The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-11-12
EVANGELIST TOLD
STORY OF ZACCHAEUS
And Declared to His Audience That He
Had No Confidence in a Profession
Of Regeneration Unless Pre-
ceded by Restitution.

Notwithstanding the rain OF last night
there was a good attentive audience at
the union evangelistic meeting in He'd
ding NJ. e. church, all eager to sing the
gospel songs and drink in the words OF
life as given them by Evangelist Toy,
The praise service led by Mr.. Dickson
was an inspiration and got those present
into the right frame Of mind and heart
TO sympathize with and absorb the
/ truth.
After prayer by Rev. w. +. Braisted,
the Scripture read by DR.. Toy was the
beautiful lesson of Jesus in the 10th
chapter of John, which pictures himself
as the true Shepherd. Mr.. Dickson sang
very effectively solo, "The Ninety and
Nine"
Dr. Toy took for his text Lake 1910,
'For tho Son Of Man came to seek and TO
save that which was lost" He said in
part, There Is no text Of Scripture
Know OF that has more beautiful set
ting than this, and here he gave in his
own language the facts OF the chapter,
which make the setting for the text.
As Jesus passed by and saw Zacchaeus
in the tree, he called him by name, say
ing, Make haste and some down. and
Zaceheeus made hast and came down
and received Jesus joyfully.
Too many people arc perched away
up in the trees above God and they need
to come down. Zacchaeus was converted
tho instant he started to obey Jesus
and came down from the tree. We do
not grow into grace; we cannot make
ourselves better, but we grow in grace
after we have obeyed His voice and come
into communion with Him.
Here he told the story of the young
man in New York City, who said he
would not be converted in his fathers
church and stepped into the Water
street mission, where with his kid
rlovcs on and dressed up as most dan.
dies are, the Holy Spirit convicted him
of sin and he was converted with
drunken man on one side and drunken
woman on the other eide of him.
Zacchaeus said, "If have wrongfully
exaeted aught Of any man, restore four
fold" ! have no confidence in a pro-
fession OF regeneration unless IL be pre-
ceded by restitution. When you get
right with your neighbor, il won't take
long to get right with God. Many a
man has committed some sin against
his neighbor that stands between him
and God, and his prayer will not be an
swered until he has made restitution.
No man or woman on earth can do
until they become righteous.
You must be born again. You may be
all right with your wife, you may be
all right with your children, you may
be all right with your neighbors, but you
may be all wrong with God and are,
unless you accept Jesus Christ as your
personal Saviour
What does this salvation do for one
The sins of the past are blotted out,
the sinless one dying for the sinful. The
blood Of Jesus Christ cleanses from all
sins. There is great difference between
white-washing and washing white. Jesus
washes white.
His is a salvation from the guilt Of sin,
salvation from the power Of sin, saliva
tion from the consequences of sin. God
doesn't compel any man or woman to
go to Heaven. This is q matter of free
will. |
After the sermon Dr. Toy gave the
invitation to those who had accepted |
Christ as their personal Saviour in these
meetings to come forward, and quite a
of men and women walked
down the aisles to the front seats re.
served for them.
The afternoon meeting Thursday IS at |
the Congregational church at 4 o'clock.
Friday it win be held in the NJ. T.. |
church at $3.50. with the Montpelier
evangelists in charge of the meeting