Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-12-11

CALLED A DISEASE Sc. 81
MISSIONER AT TRINITY CHURCH
DWELLs ON DANGER OF PUT
TING OFF TASKS.

Branding the habit Of convenience
as disease which Is fast becoming
world wide in its spread, Rev. #. G,
Budlong spoke Interestingly on the
common tendency Of people to put on
until later the things that make for
better men and women. The series
of sermons delivered by the missioner
at Trinity church this week are at
tracing large numbers at the evening
services. The subject last night was
convenience as a Disease"
Acts: 1925 was the text followed
by the speaker who spoke as follows:
I" And as st. Paul reasoned OF
Righteousness, temperance and ]udg.
ment to come, Felix trembled and
answered, Go thy way for this time:
when have convenient season l
will call for thee.'
"You remember the occasion Tor
this conversation Of the Roman gov
ernor with St. Paul.
1.-THE convenient season never came.
There has never been an age when
the convenience idea has been so
overworked as the present. We go at
such a tremendous pace, there is so
much to be done, so many things to
accomplish that many important
things are put on the waiting list.
we fail to rest and relax and the re-
suit is we grow cross and irritable be
cause we are under such strain. We
are still waiting for the convenient
season.
Friends no longer seem to be 10y
al. God is a long way off, when we
try to sleep the mind keeps going
round and round and still we persist
in going faster and faster under q
tremendous pressure and the result
will be we'll die before the convent
ent season for rest comes
1--WE must see the trades journal,
we must read the newspaper. Some
time we will read the classics and cul-
tivate little taste for art and literary
culture. Well read this book and that,
too, and this will be done when the
convenient season comes.
'In friendship and our consideration
for others we'll give more time. We'll
know this person better, Well 90
something that will benefit ourselves
and others, but they move away or
they die and it's too date. We are
like ships that pass in the night. We
have robbed ourselves of the things
that would have made us so much
happier than the things pursued The
vital friendship is lost. We might have
gained something for ourselves and
brought something to others but the
convenient season never came.
4 "Religion has to do with the high
est things in life but we grow so
weary and more and more irritable
and consequently disagreeable. When
weary the spirit has to struggle to be
heard at all. Our chronic condition OF
flag prevents the soul to speak to God
or to hear his voice.
'If the spirit is not attuned with
God, If not In control, because we are
made that way, the whole man suffers.
No difference what we start out to be
or accomplish convenience interferes.
We intend to repent, we never do It..
We find no convenient season. We
admit we need God, that we owe some
thing to God. He has kept US safe
throughout the night and guarded us
from. dangers of the day, we owe him
a word of thanks, but we are so weary
at night, so tired and rushed In the
morning that we'll wait for more
convenient season.
'tYou meant to bnt you have formed
the habit of letting God wait for you to
tell him. You have no argument
against prayer its normal exercise but