care whether you've
been baptised, sprinkled or immersed
every fifteen minutes for fifty years;
whether you know all the thirty-nine
articles of confession or have been
confirmed"
1.-THE church members must wake
up he cried. ''The church must
wake up. Don't let jealousy or envy
hold you back. Don't be afraid some
fellow is going to get newspaper
headline above you. Give and take"
"The hardest job on earth is that of
the average preacher. I've farmed,
driven delivery wagon and fired on
the Northwestern railroad; I've played
baseball beneath the scorching July
and August suns, but the hardest
proposition I have ever tackled is
preaching-and you church members
make it that, too
Last night at the tabernacle, the
Rev. w. A. Sunday preached the sec
ond sermon on the subject of Re
vivals,'' using the same text as at the
afternoon service. His sermon was
devoted to a defense of the revival
idea.
THE revival is one tide from an
old sea that has swept the world since
Pentecost. 1t is not new tide in a
new sea, but an old tide in an old sea-"
rGive us more men for the minis
try. tell you, my friends. the church
is facing crisis in the ministry. The
young men are leaving the ministry.
They are refusing to enter the min
istry. Why? Because they are starv-
ed It is disgrace and an insult the
salary they are paid
ooh, Lord, revive thou thy works.
You know that every revival that has
swept this land has had two charac-
teristics. First, it has been re-
vival of business men. There never
willing to put their money into cam
paign than now. They are beginning
to see, thoughtful business men from
Maine to California, from Duluth to
the gulf that if the tidal wave of graft,
intemperance, vice, Righteousness,
bribery and corruption which threat
ems our nation and imperils our des-
tiny as nation, which threatens to
overthrow our young men and young
women-they are awakening to the
fact that if it is to be beaten back and
overthrown, it has got to be brought
about by a tidal wave of religion.
They have been awakening to the
fact that they have been dealing with
non-essential things, and are wasting
their time. Second, revival of per-
sonal work. There has never been
a time when people are more ready
to work; never time when they are
more read and willing. want every
man and woman in this audience,
every usher, every member of COM
mittee, to do personal work"