Once, as I was walking down the street, I heard some people laughing and talking aloud. Is this illness to prove serious?” Men will say, “That is splendid,” and will want all their friends to go and hear the preacher. Many a home might be lit up with the Gospel if the mothers and daughters would only speak the word. Moody was not a professional theologian, not even an ordained minister. He said in after years it was the last thing he ever stole. I heard of two old miners who lost their way. An old minister once invited a young brother to preach for him. Though it is dark just here, remember it is light somewhere else.” Then he went on to say that if it were dark all over the world, it was light up around the Throne. I remember a man telling me he preached for a number of years without any result. I said: “My friend, I don’t see how you can tear down with one hand what you are trying to build up with the other. After the worker had prayed, she made a prayer herself: And yet this was one of your modern philosophers.’. “Well,” says she, “I don’t remember.” The young man looked up and said, “Well, then, I have missed it at last!” It might do for women, but not for him! Young man, just ask yourself the question, “Where shall I be?” Some of you who are getting on in years may be in eternity ten years hence. The chaplain knew the man and his besetting sin, and quietly looking him in the face, answered: They all understood what fast horses were—they knew a good deal more about fast horses than they knew about the kingdom of God. I didn’t know it was so hard.” It is a good deal better to keep just as far from the line as you can if you want power. Very few kind words were associated with the day. I finished the sermon upon “What Shall I Do with Jesus?” and said to the audience: One day he saw an officer riding by. can you write? I said, “Please don’t mention them again. “Do you know where the snags and sand-bars are?” Do you belong to that class? I never yet knew a man converted just in the time and manner he expected to be. Yet that is just what thousands of people do. I remember blaming my mother for sending me to church on the Sabbath. A young man who comes home night after night drunk, and when his mother remonstrates, curses her gray hairs, and kills her by inches, is the blackest kind of a murderer.”. When I was in Dublin some years ago I got up to go to an early meeting, and found the servants had not opened the front door; so I pulled back a bolt, but I could not get the door open. “Well, what do you see now?” The religion that has no fire is like painted fire. And let him that is athirst, come. Current Issue The little child ran about gathering wild flowers and little blades of grass, and coming to its father and saying: Said he: “Why,” she said, “if I should go home and tell my infidel husband that I had found Christ, I don’t know what he would do. “You don’t know!” Within three months the whole thing smashed up, and one of them was converted shortly after. The employer tried every way he could to get him to attend the meetings, but he wouldn’t come. Temptation arises, and he becomes false to his principles. And thus people indorse God’s promises, by marking some as bad and others as doubtful; whereas we ought to take all of them as good, for He has never once broken His word, and all that He says He will do, will be done in the fullness of time. When he was dying he called his father to his bedside and said: “Oh,” was the reply, “we must go to market.”. We got up the blackboard, and the lesson upon it proved to be the text, “Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.” Eager eyes were watching and strong arms manned the life-boat. Now, I am a scientific man, and I have taken the pains to examine an ass’s mouth, and it is so formed that it couldn’t speak.” “Father is reading his paper. “Now, you must take good care, and not get yourself dirty again,” said mamma. they had never loosed the mooring line or raised the anchor! That is not what the Church of God needs to-day. Witness Lee, Main | She said she never had any trouble with the child afterward. Do not drive or scold them. It’s yours. If I take care of my character, my reputation will … After he found out that he had made a mistake, he took the bird into the house, but it kept up that “Chirp, chirp, chirp.” He bought another bird, but the canary nearly ruined it. A little child is the most dependent thing on earth. Moody, I will gladly give everything if my husband can become a true Christian.” D. L. Moody We won’t let you in.” Do not be ashamed of Christ—of the Man that bought us with His own blood. I asked her if there was any one with whom she had had trouble and whom she could not forgive. come!” She seemed to have entered into the misery, instead of the joy, of the Lord. So he went into the woods, and stayed there, living on roots and whatever else he could get, until finally he was starving. A sculptor once showed a visitor his studio. “Well, here it is.” “I wish you would just call one or two.” All men can believe. There is also an interesting dialogue between D. L. Moody and Rev. Why, nothing but take it. Then he started into the water, and the old sheep looked up to the shepherd instead of down into the water. The little fellow said he could not do it. You have looked at the windows of a grand church erected at the cost of many thousands of dollars. I am not going to stay here, I am going home.’ He said, ‘Don’t make a fool of yourself. And so God gives us a little adversity here, a little prosperity there, and all works for our good. Dr. Arnot, one of the greatest Scotch divines, was in this country before he died. You would say that he was a first-class lunatic, wouldn’t you? “You are a fool,” the devil said. But the little candle within spoke up and said: “Yes, you’d be a great comfort if it wasn’t for me! One day he said to me: I went the other night. The law has no claim against me.” The only safe course is to avoid temptation altogether. When he was to graduate, he wrote his mother to come, but she sent back word that she could not because her best skirt had already been turned once. “If I am one of the elect, I will be saved, and if I ain’t, I won’t. The deacon’s heart was pained to think that a young man like that should talk so lightly; but he passed on and said nothing. She wanted to take the crown, but did not want the cross. This man thought it was too simple and easy. Many a man will sell his reputation, his home, his wife, his children, everything he has, for rum. It is the same with the Sun of Righteousness. “Pa,” said a little boy as he climbed to his father’s knee, and looked into his face as earnestly as if he understood the importance of the subject, “pa, is your soul insured?” My dear friends, thank God it is not too late for you to-day. “Well, I want it; but I’d like to give you something for it. The shepherd said, “Carl.” If the government had presented him with the lake he would not have known what to do with it. I was once preaching on the text, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” No sooner had I read it than a man stood right up in the audience and said: There was a boy who was very bad. When I saw him, I thought he must be beyond the reach of the tempter, and I asked him: “Doesn’t Satan ever tempt you to doubt God, and to think that He is a hard Master?” God doesn’t ask us to rejoice over nothing; He gives us ground for our joy. My friends, you must go by the way of Calvary. A deaf man can believe. It is the want of Christ that sinks people into despair. But he could not; it still kept coming back. He spoke of Christs death on the cross for all mankind, of Christs resurrection from the dead, and of Christs desire to be the friend of each one who trusted Him. “Yes.” He has been wrecked by sin, and his only safety lies in taking Jesus Christ as his Savior. So we, if we want to rise nearer heaven, must just throw out some of the sand, and cast aside every weight. When the man came to die, it was found that all he had willed Sambo was to be buried in the family lot. There is a well-known story told of Napoleon the First’s time. The boy sat down between Mr. Spurgeon and the elder who was with him, and said: They sat there until tea-time. Ashamed of his mother that loved him and toiled for him, and bore so much hardship for him! Suppose that Moses had prepared a speech for Pharaoh, and had got his hair all smoothly brushed, and had stood before the looking-glass, or had gone to an elocutionist to be taught how to make an oratorical speech and how to make gestures. One day the father was hauling some wood into the city, perhaps to pay his boy’s bills. Faith is the simplest and most universal experience in the world. The old slave, with all his ignorance, had even then experienced a liberty in his own soul that these young men, with all their boasted education, at that time knew nothing of. Rock of Ages, cleft for me, If you use that argument you may as well not walk home from this tabernacle. “What is that?” I asked. I said: “Willie, I will catch you. When I was out on the Pacific coast, in California, some years ago, I was the guest of a man that had a large vineyard and a large orchard. He told us he had come from the East, where a friend had described to him how he had been up a mountain to spend the night and see the sun rise. I go to the other man, and say: “What does this mean? “This means ruin to Chicago.” They are always telling what they don’t believe. Nothing that is done for God is small. I said: “My friend, that doesn’t change the fact. Examples | A young man comes from his country home, and enters upon city life. Links. That bedridden saint had not much trouble with doubts; he was too full of the grace of God. A steamboat was stranded in the Mississippi River, and the captain could not get her off. When they took him out, he was broken and mangled, and had only two or three minutes of life left in him. People say, “Oh, any one can make up a sermon.” But if you think so, just try it! Said Mr. Spurgeon: “The minute he said that, I put my right hand down into my pocket and took out some money for him.”, The unconverted have a false idea about repentance; they think God is going to make them repent. “This man is a personal friend of mine, and we are afraid he is going to lose his reason. Now, the theater hadn’t changed, but she had got something better, and she was going to overcome the world. I stood back three or four feet, and said. Every one of God’s proclamations is connected with that word “whosoever”—“whosoever believeth,” “whosoever will.” I think it was Richard Baxter said he thanked God for that “whosoever.” He would a good deal rather have that word “whosoever” than Richard Baxter; for if it was Richard Baxter, he should have thought it was some other Richard Baxter who had lived and died before him; but “whosoever” he knew included him. When the neighbors found out that the Arnot children could not climb trees, they began to tell them about the wonderful things they could see from the tops of the trees. “They have never been able to pump it dry yet. I thought it was hard to have to work in the field all the week, and then be obliged to go to church and hear a sermon I didn’t understand. “That is old news, and good news, and new news,” Tennyson responded. A rule I have had for years is to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. “You know, John, you are never absent from market.” He was very anxious that all his employés should be reached, and he used to send them one by one to the meetings. Sambo said he wished he had given him ten dollars, and let the lot go. That is right. He objected to this—didn’t like to put it down at all. If God has said you’ll get home, you’ll get home—you’ll fly through the air. One day he was busy reading his paper, and the boys said: “I will punish you if you do not.” Mans Need | And what does He offer? The boy was in the high school, and was a very bright scholar. If we go against His laws, we suffer. “ ‘You have had enough of this. May God make this book a blessing to many. If you are a Christian you will be glad to do whatever will please Him.” “I’se afraid.” He has found the broken part, and it hurts. “Why!” she said; “I don’t understand.” A friend who lost all his children told me about being in an eastern country some time ago, and he saw a shepherd going down to a stream, and he wanted to get his flock across. I said to the mother, “We cannot have our boy grow up to hate Sunday in this way; that will never do. “Up where?” said the old man. Next Monday I heard two or three men stand up and say, “We had a new minister last Sunday—the same old minister, but he had got new power,” and I firmly believe that is what we want to-day all over America—new ministers in the pulpit and new people in the pews. He wiped away his tears, and started home. Well, what we need as Christians is to be able to feed ourselves. There was a large party at our house, and my husband wanted us to go, and we went; but when the curtain lifted everything looked so different. The Persians had an annual festival when they slew all the serpents and venomous creatures they could find; but they allowed them to swarm as fast and freely as ever until the festival came round once more. And WHOSOEVER WILL, let him take the water of life freely.’ ”, Dr. Talmage tells the story that one day while he was bothering his theological professor with questions about the mysteries of the Bible, the latter turned on him and said: Always the same, wherever a man’s heart is, there his tongue will be sure to go. He said he had an old cow, and when he wanted a good supply of milk, he fed the cow; he did not scold her. It was heavy, and too large to conceal in his pocket, so he had to put it under his hat. “Hello, stranger, what are you sowing?” They get more clubs than any one else. So it is with the sinner; if you are really willing to take the Water of Life, YOU CAN DO IT. “How are you going to keep me out?” I asked. But you cannot put too much confidence in God. One day the two sisters were together, and the other said, “Now what have you got at those meetings that you didn’t have in the first place?” “Well,” he said, “there must be something in it.” It is for you to decide. After one or two Sabbaths, back again to the house of God I went. So with salvation. Moody, I have no faith in you whatever.” Don’t you think it would grieve me? We will begin with ‘gold.’ ” Character is what you are in the dark. One of the best definitions was given by a soldier. I am sure the saloon-keepers are glad if they can have a revival in their business; they do not object to sell more whisky and beer. He feels along and presses gently with his fingers. That’s just the way with many who are striving to enter the kingdom of heaven. He declared he would never go to another of the meetings; but the next night he came again. A good many people are afraid of doing anything out of the regular lines—of doing anything out of order. “Oh, splendid.” A few months afterward a miserable man died a miserable death in a poor lodging-house. There was a large family of girls, and we had tickets for the theaters three or four times a week. I used at one time to read so many chapters of the Bible a day, and if I did not get through my usual quantity, I thought I was getting cold and backsliding. Why, she had married a rich husband; that was all. Moody | I have heard men with a smooth flow of language take the audience captive; but they came and they went. They wanted to see their little ones. Now, don’t you know lots of Christian people who had a fine testimony several years ago, but they have lost their witness, and all they do now is talk, talk, talk, talk? He summoned Satan before him, and reproached him for ruining so good a youth. “No.” But one day a thing happened that made him go down in my estimation. Two Americans who were crossing the Atlantic met on Sunday night to sing hymns in the cabin. At last they made up their minds that they had better go in and surrender their cargo and their lives to their enemies rather than perish at sea without water; and when they got in, they found out that what had been told them was true, that peace had been declared. I do hate to see a minister or professing Christian mean and peevish to his wife, and yet be as polite as a dancing-master to other women. In the eighth chapter of Romans Paul says: “All things work together for good to them that love God.” Some years ago a child of mine had scarlet fever. I don’t care how black and vile your heart may be, only accept the invitation of Jesus Christ, and He will make you fit to sit down with the rest at that feast. “I have missed eternal life. “Oh, papa, will you take me to see the bears in Lincoln Park?” Christ comes and takes us by the hand, and says: And let him that heareth say, Come. That is what people do who criticise. Oh, my friends, pull back the bolts, and let the King of glory in! The young man said he would not call on God, and in that state of mind he passed away. You do not plant it there; it grows there of itself. Call on God for mercy.” “Who are you calling a hypocrite?” Put it down,” and down it went. In giving his testimony, he said he had been in the habit of attending church for a great many years, but he could not say that he had really heard a sermon all the time. If his heart is in money, he will soon have you deep in talk about mines, speculation, stocks, bank rate, and so on. How can you throw this place open to ruin the young men of Chicago?” It was too big. A friend of mine went to teach in Natchez before the war. She was so shabby that she was afraid he would be ashamed of her. That made me think of Lot down in Sodom. Well, when I wanted an orange, I did not go to an orange tree and pray the oranges to fall into my pocket; but I walked up to a tree, reached out my hand, and took the oranges. We cannot even remember when we first began to have faith. We are to sit with Him upon His throne. When he got to the meeting, they were singing the chorus of a hymn: Come! How he turned every stone to accumulate wealth! Moody quotes is a followup to a blog post titled 10 Keys to Dwight L. Moody’s Effectiveness. When he got home with it, he dared not show it to his parents, because it would have led at once to his detection. He used this text, but the devil put this thought into his mind: He had about a third of the Bible cut out; all of Job, all of Ecclesiastes and Revelation, and a good deal besides. Settle it now, my friends, once for all. The devil will come to you to-morrow morning and say it was all feeling; that you only imagined you were accepted by God. Now the boy had at last come in sight of home, and had perished because his father had let his light go out! Dr. Andrew Bonar once said that, although it was a mystery to him how sin should have come into the world, it was still a greater mystery how God should have come here to bear the penalty of it Himself. Mothers, if you don’t make your boy obey when he is young, he will break your heart. I have a match box with a phosphorescent front. One day one of the sisters was going by the hall, and she thought she would drop in and see what class of people went there. She looked up through her tears, and said, “No; I can’t help it; that is spontaneous.” The man was drinking of the water out of the well; and as he stopped drinking, he smacked his lips, and said: The teacher readily put down “gold,” and they all comprehended it, for all had run to that country in hope of finding it. But there was one employé that wouldn’t come. The doctor told him he did, and prayed and wrestled with him, and at last the clear light of Calvary shone on his soul. 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