Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-01-06
Mu|titudes are in the Valley
Of Decision.
EVANGELIST GALES WORDS
Great meetings held yesterday
Meetings tomorrow.


at the opera house did not diminish
the attendance at the Gale meeting
last evening. The meeting was mark
ed by intense interest, yet entirely
free from any excitement. Indeed,
Mr.. Gale insists that there shall be no
emotionalism in this work. His ap-
peal is to the calm and candid judg-
ment in more marked degree than
that of almost any other man in the
eyangelistic field. He aims to make
the great truths of mans relation to
God and to man SO clear that none
can misunderstood him, and none can
reject them without doing SO deHber-
ately, after careful consideration.
Last evening Mr.. Gale gave his first
message to those who were not pro-
fessed Christians. He said: ''The
claim of Christianity is looked upon
bv MANY as an insult to our intelli-
gence and an encroachment upon our
reason. They say that it calls for
blind faith. But what is faith? It,s
an act of the mind based on evidence.
What is termed saving faith includes
the action of the heart as well as OF
the mind. God never asks us to be-
lieveanything without giving us plep-
ty of evidence. AS warrant for be-
lieving in Him, He gives us nature,
the Bible end Christ.
I may learn from nature about the
Almighty Creator, but about the Goa
who is the father of mercies and the
1tsod Of ali grace, nature does not tell
me. If I would know him thus, l
must see him in Jesus Christ. But
suppose l do not know about Jesus
Christ. and therefore do not believe
him? God gives me the Bible which
tells me all about him. Suppose l 90
not believe the Bible. 1t bears in it.
self the stamp of divine origin, and
he who will examine it carefully will
see il is so. Now in that Bible what
is the standard set up for mans life?
That he be absolutely pure and sinless
from his birth to the day of his death.
If there is any one in this audience
who has lived up to this standard, who
can say he has lived absolutely with
out sin all his life, will you rise?
mo one rose. If there were 10, 600
here the answer would be the same.
If a man could honestly say he had
lived such life he would need no
Saviour: that mighty transaction on
Calvary would have no reference to
him whatever.
But you say, Il am not a great sin
ner.' Hear what God says, He that
keepeth the whole law and yet Offend
eth IN one point, is guilty of all. >
With man in this absolutely helpless
condition, Gods love has provided a
relief. Forced so loved the world
that he gave his only begotton Son,
that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlast-
ing life.
God never condemned a soul to hell.
If any man goes to the place called
hell. it will be because he deliberately
choose to do soto walk his own way.
If he spends his eternity in the
place called heaven, it is because he
deliberately choose to walk with God
through this life. would not appeal
to YOU because you are to die. To at
tempt to become a Christian simply
because you are to die would be cow
ardly. But because you are here, and
because Christian life better hts a
man for this life, ask you to accept
Christ.
The speaker here gave a vivid PIC
ture contrasting the scene at the grave
of the brother of Robert G.. Ingersoll
and that at the grave of the broth
er of d. L. Moody.
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