The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-02-08
The Rev. William ]. Dawson
in Barre Last Evening.
AN INSTRUCTIVE SERMON
Well Known London Evangelist Held
the Closest Attention of Audience
at Congregational Church
For an Hour.

Never before has Barre had chance
to welcome and listen TO great evan
gelist from across the seas, and never
did the Congregational church of
this city contain more people than gath
cred there last evening to hear the Rev.
William J. Dawson, the great English
evangelist from London. Fully five hum
dred people were crowded into thechurch
and listened spell-bound for an hour
to the eloquent, impressive and con-
yincing sermon. Mr.. Dawson intends
to speak in every state in the Union
while he is in this country, and Barre
and Montpelier are the only places TO
be visited in Vermont.
Last Sunday he spoke in Newton and
Worcester, Mass, and at the latter place
thousands Of people, eager to hear him.
could not get into the hall, and were
turned away. Last evening was the
only time that he win speak in Barre, but
today at Montpelier it was arranged
that he should give three addresses, this
| forenoon, this afternoon and tonight.
Many from Montpelier were present last
evening, and large number from this
city went to Montpelier today.
DR.. Dawson, though not emotional, Is
fully as convincing by the sincerity Of
his manner. He is a man slightly below
the average height, but bis voice, clear
and penetrating, could be distinctly
| heard in any part of the church, and he
had remarkable control OF the large au.
| dience.
The service was opened shortly after
1880 o'clock, and the big crowd Of peo.
| ple were already in their seats anc
I waiting. The church choir sang two Sc
lections, and led in the congregations
singing. s. HolIister Jackson presided
at the organ. The scripture lesson was
read by the Rev. A. M Bradley Of th'
Universalist church, and prayer was Of
fered by the Rev. H. g. Wyekoff q
Chelsea Previous to the introduction 0
Dr. Dawson by the Rev. f. A. Poole, th
chairman Of the state committee 0
the forward movement of evangelist
work, the Rev. FL. j. Kilbourn Of Brad
ford called for generous collection t
help along the practical side of tn
work, and there was a hearty response.
IN introducing the speaker, the ReN
Mr.. Poole said in part: "The antiei
pated moment has come, DIR. Dawson
here and we are overjoyed to welcom
him, as we believe him to be commits
, stoned by Jesus Christ, and we awai
his word that will call us to make th
greatest sacrifice Of our lives"
st. Luke XIX, 10, sFor the Son {
Man came to seek and to save ths
I which was lost" was the passage whiC
DR.. Dawson took for his text, and Il
2 subject of his sermon was the Eval
|, gelism of Jesus Christ" During b
!. discourse he made these Temarkab
statements Il have found that q
greatest sacrifices of human brotherhos
I are made under the flag Of politics, rat
Z er than under the cross Of Jesus Chris
Unless the church awakens and &c
4 the spirit Of saving souls, It is goiI
! to destruction of its own respectabi
I ity."
in the beginning Of his discourse
suggested three causes which illustra
\ ed the fact that Christ constantly Il
!, lowed widening ideal in his ministr
II and as his ministry developed his on
z sense of its uniyersality increase
i First he said, "there is the educati
4 Of Christ's own soul. From the faths
!" hood of God there had to be worked 0
I the great corolIary of the entire bret
I. erhood of man. This was the educ
I. tion Of the spirit of Jesus. From t
= conception of the divine fatherho
came the broader conception Of hnmai
ty, until at last there was establish
IN the mind Of Christ the solidarity
mankind
n sThe second element was the edn,
~ tion of the event There were outs
things that contributed to the edul
tion of Jesus Enter We not into a
" city Of tile Samaritans that was |
first order. But events taught 1es
very different conception OF the !
maritans.
again, there was the education
pity. Jesus looked upon the multitf
N and was sad. A great multitude il
he ways sad sight. Humanity is the
te- and all the pity Of humanity. The e
on cation Of pity was part Of the educat
M Of Jesus
RI Here you have the core and the K
he mel Of the evangelism Of Jesus.
M Jesus of the last year Of his minis
In was very different Jesus from
ir Jesus of the early ministry, speak
Aar calm beatitudes beside the Galilean Ia
he In the last year of his ministry th
21 is a new note, there is intensity, th
Is passion, there are vehement VOL
RS there are alarming parallels, there
ate heart breaking reproaches and there
ri tears over Jerusalem, for he sees
III goal now and he knows that it Is
led cross.
ted "If Christ had remained only the ?
ad- Of the Galilean lake there would h
tn been no redemption for you and
led He would have added something to
the worlds wisdom, but he would ne
nee have broken up The depths Of the wor
AZ heart. Spiritual truth alone never SO
any body. You can't educate the ~