The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1920-02-13
NEED "FOUR-F0LD
CONVICTION"
SAYS DR.. REEs
Necessity for Sincerity and
Earnestness Driven Home
at Evangelistic Service

NA ne Ouf-r Ola COnVlctlOn. III.
spoke himself with conviction
orSthis theme Thursday night, with
sincerity and earnestness which
drove it home to the hearts of his au-
dience. 1--WE shall fail without con-
viction," he said, "and by convic-
tion," | do not mean mere opinion,
mere impression | mean deep
rooted, fundamental conviction which
must embrace four points.
First, we must have conviction
that those who are in sin are lost.
This is the teaching of our Lord. In
His commission to the. twelve he said:
"Go rather to the lost sheep of the
House of Israeli" and with reference
to His own mission He declared, "For
the Son of Man has come to seek
and save that which is lost" and in
the 18th chapter Of Luke He speaks
of the lost sheep, the lost coin, and
the lost boy. The sheep lost to him
self, the coin lost to society, the son
lost to God. Jesus said "lost" more
often than 1ed astray."
Joseph Parker said: "We will
never cvangelize the world if We
think of it only as being in swoon.
We must get to the tragedy of sin be-
fore we reach the tragedy of the
cross" We need to feel deep down
in our hearts the lost condition of the
unsaved, for this will lead to active
service. 1t was this conviction that
sent Mrs. Ballington Booth into pris-
'ons to save the convicts, and they
universally call her "the little moth
er." Under the Holborn Viaduct in
London nightly gathers the riff-raf of
the great metropolis, for shelter un
der its great arches. When the great
clock of st. Pauls has doomed the
stroke of Midnight, the motley crowd
is there. Then there approaches a
tall, frail-looking gentleman carrying
4 lantern, With Two or three assist
ants, passing from arch to arch, gath
ering g~oup of these from out of
the damp and cold into a cheerful
room, and there telling them of the
power of Jesus Christ to save them.
His friends demonstrated, but ht
answered them, "my heart is breaking
withNagony for my poor lost boys
Who was this man? In his veins was
the bluest blood of the English aris-
trocracy, for this was the Earl Of
SALISBURY, who left his palace at the
West End to dig amid the filth and
squalor of these city slums to find the
boys whom he may save for Christ's
sake.
Said one of these: at was not sc
much what he said, as the way he
looked at me when he grasped m!
hand and said, Jack, you'll be mar
yet" "and by Gods help | will
After the Earl's death there was a
costelmonger's parade, with a ban
ner that read 81 was in prison anc
he came unto me-" and children form
the Ragged School with banner, II
was hungry, and he fed me-" and.
when some man seeing the procession
made uncomplimentary remarks, a
rough man laid hands on his should
er and commanded "hush, man, he
was our Earl"
We need in the second place, the
conviction that the lost may be saw
ed. 1t is this conviction that has
given birth to the Salvation Army. 1t
was this conviction that sent three
firemen up on to roof of burning
building, that led them to lower one
of their own number before a window
where was a woman, that made her