Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-12-27
MEETINGS CLOSE
At TABERNACLE

The union tabernacle meetings, I'M
der the leadership of Evangelist
James Rayburn, which have been I'M
j der way at the big tabernacle build
ing near the county Jail, closed on
Sunday night, with a wonderful meet
ing attended by nearly 1900 people
from every part of Sank county, the
largest and most attentive audience
that has ever been gathered together
in any religious assemblage in this
community. Of the meeting one citi-
zen, who was present for the first time,
said
81 had never dreamed it possible.
| have been at large political gather
ings and other places where great
crowds have come together, but never
have | seen SO attentive and lntelll-
gent an audience I had come to be-
lieve that Christianity was a poor
mans religion; the religion of the
down-trodden and the ignorant, but
here was a revelation to me. There |
saw hard-headed business men, our
best farmers, railroad men. Ii there IS
man who must know the world and
it's weaknesses and the seamy side OF
life, it is the railroad men But there
they were, all of them. A religion
that is reasonable ard convincing and
Tconvicting to Lee, Barry, O'Dell, Coll
mar and the other men who have hit
the trail is good enough and big
enough for any man"
! During the progress Of the meetings
more than SO high-school students
f, have made public professions. a score
men to engineers and men in the shops
have come forward There have been
several business men OF Baraboo
among the converts. at the meetings,
and among the best known of the
farmers of the community have been
convicted and are now farming with
Christ. Sons and daughters, many Of
them, have come without fathers and
mothers, and other families have come
/ forward together. Sisters and mothers
and daughters, long estranged, have
| been reconciled, old debts have been
paid, and old feuds have been turned
into friendships. The churches Of the
| city have been quickened and will be
enlarged in membership, and many
men and women who have been deep
in despair or reticent on religion, will
be happier and better citizens OF the
community because Of the meetings
they have attended, and the new hope
that has been kindled.
Mr.. Rayburn chose as the text OF
/ his farewell sermon the last words OF
Joshua to his people. including the
words, Gas for me and my house, we
Will serve the Lord " .a SCI
Life said the speaker, -"involyes
choice. Chr ''rllty is an intelligent
choice" He then explained that we
are free agents in the matter, we can
choose the Christian life or reject it.
But we must make one choice or the
other. We cannot be neutral Either
you are a Christian or you are not. In
making the choice you choose between
a Saviour or a destroyer.
cts either Christ. the Saviour, or
the devil, the destroyer, which will
you have?" said Mr. Rayburn. Fur
Their, as it is choice between one lie
or another, it is a choice between two
deaths. There is death in the Lord or
death in sin And as 1T is a choice be-
tween two deaths, it is a choice be-
tween two resurrections, and a choice
between two places at the Judgment
seat. It is choice between two
eternal destinies."
Converts Meeting
In the afternoon about five hundred
converts, with the pastors and officers
of the churches, met for conference
prayer and instruction by Mr.. Ray.
burn. This service was followed by
brief meeting with the church mem
bers who came into the building later
in the afternoon.