Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-11-18
LAST SERVICE TONIGHT
Mems Mass Meeting Attended by Over
300 Men. About 100 Made Decis-
ions During Campaign.

Will SuO SGIviCC ILLS OVcuk i1S IIc
series of evang gelistic meetings held
for two weeks past closes. DR.. Bus
we'll and Prof. Weaver will go to-mor-
row to Fair Haven and they will have
the undivided prayers of the COM
munlty for their success in that place.
They have been source of great
strength and help to the pastors and
| laymen of the churches and have won
many to the Christian religion in their
| two weeks among US. About 100 have
signed the pledge cards adopting Christ
as their personal Saviour, and many
who have not signed the cards have
been led to better and more earnest
| life.
The afternoon meetings held daily
at 3 O'Clock have been a source of
great help to those who attended and
the teachings of the Bible as unfolded
| by Mr.. BusWell are wonderfully clear
The mems mass meeting in Seaver's
hall Sunday afternoon was we'll attend
ed, nearly every seat being taken, and
the crowd was estimated at 800. DIR.
| Buswell spoke upon Power" Mat
| thew 8: 18 being his text. On Sunday
night his subject was Eternal Pun
| ishment Is Not Right" Both of
these sermons were masterful in their
logic and held the large audienc es to
the strictest attention.
| On Monday evening Mr.. Davis, of
England, journalist, and an officer of
the Pocket Testament League, spoke in
the interests of this league, it's men,
bers promising to make it the rule of
their lives to carry Bible or Testa-
ment in their pocket at all times
and to read chapter daily. He told
OF many instances of where the gift
of testament and short talk about
the work Of the league had in the end
won many to believe. He spoke parti-
cularly about the influence of daily
reading of the book and urged all to
join. DR.. Buswell closed the service
with {. strong appeal to accept Christ.
Yesterday was an all day meeting.
DR.. Buswell spoke in the morning at
10 O. clock on 1.-The Bible" entreating
his hearers to more frequent reading
and study of it. At 2 80 o'clock Mr..
Shaeffer, the evangelist at Newport
and his singer, Mr.. COLLISION were
present and Mr.. Shaeffer spoke or
"Belief and Prayer" His discourse
} was most earnest and impressive one.
Mr.. COLLISION sang for the audience and
conducted the music at this service and
the service at O'Clock for the chill.
dren, young people, parents and others.
This service filled the church to the
door, about $50 children sitting in a
body, and was indeed most interest
ing not only to the children but to all
present. He spoke to the children
from that part of the 23rd Psalm,
my cup runneth over" He illustrat.
ed life by water bottle partly filled
with water then added cup of water
representing health another represent
ing food another representing raiment,
but the bottle did not run over. Then
he added the cup representing saliva
tlon which made the bottle run over.
In most beautiful way he then told
the children how complete life and
happiness was the result of salvation,
entreating them. to accept Christ.
Mr.. Shaeffer is called one of the great
est if not the greatest worker among
children in America and the strict at
tention they paid to his talk here proved
that his methods interested them
DR.. Buswell and MIR. Weaver assisted
in an all day meeting at Newport
Monday.
DR.. BusWel spoke last evening on
the uncertainty of life. He said he die
not believe in soaring people to conver-
sion but he did believe in peoples fac
ing facts and possibilities. His text
will be found in James A ID, ''For
what is life? 1t is even vapor that
appeareth for little time, and then
vanisheth away" He urged the ac-
ceptance of Christ now for we know
not when life will be taken from us.
At the close of the service he asked
for testimony and many arose.
DR.. Buswell. Prof. Weaver, the pas
. tors and several others went to Bar
ton Landing on the noon train to-day.
, returning on the air line, to assist the
evangelist there in mass meeting of
! the mill men at the station. There
was large crowd of men and the
speaking and singing held their closest
attention.
The chorus made up of local voices
has rendered excellent music and
there have been selections by the
double male uuartette, ladies' double
J quartette, Mrs. j. M. Blake and
Mrs. Geo. C. Lang, also clarionet
solo by Slayton Lang. The pastors
and people from Glover and West
Glover and other places have been