Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-01-03
The Gale Revival Meetings
Increasing in Interest.
THE JOY OF SALVATION.
How it is Lost, and How it
May be Restored. Evans
gelist Gales Subject
Last Evening.

ference with the attendance at the
mission being conducted with the
Congregational, Methodist and Bap-
fist churches by Evangelist III. L.
Gale.
The afternoon session at the Baptist
church yesterday was largely attend
ed, and Mr. Gale took the question of
personal relations, urging the import
ance of being right with everyone and
with God.
Last evening large congregation
gathered and listened most intently
while Mr.. Gale spoke upon "The Joy
of Salvation" lie read for the lesson
part of the 5lst Psalm, the peniten-
tial psalm of David; and for his text
the twelfth Restore unto me
the joy of Thy Salvation.
lie said i'm substance: David does
not pray that God would give him
salvation, for he was already a saved
man. But he does ask for the joy
which he had lost to be restored to
him again. David knew, as we know,
that the divine life was intended to
fill the heart and life of man, and
make him happy. OF all people in
the world who ought to be happy the
Christian is first. A long-faced Chris
tan, IA joyless Christian life, is gross
Misrepresentation of the true Chris
tian life. 1t is the best advertise =
ment the devil has. If he can per-
suade man that the Christian life is
ioyless his mission with that man is
accomplished.
How may you know that you have
lost the joy of salvation? Here are a
few nfalible signs: l. If you have nc
pleasure in the Bible. If it is bur.
den for you to read it, and if it seems
more and more a sealed book to YOU
2. If YOU have no delight in prayer
If YOU find it convenient to omit the
| family prayer altogether, and if YOU
private PRAYERS are cold and formal
3. If you have no anxiety for souls
and no influence in leading them tt
Christ. If you experience any OF these
things, then you may know that yol
have not the JOY of salvation. Fo
the true life finds joy in those thing
which give it power.
Now, if this is your condition, wha
brought it about? !. Some willfu
disobedience or neglect of some know
duty. Gods JOY cannot rest IN tn
heart that disobeys Him. ?. You ma.
have become absorbed in money max
ing, so that the Joy of the true life ha
been crowded out. 3. You may hav
become engrossed in secret societies s.
that you have had no time for the cul
tivatlon of the true life. have no
one word to say against these fratel
nal organizations which are doing Sllc
splendid work. But if your interest il
them takes precedence over your dut
to your God, your home, or of you
church, you cannot have the JOY G
salvation.
The same is a true of absorption i
politics or amusementS or anything
the exclusion of those things whic
are a part of the true life. The joy
Gods salvation is lost through som
fault of your own as truly as effe(
follows cause. Here is God S word W
on it. Your iniquities have turne
away these things, and your SINS haN
withholden good from you.
u Our form of Goodness may be a
} right; but God does not care for form
J He wants a clean life.
Now, having lost this joy, how ca
r il be restored? What did David &c
Read again the psalm, and see how
| is all laid down there. Against the
thee only have | sinned, and done tn
evil in thy sight.
Make confession. If you have nj
den sin, make a clean confession
God; and, if it is public sin you mu
confess it before men.
Make restitution. If you ha
wronged any one, you must make I'LL
wrong right if within your power.
=. Mr.. Gale here cited several strlklI
incidents in illustration of this pol1
Now if these wrongs are in 20
life, you cannot have the Joy of sal'
ton, even though you pray I
dooms-day. Put when you comic
your sin and make restitution, the
ri comes as the natural result.
Mics Halls singing was very 1