The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1920-02-09

the mllll0nldTe Steel pdiu1aS
turer of Pennsylvania and Mr.
Sisson, the lumber dealer
He then briefly spoke of notable ex-
amnles of christian men in literature,
medicine, law and craftsmanship. In
touching upon the latter he said he
did not know enough about politics to
say whether a man could be chris
tan and politician, but he did know
that a man could be a christian and a
statesman. He then paid high tri-
butte to such statesman as Wilson,
Lansing and Lloyd George. He said
the day is gone when man need to
apologize for being christian. The
bow is the second edition of his faith
err, but to many a boy this is a great
embarrassment. The father. cannot at
ford to be anything but a christian
and to know Christ as true, confiden-
tial friend. DR.. Rees' graphic illus
trations of the man saving his own
son in the Genessee river, of Marshal
Foch at prayer in the French church
before the battle and other stories
were given with telling effect.
DIR. REEFS PLEADS FOR
PRAYER AND BIBLE STUDY
At the evening meeting in the
South church DR.. Rees made an earn
est plea for prayer and Bible study.
The church was well filled and there
was an excellent musical program.
The chorus of 100 voices occupied
seats behind the altar and the Nor
wich University boys assisted in the
service. Mrs. Rees showed wonderful
control over the large body of sing
ers.
Dr.. Rees took for his text MY
Times are in Thy Hands" He spoke
of the tremendous age in which we
are living. "The speed shown In the
commercial world is tremendous" he
said. When Graham White flew to
Boston Light at the rate of mile a
minute he said the people were as
founded at the terrific speed he had
attained. Now we go twice as fast
throug the air. Express trains now
make 80 miles an hour. In New York
CITY two railroad terminals occupy
100 acres of land. The giant liner
Vaterland carried 10000 soldiers to
Europe and brought back an equal
number of persons from foreign lands
"Think of it," exclaimed DR.. Rees,
taking the entire population OF a
town like St. Johnsbury and trans
porting it to foreign soil and then
picking up the entire population of a
foreign city and bringing it back TO
our shores all on one round trip. IL
is a tremendous commercial age"
He said the times were tremendous
politically when political parties were
being brought to the mark and poll
teal demagogues were being thrown
out of Office. He said the times were
also tremendously insane when in one
wear one thousand women were LOST
enroute from Chicago to New York.
He said it was tremendously insane
when out of every II marriages there
is a divorce. He said there is sin
by day and sin by night. He said the
declaration of prominent preacher
that startled the country might be
true that "Men are not falling, they
have fallen" ,,-
He said the times were tremendous
in opportunity. We extend our graf
itude for the tremendous opportunity
when we buried John. Bar
leycorn. The times are tremendous
in the evangelistic movements which
are taking place in many parts of the
country. There is a tremendous OPP
portunity to join in one of these great
and especially the one
now being conducted in your own
city.
DR.. Rees declared that the first
need for the success of the evangelis- |
tic movement was a passion for souls.
He said we have passions for money, |
for social position and brother things
but we must now have passion for
he saving Of souls.
he SAID Lnc HlONeIhcHt loI tilS say
ng of souls was unusual in that it
needed unusual prayers. He asked
low many there are who now read
he Bible in their homes, who read
he Bible aloud to their families, who
consult the Bible for guidance. He
aid the weakness of man and woman
vas that they pray too little. He said
he usual situation was in the study
# the Bible. He wondered how many
ad practical working knowledge of
he Bible.
"The problem of the day is not the
on church-goer but the non-going
lurch," he said. He made. strong ,
lea for those within the church to
o out and by personal solicitation
ct their neighbors and their friends
, attend the meetings. He said the
act that the neighbors and friends
ere not present was probably be- ,
ause no one had asked them to come .
lie gave a number of interesting in
dents of those who had done the
nusual and asked others to join in |
10 Lords work and how great had