Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-11-07
SUNDAY IS SURE
CURE FOR BLUES
EVANGELIST TELLS DIES MONIES
AUDIENCE THAT HE HAS
REMEDY.

les MONIES, Nov. 6.-Did you ever
get up IN the morning in regular dyed
IN the wool, unadulterated blue funk"
ana wonder just what was going to be-
come or you ofyour family or, perhaps
OF 10th you and your family? Did you
ever wonder just what was in store
for you in the future and turn gray
with apprehension as you wondered?
Billy Sunday declared yesterday at.
ternoon that You have He asserted
tnat everyone of the 5000 persons in
MS spacious tabernacle at the time had
zone that very thing and then he in.
Guided every man and woman alive.
But he didn't leave his audience
nounderlng about hopelessly in
slough of Despond. He gave them a
remedy. And the remedy, as prescrih-
ed by the evangelist is retrospectiou.
take look backwards he said
Just count the blessings that have
Deen bestowed upon you in the past
and they'll count up so fast you'll be
surprised. If God has blessed you be-
lore he will again; if the Lord has
smiled upon you in the past he will
smile again; if you have seen good
weather in the yesterdays of life you'H
see it again.
Mr.. Sunday took for his subject yes
terday afternoon. Taking lOur Bear
lngs." He related the experiences of
Joshua and the tribe of Israel on the
edge OF the promised land after they
mad spent forty years laundering about
in the wilderness.
And they spent forty years getting
to place they. could have reached in
thirty days." he said, because of the
same reasons that men today founder
and wander about getting nowhere.
Did you ever stop to Think" he
asked, Just what big fools you've
been? Take look back. See there
you poor fools how you've wound
about, in and out into that grog shop
here and that house of prostitution
there. How you've wasted your time
and energy. Take look back and
see why you are no further than you
are today.
You've never stood where you
stand today. Never before has it
been November 5, 1914 And it never
will be again. Did you ever stop to
think that you are nearer the grave
today than you ever We're before :?
Never have you had so much to dis
courage or inspire you; never SO much
before or back of you.
Why can't you profit by your
past experiences? Why some of you
are here today with hardly gray
hair between you and hell and all be-
cause you have wandered and wound
about. If you should die now, you Door
devil you'd be in hell before 6 O'Clock
and it's 2:25 now.
Why have you wandered and
wound and zigzagged through life?
A bees got more sense than that
Railroads spend millions of dollars
to cut out a. curve. But you'll wan
der in and out to a beer drinking
here and dutch lunch there, getting
no place. Great Caesar!'
Sunday devoted part of his SER
mon to the defense of the methods he
uses to bring people, laughing, singing,
weeping. down the "sawdust trial" He
defended his use of plain words"
"Why might get up here and say
in regard to a vegetable for instance,
that it was slightly disintegrated as
a result of certain chemical COM
pounds and lot of that dope, but
nobody but school teacher would
understand me. But if get up here
and say 1t is rotten, why-there!t
what'd tell you, see your faces light
up! Oh, gee!" and he leaned over
the pulpit and gave 5000 persons
the original Billy Sunday smile. Then
he broke into laugh. In a moment
those In the first rows we're laugh
ing with him. Then every person in
the tabernacle was laughing, and
Sunday apparently was entirely salts
fled that he had scored his point