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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Moody's Stories, by Dwight Lyman Moody
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+Title: Moody's Stories
+       Incidents and Illustrations
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+Author: Dwight Lyman Moody
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+                           Moody's Stories
+                     INCIDENTS and ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+                            [Illustration]
+
+                        Copyrighted, 1884, by
+                             F. H. Revel
+
+                 Printed in United States of America
+
+
+                           Moody's Stories
+
+                  Being a Second Volume of Anecdotes
+                     Incidents and Illustrations
+
+                            By D. L. Moody
+
+                        Authorized Collection
+
+                           THE MOODY PRESS
+                         153 Institute Place
+                               CHICAGO
+
+
+
+
+MOODY'S STORIES
+
+
+Lady Pendulum
+
+When Mr. Sankey and I were in London a lady who attended our meetings
+was brought into the house in her carriage, being unable to walk. At
+first she was very skeptical; but one day she said to her servant:
+
+"Take me into the inquiry room."
+
+After I had talked with her a good while about her soul she said:
+
+"But you will go back to America, and it will be all over."
+
+"Oh, no," said I, "it is going to last forever."
+
+I couldn't make her believe it. I don't know how many times I talked
+with her. At last I used the fable of the pendulum in the clock. The
+pendulum figured up the thousands of times it would have to tick, and
+got discouraged, and was going to give up. Then it thought, "It is
+only a tick at a time," and went on. So it is in the Christian
+life--only one step at a time. That helped this lady very much. She
+began to see that if she could trust in God for a supply of grace for
+only one day, she could go right on in the same way from day to day.
+As soon as she saw this, she came out quite decided. But she never
+could get done talking about that pendulum. The servants called her
+Lady Pendulum. She had a pendulum put up in her room to remind her of
+the illustration, and when I went away from London she gave me a
+clock--I've got it in my house still.
+
+
+The Greater Mystery
+
+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.
+
+
+Never Runs Dry
+
+I remember being in a city where I noticed that the people resorted to
+a favorite well in one of the parks. I said to a man one day:
+
+"Does the well never run dry?"
+
+The man was drinking of the water out of the well; and as he stopped
+drinking, he smacked his lips, and said:
+
+"They have never been able to pump it dry yet. They tried it a few
+years ago. They put the fire-engines to work, and tried all they could
+to pump the well dry; but they found there was a river flowing right
+under the city."
+
+Thank God, the well of salvation can never run dry either!
+
+
+He Trusted his Father
+
+A party of gentlemen in Scotland wanted to get some eggs from a nest
+on the side of a precipice, and they tried to persuade a poor boy that
+lived near to go over and get them, saying they would hold him by a
+rope. They offered him a good deal of money; but they were strangers
+to him, and he would not go. They told him they would see that no
+accident happened to him; they would hold the rope.
+
+At last he said: "I will go if my father will hold the rope."
+
+He trusted his father.
+
+A man will not trust strangers. I want to get acquainted with a man
+before I put my confidence in him. I have known God for forty years,
+and I have more confidence in Him now than I ever had before; it
+increases every year.
+
+
+Peace Declared
+
+When France and England were at war once a French vessel had gone off
+on a long whaling voyage. When they came back, the crew were short of
+water, and being near an English port, they wanted to get water; but
+they were afraid that they would be taken prisoners if they went into
+that port. Some people in the port saw their signal of distress, and
+sent word that they need not be afraid, that the war was over, and
+peace had been declared. But they couldn't make those sailors believe
+it, and they didn't dare to go into port, although they were out of
+water. 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.
+
+There are a great many people who don't believe the glad tidings that
+peace has been made by Jesus Christ between God and man, but it is
+true.
+
+
+Sawdust or Bread
+
+If you go out to your garden and throw down some sawdust, the birds
+will not take any notice; but if you throw down some crumbs, you will
+find they will soon sweep down and pick them up.
+
+The true child of God can tell the difference (so to speak) between
+sawdust and bread. Many so-called Christians are living on the world's
+sawdust, instead of being nourished by the Bread that cometh down from
+heaven. Nothing can satisfy the longings of the soul but the Word of
+the living God.
+
+
+"Baby's Feeding Himself!"
+
+You know it is always regarded a great event in the family when a
+child can feed itself. It is propped up at table, and at first perhaps
+it uses the spoon upside down, but by and by it uses it all right, and
+mother, or perhaps sister, claps her hands and says:
+
+"Just see, baby's feeding himself!"
+
+Well, what we need as Christians is to be able to feed ourselves. How
+many there are who sit helpless and listless, with open mouths, hungry
+for spiritual things, and the minister has to try to feed them, while
+the Bible is a feast prepared, into which they never venture.
+
+
+Should Not Be Postponed
+
+In 1871 I preached a series of sermons on the life of Christ in old
+Farwell hall, Chicago, for five nights. I took Him from the cradle and
+followed Him up to the judgment hall, and on that occasion I consider
+I made as great a blunder as ever I made in my life. It was upon that
+memorable night in October, and the court-house bell was sounding an
+alarm of fire, but I paid no attention to it. You know we were
+accustomed to hear the fire-bell often, and it didn't disturb us much
+when it sounded. I finished the sermon upon "What Shall I Do with
+Jesus?" and said to the audience:
+
+"Now, I want you to take the question with you and think it over, and
+next Sunday I want you to come back and tell me what you are going to
+do with Him."
+
+What a mistake! It seems now as if Satan was in my mind when I said
+this. Since then I never have dared give an audience a week to think
+of their salvation. If they were lost, they might rise up in judgment
+against me. "Now is the accepted time."
+
+I remember Mr. Sankey singing, and how his voice rang when he came to
+that pleading verse:
+
+  "To-day the Savior calls,
+    For refuge fly!
+  The storm of Justice falls,
+    And death is nigh!"
+
+After the meeting we went home. I remember going down La Salle street
+with a young man, and saw the glare of flames. I said to the young
+man:
+
+"This means ruin to Chicago."
+
+About one o'clock Farwell hall was burned; soon the church in which I
+had preached went down, and everything was scattered. I never saw that
+audience again.
+
+My friends, we don't know what may happen to-morrow, but there is one
+thing I do know, and that is, if you take the gift of God you are
+saved. If you have eternal life you need not fear fire, death, or
+sickness. Let disease or death come, you can shout triumphantly over
+the grave if you have Christ. My friends, what are you going to do
+with Him? Will you not decide now?
+
+
+Teaching Willie Faith
+
+Some years ago I wanted to teach my boy what faith was and so I put
+him on a table. He was a little fellow about two years old. I stood
+back three or four feet, and said.
+
+"Willie, jump."
+
+The little fellow said, "Papa, I'se afraid."
+
+I said: "Willie, I will catch you. Just look right at me, and jump."
+
+The little fellow got all ready to jump, and then looked down again,
+and said, "I'se afraid."
+
+"Willie, didn't I tell you I would catch you? Will papa deceive you?
+Now, Willie, look me right in the eye, and jump, and I will catch
+you."
+
+The little fellow got all ready the third time to jump, but he looked
+on the floor, and said:
+
+"I'se afraid."
+
+"Didn't I tell you I would catch you?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+At last I said: "Willie, don't take your eyes off me"; and I held the
+little fellow's eyes, and said, "Now, jump; don't look at the floor;"
+and he leaped into my arms.
+
+Then he said to me, "Let me jump again."
+
+I put him back, and the moment he got on the table he jumped, and
+after that, when he was on the table and I was standing five or six
+feet away I heard him cry, "Papa, I'se coming," and had just time to
+rush and catch him. He seemed to put too much confidence in me. But
+you cannot put too much confidence in God.
+
+
+Act on Your Belief
+
+When President Lincoln signed the proclamation of emancipation, copies
+of it were sent to all points along the Northern line, where they were
+posted. Now, supposing a slave should have seen a copy of that
+proclamation and should have learned its contents. He might have
+known the fact, he might have assented to its justice, but if he had
+still continued to serve his old master as a slave his faith in the
+document would not have amounted to anything.
+
+And so it is with us. A mere knowledge of the historical events of
+Christ's life, or a simple intellectual assent to His teachings and
+His mission, will be of no help in a man's life unless he adds to them
+a trustful surrender to the Lord's loving kindness.
+
+
+"Forty Miles to Liberty"
+
+A friend of mine went to teach in Natchez before the war. He and a
+friend of his went out riding one Saturday in the country. They saw an
+old slave coming, and they thought they would have a little fun. They
+had just come to a place where there was a fork in the road, and there
+was a sign-post which read, "Forty miles to Liberty."
+
+"Sambo, how old are you?"
+
+"I don't know, massa. I guess I'se about eighty."
+
+"Can you read?"
+
+"No, sah; we don't read in dis country. It's agin the law."
+
+"Can you tell what is on that sign-post?"
+
+"Yes, sah; it says forty miles to Liberty."
+
+"Well, now," said my friend, "why don't you follow that road and get
+your liberty? It says there, only 'forty miles to Liberty.' Now, why
+don't you take that road and go there?"
+
+The old man's countenance changed, and he said: "That ar's a sham,
+young massa, but if it pointed up thar," and he raised his trembling
+hand toward heaven, "to the liberty wherewith Christ makes us free,
+that ar wouldn't be no sham."
+
+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.
+
+
+The Most Important Thing
+
+A certain John Bacon, once a famous sculptor, left an inscription to
+be placed on his tomb in Westminster Abbey:
+
+"What I was as an artist seemed of some importance to me while I
+lived; but what I was as a believer in Jesus Christ is the only thing
+of importance to me now."
+
+
+Taking the Wrong Boat
+
+A Methodist minister, on his way to a camp-meeting, through some
+mistake took passage on the wrong boat. He found that instead of being
+bound for a religious gathering, he was on his way to a horse-race.
+His fellow-passengers were betting and discussing the events, and the
+whole atmosphere was foreign to his nature. He besought the captain
+that he would stop his boat and let him off at the first landing, as
+the surroundings were so distasteful to him.
+
+The story also goes on to relate how, on the same occasion a sporting
+man, intending to go to the races, by some mistake found himself on
+the wrong boat, bound for the camp-meeting. The conversation about him
+was no more intelligible to him than to the man in the first instance,
+and he, too, besought the captain to stop and let him off the boat.
+
+Now what was true in these two cases is practically true with every
+one. A true Christian is wretched where there is no fellowship, and an
+unregenerate man is not at ease where there are only Christians. A
+man's future will be according to what he is here prepared for. If he
+is not regenerate, heaven will have no attractions for him. Heaven is
+a prepared place for a prepared people.
+
+
+The Best Proof
+
+"The highest proof of the infallibility of Scripture," said the late
+A. J. Gordon, "is the practical one that we have proved it so. As the
+coin of the realm has always been found to buy the amount of its
+face-value, so the prophecies and promises of Scripture have yielded
+their face value to those who have taken the pains to prove them. If
+they have not always done so, it is probable that they have not yet
+matured. There are multitudes of Christians who have so far proved the
+veracity of the Bible that they are ready to trust it without reserve
+in all that it pledges for the world yet unseen and the life yet
+unrealized."
+
+
+Have Faith.
+
+I remember a man telling me he preached for a number of years without
+any result. He used to say to his wife as they went to church that he
+knew the people would not believe anything he said; and there was no
+blessing. At last he saw his error; he asked God to help him, and took
+courage, and then the blessing came.
+
+"According to your faith it shall be unto you." This man had expected
+nothing and he got just what he expected. Dear friends, let us expect
+that God is going to use us. Let us have courage and go forward,
+looking to God to do great things.
+
+
+Chasing His Shadow
+
+When I was a little boy I tried to catch my shadow. I don't know if
+you were ever so foolish; but I remember running after it, and trying
+to get ahead of it. I could not see why the shadow always kept ahead
+of me. Once I happened to be racing with my face to the sun, and I
+looked over my head and saw my shadow behind me, and it kept behind me
+all the way.
+
+It is the same with the Sun of Righteousness. Peace and joy will go
+with you while you go with your face toward Him, but those who turn
+their backs on the Sun are in darkness all the time. Turn to the light
+of God, and the reflection will flash in your heart.
+
+
+His Minister's Bible
+
+If I have a right to cut out a certain portion of the Bible, I don't
+know why one of my friends has not a right to cut out another, and
+another friend to cut out another part, and so on. You would have a
+queer kind of Bible if everybody cut out what he wanted to! Every
+adulterer would cut out everything about adultery; every liar would
+cut out everything about lying; every drunkard would be cutting out
+what he didn't like.
+
+Once a gentleman took his Bible around to his minister, and said,
+"That is your Bible."
+
+"Why do you call it _my_ Bible?" said the minister.
+
+"Well," replied the gentleman, "I have been sitting under your
+preaching for five years, and when you said that a thing in the Bible
+was not authentic, I cut it out."
+
+He had about a third of the Bible cut out; all of Job, all of
+Ecclesiastes and Revelation, and a good deal besides. The minister
+wanted him to leave the Bible with him; he didn't want the rest of
+his congregation to see it. But the man said:
+
+"Oh, no! I have the covers left, and I will hold on to them."
+
+And off he went holding on to the covers.
+
+
+Mocked by his Children
+
+When I was in St. Louis some years ago, there was an old man who had
+been away off on the mountains of an ungodly life, but in his early
+manhood he had known Christ. He came into the inquiry-room, literally
+broken down. About midnight that old man came trembling before God and
+was saved. He wiped away his tears, and started home.
+
+Next night I saw him in the audience with a terrible look in his face.
+As soon as I finished preaching, I went to him and said:
+
+"My good friend, you haven't gone back into darkness again?"
+
+Said he: "Oh, Mr. Moody, it has been the most wretched day in my
+life."
+
+"Why so?"
+
+"Well, this morning as soon as I got my breakfast, I started out. I
+have a number of children, married, and in this city, and they have
+families; and I have spent the day going around and telling them what
+God has done for me. I told them how I had tasted salvation, with the
+tears trickling down my face; and, Mr. Moody, I hadn't a child that
+didn't mock me!"
+
+That made me think of Lot down in Sodom. It is an awful thing for a
+man who has been a backslider to have his children mock him. But it is
+written: "Thy back-slidings shall reprove thee; know, therefore, and
+see that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken the
+Lord thy God."
+
+
+No Need to Read Them
+
+A great many people say, you must hear both sides; but if a man should
+write me a most slanderous letter about my wife, I don't think I would
+have to read it; I should tear it up and throw it to the winds. Have I
+to read all the infidel books that are written, to hear both sides?
+Have I to take up a book that is a slander on my Lord and Master, who
+has redeemed me with His blood? Ten thousand times no! I will not
+touch it.
+
+
+Tolling the Bell
+
+I well remember how in my native village in New England it used to be
+customary, as a funeral procession left the church, for the bell to
+toll as many times as the deceased was years old. How anxiously I
+would count those strokes of the bell to see how long I might reckon
+on living! Sometimes there would be seventy or eighty tolls, and I
+would give a sigh of relief to think I had so many years to live. But
+at other times there would be only a few years tolled, and then a
+horror would seize me as I thought that I, too, might soon be claimed
+as a victim by that dread monster, Death. Death and judgment were a
+constant source of fear to me till I realized the fact that neither
+shall ever have any hold on a child of God. In his letter to the
+Romans the apostle Paul has showed, in most direct language, that
+there is no condemnation for a child of God, but that he is passed
+from under the power of law, and in the Epistle to the Corinthians he
+tells us that "there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual
+body," "and as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also
+bear the image of the heavenly."
+
+
+A Father's Neglect
+
+A story has gone the round of the American press that made a great
+impression upon me as a father. A father took his little child out
+into the field one Sabbath, and, it being a hot day, lie lay down
+under a beautiful shady tree. The little child ran about gathering
+wild flowers and little blades of grass, and coming to its father and
+saying:
+
+"Pretty! pretty!"
+
+At last the father fell asleep, and while he was sleeping the little
+child wandered away. When he awoke, his first thought was:
+
+"Where is my child?"
+
+He looked all around, but he could not see him. He shouted at the top
+of his voice, but all he heard was the echo. Running to a little hill,
+he looked around and shouted again. No response! Then going to a
+precipice at some distance, he looked down, and there, upon the rocks
+and briars, he saw the mangled form of his loved child. He rushed to
+the spot, took up the lifeless corpse, and hugged it to his bosom, and
+accused himself of being the murderer of his child. While he was
+sleeping his child had wandered over the precipice.
+
+I thought as I read that, what a picture of the church of God! How
+many fathers and mothers, how many Christian men and women, are
+sleeping now while their children wander over the terrible precipice
+right into the bottomless pit! Father, mother, where is your boy
+to-night?
+
+
+Worth Ten Thousand Men
+
+Let us not give heed to gloomy and discouraging remarks. In the name
+of our great Commander let us march on to battle and to victory. There
+are some generals whose name alone is worth more than a whole army of
+ten thousand men. In our army in the Civil War there were some whose
+presence sent a cheer all along the line. As they passed on, cheer
+upon cheer went up. The men knew who was going to lead them, and they
+were sure of having success. "The boys" liked to fight under such
+generals as that. Let us encourage ourselves in the Lord, and
+encourage each other; then we shall have good success.
+
+
+"With or Without Power"
+
+Doctor Gordon of Boston used to say that as you passed along
+Washington street of that city, or Broadway, New York, you might see
+stores with the card in the window, "To rent, with or without power,"
+and any one could rent the store, and by paying something extra could
+have power furnished from the engine in the rear. Doctor Gordon
+thought it would be a good thing to ask men and women when they joined
+the church if they wanted to be a member on the "with power" or the
+"without power" basis, and if the latter, to tell them there were no
+vacancies for that kind in the church, it already had too many members
+without power.
+
+
+Turning on the Tap
+
+A man who lived on the bank of Lake Erie had water pipes laid to his
+house from the lake; and when he wanted water all he had to do was to
+turn the tap and the water flowed in. If the government had presented
+him with the lake he would not have known what to do with it. So we
+may say that if God were to give us grace enough for a lifetime, we
+should not know how to use it. He has given us the privilege of
+drawing on Him day by day--not "forty days after sight." There is
+plenty of grace in the bank of heaven; we need not be afraid of its
+becoming exhausted.
+
+
+Keep Close!
+
+The late Dr. Andrew Bonar once remarked in his own quaint fashion that
+it was always easy to trace the footprints of a person if we walked
+close behind him, but if we were some distance back we might fail to
+find them; and accordingly, if we followed close after the Master we
+would easily see the way, but if we tried to follow afar off we would
+find it difficult to know the path of His will.
+
+
+On Both Knees
+
+William Dawson once told this story to illustrate how humble the soul
+must be before it can find peace.
+
+He said that at a revival meeting a little lad who was used to
+Methodist ways, went home to his mother and said:
+
+"Mother, John So-and-so is under conviction and seeking for peace, but
+he will not find it to-night, mother."
+
+"Why, William?" said she.
+
+"Because he is only down on one knee, mother, and he will never get
+peace until he is down on both knees."
+
+Until conviction of sin brings us down on both knees, until we are
+completely humbled, until we have no hope in ourselves left, we cannot
+find the Savior.
+
+
+Something New
+
+A great many people seem to think that the Bible is out of date, that
+it is an old book, that it has passed its day. They say it was very
+good for the dark ages, and that there is some very good history in
+it, but it was not intended for the present time; we are living in a
+very enlightened age and men can get on very well without it; we have
+outgrown it.
+
+Now, you might just as well say that the sun, which has shone so long,
+is now so old that it is out of date, and that whenever a man builds a
+house he need not put any windows in it, because we have a newer light
+and a better light; we have gaslight and electric light. These are
+something new; and I would advise people, if they think the Bible is
+too old and worn out, when they build houses, not to put windows in
+them, but just to light them with electric light; that is something
+new and that is what they are anxious for.
+
+
+Bidding Christ Farewell
+
+A rule I have had for years is to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a
+personal friend. It is not a creed, a mere empty doctrine, but it is
+Christ Himself we have. The moment we receive Christ we should receive
+Him as a friend. When I go away from home I bid my wife and children
+good-bye; I bid my friends and acquaintances good-bye; but I never
+heard of a poor backslider going down on his knees and saying:
+
+"I have been near You for ten years. Your service has become tedious
+and monotonous. I have come to bid You farewell. Good-bye, Lord Jesus
+Christ!"
+
+I never heard of one doing this. I will tell you how they go away;
+they just run away.
+
+
+Any One Can _Believe_
+
+God has put the offer of salvation in such a way that the whole world
+can lay hold of it. All men can _believe_. A lame man might not
+perhaps be able to visit the sick; but he can _believe_. A blind man,
+by reason of his infirmity, cannot do many things; but he can
+_believe_. A deaf man can _believe_. A dying man can _believe_. God
+has put salvation so simply that young and old, wise and foolish, rich
+and poor, can all _believe_ if they will.
+
+
+The Wrath of God Was on Him
+
+I heard of a rich man who was asked to make a contribution on behalf
+of some charitable object. The text was quoted to him--"He that hath
+pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given
+will He pay him again," He said that the security might be good
+enough, but the credit was too long. He was dead within two weeks.
+
+
+The War was Ended
+
+During the last days of the Civil War, when many men were deserting
+the Southern flag, Secretary Stanton sent out a notice from the war
+department that no more refugees should be taken into the Union army.
+
+A Southern soldier who had not seen that order came into the Union
+lines, and they read it to him. He didn't know what to do. If he went
+back into the Southern army he would be shot as a deserter, and the
+Northern army wouldn't have him. So he went into the woods, and stayed
+there, living on roots and whatever else he could get, until finally
+he was starving.
+
+One day he saw an officer riding by. He rushed out of the woods,
+caught the horse's bridle, and said he would kill the officer if he
+didn't help him. The officer asked what was the trouble, and he told
+him.
+
+"But haven't you heard the news?" said the officer.
+
+"No; what news?"
+
+"Why, the war is over! Lee has surrendered, and peace has been
+declared. Go to the nearest town and get all the food you want."
+
+The man waved his hat, and went off as fast as he could.
+
+I want to say that peace has been declared between God and man. Be
+reconciled to God. The blood is on the mercy-seat, and the vilest
+sinner can be saved for time and eternity.
+
+
+Nearer than he Thought
+
+I was reading, some time ago, of a young man who had just come out of
+a saloon, and had mounted his horse. As a certain deacon passed on his
+way to church, he followed and said:
+
+"Deacon, can you tell me how far it is to hell?"
+
+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. When he
+came round the corner to the church, he found that the horse had
+thrown that young man, and he was dead. You, too, may be nearer the
+judgment than you think.
+
+
+Its Strength was Underestimated
+
+Some of the older people can remember when our Civil War broke out.
+Secretary Seward, who was Lincoln's Secretary of State--a long-headed
+and shrewd politician--prophesied that the war would be over in ninety
+days; and young men in thousands and hundreds of thousands came
+forward and volunteered to go down to Dixie and whip the South. They
+thought they would be back in ninety days; but the war lasted four
+years, and cost about half a million of lives. What was the matter?
+Why, the South was a good deal stronger than the North supposed. Its
+strength was underestimated.
+
+Jesus Christ makes no mistake of that kind. When He enlists a man in
+His service, He shows him the dark side; He lets him know that he must
+live a life of self-denial. If a man is not willing to go to heaven by
+the way of Calvary, he cannot go at all. Many men want a religion in
+which there is no cross, but they cannot enter heaven that way. If we
+are to be disciples of Jesus Christ, we must deny ourselves and take
+up our cross and follow Him. So let us sit down and count the cost. Do
+not think that you will have no battles if you follow the Nazarene,
+because many battles are before you. Yet if I had ten thousand lives,
+Jesus Christ should have every one of them. Men do not object to a
+battle if they are confident that they will have victory, and, thank
+God, every one of us may have the victory if we will.
+
+
+Seeing the Gospel
+
+"Have you ever heard the Gospel?" asked a missionary of a Chinaman,
+whom he had not seen in his mission before.
+
+"No," he replied, "but I have seen it. I know a man who used to be the
+terror of his neighborhood. He was a bad opium smoker and dangerous as
+a wild beast; but he became wholly changed. He is now gentle and good
+and has left off opium."
+
+
+Illuminated Christians
+
+We see very few illuminated Christians now. If every one of us was
+illuminated by the Spirit of God, how we could light up the churches!
+But to have a lantern without any light, that would be a nuisance.
+Many Christians carry along lanterns and say, "I wouldn't give up my
+religion for yours." They talk about religion. The religion that has
+no fire is like painted fire. They are artificial Christians. Do you
+belong to that class? You can tell. If you can't, your friends can.
+
+There is a fable of an old lantern in a shed, which began to boast
+because it had heard its master say he didn't know what he would ever
+do without it. But the little candle within spoke up and said: "Yes,
+you'd be a great comfort if it wasn't for me! You are nothing; I'm the
+one that gives the light." We are nothing, but Christ is everything,
+and what we want is to keep in communion with Him and let Christ dwell
+in us richly and shine forth through us.
+
+I have a match box with a phosphorescent front. It draws in the rays
+of the sun during the day and then throws them out in the dead hours
+of the night, so that I can always see it in the dark. Now, that is
+what we ought to be, constantly drawing in the rays of the Sun of
+Righteousness and then giving them out. Some one said to some young
+converts, "It is all moonshine being converted." They replied, "Thank
+you for the compliment. The moon borrows light from the sun, and so we
+borrow ours from the Sun of Righteousness." That is what takes place
+when we have this illumination.
+
+
+Not Ashamed of his Lord
+
+A young convert tried to preach in the open air; he could not preach
+very well either, but he did the best he could. Some one interrupted
+him and said:
+
+"Young man, you cannot preach; you ought to be ashamed of yourself."
+
+Said the young man, "So I am, but I am not ashamed of my Lord."
+
+That is right. Do not be ashamed of Christ--of the Man that bought us
+with His own blood.
+
+
+He Silenced the Devil
+
+If you find yourself getting very miserly, begin to scatter, like a
+wealthy farmer in New York state I heard of. He was a noted miser, but
+he was converted. Soon after, a poor man who had been burned out and
+had no provisions came to him for help. The farmer thought he would be
+liberal and give the man a ham from his smoke-house. On his way to get
+it, the tempter whispered to him:
+
+"Give him the smallest one you have."
+
+He had a struggle whether he would give a large or a small ham, but
+finally he took down the largest he could find.
+
+"You are a fool," the devil said.
+
+"If you don't keep still," the farmer replied, "I will give him every
+ham I have in the smoke-house."
+
+
+Warm the Wax!
+
+A gentleman in Ireland had a seal made for me. "D.L.M." is on one
+side, and on the other, "God is love." If I want to stamp "God is
+love" I would not make much headway if the wax was hard and cold.
+Many people go to meetings, and it is as hard to make an impression
+on them as in pressing a seal on hard wax. But let the wax be warmed
+up and an impression is made. If we are willing, every one of us may
+be sealed for the day of redemption. "In whom ye also trusted after
+that ye heard the Word of Truth, the Gospel of your salvation; in whom
+also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of
+promise."
+
+
+Draw Nearer
+
+When I was a boy my mother used to send me out doors to get a birch
+stick to whip me with, when I had to be punished. At first I used to
+stand off from the rod as far as I could. But I soon found that the
+whipping hurt me more that way than any other; and so I went as near
+to my mother as I could, and found she could not strike me so hard.
+And so when God chastens us let us kiss the rod and draw as near to
+Him as we can.
+
+
+The Panorama Looks Brighter
+
+"When a panorama is to pass before an audience, the artist darkens the
+room in which they sit, so that the picture may be more fully seen. So
+God sometimes darkens our place on earth, puts out this light and
+that, and then before our souls He makes to pass the splendors and
+glories of the better land."
+
+
+All Things Work for Good
+
+There is one passage of Scripture which has always been a great
+comfort to me. 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 went to the druggist's to get the
+medicine, which the doctor had ordered, and told him to be sure and be
+very careful in making up the prescription. The druggist took down one
+bottle after another, in any one of which there might be what would be
+rank poison for my child; but he stirred them together and mixed them
+up, and made just the medicine which my child needed. And so God gives
+us a little adversity here, a little prosperity there, and all works
+for our good.
+
+
+It Takes Time
+
+Suppose I should send my little boy, five years old, to school
+to-morrow morning, and when he came home in the afternoon, say to him:
+
+"Willie, can you read? can you write? can you spell? Do you understand
+all about algebra, geometry, Hebrew, Latin and Greek?"
+
+"Why, papa," the little fellow would say, "how funny you talk. I have
+been all day trying to learn the A, B, C's!"
+
+Suppose I should reply: "If you have not finished your education, you
+need not go any more." What would you say? Why, you would say I had
+gone mad!
+
+There would be just as much reason in that as in the way that people
+talk about the Bible. The men who have studied the Bible for fifty
+years have never got down to the depths of it yet. There are truths
+there that the church of God has been searching out for the last
+nineteen hundred years, but no man has yet fathomed the depths of the
+ever-living stream.
+
+
+Something God Cannot Do
+
+In Ireland, some time ago, a teacher asked a little boy if there was
+anything that God could not do. The little fellow said:
+
+"Yes, He cannot see my sins through the blood of Christ."
+
+
+It Seemed Too Good to be True
+
+Some time ago I read in one of the daily papers a thing that pleased
+me very much. When the new administration of President McKinley went
+into office some clerks in one of the departments were promoted. One
+young lady was offered a promotion, but she went to see the secretary,
+General Butterworth, and said that there was a girl sitting next to
+her that had a family to support. A brother who had been supporting
+the family had died, or sickened, and it had fallen upon her, and she
+asked the general to let her friend that sat next to her have the
+promotion in her place.
+
+The general said that he had heard of such things in other
+generations, but he didn't know that it would ever happen in his
+generation. He was amazed to find a person on duty in Washington that
+was willing to give up her position and take a lower one, and let some
+one else have it that she might be able to help her family.
+
+In Colorado the superintendent of some works told me of a miner that
+was promoted, who came to the superintendent, and said:
+
+"There is a man that has seven children, and I have only three, and he
+is having a hard struggle. Don't promote me, but promote him."
+
+I know of nothing that speaks louder for Christ and Christianity than
+to see a man or woman giving up what you call your rights for others,
+and "in honor preferring one another."
+
+
+The Scarlet Thread
+
+In the British Navy there is said to be a scarlet thread running
+through every line of cordage, and though a rope be cut into inch
+pieces it can be recognized as belonging to the government. So there
+is a scarlet thread running all through the Bible--the whole book
+points to Christ.
+
+
+The First "Don't Worry Club"
+
+Mrs. Sangster says that we hear a good deal in this age, as if it were
+a novelty, about the futility of being anxious, and people have
+established "Don't Worry Clubs." But the first "Don't Worry Club" was
+begun by our blessed Lord Himself when He said: "Take no thought for
+the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of
+itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." He bade us
+consider the lilies growing in their beauty and purity without a
+thought, and taught us the true way of living without care, without
+solicitude, bearing all burdens lightly, and having continual joy on
+our faces. Only those who have the indwelling Christ in their hearts
+can walk through this world with bright and glad looks, because they
+know that, let come what may, their Father is leading them safely.
+
+
+The Story Followed Him
+
+While I was at a convention in Illinois an old man past seventy years,
+got up, and said he remembered but one thing about his father, and
+that one thing followed him all through life. He could not remember
+his death, he had no recollection of his funeral, but he recollected
+his father one winter night taking a little chip, and with his
+pocket-knife whittling out a little cross, and with the tears in his
+eyes he held up that cross, telling how God in His infinite love sent
+His Son down here to redeem us, and how He had died on the cross for
+us. The story of the cross followed him through life; and if we tell
+children these truths, they will never forget them.
+
+
+The Fatal Sleep
+
+Some time ago a vessel had been off on a whaling voyage, and had been
+gone about three years. The father of one of the sailors had charge of
+the light-house, and he was expecting his boy to come home. It was
+time for the whaling-vessel to return. One night there came up a
+terrible gale. This father fell asleep, and while he slept his light
+went out. When he awoke he looked toward the shore and saw a vessel
+had been wrecked. He at once went to see if he could not yet save some
+one who might be still alive. The first body that came floating toward
+the shore was, to his great grief and surprise, the body of his own
+boy! He had been watching for that boy for many days. Now the boy had
+at last come in sight of home, and had perished because his father had
+let his light go out!
+
+I thought, what an illustration of fathers and mothers to-day that
+have let their lights go out! You are not training your children for
+God and eternity. You do not live as though there were anything beyond
+this life at all. You keep your affections set upon things on the
+earth instead of on things above, and the result is that the children
+do not believe there is anything in Christianity. Perhaps the very
+next step they take may take them into eternity; the next day they
+may die without God and without hope.
+
+
+That Love is Spontaneous
+
+Some time ago, in an inquiry meeting, I said to a young miss who said
+that she could not love God, that it was very hard for her to love
+Him:
+
+"Is it hard for you to love your mother? Do you have to learn to love
+your mother?"
+
+She looked up through her tears, and said, "No; I can't help it; that
+is spontaneous."
+
+"Well," I said, "when the Holy Spirit kindles love in your heart, you
+can not help loving God; it will be spontaneous."
+
+When the Spirit of God comes into your heart and mine, it will be easy
+to love and serve God.
+
+
+The Summing Up of His Life
+
+A man was taken into one of our insane asylums a few years ago from
+one of the Western cities. He had resolved to be rich. How he turned
+every stone to accumulate wealth! All his energy and every faculty
+were pushed toward that one end. "Wealth, wealth, wealth! money,
+money, money!" was his cry. At last it drove him mad, and they took
+him to the mad-house, where he threw himself into a rocking-chair, and
+cried:
+
+"Millions of money, and in a mad-house!"
+
+That was all there was of his life. Pretty short, wasn't it? Sixty
+years gone, millions of money, and in a mad-house; and he died there.
+That was the summing up of his life.
+
+
+Beautiful Motion but No Progress
+
+Many people are working and working, as Rowland Hill said, like
+children on a rocking-horse--it is a beautiful motion, but there is no
+progress. Those who are working for salvation are like men on a
+treadmill, going round and round and round; toiling and toiling and
+toiling; but nothing comes of it all. There is no progress, and there
+cannot be until you have the motive power within, till the breath of
+life comes from God, which can alone give you power to work for
+others.
+
+
+Get It into Your Heart
+
+"Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee."
+An old Scotchman says: "It is a good thing in a good place for a good
+purpose." Many people have the Bible in their heads, or in their
+pockets; but we need to get it down into our hearts.
+
+
+How the Miners were Saved
+
+In the north of England they have been digging the coal for a century.
+They have gone miles and miles away from the shaft, under the sea, and
+there is danger of men getting lost. I heard of two old miners who
+lost their way. Their lights went out, and they were in danger of
+losing their lives. After wandering around for a long time, they sat
+down, and one of them said:
+
+"Let us sit perfectly quiet, and see if we cannot feel which way the
+air is moving, because it always moves toward the shaft."
+
+There they sat for a long time, when all at once one of them felt a
+slight touch on his cheek, and he sprang to his feet and said:
+
+"I felt it."
+
+They went in the direction in which the air was moving, and reached
+the shaft.
+
+Sometimes there comes a little breath from God that touches our souls.
+It may be so gentle and faint that you barely recognize it; but if you
+do, do not disregard it. Thank God that He has spoken to you, and
+praise Him for it, and whatever may come do not go in the opposite
+direction. Give yourself up to be led by it, and you will come out of
+darkness, out of bondage, out of sorrow, into perpetual light and joy.
+
+
+Receiving and Never Giving
+
+What makes the Dead Sea dead? Because it is all the time receiving,
+never giving out anything. Why is it that many Christians are cold?
+Because they are all the time receiving, never giving out anything.
+
+
+Dumb Christians
+
+It is a very sad thing that so many of God's children are dumb; yet it
+is true. Parents would think it a great calamity to have their
+children born dumb; they would mourn over it, and weep; and well they
+might; but did you ever think of the many dumb children God has? The
+churches are full of them; they never speak for Christ. They can talk
+about politics, art, and science; they can speak well enough and fast
+enough about the fashions of the day; but they have no voice for the
+Son of God.
+
+
+Like Siamese Twins
+
+Covetousness and stealing are almost like Siamese twins--they go
+together so often. In fact we might add lying, and make them triplets,
+"The covetous person is a thief _in_ the shell. The thief is a
+covetous person _out_ of the shell. Let a covetous person see
+something that he desires very much; let an opportunity of taking it
+be offered; how very soon he will break through the shell and come out
+in his true character as a thief." The Greek word translated
+"covetousness" means--an inordinate desire of getting. When the Gauls
+tasted the sweet wines of Italy, they asked where they came from, and
+never rested until they had overrun Italy.
+
+
+Not Troubled with Doubts
+
+One of the happiest men I ever knew was a man in Dundee, Scotland, who
+had fallen and broken his back when he was a boy of fifteen. He had
+lain on his bed for about forty years, and could not be moved without
+a good deal of pain. Probably not a day had passed in all those years
+without acute suffering. But day after day the grace of God had been
+granted to him, and when I was in his chamber it seemed as if I was as
+near heaven as I could get on earth. I can imagine that when the
+angels passed over Dundee, they had to stop there to get refreshed.
+
+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?"
+
+"Oh, yes," he said, "he does try to tempt me. I lie here and see my
+old schoolmates driving along in their carriages, and Satan says: 'If
+God is so good, why does He keep you here all these years? You might
+have been a rich man, riding in your own carriage.' Then I see a man
+who was young when I was walk by in perfect health, and Satan
+whispers: 'If God loved you, couldn't He have kept you from breaking
+your back?'"
+
+"What do you do when Satan tempts you?"
+
+"Ah, I just take him to Calvary, and I show him Christ, and I point
+out those wounds in His hands and feet and side, and say, 'Doesn't He
+love me?' and the fact is, he got such a scare there eighteen hundred
+years ago that he cannot stand it; he leaves me every time."
+
+That bedridden saint had not much trouble with doubts; he was too full
+of the grace of God.
+
+
+Honey-Dew
+
+I have sometimes been in a place where the very air seemed to be
+charged with the breath of God, like the moisture in the air. I
+remember one time as I went through the woods near Mount Hermon school
+I heard bees, and asked what it meant.
+
+"Oh," said one of the men, "they are after the _honey-dew_."
+
+"What is that?" I asked.
+
+He took a chestnut leaf and told me to put my tongue to it. I did so,
+and the taste was sweet as honey. Upon inquiry I found that all up and
+down the Connecticut valley what they call "honey-dew" had fallen, so
+that there must have been altogether hundreds of tons of honey-dew in
+this region. Where it comes from I don't know.
+
+Do you suppose that this earth would be worth living on if it were not
+for the dew and the rain? So a church that hasn't any of the dew of
+heaven, any of the rain that comes down in showers, will be as barren
+as the earth would be without the dew and rain.
+
+
+A Personal Matter
+
+"The life of Christianity," says Luther, "consists of personal
+pronouns. It is one thing to say, 'Christ is a Savior.' It is quite
+another to say, 'He is _my_ Savior.' The devil can say the first. Only
+the true Christian can say the second."
+
+
+They Knew It
+
+Let me tell you how I had my eyes opened about the theater question. I
+had an assistant superintendent of a Sabbath school, a very promising
+young man, who seemed to be very happy in the work. A star actor came
+to the city, and he went to see him. I knew nothing of it, but the
+next Sunday when he came into the Sunday-school all over the building
+the boys cried out:
+
+"Hypocrite! Hypocrite!"
+
+The perspiration started out of every pore of my body; I thought they
+were looking at me. I said to the little newsboys:
+
+"Who are you calling a hypocrite?"
+
+They mentioned the assistant's name. I asked the reason, and they
+said:
+
+"We saw him going into the theater."
+
+I had never said anything about the theater to those children, but
+they saw that man going in, and called him a hypocrite. They seemed to
+know it was no place for a Christian to go. He lost his influence
+entirely, withdrew from the school, and after a while gave up
+Christian work altogether. He was just swept along with the tide in
+Chicago and his influence was lost.
+
+
+Pull for the Shore
+
+A vessel was wrecked off the shore. Eager eyes were watching and
+strong arms manned the life-boat. For hours they tried to reach that
+vessel through the great breakers that raged and foamed on the
+sand-bank, but it seemed impossible. The boat appeared to be leaving
+the crew to perish. But after a while the captain and sixteen men were
+taken off, and the vessel went down.
+
+"When the life-boat came to you," said a friend, "did you expect it
+had brought some tools to repair your old ship?"
+
+"Oh, no," was the response; "she was a total wreck. Two of her masts
+were gone, and if we had stayed mending her only a few minutes, we
+must have gone down sir."
+
+"When once off the old wreck and safe in the life-boat what remained
+for you to do?"
+
+"Nothing, sir, but just to pull for the shore."
+
+Man can't save himself. He has been wrecked by sin, and his only
+safety lies in taking Jesus Christ as his Savior.
+
+
+Easy, and Yet Difficult
+
+It is the easiest thing in the world to become a Christian, and it is
+also the most difficult. You say: "That is a contradiction, a
+paradox." I will illustrate what I mean.
+
+A little nephew of mine, a few years ago, took my Bible and threw it
+down on the floor. His mother said,
+
+"Charlie, pick up uncle's Bible."
+
+The little fellow said he would not.
+
+"Charlie, do you know what that word means?"
+
+She soon found out that he did, and that he was not going to pick up
+the Book. His will had come right up against his mother's will.
+
+I began to be quite interested in the struggle: I knew if she did not
+break his will, he would some day break her heart.
+
+She repeated, "Charlie, go and pick up uncle's Bible, and put it on
+the table."
+
+The little fellow said he could not do it.
+
+"I will punish you if you do not."
+
+He saw a strange look in her eye, and the matter began to get serious.
+He did not want to be punished, and he knew his mother would punish
+him if he did not lift the Bible. So he straightened every bone and
+muscle in him, and he said _he could not do it_. I really believe the
+little fellow had reasoned himself into the belief that he could not
+do it.
+
+His mother knew he was only deceiving himself, so she kept him right
+to the point. At last he went down, put both his arms around the
+Bible, and tugged away at it; but he still said he could not do it.
+The truth was--he did not want to. He got up again without lifting it.
+
+The mother said, "Charlie, I am not going to talk to you any more.
+This matter has to be settled; pick up that Bible, or I will punish
+you."
+
+At last she broke his will, and then he found it as easy as it is for
+me to turn my hand. He picked up the Bible, and laid it on the table.
+
+So it is with the sinner; if you are really willing to take the Water
+of Life, YOU CAN DO IT.
+
+
+No Difference
+
+During the war, when enlisting was going on, sometimes a man would
+come up with a nice silk hat on, patent-leather boots, kid gloves, and
+a fine suit of clothes; perhaps the next man who came along would be
+a hod-carrier, dressed in the poorest kind of clothes. Both had to
+strip alike and put on the regimental uniform.
+
+When you come and say you are not fit, haven't got good clothes,
+haven't got righteousness enough to be a Christian, remember that
+Christ will furnish you with the uniform of heaven, and you will be
+set down at the marriage feast of the Lamb. 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.
+
+
+Drawing a Comparison
+
+When I was in California I went into a Sunday-school and asked:
+
+"Have you got some one who can write a plain hand?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+We got up the blackboard, and the lesson upon it proved to be the
+text, "Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven."
+
+I said, "Suppose we write upon that board some of the earthly
+treasures? We will begin with 'gold.'"
+
+The teacher readily put down "gold," and they all comprehended it, for
+all had run to that country in hope of finding it.
+
+"Well, we will put down 'houses' next and then 'land.' Next we will
+put down 'fast horses.'"
+
+They all understood what fast horses were--they knew a good deal more
+about fast horses than they knew about the kingdom of God. Some of
+them, I think, actually made fast horses serve as gods.
+
+"Next we will put down 'tobacco.'" The teacher seemed to shrink at
+this. "Put it down," said I; "many a man thinks more of tobacco than
+he does of God. Well, then we will put down 'rum.'"
+
+He objected to this--didn't like to put it down at all.
+
+"Down with it! Many a man will sell his reputation, his home, his
+wife, his children, everything he has, for rum. It is the god of some
+men. Many here are ready to sell their present and their eternal
+welfare for it. Put it down," and down it went.
+
+"Now," said I, "suppose we put down some of the heavenly treasures.
+Put down 'Jesus' to head the list, then 'heaven,' then 'River of
+Life,' then 'Crown of Glory'," and went on until the column was
+filled, and then just drew a line and showed the heavenly and the
+earthly things in contrast.
+
+My friends, they could not stand comparison. If a man does that, he
+cannot but see the superiority of the heavenly over the earthly
+treasures.
+
+It turned out that this teacher was not a Christian. He had gone to
+California on the usual hunt--gold; and when he saw the two columns
+placed side by side, the excellence of the one over the other was
+irresistible, and he was the first soul God gave me on that Pacific
+coast. He accepted Christ, and that man came to the station when I was
+coming away and blessed me for coming to that place.
+
+
+A Legend about Doves
+
+There is a beautiful legend about a conference held by the doves to
+decide where they should make their abode. One suggested that they
+should go to the woods; but the objection was made that there they
+would be in danger from hawks; another mentioned the cities, but boys
+would stone them there, and drive them away or kill them. Presently
+some dove suggested that they go and hide in the clefts of the rocks,
+and there they were safe. "O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities
+and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in
+the sides of the hole's mouth."
+
+  Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
+  Let me hide myself in thee.
+
+
+Look to Christ!
+
+A leading surgeon I heard of, when he has a bad wound to dress, or a
+broken limb to set, tells the patient:
+
+"Now, look at the wound, see just how it looks, and then look at me!"
+
+So when you have seen the state your heart is in, look up to Christ,
+and nowhere else.
+
+
+Paying Attention to the Preacher
+
+There was an architect in Chicago who was converted. 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. He said that when the minister gave out the text
+and began to preach, he used to settle himself in the corner of the
+pew and work out the plans of some building. He could not tell how
+many plans he had prepared while the minister was preaching. He was
+the architect for one or two companies; and he used to do all his
+planning in that way.
+
+You see, Satan came in between him and the preacher, and caught away
+the good seed of the Word. I have often preached to people, and have
+been perfectly amazed to find they could hardly tell one solitary word
+of the sermon; even the text had completely gone from them.
+
+
+Better Make Sure
+
+"I hab hearn folks say, 'Hope I has 'ligion, but I doan know'; but I
+neber hearn a man say, 'I hope's I has money, but I doan know.' Dat
+sorter 'ligion dat yer hopes ye's got, but doan know, ain't gwine to
+do no mo' good dan der money what yer hopes ye's got but doan know."
+
+
+Some Things Quite Plain
+
+An English army officer in India who had been living an impure life
+went round one evening to argue religion with the chaplain. During
+their talk the officer said:
+
+"Religion is all very well, but you must admit that there are
+difficulties--about the miracles, for instance."
+
+The chaplain knew the man and his besetting sin, and quietly looking
+him in the face, answered:
+
+"Yes; there are some things in the Bible not very plain, I admit; but
+the seventh commandment is very plain."
+
+
+Your Own Picture There
+
+The Bible is like an album. I go into a man's house, and while waiting
+for him, I take up an album and open it. I look at a picture. "Why,
+that looks like a man I know." I turn over and look at another. "Well,
+I know that man." I keep turning over the leaves. "Well, there is a
+man who lives in the same street as myself--he is my next-door
+neighbor." And then I come upon another, and see myself.
+
+My friends, if you read your Bibles you will find your own pictures
+there. It just describes you. You may be a Pharisee; if so, turn to
+the third chapter of John, and see what Christ said to the Pharisee:
+"Except a man be born again he cannot enter the kingdom of God." But
+you may say: "I am not a Pharisee; I am a poor miserable sinner, too
+bad to come to Him." Well, turn to the woman of Samaria, and see what
+Christ said to her.
+
+
+"That's Me!"
+
+While we were in London, Mr. Spurgeon one day in his orphanage told
+about the boys--that some of them had aunts and some cousins, and that
+nearly every boy had some friend that took an interest in him, and
+came to see him and gave him a little pocket money. One day, he said,
+while he stood there, a little boy came up to him and said:
+
+"Mr. Spurgeon, let me speak to you."
+
+The boy sat down between Mr. Spurgeon and the elder who was with him,
+and said:
+
+"Mr. Spurgeon, suppose your father and mother were dead, and you
+didn't have any cousins, or aunts, or uncles or friends to come and
+give you pocket money, and give you presents, don't you think you
+would feel bad? Because that's me!"
+
+Said Mr. Spurgeon: "The minute he said that, I put my right hand down
+into my pocket and took out some money for him."
+
+
+Queer Ideas of Repentance
+
+The unconverted have a false idea about repentance; they think God is
+going to make them repent. I was once talking with a man on this
+subject, and he summed up his whole argument by saying:
+
+"Moody, it has never struck me yet."
+
+I said: "What has never struck you."
+
+"Well," he replied: "Some people it strikes, and some it doesn't.
+There was a good deal of interest in our town a few years ago, and
+some of my neighbors were converted, but it didn't strike me."
+
+That man thought that repentance was coming down some day to strike
+him like lightning. Another man said he expected some sensation, like
+cold chills down his back.
+
+Repentance isn't feeling. It is turning from sin to God. One of the
+best definitions was given by a soldier. Some one asked him how he was
+converted. He said:
+
+"The Lord said to me, _Halt! Attention! Right about face! March!_ and
+that was all there was in it."
+
+
+A Good Illustration
+
+A little child gives a good illustration of faith. Let the wind blow
+her hat into the river, and she does not worry; she knows her mother
+will get her another. She lives by faith.
+
+
+"Come! Come! Come!"
+
+A man in one of our meetings had been brought there against his will;
+he had come through some personal influence brought to bear upon him.
+When he got to the meeting, they were singing the chorus of a hymn:
+
+/*
+Come! oh, come to Me!
+Come! oh, come to Me!
+Weary, heavy-laden,
+Come! oh, come to Me!
+*/
+
+He said afterward he thought he never saw so many fools together in
+his life before. The idea of a number of men standing there singing,
+"Come! come! come!"
+
+When he started home he could not get this little word out of his
+head; it kept coming back all the time. He went into a saloon, and
+ordered some whisky, thinking to drown it. But he could not; it still
+kept coming back. He went into another saloon, and drank some more
+whisky; but the words kept ringing in his ears: "Come! come! come!" He
+said to himself, "What a fool I am for allowing myself to be troubled
+in this way!" He went to a third saloon, had another glass, and
+finally got home.
+
+He went off to bed, but could not sleep; it seemed as if the very
+pillow kept whispering the word, "Come! Come!" He began to be angry
+with himself: "What a fool I was for ever going to that meeting at
+all!" When he got up he took the little hymn book, found the hymn, and
+read it over.
+
+"What nonsense!" he said to himself; "the idea of a rational man being
+disturbed by that hymn."
+
+He set fire to the hymn book, but he could not burn up the little word
+"Come!"
+
+He declared he would never go to another of the meetings; but the next
+night he came again. When he got there, strange to say, they were
+singing the same hymn.
+
+"There is that miserable old hymn again," he said; "what a fool I am
+for coming!" When the Spirit of God lays hold of a man, he does a good
+many things he did not intend to do.
+
+To make a long story short, that man rose in a meeting of young
+converts, and told the story that I have now told you. Pulling out the
+little hymn-book--for he had bought another copy--and opening it at
+this hymn, he said:
+
+"I think this hymn is the sweetest and the best in the English
+language. God blessed it to the saving of my soul. And yet this was
+the very hymn that I despised."
+
+
+Don't Scold
+
+"He that winneth souls is wise." Do you want to win men? Do not drive
+or scold them. Do not try to tear down their prejudices before you
+begin to lead them to the truth. Some people think they have to tear
+down the scaffolding before they begin on the building. An old
+minister once invited a young brother to preach for him. The latter
+scolded the people, and when he got home, asked the old minister how
+he had done. 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.
+
+
+A Long Time to Reap
+
+A man died in the Columbus penitentiary some years ago who had spent
+over thirty years in his cell. He was one of the millionaires of Ohio.
+Fifty years ago when they were trying to get a trunk road from Chicago
+to New York, they wanted to lay the line through his farm near
+Cleveland. He did not want his farm divided by the railroad, so the
+case went into court, where commissioners were appointed to pay the
+damages and to allow the road to be built.
+
+One dark night, a train was thrown off the track, and several were
+killed. This man was suspected, was tried and found guilty, and was
+sent to the penitentiary for life. The farm was soon cut up into city
+lots, and the man became a millionaire, but he got no benefit from it.
+
+It may not have taken him more than an hour to lay the obstruction on
+the railroad, but he was over thirty years reaping the result of that
+one act!
+
+
+"As a Little Child"
+
+A little child is the most dependent thing on earth. All its resources
+are in its parents' love; all it can do is to cry; and its necessities
+explain the meaning to the mother's heart. If we interpret its
+language, it means: "Mother, wash me; I cannot wash myself. Mother,
+clothe me; I am naked, and cannot clothe myself. Mother, feed me; I
+cannot feed myself. Mother, carry me; I cannot walk." It is written,
+"A mother may forget her sucking child; yet will not I forget thee."
+
+This it is to receive the Kingdom of God as a little child--to come to
+Jesus in our helplessness, and say: "Lord Jesus, wash me!" "Clothe
+me!" "Feed me!" "Carry me!" "Save me, Lord, or I perish."--Rainsford.
+
+
+Following the Lamb
+
+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. He went into the water and
+called them by name, but they came to the bank and bleated, and were
+too afraid to follow. At last he went back, tightened his girdle about
+his loins, took up two little lambs, and put one inside his frock, and
+another inside his bosom. Then he started into the water, and the old
+sheep looked up to the shepherd instead of down into the water. They
+wanted to see their little ones. So he got them over the water, and
+led them into the green pastures on the other side.
+
+How many times the Good Shepherd has come down here and taken a little
+lamb to the hill-tops of glory, and then the father and mother begin
+to look up and follow.
+
+
+Two Pictures
+
+A friend told me of a poor man who had sent his son to school in the
+city. One day the father was hauling some wood into the city, perhaps
+to pay his boy's bills. The young man was walking down the street with
+two of his school friends, all dressed in the very height of fashion.
+His father saw him, and was so glad that he left his wood, and went to
+the sidewalk to speak to him. But the boy was ashamed of his father,
+who had on his old working clothes, and spurned him, and said:
+
+"I don't know you."
+
+Will such a young man ever amount to anything? Never!
+
+There was a very promising young man in my Sunday-school in Chicago.
+His father was a confirmed drunkard, and his mother took in washing to
+educate her four children. This was her eldest son, and I thought that
+he was going to redeem the whole family. But one day a thing happened
+that made him go down in my estimation.
+
+The boy was in the high school, and was a very bright scholar. One day
+he stood with his mother at the cottage door--it was a poor house, but
+she could not pay for their schooling and feed and clothe her children
+and hire a very good house too out of her earnings. When they were
+talking a young man from the high school came up the street, and this
+boy walked away from his mother. Next day the young man said:
+
+"Who was that I saw you talking to yesterday?"
+
+"Oh, that was my washerwoman."
+
+I said: "Poor fellow! He will never amount to anything."
+
+That was a good many years ago. I have kept my eye on him. He has gone
+down, down, down, and now he is just a miserable wreck. Of course, he
+would go down! Ashamed of his mother that loved him and toiled for
+him, and bore so much hardship for him! I cannot tell you the contempt
+I had for that one act.
+
+Let us look at--
+
+
+A Brighter Picture
+
+Some years ago I heard of a poor woman who sent her boy to school and
+college. 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. She was so shabby that she was afraid he would be
+ashamed of her. He wrote back that he didn't care how she was dressed,
+and urged so strongly that she went. He met her at the station, and
+took her to a nice place to stay. The day came for his graduation, and
+he walked down the broad aisle with that poor mother dressed very
+shabbily, and put her into one of the best seats in the house. To her
+great surprise he was the valedictorian of the class, and he carried
+everything before him. He won a prize, and when it was given to him,
+he stepped down before the whole audience and kissed his mother, and
+said:
+
+"Here, mother, here is the prize! It's yours. I would not have won it
+if it had not been for you."
+
+Thank God for such a man!
+
+
+The Folly of Covetousness
+
+The folly of covetousness is well shown in the following extract:
+
+"If you should see a man that had a large pond of water, yet living in
+continual thirst, nor suffering himself to drink half a draught for
+fear of lessening his pond; if you should see him wasting his time and
+strength in fetching more water to his pond, always thirsty, yet
+always carrying a bucket of water in his hand, watching early and late
+to catch the drops of rain, gaping after every cloud, and running
+greedily into every mire and mud in hopes of water, and always
+studying how to make every ditch empty itself into the pond; if you
+should see him grow gray in these anxious labors, and at last end a
+thirsty life by falling into his own pond, would you not say that such
+a one was not only the author of his own disquiet, but was foolish
+enough to be reckoned among madmen? But foolish and absurd as this
+character is, it does not represent half the follies and absurd
+disquiets of the covetous man."
+
+I have read of a millionaire in France, who was a miser. In order to
+make sure of his wealth, he dug a cave in his wine cellar so large and
+deep that he could go down into it with a ladder. The entrance had a
+door with a spring lock. After a time, he was missing. Search was
+made, but they could find no trace of him. At last his house was sold,
+and the purchaser discovered this door in the cellar. He opened it,
+went down, and found the miser lying dead on the ground, in the midst
+of his riches. The door must have shut accidentally after him, and he
+perished miserably.
+
+
+What is Needed
+
+Nine-tenths, at least, of our church members never think of speaking
+for Christ. If they see a man, perhaps a near relative, going right
+down to ruin, going rapidly, they never think of speaking to him about
+his sinful course and of seeking to win him to Christ. Now certainly
+there must be something wrong. And yet when you talk with them you
+find they have faith, and you cannot say they are not children of God;
+but they have not the power, the liberty, the love that real disciples
+of Christ should have.
+
+A great many think that we need new measures, new churches, new
+organs, new choirs, and all these new things. That is not what the
+Church of God needs to-day. It is the old power that the apostles had.
+If we have that in our churches, there will be new life.
+
+I remember when in Chicago many were toiling in the work, and it
+seemed as though the car of salvation didn't move on, when a minister
+began to cry out from the very depths of his heart:
+
+"Oh, God, put new ministers in every pulpit."
+
+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. We
+want people quickened by the Spirit of God.
+
+
+Neglecting Church
+
+A minister rebuked a farmer for not attending church, and said:
+
+"You know, John, you are never absent from market."
+
+"Oh," was the reply, "we _must_ go to market."
+
+
+Oratorical Preaching
+
+My friends, we have too many orators in the pulpit, I am tired and
+sick of your "silver-tongued orators." I used to mourn because I
+couldn't be an orator. I thought, Oh, if I could only have the gift of
+speech like some men! I have heard men with a smooth flow of language
+take the audience captive; but they came and they went. Their voice
+was like the air--there wasn't any _power_ back of it; they trusted in
+their eloquence and their fine speeches. That is what Paul was
+thinking of when he wrote to the Corinthians: "My speech and my
+preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in
+demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not
+stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God."
+
+Take a witness in court and let him try his oratorical powers in the
+witness-box, and see how quickly the judge will rule him out. It is
+the man who tells the plain, simple truth that has the most influence
+with the jury.
+
+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. Suppose that he had buttoned his
+coat, put one hand in his chest, had struck an attitude, and begun:
+
+"The God of our fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has
+commanded me to come into the presence of the noble King of Egypt."
+
+I think they would have taken his head right off! They had Egyptians
+who could be as eloquent as Moses. It was not eloquence they wanted.
+
+
+To Which Class Do You Belong?
+
+Some one has said that there are three classes of people: the "wills,"
+the "won'ts," and the "can'ts"; the first accomplish everything, the
+second oppose everything, and the third fail in everything.
+
+
+Sunday Work
+
+A Christian man was once urged by his employer to work on Sunday.
+
+"Does not your Bible say that if your ass falls into a pit on the
+Sabbath, you may pull him out?"
+
+"Yes," replied the other; "but if the ass had the habit of falling
+into the same pit every Sabbath, I would either fill up the pit or
+sell the ass."
+
+
+There Must Be Roots
+
+Suppose I hire two men to set out trees, and after a day or two I go
+out to see how they are getting along. I find that one man has set out
+a hundred trees, and the other only ten. I say:
+
+"Look here; what does this mean? That man has set out a hundred trees,
+and you have set out only ten. What does it mean?"
+
+"Yes, but he has cut off all the roots, and, just stuck the tops into
+the ground."
+
+I go to the other man, and say: "What does this mean? Why have you
+planted all of these trees without roots?"
+
+"I don't believe in roots; they are of no account. My trees look just
+as well as his."
+
+But when the sun blazes upon the trees, they all wither and die.
+
+There are a lot of people running around who haven't got any roots. A
+good many live on negations. They are always telling what they _don't_
+believe. I want a man to tell me what he _does_ believe, not what he
+does not believe. And I like to meet a positive man. We just want to
+know what men do believe. We don't want trees that haven't any roots,
+for they will dry up when the sun blazes on them. There are a good
+many persons that are going on without any foundation; they have no
+faith.
+
+
+The Path of Obedience
+
+Whatsoever He tells you to do, do. But be sure He says it. Don't take
+your ideas. Go and live right at home, go and treat your wife and
+children right, pay your debts, and do some things of that kind.
+
+A colored man said he had seen a sign; he said it read, "G. P. C," and
+he understood it to mean, "Go preach Christ."
+
+Another man got up, and said. "No, that ain't it; it is 'Go pick
+cotton.'"
+
+If it is preach the gospel, go preach the gospel; and if it is pick
+cotton, then pick cotton.
+
+
+Calling a Man a Liar
+
+You cannot offer a man a greater insult than to tell him he is a liar.
+Unbelief is telling God He is a liar.
+
+Suppose a man said, "Mr. Moody, I have no faith in you whatever."
+Don't you think it would grieve me? There is not anything that would
+wound a man much more than to be told that you do not have any faith
+in him.
+
+A great many men say, "Oh, I have profound reverence and respect for
+God."
+
+Yes, profound respect, but not faith. Why, it is a downright insult!
+
+Suppose a man says, "Mr. Moody, I have profound respect for you,
+profound admiration for you, but I do not believe a word you say."
+
+I wouldn't give much for his respect or admiration; I wouldn't give
+much for his friendship. God wants us to put our faith in Him. How it
+would wound a mother's feelings to hear her children say, "I do love
+mamma so much, but I don't believe what she says." How it would grieve
+that mother. And that is about the way a great many of God's professed
+children talk. Some men seem to think it is a great misfortune that
+they do not have faith. Bear in mind it is not a misfortune, but it is
+the damning sin of the world.
+
+
+Bending His Will
+
+A mother told me up in Minnesota that she had a little child who took
+a book and threw it out of the window. She told him to go and pick it
+up. The little boy said, "I won't."
+
+She said, "What?"
+
+He said again, "I won't."
+
+She said: "You must. Go and pick up that book."
+
+He said he couldn't do it. She took him out, and she held him right to
+it. Dinner-time came, and he hadn't picked up the book. She took him
+to dinner, and after it was over she took him out again. They sat
+there until tea-time. When tea-time came she took him in and gave him
+his supper, and then took him out and kept him there until bed-time.
+The next morning she went out again and kept him there until
+dinner-time. He found he was in for a life job, and he picked the book
+up.
+
+She said she never had any trouble with the child afterward. Mothers,
+if you don't make your boy obey when he is young, he will break your
+heart.
+
+
+How To Find the Thirsty
+
+When preaching in Chicago, Dr. Monro Gibson once asked in the inquiry
+meeting, "Now, how can we find out who is thirsty? I was just thinking
+how we could find out. If a boy should come down the aisle, bringing
+a good pail full of clear water and a dipper, we would soon find out
+who was thirsty. The thirsty men and women would reach out for water;
+but if he should walk down the aisle with an empty bucket, we wouldn't
+find out. People would look in and see that there was no water, and
+say nothing. So," said he, "I think that is the reason we are not more
+blessed in our ministry; we are carrying around empty buckets, and the
+people see that we have not anything in them, and they don't come
+forward."
+
+
+Making Parables
+
+Stewart Robertson met Marshall, the great politician, and Marshall
+said:
+
+"Why don't you preach in parables like your Master?"
+
+Robertson said: "I would if I knew enough. I wish you would make me a
+few."
+
+He never could get to see him from that day until one day he met him
+on a corner, and he said:
+
+"Marshall, where are those parables?"
+
+"I knew you would be after me, but I give it up. I tried, but I
+couldn't make them. I didn't know it was so hard."
+
+People say, "Oh, any one can make up a sermon." But if you think so,
+just try it!
+
+
+A Father's Mistake
+
+The story is told that a man once said he would not talk to his son
+about religion; the boy should make his own choice when he grew up,
+unprejudiced by him.
+
+The boy broke his arm, and when the doctor was setting it, he cursed
+and swore the whole time. The father was quite grieved and shocked.
+
+"Ah," said the doctor, "you were afraid to prejudice the boy in the
+right way, but the devil had no such prejudice. He has led your son
+the other way."
+
+The idea that a father is to let his children run wild! Nature alone
+never brings forth anything but weeds.
+
+
+A Rum-Seller's Son Blows His Brains Out
+
+Look at that rum-seller. When we talk to him he laughs at us. He tells
+you there is no hell, no future--there is no retribution. I've got one
+man in my mind now who ruined nearly all the sons in his neighborhood.
+Mothers and fathers went to him and begged him not to sell their
+children liquor. He told them it was his business to sell liquor, and
+he was going to sell liquor to every one who came. The saloon was a
+blot upon the place as dark as hell.
+
+But the man had a father's heart. He had a son. He didn't worship God,
+but he worshiped that boy. He didn't remember that whatsoever a man
+soweth so shall he reap. My friends, they generally reap what they
+sow. It may not come immediately, but the retribution will surely
+come. If you ruin other men's sons, some other man will ruin yours.
+Bear in mind God is a God of equity; God is a God of justice. He is
+not going to allow you to ruin others and escape yourself. If we go
+against His laws, we suffer.
+
+Time rolled on, and that young man became a slave to drink, and his
+life became such a burden to him that he put a revolver to his head
+and blew his brains out. The father lived a few years, but his life
+was as bitter as gall, and then went down to his grave in sorrow. Ah,
+my friends, it is hard to kick against the pricks.
+
+
+Mrs. Moody Teaching Her Child
+
+There was a time when our little boy did not like to go to church, and
+would get up in the morning and say to his mother:
+
+"What day is to-morrow?"
+
+"Tuesday."
+
+"Next day?"
+
+"Wednesday."
+
+"Next day?"
+
+"Thursday"; and so on, till he came to the answer, "Sunday."
+
+"Dear me," he said.
+
+I said to the mother, "We cannot have our boy grow up to hate Sunday
+in this way; that will never do. That is the way I used to feel when I
+was a boy. I used to look upon Sunday with a certain amount of dread.
+Very few kind words were associated with the day. I don't know that
+the minister even noticed me, unless it was when I was asleep in the
+gallery, and he had some one wake me up. This kind of thing won't do.
+We must make the Sunday the most attractive day of the week; not a day
+to be dreaded, but a day of pleasure."
+
+Well, the mother took the work up with this boy. Bless those mothers
+in their work with the children! Sometimes I feel as if I would rather
+be the mother of John Wesley or Martin Luther or John Knox than have
+all the glories in the world. Those mothers who are faithful with the
+children God has given them will not go unrewarded.
+
+My wife went to work, and took Bible stories and put those blessed
+truths in a light that the boy could comprehend, and soon his feeling
+for the Sabbath was the other way.
+
+"What day's to-morrow?" he would ask.
+
+"Sunday."
+
+"I am glad."
+
+If we make Bible truths interesting, and break them up in some shape
+so that these children can get at them, then they will begin to enjoy
+them.
+
+
+Missed At Last!
+
+In one of the tenement houses in New York City a doctor was sent for.
+He came, and found a young man very sick. When he got to the bedside
+the young man said:
+
+"Doctor, I don't want you to deceive me; I want to know the worst. Is
+this illness to prove serious?"
+
+After the doctor had made an examination, he said, "I am sorry to tell
+you you cannot live out the night."
+
+The young man looked up and said, "Well, then, I have missed it at
+last!"
+
+"Missed what?"
+
+"I have missed eternal life. I always intended to become a Christian
+some day, but I thought I had plenty of time, and put it off."
+
+The doctor, who was himself a Christian man, said: "It is not too
+late. Call on God for mercy."
+
+"No; I have always had a great contempt for a man who repents when he
+is dying; he is a miserable coward. If I were not sick, I would not
+have a thought about my soul, and I am not going to insult God now."
+
+The doctor spent the day with him, read to him out of the Bible, and
+tried to get him to lay hold of the promises. The young man said he
+would not call on God, and in that state of mind he passed away. Just
+as he was dying the doctor saw his lips moving. He reached down, and
+all he could hear was the faint whisper:
+
+"_I have missed it at last!_"
+
+Dear friend, make sure that you do not miss eternal life at last.
+
+
+Choose Now
+
+A teacher had been relating to his class the parable of the rich man
+and Lazarus, and he asked:
+
+"Now, which would you rather be, boys, the rich man or Lazarus?"
+
+One boy answered, "I would rather be the rich man while I live, and
+Lazarus when I die."
+
+That cannot be.
+
+
+The Mansion Made Ready
+
+Once when I was traveling to a city there was a lady in the car with
+me. After I had reached the hotel where I was to stay, and had got
+comfortable quarters, she came, and said:
+
+"Oh, sir, I cannot get a room in this hotel; they are quite full! How
+ever did you manage to get a room?"
+
+"Easily enough," I replied; "I just telegraphed on before that I was
+coming, to have a room ready for me."
+
+And it is somewhat similar in regard to gaining admission to heaven.
+Your names must be sent on beforehand, and entered in its book, else
+you won't get in; but get your names inscribed on its pages, and then
+you won't be disappointed. God will have a mansion ready for you when
+you ascend to your heavenly home. When you come to its gates, the
+guardian angels will refer to the book of life to see if your name is
+there. If so, pass in; but if not, admittance will be inexorably
+refused.
+
+
+The Promise For All
+
+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.
+
+I heard of a woman once that thought there was no promise in the Bible
+for her; she thought the promises were for some one else, not for her.
+There are a good many of these people in the world. They think it is
+too good to be true that they can be saved for nothing. This woman one
+day got a letter, and when she opened it she found it was not for her
+at all; it was meant for another woman that had the same name; and she
+had her eyes opened to the fact that if she should find some promise
+in the Bible directed to her name, she would not know whether it meant
+her or some one else that bore her name. But you know the word
+"whosoever" includes every one in the wide world.
+
+
+Reaping As They Sowed
+
+Although God forgave the sins of Jacob and David, and the other Old
+Testament saints, yet there were certain consequences of their sins
+which those saints had to suffer after they were forgiven.
+
+If a man gets drunk and goes out and breaks his leg, so that it must
+be amputated, God will forgive him if he asks it, but he will have to
+hop around on one leg all his life. A man may sow thistle-seed with
+grain-seed in a moment of pique against his master, and the master
+may forgive him, but the man will have to reap the thistles with the
+grain.
+
+
+Small Beginnings
+
+An obscure man preached one Sunday to a few persons in a Methodist
+chapel in the South of England. A boy of fifteen years of age was in
+the audience, driven into the chapel by a snowstorm. The man took as
+his text the words, "Look unto me and be ye saved," and as he stumbled
+along as best he could, the light of heaven flashed into that boy's
+heart. He went out of the chapel saved, and soon became known as C. H.
+Spurgeon, the boy-preacher.
+
+The parsonage at Epworth, England, caught fire one night, and all the
+inmates were rescued except one son. The boy came to a window, and was
+brought safely to the ground by two farm-hands, one standing on the
+shoulder of the other. The boy was John Wesley. If you would realize
+the responsibility of that incident, if you would measure the
+consequences of that rescue, ask the millions of Methodists who look
+back to John Wesley as the founder of their denomination.
+
+
+Saying and Doing
+
+A man was once conversing with a Brahmin priest, and he asked:
+
+"Could _you_ say, 'I am the Resurrection and the Life?'"
+
+"Yes," replied the priest, "I could say that."
+
+"_But could you make any one believe it?_"
+
+Christ proved His superiority right there. His character and His
+actions were back of His words. He exhibited His divine power to
+silence His enemies.
+
+
+Climb Higher
+
+I remember being in a meeting after the Civil War had been going on
+for about six months. The army of the North had been defeated at Bull
+Run; in fact, we had nothing but defeat, and it looked as though the
+Republic was going to pieces; so we were much cast down and
+discouraged. At this meeting every speaker for a while seemed as if he
+had hung his harp upon the willow; it was one of the gloomiest
+meetings I ever attended. Finally an old man with beautiful white hair
+got up to speak, and his face literally shone.
+
+"Young men," he said, "you do not talk like sons of the King. 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.
+
+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. As the party were climbing up the mountain, and before they had
+reached the summit, a storm came on. This friend said to the guide:
+
+"I will give this up; take me back."
+
+The guide smiled, and replied: "I think we shall get above the storm
+soon."
+
+On they went; and it was not long before they got up to where it was
+as calm as any summer evening. Down in the valley a terrible storm
+raged; they could hear the thunder rolling, and see the lightning's
+flash; but all was serene on the mountain top.
+
+"And so, my young friends," continued the old man, "though all is
+dark around you, come a little higher, and the darkness will flee
+away."
+
+Often when I have been inclined to get discouraged, I have thought of
+what he said. If you are down in the valley amidst the thick fog and
+the darkness, get a little higher; get nearer to Christ, and know more
+of Him.
+
+
+The Greatest Miracle
+
+Jesus said, "The works that I do shall ye do also, and greater works
+than these shall ye do because I go to the Father."
+
+I used to stumble over that. I didn't understand it. I thought what
+greater work could any man do than Christ had done? How could any one
+raise a dead man who had been laid away in the sepulchre for days, and
+who had already begun to turn back to dust; how with a word could he
+call him forth?
+
+But the longer I live the more I am convinced it is a greater thing to
+influence a man's will; a man whose will is set against God; to have
+that will broken and brought into subjection to God's will--or, in
+other words, it is a greater thing to have power over a living,
+sinning, God-hating man, than to quicken the dead. He who could create
+a world could speak a dead soul into life; but I think the greatest
+miracle this world has ever seen was the miracle at Pentecost. Here
+were men who surrounded the apostles, full of prejudice, full of
+malice, full of bitterness, their hands, as it were, dripping with the
+blood of the Son of God, and yet an unlettered man, a man whom they
+detested, a man whom they hated, stands up and preaches the Gospel,
+and three thousand of them are immediately convicted and converted,
+and become disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ.
+
+
+Different Kinds of Murder
+
+One young man at college, an only son, whose mother wrote to him
+remonstrating against his gambling and drinking habits, took the
+letters out of the post-office, and when he found that they were from
+her, he tore them up without reading them. She said:
+
+"I thought I would die when I found I had lost my hold on that son."
+
+If a boy kills his mother by his conduct, you can't call it anything
+else than _murder_, and he is as truly guilty of breaking the sixth
+commandment as if he drove a dagger to her heart.
+
+
+"It Is Not For You!"
+
+Commenting on the text: "It is not for you to know the times or the
+seasons, which the Father hath put in His own power," Spurgeon said:
+
+"If I were introduced into a room where a large number of parcels were
+stored up, and I was told that there was something good for me, I
+should begin to look for that which had my name upon it, and when I
+came upon a parcel and I saw in pretty big letters, '_It is not for
+you_,' I should leave it alone. Here, then, is a casket of knowledge
+marked, '_It is not for you_ to know the times or the seasons, which
+the Father hath put in His own power.' Cease to meddle with matters
+which are concealed, and be satisfied to know the things which are
+clearly revealed."
+
+
+Stolen Goods a Burden
+
+I heard of a boy who stole a cannon-ball from a navy-yard. He watched
+his opportunity, sneaked into the yard, and secured it. But when he
+had it, he hardly knew what to do with it. It was heavy, and too
+large to conceal in his pocket, so he had to put it under his hat.
+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 said in after years it was the last thing he ever stole.
+
+The story is told that a royal diamond valued at $600,000 was stolen
+from a window of a jeweler, to whom it had been given to set. A few
+months afterward a miserable man died a miserable death in a poor
+lodging-house. In his pocket was found the diamond, and a letter
+telling how he had not dared to sell it, lest it should lead to his
+discovery and imprisonment. It never brought him anything but anxiety
+and pain.
+
+
+Unlocked By Prayer
+
+God's best gifts, like valuable jewels, are kept under lock and key,
+and those who want them must, with fervent faith, importunately ask
+for them; for God is the rewarder of them that _diligently_ seek Him.
+
+
+The Faithful Promiser
+
+God is always true to what He promises to do. He made promises to
+Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, and the others, and did He not fulfill
+them? He will fulfill every word of what He has promised; yet how few
+take Him at His word!
+
+When I was a young man I was clerk in the establishment of a man in
+Chicago, whom I observed frequently occupied sorting and marking
+bills. He explained to me what he had been doing; on some notes he had
+marked B, on some D, and on others G; those marked B, he told me, were
+bad, those marked D meant they were doubtful, and those with G on
+them mean they were _good_; and, said he, you must treat all of them
+accordingly. 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.
+
+
+Throw Out the Ballast
+
+When men go up in a balloon, they carry with them what they call
+ballast--that is, small bags of sand, and when they want to rise
+higher they just throw out some of the sand. So we, if we want to rise
+nearer heaven, must just throw out some of the sand, and cast aside
+every weight. We won't rise higher till we do so.
+
+
+A Mother's Love
+
+The closest tie on earth is a mother's love for her child. There are a
+good many things that will separate a man from his wife, but there
+isn't a thing in the wide, wide world that will separate a true mother
+from her own child. I will admit that there are unnatural mothers,
+that there are mothers that have gone out of their heads, mothers that
+are so steeped in sin and iniquity that they will turn against their
+own children, but a true mother will never, never turn against her own
+child. I have talked with mothers when my blood boiled with
+indignation against the sons for their treatment of their mothers, and
+I have said:
+
+"Why don't you cast him off?"
+
+They have said: "Why, Mr. Moody, I love him still. He is my son."
+
+I was once preaching for Dr. G. in St. Louis, and when I got through
+he said that he wanted to tell me a story. There was a boy who was
+very bad. He had a very bad father, who seemed to take delight in
+teaching his son everything that was bad. The father died, and the boy
+went on from bad to worse until he was arrested for murder.
+
+When he was on trial, it came out that he had murdered five other
+people, and from one end of the city to the other there was a
+universal cry going up against him. During his trial they had to guard
+the court-house, the indignation was so intense.
+
+The white-haired mother got just as near her son as she could, and
+every witness that went into the court and said anything against him
+seemed to hurt her more than her son. When the jury brought in a
+verdict of guilty a great shout went up, but the old mother nearly
+fainted away; and when the judge pronounced the sentence of death they
+thought she would faint away.
+
+After it was over she threw her arms around him and kissed him, and
+there in the court they had to tear him from her embrace. She then
+went the length and breadth of the city trying to get men to sign a
+petition for his pardon. And when he was hanged, she begged the
+governor to let her have the body of her son, that she might bury it.
+They say that death has torn down everything in this world, everything
+but a mother's love. That is stronger than death itself. The governor
+refused to let her have the body, but she cherished the memory of that
+boy as long as she lived.
+
+A few months later she followed her boy, and when she was dying she
+sent word to the governor, and begged that her body might be laid
+close to her son. That is a mother's love! She wasn't ashamed to have
+her grave pointed out for all time as the grave of the mother of the
+most noted criminal the State of Vermont ever had.
+
+The prophet takes hold of that very idea. He says: "Can a mother
+forget her child?" But a mother's love is not to be compared to the
+love of God.
+
+
+Restitution
+
+I was preaching in British Columbia some years ago and a young man
+came to me, and wanted to become a Christian. He had been smuggling
+opium into the States.
+
+"Well, my friend," I said, "I don't think there is any chance for you
+to become a Christian until you make restitution." He said, "If I
+attempt to do that, I will fall into the clutches of the law, and I
+will go to the penitentiary." "Well," I replied, "you had better do
+that than go to the judgment-seat of God with that sin upon your soul,
+and have eternal punishment. The Lord will be very merciful if you set
+your face to do right."
+
+He went away sorrowful, but came back the next day, and said: "I have
+a young wife and child, and all the furniture in my house I have
+bought with money I have got in this dishonest way. If I become a
+Christian, that furniture will have to go, and my wife will know it."
+
+"Better let your wife know it, and better let your home and furniture
+go."
+
+"Would you come up and see my wife?" he asked; "I don't know what she
+will say."
+
+I went up to see her, and when I told her, the tears trickled down her
+cheeks, and she said: "Mr. Moody, I will gladly give everything if my
+husband can become a true Christian."
+
+She took out her pocketbook, and handed over her last penny. He had a
+piece of land in the United States, which he deeded over to the
+government. I do not know, in all my backward track, of any living man
+who has had a better testimony for Jesus Christ than that man. He had
+been dishonest, but when the truth came to him that he must make it
+right before God would help him, he made it right.
+
+No amount of weeping over sin, and saying that you feel sorry, is
+going to help it unless you are willing to confess and make
+restitution.
+
+
+Willie and the Bears
+
+I said to my little family, one morning, a few weeks before the
+Chicago fire, "I am coming home this afternoon to give you a ride."
+
+My little boy clapped his hands. "Oh, papa, will you take me to see
+the bears in Lincoln Park?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+I had not been gone long when my little boy said, "Mamma, I wish you
+would get me ready."
+
+"Oh," she said, "it will be a long time before papa comes."
+
+"But I want to get ready, mamma."
+
+At last he was ready to have the ride, face washed, and clothes all
+nice and clean.
+
+"Now, you must take good care, and not get yourself dirty again," said
+mamma.
+
+Of course, he was going to take care; he wasn't going to get dirty! So
+off he ran to watch for me. However, it was a long time yet until the
+afternoon, and after a little he began to play. When I got home, I
+found him outside, with his face all covered with dirt.
+
+"I can't take you to the park that way, Willie."
+
+"Why papa? you said you would take me."
+
+"Ah, but I can't; you're all over mud. I couldn't be seen with such a
+dirty little boy."
+
+"Why, I'se clean, papa; mamma washed me."
+
+"Well, you've got dirty again."
+
+But he began to cry, and I could not convince him that he was dirty.
+
+"I'se clean; mamma washed me!" he cried.
+
+Do you think I argued with him? No. I just took him up in my arms, and
+carried him into the house, and showed him his face in the
+looking-glass. He had not a word to say. He would not take my word for
+it; but one look at the glass was enough; he saw it for himself. He
+didn't say he wasn't dirty after that!
+
+Now, the looking-glass showed him that his face was dirty--_but I did
+not take the looking-glass to wash it_; of course not. Yet that is
+just what thousands of people do. The Law is the looking-glass to see
+ourselves in, to show us how vile and worthless we are in the sight of
+God; but they take the Law and try to _wash_ themselves with it,
+instead of being washed in the blood of the Lamb.
+
+
+Christ For All
+
+An old Welshwoman said Christ was Welsh, and an Englishman said:
+
+"No, He was a Jew."
+
+She declared that she knew He was Welsh, because He spoke so that she
+could understand Him.
+
+
+Starting Right
+
+Many a man is lost because he does not start right. He makes a bad
+start. A young man comes from his country home, and enters upon city
+life. Temptation arises, and he becomes false to his principles. He
+meets with some scoffing, sneering man, who jeers at him because he
+goes to a church service; or because he is seen reading his Bible; or
+because he is known to pray to God. And the young man proves to be
+weak-kneed; he cannot stand the scoffs and the sneers and the jeers of
+his companions; and so he becomes untrue to his principles, and gives
+them up.
+
+I want to say here to young men, that when a young man makes a wrong
+start, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is ruin to him. The
+first game of chance; the first betting transaction; the first false
+entry in the books; the first quarter-dollar taken from the cash-box
+or the till; the first night spent in evil company--either of these
+may prove the turning-point; either of these may represent a wrong
+start.
+
+
+Napoleon and the Conscript
+
+There is a well-known story told of Napoleon the First's time. In one
+of the conscriptions, during one of his many wars, a man was balloted
+as a conscript who did not want to go, but he had a friend who offered
+to go in his place. His friend joined the regiment in his name, and
+was sent off to the war. By and by a battle came on, in which he was
+killed, and they buried him on the battle-field. Some time after, the
+Emperor wanted more men, and by some mistake the first man was
+balloted a second time. They went to take him, but he remonstrated.
+
+"You cannot take me."
+
+"Why not?"
+
+"I am dead," was the reply.
+
+"You are not dead; you are alive and well."
+
+"But I _am_ dead," he said.
+
+"Why, man, you must be mad. Where did you die?"
+
+"At such a battle, and you left me buried on such a battle-field."
+
+"You talk like a madman," they cried; but the man stuck to his point
+that he had been dead and buried some months.
+
+"Look up your books," he said, "and see if it is not so."
+
+They looked, and found that he was right. They found the man's name
+entered as drafted, sent to the war, and marked off as killed.
+
+"Look here," they said, "you didn't die; you must have got some one to
+go for you; it must have been your _substitute_."
+
+"I know that," he said; "he died in my stead. You cannot touch me; I
+died in that man, and I go free. The law has no claim against me."
+
+They would not recognize the doctrine of substitution, and the case
+was carried to the Emperor. He said that the man was right, that he
+was dead and buried in the eyes of the law, and that France had no
+claim against him.
+
+This story may or may not be true, but one thing I know is true: Jesus
+Christ suffered death for the sinner, and those who accept Him are
+free from the Law.
+
+
+Green Fields or Desert?
+
+When I was out in California, the first time I went down from the
+Sierra Nevada Mountains and dropped into the Valley of the Sacramento,
+I was surprised to find on one farm that everything about it was
+green--all the trees and flowers, everything was blooming, and
+everything was green and beautiful, and just across the hedge
+everything was dried up, and there was not a green thing there. I
+could not understand it. I made inquiries, and I found that the man
+that had everything green, irrigated; he just poured the water right
+on, and kept everything green, while the fields that were next to his
+were as dry as Gideon's fleece without a drop of dew.
+
+So it is with a great many in the church to-day. They are like these
+farms in California--a dreary desert, everything parched and desolate,
+and apparently no life in them. They can sit next to a man who is full
+of the Spirit of God, who is like a green bay tree, and who is
+bringing forth fruit, and yet they will not seek a similar blessing.
+
+Well, why this difference? Because God has poured water on him that
+was thirsty; that is the difference. One has been seeking this
+anointing, and he has received it; and when we want this above
+everything else God will surely give it to us.
+
+
+Religion In the Home
+
+What we want is family piety, righteousness in our homes. A young
+minister came to me, and said he couldn't get along with his wife, and
+what should he do? I told him to get out of the ministry. A man has no
+right to be in the pulpit unless he can get along with his family.
+
+
+A Universal Failing
+
+It is a false idea that all pride is confined to the upper classes.
+You will find it in the lanes and alleys. You will find little dirty,
+barefooted children who will get a string of shavings, put it round
+their necks, and strut down the street as if they were wearing golden
+beads. Pride is born and grows in the human heart. You do not plant it
+there; it grows there of itself. There is as much pride among the poor
+as among the rich; and that is one reason why more of them do not come
+to the Lord Jesus Christ: they do not like to be laughed at, scoffed
+at, sneered at, and ridiculed. It costs them too much.
+
+
+Words and Actions
+
+A man may preach with the eloquence of an angel, but if he doesn't
+live what he preaches, and act out in his home and his business what
+he professes, his testimony goes for naught, and the people say it is
+all hypocrisy after all; it is all a sham. Words are very empty, if
+there is nothing back of them. Your testimony is poor and worthless,
+if there is not a record back of that testimony consistent with what
+you profess. What we need is to pray to God to lift us up out of this
+low, cold, formal state that we live in, that we may dwell in the
+atmosphere of God continually, and that the Lord may lift upon us the
+light of His countenance, and that we may shine in this world,
+reflecting His grace and glory.
+
+
+The One-Eyed Doe
+
+There is an old fable that a doe that had but one eye used to graze
+near the sea; and in order to be safe, she kept her blind eye toward
+the water, from which side she expected no danger, while with the good
+eye she watched the country. Some men, noticing this, took a boat and
+came upon her from the sea and shot her. With her dying breath, she
+said:
+
+"Oh! hard fate! that I should receive my death wound from that side
+whence I expected no harm, and be safe in the part where I looked for
+most danger."
+
+
+Lost Opportunities
+
+If a farmer neglects to plant in the springtime, he can never recover
+the lost opportunity; no more can you, if you neglect yours. Youth is
+a seed-time, and if it is allowed to pass without good seed being
+sown, weeds will spring up and choke the soil. It will take bitter
+toil to uproot them.
+
+An old divine said that when a good farmer sees a weed in his field he
+has it pulled up. If it is taken early enough, the blank is soon
+filled in, and the crop waves over the whole field. But if allowed to
+run too late, the bald patch remains. It would have been better if the
+weed had never been allowed to get root.
+
+
+Steer Clear
+
+A steamboat was stranded in the Mississippi River, and the captain
+could not get her off. Eventually a hard-looking fellow came on board,
+and said:
+
+"Captain, I understand you want a pilot to take you out of this
+difficulty?"
+
+The captain said, "Are you a pilot?"
+
+"Well, they call me one."
+
+"Do you know where the snags and sand-bars are?"
+
+"No, sir."
+
+"Well, how do you expect to take me out of here if you don't know
+where the snags and sand-bars are?"
+
+"I know where they ain't!" was the reply.
+
+Beware of temptations. "Lead us not into temptation," our Lord taught
+us to pray; and again He said, "Watch and pray, lest ye enter into
+temptation." We are weak and sinful by nature, and it is a good deal
+better for us to pray for deliverance rather than to run into
+temptation and then pray for strength to resist.
+
+
+Looking for Revivals
+
+Men are anxious for a revival in business. There is a great revival in
+politics just now. In all departments of life you find that men are
+very anxious for a revival in the things that concern them most.
+
+If this is legitimate--and it is perfectly right in its place--should
+not every child of God be praying for and desiring a revival of
+godliness in the world at the present time? Do we not need a revival
+of downright honesty, of truthfulness, of uprightness, and of
+temperance? Are there not many who have become alienated from the
+Church of God and from the house of the Lord, who are forming an
+attachment to the saloon? Are not our sons being drawn away by
+hundreds and thousands, so that while you often find the churches
+empty, the liquor shops are crowded every Sabbath afternoon and
+evening? 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. Then surely every true Christian ought to desire that men who
+are in danger of perishing eternally should be saved and rescued.
+
+
+Opportunity
+
+A sculptor once showed a visitor his studio. It was full of statues of
+gods. One was very curious. The face was concealed by being covered
+with hair, and there were wings on each foot.
+
+"What is his name?" said the visitor.
+
+"Opportunity," was the reply.
+
+"Why is his face hidden?"
+
+"Because men seldom know him when he comes to them."
+
+"Why has he wings on his feet?"
+
+"Because he is soon gone, and once gone can never be overtaken."
+
+It becomes us, then, to make the most of the opportunities God has
+given us.
+
+
+The Usual Way
+
+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. But, mind you, if a man had asked me two hours
+afterward what I had read, I could not tell him; I had forgotten it
+nearly all.
+
+When I was a boy I used, among other things, to hoe corn on a farm;
+and I used to hoe it so badly, in order to get over so much ground,
+that at night I had to put down a stick in the ground, so as to know
+next morning where I had left off.
+
+That was somewhat in the same fashion as running through so many
+chapters every day. A man will say, "Wife, did I read that chapter?"
+
+"Well," says she, "I don't remember."
+
+And neither of them can recollect. And perhaps he reads the same
+chapter over and over again; and they call that "studying the Bible."
+I do not think there is a book in the world we neglect so much as the
+Bible.
+
+
+Getting On Splendidly
+
+One man said to another, some time ago: "How are you getting on at
+your church?"
+
+"Oh, splendid."
+
+"Many conversions?"
+
+"Well--well, on that side we are not getting on so well. But," he
+said, "we have rented all our pews and are able to pay all our
+running expenses. We are getting on splendidly."
+
+That is what the godless call "getting on splendidly." They rent the
+pews, pay the minister, and meet all the running expenses.
+
+A man was being shown through one of the cathedrals of Europe; he had
+come in from the country. One of the men belonging to the cathedral
+was showing him around, when he inquired:
+
+"Do you have may conversions here?"
+
+"Many what?"
+
+"Many conversions here?"
+
+"Ah, man, this is not a Wesleyan chapel."
+
+The idea of there being conversions there! And you can go into a good
+many churches in this country and ask if they have many conversions
+there, and they would not know what it meant, they are so far away
+from the Lord; they are not looking for conversions, and don't expect
+them.
+
+
+A Hundred Years Hence
+
+Once, as I was walking down the street, I heard some people laughing
+and talking aloud. One of them said:
+
+"Well, there will be no difference; it will be all the same a hundred
+years hence."
+
+The thought flashed across my mind, "Will there be no difference?
+Where will you be a hundred years hence?"
+
+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.
+Where will you be, on the left or the right hand of God? I cannot tell
+your feelings, but I can my own. I ask you, "Where will you spend
+eternity? Where will you be a hundred years hence?"
+
+
+A Free Gift
+
+Remember, salvation is a free gift, and it is a free gift _for us_.
+Can you buy it? It is a free gift, presented to "whosoever" will
+accept it.
+
+Suppose I were to say, I will give this Bible to "whosoever" will take
+it; what have you got to do? Why, nothing but take it. But a man comes
+forward, and says:
+
+"I'd like that Bible very much."
+
+"Well, didn't I say 'whosoever' will can have it?"
+
+"Yes; but I'd like to have you mention my name."
+
+"Well, here it is."
+
+Still he keeps eyeing the Bible, and saying, "I'd like to have that
+Bible; but I'd like to give you something for it. I don't like to take
+it for nothing."
+
+"But I am not here to sell Bibles; take it, if you want it."
+
+"Well, I want it; but I'd like to give you something for it. Let me
+give you a cent for it; though, to be sure, it's worth about five
+dollars."
+
+Suppose I accept the cent; the man takes up the Bible and marches away
+home with it.
+
+His wife asks, "Where did you get that Bible?"
+
+"Oh, I bought it."
+
+Mark the point; when he gave the penny, it ceased to be a gift. So
+with salvation. If you were to pay ever so little, it would not be a
+gift.
+
+
+What Seed Are You Sowing?
+
+Suppose I meet a man who is sowing seed, and say, "Hello, stranger,
+what are you sowing?"
+
+"Seed."
+
+"What kind of seed?"
+
+"I don't know."
+
+"Don't you know whether it is good or bad?"
+
+"No; I can't tell. But it is seed--that is all I want to know, and I
+am sowing it."
+
+You would say that he was a first-class lunatic, wouldn't you? But he
+wouldn't be half so mad as the man who goes on sowing for time and
+eternity, and never asks himself what he is sowing or what the harvest
+will be.
+
+Father, what seed are you sowing in your family? Are you setting your
+children a good or a bad example? Do you spend your time at the saloon
+or the club, until you have become almost a stranger to them? or are
+you training them for God and righteousness?
+
+
+Bound Hand and Foot
+
+When I was speaking to five thousand children in Glasgow some years
+ago, I took a spool of thread and said to one of the largest boys:
+
+"Do you believe I can bind you with that thread?"
+
+He laughed at the idea. I wound the thread around him a few times, and
+he broke it with a single jerk. Then I wound the thread around and
+around, and by and by I said:
+
+"Now get free if you can."
+
+He couldn't move head or foot. If you are slave to some vile habit,
+you must either slay that habit, or it will slay you.
+
+
+Unity
+
+There is one thing I have noticed as I have traveled in different
+countries; I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the
+Lord's people were divided. Unity is one thing that we must have if
+we are to have the Holy Spirit of God to work in our midst.
+
+If a church is divided, the members should immediately seek unity. Let
+the believers come together and get the difficulty out of the way. If
+the minister of a church cannot unite the people, if those that were
+dissatisfied will not fall in, it would be better for that minister to
+retire. I think there are a good many ministers in this country who
+are losing their time; they have lost, some of them, months and years;
+they have not seen any fruit, and they will not see any fruit, because
+they have a divided church. Such a church cannot grow in divine
+things. The Spirit of God doesn't work where there is division, and
+what we want to-day is the spirit of unity amongst God's children, so
+that the Lord may work.
+
+
+Get Inside!
+
+You have looked at the windows of a grand church erected at the cost
+of many thousands of dollars. From the outside they did not seem very
+beautiful; but get inside, when the rays of the sun are striking upon
+the stained glass, and you begin to understand what others have told
+you of their magnificence. So it is when you have come into personal
+contact with Christ. You find Him to be the very Savior and friend you
+need. You will see in Him what you have never seen before.
+
+
+Hunt For Something
+
+We must study the Bible thoroughly, and hunt it through, as it were,
+for some great truth.
+
+If a friend were to see me searching about a building, and were to
+come up, and say, "Moody, what are you looking for? Have you lost
+something?" and I were to say, "No, I haven't lost anything; I'm not
+looking for anything particular," I fancy he would just let me go on
+by myself, and think me very foolish. But if I were to say, "Yes, I
+have lost a dollar," why, then, I might expect him to help me to find
+it.
+
+Read the Bible, my friends, as if you were seeking for something of
+value. It is a good deal better to take a single chapter, and spend a
+month on it, than to read the Bible at random for a month.
+
+
+"When Ye Think Not"
+
+McCheyne, the Scotch preacher, once said to some friends, "Do you
+think Christ will come to-night?"
+
+One after another they said, "I think not."
+
+When all had given this answer, he solemnly repeated this text, "The
+Son of Man cometh at an hour _when ye think not_."
+
+
+Home Piety
+
+If a Christian is unsound in patience or unsound in love, we take no
+notice of it; but let him be unsound in faith, and off goes his head.
+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.
+I tell you he is not fit to preach the Word of God. I don't want to
+have anything to do with him. The home was established before the
+church, and he sadly needs more home piety.
+
+
+Constant Watching
+
+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. It
+was poor policy. Sins, like serpents, breed quickly, and need to be
+constantly watched.
+
+
+The Wrong Physician
+
+I heard once of a man who went to England from the Continent, and
+brought letters with him to eminent physicians from the Emperor. The
+letters said:
+
+"This man is a personal friend of mine, and we are afraid he is going
+to lose his reason. Do all you can for him."
+
+The doctor asked him if he had lost any dear friend in his own
+country, or any position of importance, or what it was that was
+weighing on his mind.
+
+The young man said: "No; but my father and grandfather and myself were
+brought up infidels, and for the last two or three years this thought
+has been haunting me, 'Where shall I spend eternity?' And the thought
+of it follows me day and night."
+
+The doctor said, "You have come to the wrong physician, but I will
+tell you of One who can cure you"; and he told him of Christ, and read
+to him the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah, "With His stripes we are
+healed."
+
+The young man said, "Doctor, do you believe that?"
+
+The doctor told him he did, and prayed and wrestled with him, and at
+last the clear light of Calvary shone on his soul. He had settled the
+question in his own mind at last, where he would spend eternity.
+
+I ask you, sinner, to settle if now. It is for you to decide. Shall it
+be with the saints and martyrs and prophets, or in the dark caverns of
+hell, amidst blackness and darkness forever? Make haste to be wise;
+for "how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?"
+
+
+Seeking the Lost
+
+I remember, when we were in London, they found one old woman who was
+eighty-five years old, and not a Christian. After the worker had
+prayed, she made a prayer herself:
+
+"O Lord, I thank Thee for going out of Thy way to find me."
+
+He is all the time going out of His way to find the lost.
+
+
+He Got Time To Think
+
+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:
+
+"I don't believe it."
+
+I said: "My friend, that doesn't change the fact. Truth is truth,
+whether you believe it or not; and a lie is a lie, whether you believe
+it or not."
+
+He didn't want to believe it. When the meeting broke up, an officer
+was at the door to arrest him. He was tried and sent to the
+penitentiary for twelve months for stealing. I really believe that
+when he got into his cell, he believed that he had to reap what he
+sowed.
+
+
+The Motherless Child
+
+Once I heard of a little sick child, whose mother was seriously ill;
+and so, in order that she might have quiet, and that the sick child
+might be no trouble to her, the little one was taken away to a
+friend's house, and placed in charge of a kind lady for a time. The
+mother grew worse, and at length died. The father said:
+
+"We'll not trouble the child about it; she is too young to remember
+her mother; just let her remain where she is until the funeral is
+over."
+
+This was done, and in a few days the little girl was brought back to
+the house. No mention was made of her mother, or of what had occurred;
+but no sooner was she taken to the house than she ran first into one
+room, then into another, into the parlor, the dining-room, and all
+over the house, and then away into a little room where her mother used
+to go to pray alone.
+
+"Where is mother?" she cried. "I want mother!"
+
+And when they were compelled to tell her what had happened, she cried
+out:
+
+"Take me away, take me away; I don't want to be here without mother."
+
+It was the mother made it home to her. And so it is in heaven. It is
+not so much the white robes, the golden crown, or the harps of gold,
+but it is the society we shall meet there. Who, then, are there? What
+company shall we have when we get there? Jesus is there, the Holy
+Father is there, the Spirit is there--our Father, our elder Brother,
+our Comforter.
+
+
+Converted the Regular Way
+
+I never yet knew a man converted just in the time and manner he
+expected to be. I have heard people say, "Well, if ever I am
+converted, it won't be in a Methodist church; you won't catch me
+there." I never knew a man say that but, at last, if converted at all,
+it was in a Methodist church.
+
+In Scotland a man was converted at one of our meetings--an employer.
+He was very anxious that all his employés should be reached, and he
+used to send them one by one to the meetings. But there was one
+employé that wouldn't come. We are all more or less troubled with
+stubbornness; and the moment this man found that his employer wanted
+him to go to the meetings, he made up his mind he wouldn't go. If he
+was going to be converted, he said, he was going to be converted by
+some ordained minister; he was not going to any meeting that was
+conducted by unordained Americans. He believed in conversion, but he
+was going to be converted the regular way. He believed in the regular
+Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and that was the place for him to be
+converted.
+
+The employer tried every way he could to get him to attend the
+meetings, but he wouldn't come.
+
+After we left that town and went away up to Inverness, the employer
+had some business up there, and he sent this employé to attend to it,
+in the hope that he would attend some of our meetings.
+
+One night, as I was preaching on the bank of a river, I happened to
+take for my text the words of Naaman: "I thought; I thought." I was
+trying to take men's thoughts up and to show the difference between
+their thoughts and God's thoughts. This man happened to be walking
+along the bank of the river. He saw a great crowd, and heard some one
+talking, and he wondered to himself what that man was talking about.
+He didn't know who was there, so he drew up to the crowd, and
+listened. He heard the sermon, and became convicted and converted
+right there. Then he inquired who was the preacher, and he found out
+it was the very man that he said he would not hear--the man he
+disliked. The very man he had been talking against was the very man
+God used to convert him.
+
+
+Crazy from Sin
+
+I was once preaching in Chicago, and a woman who was nearly out of her
+mind came to me. You know there are some people who mock at religious
+meetings, and say that religion drives people mad. It is _sin_ that
+drives people mad. It is the want of Christ that sinks people into
+despair.
+
+This was the woman's story:
+
+She had a family of children. One of her neighbors had died, and her
+husband had brought home a little child. She said, "I don't want the
+child," but her husband said, "You must take it and look after it."
+She said she had enough to do with her own, and she told her husband
+to take that child away. But he would not. She confessed that she
+tried to starve the child; but it lingered on. One night it cried all
+night; I suppose it wanted food. At last she took the clothes and
+threw them over the child and smothered it. No one saw her; no one
+knew anything about it. The child was buried. Years had passed away,
+and she said:
+
+"I hear the voice of that child day and night. It has driven me nearly
+mad."
+
+No one saw the act; but God saw it, and this retribution followed it.
+History is full of these things. You need not go to the Bible to find
+it out.
+
+
+Don't Swear!
+
+I was greatly amazed not long ago, in talking to a man who thought he
+was a Christian, to find that once in a while, when he got angry, he
+would swear. 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. I don't
+see how you can profess to be a child of God and let those words come
+out of your lips."
+
+He replied: "Mr. Moody, if you knew me, you would understand. I have a
+very quick temper. I inherited it from my father and mother, and it is
+uncontrollable but my swearing comes only from the lips."
+
+When God said, "I will not hold him guiltless that takes My name in
+vain," He meant what He said, and I don't believe any one can be a
+true child of God who takes the name of God in vain.
+
+
+The True Sheep Knows
+
+I tell you the true sheep know a true shepherd. I got up in Scotland
+once and quoted a passage of Scripture a little different from what it
+was in the Bible, and an old woman crept up and said:
+
+"Mr. Moody, you said----."
+
+I might make forty misquotations in an ordinary audience, and no one
+would tell me about them. Like two lawyers: one said in court that the
+other didn't know the Lord's Prayer. The other said he did:
+
+"Now I lay me down to sleep."
+
+"Well," the first said, "I give it up. I did not think you knew it."
+
+Didn't either one of them know it, you see.
+
+
+The Father Knew Best
+
+Dr. Arnot, one of the greatest Scotch divines, was in this country
+before he died. His mother died when he was a little boy only three
+weeks old, and there was a large family of Arnots. I suppose they
+missed the tenderness and love of the mother. They got the impression
+that their father was very stern and rigid, and that he had a great
+many laws and rules.
+
+One rule was, that the children should never climb trees. 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. Well, tell a boy of twelve years that he
+mustn't climb a tree, and he will get up that tree some way. And so
+the Arnot children were all the time teasing their father to let them
+climb the tree; but the old sire said:
+
+"No."
+
+One day he was busy reading his paper, and the boys said:
+
+"Father is reading his paper. Let's slip down into the lot and climb a
+tree."
+
+One of the little fellows stood on the top of the fence to see that
+father did not catch them. When his brother got up on the first
+branch, he said:
+
+"What do you see?"
+
+"Why! I don't see anything."
+
+"Then go higher; you haven't got high enough."
+
+So up he went higher, and again the little boy asked:
+
+"Well, what do you see now?"
+
+"I don't see anything."
+
+"You aren't high enough; go higher."
+
+And the little fellow went up as high as he could go, but he slipped,
+and down he came, and broke his leg. Willie said he tried to get him
+into the house, but he couldn't do it. He had to tell his father all
+about it. He said he was scared nearly out of his wits. He thought his
+father would be very angry. But his father just threw aside the paper,
+and started for the lot. When he got there, he picked the boy up in
+his arms, and brought him up to the house. Then he sent for the
+doctor. And Willie said he got a new view of that father. He found out
+the reason why that father was so stern. He said the moment that boy
+got hurt, no mother could have been more loving and gentle.
+
+My dear friends, there is not one commandment that has been given us
+which has not been for our highest and best interest. There isn't a
+commandment that hasn't come from the loving heart of God, and what He
+wants is to have us give up that which is going to mar our happiness
+in this life, and in the life to come.
+
+
+"Help Yourself!"
+
+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.
+One day he said to me:
+
+"Moody, while you are my guest I want you to make yourself perfectly
+at home, and if there is anything in the orchard or in the vineyard
+you would like, help yourself."
+
+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. He said "Take," and I took.
+
+God says, "There is my Son; take Him as your Saviour. The wages of sin
+is death; but the gift of God is eternal life."
+
+
+The Rich Husband
+
+There was a shop-girl in Chicago, a few years ago. One day she could
+not have bought five dollars' worth of anything; the next day she
+could go and buy a thousand dollar's worth of whatever she wanted.
+
+What made the difference?
+
+Why, she had married a rich husband; that was all. She had received
+him, and of course all he had became hers. And so we can have all, if
+we only receive Christ.
+
+
+Settle It Now!
+
+Some years ago, in one of the mining districts of England, a young man
+attended one of our meetings and refused to go from the place till he
+had found peace in the Savior. The next day he went down into the pit,
+and the coal fell in upon him. When they took him out, he was broken
+and mangled, and had only two or three minutes of life left in him.
+His friends gathered about him, saw his lips moving, and, bending down
+to catch his words, heard him say:
+
+"It was a good thing I settled it last night."
+
+Settle it now, my friends, once for all. Begin now to confess your
+sins, and pray the Lord to remember you. He will make you an heir of
+His kingdom, if you will accept the gift of salvation.
+
+
+The True Source of Joy
+
+God doesn't ask us to rejoice over nothing; He gives us ground for our
+joy. What would you think of a man who seemed very happy to-day and
+full of joy, and couldn't tell you what made him so? Suppose I should
+meet a man on the street, and he was so full of joy that he should get
+hold of both my hands and say:
+
+"Bless the Lord, I am so full of joy!"
+
+"What makes you so full of joy?"
+
+"Well, I don't know."
+
+"You don't know!"
+
+"No, I don't; but I am so joyful that I just want to get out of the
+flesh."
+
+"What makes you feel so joyful?"
+
+"Well, I don't know."
+
+Would we not think such a person unreasonable? But there are a great
+many people who want to feel that they are Christians before they are
+Christians; they want the Christian's experience before they become
+Christians; they want to have the joy of the Lord before they receive
+Jesus Christ. But this is not the Gospel order. He brings joy when He
+comes, and we cannot have joy apart from Him. He is the author of it,
+and we find our joy in Him.
+
+
+The Meanest Kind of Murderers
+
+When I was in England in 1892, I met a gentleman who claimed that they
+were ahead of us in the respect they had for the law. "We hang our
+murderers," he said, "but there isn't one out of twenty in your
+country that is hung."
+
+I said, "You are greatly mistaken, for they walk about these two
+countries unhung."
+
+"What do you mean?"
+
+"I will tell you what I mean," I said; "the man that comes into my
+house and runs a dagger into my heart for my money is a prince
+compared with a son that takes five years to kill me and the wife of
+my bosom. 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."
+
+
+Where your Treasure Is
+
+You can soon tell where a man's treasure is by his talk. If it is in
+heaven, he will not be long with you before he's talking about heaven;
+his heart is there, and so his speech isn't long in running there,
+too. If his heart is in money, he will soon have you deep in talk
+about mines, speculation, stocks, bank rate, and so on. If his heart
+is in lands, it won't be long before he's talking about real estate,
+improvements, houses, and so on. Always the same, wherever a man's
+heart is, there his tongue will be sure to go.
+
+Some one in England said, if you see a man's goods and furniture come
+down by the luggage train, you're pretty sure he'll be down by the
+next passenger train; he won't be long after; he'll follow his goods.
+And so it is with heaven; if your treasure is on before you, you'll be
+wanting to follow it; you'll be glad to be on the road thither as soon
+as possible.
+
+
+Why his Life was Spared
+
+Two Americans who were crossing the Atlantic met on Sunday night to
+sing hymns in the cabin. As they sang the hymn, "Jesus, Lover of my
+Soul," one of them heard an exceedingly rich and beautiful voice
+behind him. He looked around, and although he did not know the face he
+thought that he recognized the voice. So when the music ceased he
+turned around and asked the man if he had not been in the Civil War.
+The man replied that he had been a Confederate soldier.
+
+"Were you at such a place on such a night?" asked the first.
+
+"Yes," he said, "and a curious thing happened that night; this hymn
+recalled it to my mind. I was on sentry duty on the edge of a wood. It
+was a dark night and very cold, and I was a little frightened because
+the enemy were supposed to be very near at hand. I felt very homesick
+and miserable, and about midnight, when everything was very still, I
+was beginning to feel very weary and thought that I would comfort
+myself by praying and singing a hymn. I remember singing this hymn--
+
+  'All my trust on Thee is stayed,
+    All my help from Thee I bring.
+  Cover my defenceless head
+    With the shadow of Thy wing.'
+
+"After I had sung those words a strange peace came down upon me, and
+through the long night I remember having felt no more fear."
+
+"Now," said the other man, "listen to my story. I was a Union soldier,
+and was in the wood that night with a party of scouts. I saw you
+standing up, although I didn't see your face, and my men had their
+rifles focused upon you waiting the word to fire, but when you sang
+out--
+
+  'Cover my defenceless head
+    With the shadow of Thy wing.'
+
+I said, 'Boys, put down your rifles; we will go home.' I couldn't kill
+you after that."
+
+
+The Sinner's Heart
+
+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. Then I turned a
+key, but the door would not open. Then I found there was another bolt
+at the top and another bolt at the bottom. Still the door would not
+open. Then I found there was a bar, and then I found a night-lock. In
+all I found five or six different fastenings.
+
+I am afraid that door represents every sinner's heart. The door of his
+heart is double-locked, double-bolted, and double-barred. Oh, my
+friends, pull back the bolts, and let the King of glory in!
+
+
+Nothing Small
+
+There are a great many different ways of doing good. A lady once
+visited a hospital, and noticed with what pleasure the patients would
+smell and look at the flowers sent to them. Said she:
+
+"If I had known that a bunch of flowers would do so much good, I would
+have sent some from home."
+
+As soon as she got home, she sent some flowers out of her garden. It
+was a little thing--a bouquet of flowers. It might be a very
+insignificant work--very small; but if it was done in the right
+spirit, God accepted it. A cup of water given in His name is accepted
+as given to Himself. Nothing that is done for God is small.
+
+
+An Anecdote about Tennyson
+
+It is said that Tennyson once asked an old Christian woman if there
+was any news.
+
+"Why, Mr. Tennyson," she replied, "there's only one piece of news that
+I know, and that is--Christ died for all men."
+
+"That is old news, and good news, and new news," Tennyson responded.
+
+
+On Satan's Ground
+
+There is a legend that the Apostle John was much distressed over the
+fall of a young convert. He summoned Satan before him, and reproached
+him for ruining so good a youth.
+
+"I found your good youth on my ground," said Satan; "so I took him."
+
+The only safe course is to avoid temptation altogether.
+
+
+Two Bidding for the Soul
+
+There are two who are bidding for your soul and mine--the Lord Jesus
+and Satan.
+
+Satan bids, and he offers that which he cannot give. He is a liar, and
+has been from the foundation of the world. I pity the man who is
+living on the promises of the devil. He will never satisfy. But the
+Lord Jesus is able to give all that He offers. And what does He
+offer? He offers peace and joy and comfort that the world knows not
+of. He offers eternal life in the kingdom of God. He offers a seat in
+His mansions. We are to sit with Him upon His throne.
+
+May God help you to make a right choice! Make up your mind you will
+not rest until the great question of eternity is settled, until you
+have crossed the borderland, and pressed into the kingdom of God.
+
+
+Tried and Proven
+
+I knew an old lady that marked in the margin of her Bible, opposite
+the promises. T. P.; T. for "tried," and P. for "proven." What we want
+is to try the Bible and see if it is not true.
+
+
+The Prairie Fire
+
+Out in the Western country, in the autumn, when men go hunting, and
+there has not been any rain for months, sometimes the prairie grass
+catches fire, and there comes up a very strong wind, and the flames
+just roll along twenty feet high, and travel at the rate of thirty or
+forty miles an hour, consuming man and beast. When the hunters see it
+coming, what do they do? They know they cannot run as fast as the fire
+can run. Not the fleetest horse can escape. They just take a match and
+light the grass around them, and let the flames sweep, and then they
+get into the burnt district and stand safe. They hear the flames roar
+as they come along, they see death coming toward them, but they do not
+fear, they do not tremble, because the fire has swept over the place
+where they are, and there is no danger. There is nothing for the fire
+to burn.
+
+There is one mountain that the wrath of God has swept over--that is,
+Mount Calvary; and the fire spent its fury upon the bosom of the Son
+of God. Take your stand by the cross, and you will be safe for time
+and eternity.
+
+
+Perfect Order
+
+A good many people are afraid of doing anything out of the regular
+lines--of doing anything out of order. Now, you will find perfect
+order in a cemetery. You will find perfect order where there is death.
+Where there is life you will find something out of order.
+
+
+Is your Soul Insured?
+
+"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?"
+
+"What are you thinking about, my son?" replied the agitated father.
+"Why do you ask that question?"
+
+"Why, pa, I heard Uncle George say that you had your house insured,
+and your life insured; but he didn't believe you had thought of your
+soul, and he was afraid you would lose it; won't you get it insured
+right away?"
+
+The father leaned his head on his hand, and was silent. He owned broad
+acres of land that were covered with a bountiful produce; his barns
+were even now filled with plenty, his buildings were all well covered
+by insurance; and as if that would not suffice for the maintenance of
+his wife and only child in case of his decease, he had, the day
+before, taken a life-policy for a large amount; yet not one thought
+had he given to his own immortal soul. On that which was to waste away
+and become part and parcel of its native dust he had spared no pains;
+but for that which was to live on and on through the long ages of
+eternity he had made no provision. "What shall it profit a man if he
+gain the whole world and lose his own soul?"
+
+
+Memory
+
+I have been twice at the point of death. I was drowning once, and just
+as I was going down the third time I was rescued. In the twinkling of
+an eye my whole life came flashing across my mind. I cannot tell you
+how it was. I cannot tell you how a whole life can be crowded into a
+second of time; but everything I had done from my earliest
+childhood--it all came flashing across my mind. And I believe that
+when God touches the secret spring of memory, every one of our sins
+will come back, and if they have not been blotted out by the blood of
+the Lord Jesus Christ, they will haunt us as eternal ages roll on.
+
+We talk about our forgetting, but we cannot forget if God says
+"Remember." We talk about the recording angel keeping the record of
+our life. I have an idea that when we get to heaven, or into eternity,
+we will find that recording angel has been ourselves. God will make
+every one of us keep our own record; these memories will keep the
+record, and when God shall say, "Son, remember," it will all flash
+across our mind. It won't be God who will condemn us; it will be
+ourselves. We shall condemn ourselves, and we shall stand before God
+speechless.
+
+There is a man in prison. He has been there five years. Ask that man
+what makes the prison so terrible to him. Ask him if it is the walls
+and the iron gates--ask him if it is his hard work, and he will tell
+you _no_; he will tell you what makes the prison so terrible to him
+is _memory_; and I have an idea that if we got down into the lost
+world, we would find that is what makes hell so terrible--the
+remembrance that they once heard the Gospel, that they once had Christ
+offered to them, that they once had the privilege of being saved, but
+they made light of the Gospel, they neglected salvation, they rejected
+the offer of mercy, and now if they would accept it they could not.
+
+
+Balaam's Ass
+
+A friend of mine was going back to Scotland, and he heard a couple of
+these little modern philosophers discussing the Bible. One said: "The
+Bible says that Balaam's ass spoke. 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."
+
+He was going to toss the whole Bible over because Balaam's ass
+couldn't speak.
+
+My friend said he stood it just as long as he could, and finally he
+said:
+
+"Ah, man, you make an ass, and I will make him speak."
+
+The idea that the God who made the ass couldn't speak through his
+mouth! Did you ever hear such stuff? And yet this was one of your
+modern philosophers!
+
+
+The Border Apple-Tree
+
+If you want real peace and rest to your soul, keep separate from the
+world.
+
+I remember when I was a boy in Northfield, right near the old red
+schoolhouse there was an apple-tree that bore the earliest apples of
+any tree in town. They had a law in that town that fruit on a tree
+overhanging the street belonged to the public, and any fruit on the
+other side of the fence belonged to the property-holders. Half that
+apple-tree was over in the street, and it got more old brooms and
+brickbats and handles than any other tree in town. We boys used to
+watch to see when an apple was getting red. I never got a ripe apple
+from that tree in my life, and I don't believe any one else ever did.
+You never went by that tree that you didn't see a lot of broom-handles
+and clubs up there.
+
+Now, take a lot of Christians who want to live right on the line, with
+one foot in the world and one foot in the church. They get more clubs
+than any one else. The world clubs them. They say, "I don't believe in
+that man's religion." And the church clubs them. They get clubs both
+sides. It is a good deal better to keep just as far from the line as
+you can if you want power.
+
+
+Bad Company
+
+A friend of mine said he had a beautiful canary bird; he thought it
+was the sweetest singer they had ever had. Spring came on, and he felt
+it was a pity to keep the poor bird in the house, so he put it under a
+tree right in front of his house. He said before he knew it a lot of
+these little English sparrows got under that tree (and you know they
+cannot sing any more than I can, and I don't know one note from
+another), and went, "Chirp, chirp, chirp." Before he knew it, that
+little canary had lost all its sweet notes. It had got into bad
+company.
+
+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. He said that bird never
+got back its sweet notes.
+
+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? Why? Because they are out of communion
+with God, and have lost their witness.
+
+
+"Hitch On" and "Cut Behind"
+
+Some one tells of an incident that happened in a New England town the
+other day. All the boys were sleighing. A big sleigh--we call it a
+"pung" up there--was being driven through the streets by an old man
+who looked like Santa Claus. He was calling out to the small boys to
+hitch on, for a pung is like a 'bus, it always holds one more.
+
+There were already about twenty rollicking boys hitched on, when one
+little fellow dropped off behind. He tried, but couldn't catch up
+again, and pretty soon he began to look out for another chance for a
+ride. A man's sleigh was standing near by, and the boy began to eye
+the man. When the man in the sleigh started off, the little fellow
+hitched on behind, and the man grabbed his whip and struck him
+directly in the eye. It looked as if the eye had been put out, but it
+wasn't.
+
+Now, that's the way we go through this world. Some say, "Hitch on,
+hitch on"; others, "Cut behind, cut behind." The hitch-on people fill
+the churches, and the cut-behind ones empty them.
+
+
+Known by Name
+
+A friend of mine was in Syria, and he found a shepherd that kept up
+the old custom of naming his sheep. My friend said he wouldn't believe
+that the sheep knew him when he called them by name. So he said to the
+shepherd:
+
+"I wish you would just call one or two."
+
+The shepherd said, "Carl."
+
+The sheep stopped eating and looked up.
+
+The shepherd called out, "Come here."
+
+The sheep came, and stood looking up into his face.
+
+He called another, and another, and there they stood looking up at the
+shepherd.
+
+"How can you tell them apart?"
+
+"Oh, there are no two alike. See, that sheep toes in a little; this
+sheep is a little bit squint-eyed; that sheep has a black spot on its
+nose."
+
+My friend found that he knew every one of his sheep by their failings.
+He didn't have a perfect one in his flock.
+
+I suppose that is the way the Lord knows you and me. There is a man
+that is covetous; he wants to grasp the whole world. He wants a
+shepherd to keep down that spirit. There is a woman down there who has
+an awful tongue; she keeps the whole neighborhood stirred up. There is
+a woman over there who is deceitful, terribly so. She needs the care
+of a shepherd to keep her from deceit, for she will ruin all her
+children; they will all turn out just like their mother. There is a
+father over there who wouldn't swear for all the world before his
+children, but sometimes he gets provoked in his business and swears
+before he knows it. Doesn't he need a shepherd's care? I would like to
+know if there is a man or woman on earth who doesn't need the care of
+a shepherd. Haven't we all got failings? If you really want to know
+what your failings are, you can find some one who can point them out.
+God would never have sent Christ into the world if we didn't need His
+care. We are as weak and foolish as sheep.
+
+
+The Right Time for Action
+
+A man was always telling his servant that he was going to do a great
+thing for him. "I am going to remember you in my will."
+
+Sambo got his expectations up very high. When the man came to die, it
+was found that all he had willed Sambo was to be buried in the family
+lot. That was the big thing, you know. Sambo said he wished he had
+given him ten dollars, and let the lot go.
+
+If you want to show kindness to a person, show it to him while you are
+living. I heard a man say that he didn't want people to throw bouquets
+to him after he was dead, and say, "There, smell them."
+
+Now, this is the time for action. I have got so tired and sick of this
+splitting hairs over theology. Man, let us go out and get the fallen
+up. Lift them up toward God and heaven. We want a practical kind of
+Christianity.
+
+
+Criticising the Sermon
+
+Very often a man will hear a hundred good things in a sermon, but
+there may be one thing that strikes him as a little out of place, and
+he will go home and sit down at the table and talk right out before
+his children and magnify that one wrong thing, and not say a word
+about the hundred good things that were said. That is what people do
+who criticise.
+
+
+A Reminiscence
+
+I remember blaming my mother for sending me to church on the Sabbath.
+On one occasion the preacher had to send some one into the gallery to
+wake me up. 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. I thought I wouldn't go to church any more when I got away
+from home; but I had got so in the habit of going that I couldn't stay
+away. After one or two Sabbaths, back again to the house of God I
+went. There I first found Christ, and I have often said since:
+
+"Mother, I thank you for making me go to the house of God when I
+didn't want to go."
+
+
+Transplanting the Lily
+
+"It is easy to go when the time comes. There are no ropes thrown out
+to pull us ashore; there are no ladders let down to pull us up. Christ
+comes and takes us by the hand, and says:
+
+"'You have had enough of this. Come up higher!'
+
+"Do you hurt a lily when you pluck it? Is there any rudeness when
+Jesus touches the cheek, and the red rose of health whitens into the
+lily of immortal purity and gladness?"--Talmage.
+
+
+Election
+
+How many men fold their arms and say:
+
+"If I am one of the elect, I will be saved, and if I ain't, I won't.
+No use of your bothering about it."
+
+Why don't some of these merchants say: "If God is going to make me a
+successful merchant in Chicago, I will be one whether I like it or
+not, and if He isn't I won't."
+
+If you are sick, and a doctor prescribes for you, don't take the
+medicine--throw it out the door. It does not matter, for if God has
+decreed you are going to die, you will; if He hasn't, you will get
+better. If you use that argument you may as well not walk home from
+this tabernacle. If God has said you'll get home, you'll get
+home--you'll fly through the air.
+
+I have an idea that the Lord Jesus saw how men were going to stumble
+over this doctrine, so after He had been thirty or forty years in
+heaven He came down and spoke to John. One Lord's day in Patmos, He
+said to him:
+
+"Write these things to the churches."
+
+John kept on writing. His pen flew very fast. And then the Lord, when
+it was nearly finished, said, "John, before you close the book, put in
+one more invitation. 'The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him
+that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst, come. And
+WHOSOEVER WILL, let him take the water of life freely.'"
+
+
+The Mysteries of the Bible
+
+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:
+
+"Mr. Talmage, you will have to let God know some things you don't."
+
+
+The Little Lone One
+
+I sometimes think if an angel were to wing its way to heaven, and tell
+them that there was one little child here on earth--it might be a
+shoeless, coatless street Arab--with no one to lead it to the cross of
+Christ, and if God were to call the angels round His throne and ask
+them to go and spend--aye, fifty years, in teaching that child, there
+would not be an angel in heaven but would respond gladly to the
+appeal. We should see even Gabriel saying, "Let me go and win that
+soul to Christ." We should see Paul buckling on his old armor again,
+and saying, "Let me go back again to earth, that I may have the joy
+of leading that little one to his Saviour."
+
+Ah! we need rousing; there is too much apathy amongst professing
+Christians. Let us pray God that He may send His Holy Spirit to
+inspire us with fresh energy and zeal to do His work.
+
+
+Doubting Castle
+
+It is the privilege of every child of God to know that he is saved,
+and yet I find ever so many people living in Doubting Castle. Why, it
+is _salvation by doubts_ nowadays, instead of _by faith;_ there are so
+few that dare to say, "I know that my Redeemer liveth; I know in whom
+I have believed." We find most Christians nowadays shivering and
+trembling from head to foot--they do not know whether they are saved
+or not.
+
+
+Faith
+
+Bishop Ryle has very well likened faith to a root whose flower is
+assurance. To have the latter, he says, it is necessary that there
+must first be the hidden source of faith.
+
+Faith is the simplest and most universal experience in the world. Call
+it by whatever name you may, confidence, trust, or belief, it is
+inseparable from the human race. The first sign of a dawning
+intelligence in the mind is the exercise of the infant's faith toward
+those it knows, and its fear toward those it does not know. We cannot
+even remember when we first began to have faith.
+
+
+Confessing Christ at Home
+
+I was preaching in Chicago to a hall full of women one Sunday
+afternoon, and after the meeting was over a lady came to me and said
+she wanted to talk to me. She said she would accept Christ, and after
+some conversation she went home. I looked for her for a whole week,
+but didn't see her until the following Sunday afternoon. She came and
+sat down right in front of me, and her face had such a sad expression.
+She seemed to have entered into the misery, instead of the joy, of the
+Lord.
+
+After the meeting was over I went to her and asked her what the
+trouble was.
+
+She said, "Oh, Mr. Moody, this has been the most miserable week of my
+life."
+
+I asked her if there was any one with whom she had had trouble and
+whom she could not forgive.
+
+She said, "No, not that I know of."
+
+"Well, did you tell your friends about having found the Saviour?"
+
+"Indeed I didn't. I have been all the week trying to keep it from
+them."
+
+"Well," I said, "that is the reason why you have no peace."
+
+She wanted to take the crown, but did not want the cross. My friends,
+you must go by the way of Calvary. If you ever get peace and joy you
+must get it at the foot of the cross.
+
+"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. I think he would
+turn me out."
+
+"Well," I said, "go out."
+
+She went away, promising that she would tell him, timid and pale, but
+she did not want another wretched week. She was bound to have peace.
+
+The next night I gave a lecture to men only, and in the hall there
+were eight thousand men and one solitary woman. When I got through and
+went into the inquiry meeting I found this lady with her husband. She
+introduced him to me (he was a doctor and a very influential man),
+and said:
+
+"He wants to become a Christian."
+
+I took my Bible and told him all about Christ, and he accepted Him. I
+said to her after it was all over:
+
+"It turned out quite differently from what you expected, didn't it?"
+
+"Yes," she replied; "I was never so scared in my life. I expected he
+would do something dreadful, but it has turned out so well."
+
+She took God's way, and got the joy and peace she sought.
+
+
+How to Settle the Theater Question
+
+A lady came to me once and said, "Mr. Moody, I wish you would tell me
+how I can become a Christian." The tears were rolling down her cheeks,
+and she was in a very favorable mood. "But," she said, "I don't want
+to be one of your kind."
+
+"Well," I asked, "have I got any peculiar kind? What is the matter
+with my Christianity?"
+
+"Well," she said, "my father was a doctor, and had a large practice,
+and he used to get so tired that he used to take us to the theater.
+There was a large family of girls, and we had tickets for the theaters
+three or four times a week. I suppose we were there a good deal
+oftener than we were in church. I am married to a lawyer, and he has a
+large practice. He gets so tired that he takes us out to the theater,"
+and she said, "I am far better acquainted with the theater and theater
+people than with the church and church people, and I don't want to
+give up the theater."
+
+"Well," I said, "did you ever hear me say anything about theaters?
+There have been reporters here every day for all the different papers,
+and they are giving my sermons verbatim in one paper. Have you ever
+seen anything in the sermons against the theaters?"
+
+She said, "No."
+
+"Well," I said, "I have seen you in the audience every afternoon for
+several weeks, and have you heard me say anything against theaters?"
+
+No, she hadn't.
+
+"Well," I said, "what made you bring them up?"
+
+"Why, I supposed you didn't believe in theaters."
+
+"What made you think that?"
+
+"Why," she said, "do you ever go?"
+
+"No."
+
+"Why don't you go?"
+
+"Because I have got something better. I would sooner go out into the
+street and eat dirt than do some of the things I used to do before I
+became a Christian."
+
+"Why!" she said; "I don't understand."
+
+"Never mind," I said. "When Jesus Christ has the preëminence, you will
+understand it all. He didn't come down here and say we shouldn't go
+here and we shouldn't go there, and lay down a lot of rules, but He
+laid down great principles. Now, He says if you love Him you will take
+delight in pleasing Him." And I began to preach Christ to her. The
+tears started again. She said:
+
+"I tell you, Mr. Moody, that sermon on the indwelling Christ yesterday
+afternoon just broke my heart. I admire Him, and I want to be a
+Christian, but I don't want to give up the theaters."
+
+I said, "Please don't mention them again. I don't want to talk about
+theaters. I want to talk to you about Christ." So I took my Bible,
+and I read to her about Christ.
+
+But she said again, "Mr. Moody, can I go to the theater if I become a
+Christian?"
+
+"Yes," I said, "you can go to the theater just as much as you like if
+you are a real, true Christian, and can go with His blessing."
+
+"Well," she said, "I am glad you are not so narrow-minded as some."
+
+She felt quite relieved to think that she could go to the theaters and
+be a Christian. But I said:
+
+"If you can go to the theater for the glory of God, keep on going;
+only be sure that you go for the glory of God. If you are a Christian
+you will be glad to do whatever will please Him."
+
+I really think she became a Christian that day. The burden had gone,
+there was joy; but just as she was leaving me at the door she said:
+
+"I am not going to give up the theater."
+
+In a few days she came back to me and said: "Mr. Moody, I understand
+all about that theater business now. I went the other night. 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. I
+said to my husband, 'This is no place for me; this is horrible. I am
+not going to stay here, I am going home.' He said, 'Don't make a fool
+of yourself. Every one has heard that you have been converted in the
+Moody meetings, and if you go out it will be all through fashionable
+society. I beg of you don't make a fool of yourself by getting up and
+going out.' But I said, 'I have been making a fool of myself all of my
+life.'"
+
+Now, the theater hadn't changed, but she had got something better,
+and she was going to overcome the world. "They that are after the
+flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the
+Spirit, the things of the Spirit." When Christ has the first place in
+your heart you are going to get victory. Just do whatever you know
+will please Him. The great objection I have to these things is that
+they get the mastery, and become a hindrance to spiritual growth.
+
+
+What a Sister Can Do
+
+I want to say to young ladies, perhaps you have a godless father or
+mother, or a skeptical brother, who is going down through drink, and
+perhaps there is no one who can reach them but you. How many times a
+godly, pure young lady has taken the light into some darkened home!
+Many a home might be lit up with the Gospel if the mothers and
+daughters would only speak the word.
+
+The last time Mr. Sankey and myself were in Edinburgh, there were a
+father, two sisters, and a brother, who used every morning to take the
+morning paper and pick my sermon to pieces. They were indignant to
+think that the Edinburgh people should be carried away with such
+preaching. 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
+happened to take a seat by a godly lady, who said to her:
+
+"I hope you are interested in this work,"
+
+She tossed her head and said: "Indeed I am not. I am disgusted with
+everything I have seen and heard."
+
+"Well," said the lady, "perhaps you came prejudiced."
+
+"Yes, and the meeting has not removed any of it, but has rather
+increased it."
+
+"I have received a great deal of good from them."
+
+"There is nothing here for me. I don't see how an intellectual person
+can be interested."
+
+To make a long story short, she got the young lady to promise to come
+back. When the meeting broke up, just a little of the prejudice had
+worn away. She promised to come back again the next day, and then she
+attended three or four more meetings, and became quite interested. She
+said nothing to her family, until finally the burden became too heavy,
+and she told them. They laughed at her, and made her the butt of their
+ridicule.
+
+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?"
+
+"I have a peace that I never knew of before. I am at peace with God,
+myself, and all the world." Did you ever have a little war of your own
+with your neighbors, in your own family? And she said: "I have
+self-control. You know, sister, if you had said half the mean things
+before I was converted that you have said since, I would have been
+angry and answered back, but if you remember correctly, I haven't
+answered once since I have been converted."
+
+The sister said, "You certainly have something that I have not."
+
+The other told her it was for her, too, and she brought the sister to
+the meetings, where she found peace.
+
+Like Martha and Mary, they had a brother but he was a member of the
+University of Edinburgh. He be converted? He go to these meetings? It
+might do for women, but not for him! One night they came home and told
+him that a chum of his own, a member of the university, had stood up
+and confessed Christ, and when he sat down his brother got up and
+confessed; and so with the third one.
+
+When the young man heard it, he said: "Do you mean to tell me that he
+has been converted?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+"Well," he said, "there must be something in it."
+
+He put on his hat and coat, and went to see his friend Black. Black
+got him down to the meetings, and he was converted.
+
+We went through to Glasgow, and had not been there six weeks when news
+came that that young man had been stricken down, and had died. When he
+was dying he called his father to his bedside and said:
+
+"Wasn't it a good thing that my sisters went to those meetings? Won't
+you meet me in heaven, father?"
+
+"Yes, my son, I am so glad you are a Christian; that is the only
+comfort that I have in losing you. I will become a Christian, and will
+meet you again."
+
+I tell this to encourage some sister to go home and carry the message
+of salvation. It may be that your brother may be taken away in a few
+months.
+
+
+How one Man Treated Doubts
+
+A wild and prodigal young man, who was running a headlong career to
+ruin came into one of our meetings in Chicago. Whilst endeavoring to
+bring him to Christ, I quoted this verse to him: "Him that cometh unto
+me I will in no wise cast out."
+
+I asked him: "Do you believe Christ said that?"
+
+"I suppose He did."
+
+"Suppose He did! do you believe it?"
+
+"I hope so."
+
+"Hope so! do you believe it? You do your work, and the Lord will do
+His. Just come as you are, and throw yourself upon His bosom, and He
+will not cast you out."
+
+This man thought it was too simple and easy.
+
+At last light seemed to break in upon him, and he seemed to find
+comfort from it. It was past midnight before he got down on his knees,
+but down he went, and was converted. I said:
+
+"Now, don't think you are going to get out of the devil's territory
+without trouble. The devil will come to you to-morrow morning and say
+it was all feeling; that you only imagined you were accepted by God.
+When he does, don't fight him with your own opinions, but fight him
+with John vi. 37: 'Him that cometh to Me I will in nowise cast out.'
+Let that be 'the sword of the Spirit.'"
+
+I don't believe that any man ever starts to go to Christ but the devil
+strives somehow or other to meet him and trip him up. And even after
+he has come to Christ, the devil tries to assail him with doubts, and
+make him believe there is something wrong in it.
+
+The struggle came sooner than I thought in this man's case. When he
+was on his way home the devil assailed him. He used this text, but the
+devil put this thought into his mind:
+
+"How do you know Christ ever said that after all? Perhaps the
+translators made a mistake."
+
+Into darkness he went again. He was in trouble till about two in the
+morning. At last he came to this conclusion. Said he:
+
+"I will believe it anyway; and when I get to heaven, if it isn't true,
+I will just tell the Lord _I_ didn't make the mistake--the translators
+made it."
+
+
+Use or Lose
+
+An Eastern allegory runs thus: A merchant, going abroad for a time,
+gave respectively to two of his friends two sacks of wheat each, to
+take care of against his return. Years passed. When he came back, he
+applied for them again.
+
+The first took him into a storehouse, and showed him his sacks; but
+they were mildewed and worthless.
+
+The other led him out into the open country, and pointed to field
+after field of waving wheat, the produce of the two sacks given him.
+
+Said the merchant: "You have been a faithful friend. Give me two sacks
+of that wheat; the rest shall be thine."
+
+Let us put to good use the talents God has given us.
+
+
+The Anchored Boat
+
+I once heard of two men who were under the influence of liquor. They
+came down at night to where their boat was tied. They wanted to return
+home, so they got in and began to row. They pulled away hard all
+night, wondering why they never got to the other side of the bay. When
+the gray dawn of morning broke, behold! they had never loosed the
+mooring line or raised the anchor!
+
+That's just the way with many who are striving to enter the kingdom of
+heaven. They cannot believe, because they are tied to this world. Cut
+the cord! Confess and forsake your sins! Cut the cord! Set yourselves
+free from the clogging weight of earthly things, and you will soon
+rise heavenward.
+
+
+Not Much up There
+
+A friend of mine was once taken by an old man to see his riches. He
+took him to a splendid mansion, and said, "This is all mine." He
+pointed to a little town, "That is mine; it is called by my name." He
+pointed to a rolling prairie, "That is all mine; the sun never shone
+on a finer prairie than that, so fruitful and rich, and it's all
+mine." In another direction he showed him fertile farms extending for
+thirty miles, "These are all mine." He took him into his grand house,
+showed him his beautiful pictures, his costly gold plate, his jewels,
+and still he said, "These are all mine. This grand hall I have built;
+it is called by my name; there is my insignia on it. And yet I was
+once a poor boy. I have made it all myself."
+
+My friend looked at him. "Well, you've all this on earth; but what
+have you got up there?"
+
+"Up where?" said the old man.
+
+"Up in heaven."
+
+"Well, I'm afraid I haven't got much up there."
+
+"Ah," said my friend, "but you've got to die, to leave this world;
+what will you take with you of all these things? You will die a
+beggar; for all these riches count as nothing in the kingdom of
+heaven. You will be a pauper; for you have no inheritance with the
+saints above." The poor old man (he was poor enough in reality, though
+rich in all the world's goods) burst into tears. He had no hope for
+the future. In four months' time he was dead; and where is he now? He
+lived and died without God, and without hope in this world or the
+next.
+
+
+Touching the Spot
+
+When a man has broken his arm, the surgeon must find out the exact
+spot where the fracture is. He feels along and presses gently with his
+fingers.
+
+"Is it there?"
+
+"No,"
+
+"Is it there?"
+
+"No."
+
+Presently, when the surgeon touches another spot, "Ouch!" says the
+man.
+
+He has found the broken part, and it hurts.
+
+It is one thing to hear a man preach down other people's sins. Men
+will say, "That is splendid," and will want all their friends to go
+and hear the preacher. But let him touch on their individual sin, and
+declare, as Nathan did to David, "Thou art the man," and they say, "I
+do not like that." The preacher has touched a sore place.
+
+
+The Little Boy and the Big Book
+
+I like to think of Christ as a burden bearer.
+
+A minister was one day moving his library upstairs. As he was going up
+with a load of books, his little boy came in, and was very anxious to
+help his father. So his father just told him to go and get an armful,
+and bring them upstairs. When the father came back, he met the little
+fellow about half-way up, tugging away at the biggest book in the
+library. He couldn't manage to carry it up. It was too big. So he sat
+down and cried.
+
+His father found him, and just took him in his arms, book and all, and
+carried him upstairs. So Christ will carry you and all your burdens,
+if you will but let Him.
+
+
+The Invitation to a Saloon Opening
+
+They were going to have a great celebration at the opening of a saloon
+and billiard hall in Chicago, in the northern part of the city, where
+I lived. It was to be a gateway to death and to hell, one of the worst
+places in Chicago. As a joke they sent me an invitation to go to the
+opening. I took the invitation, and went down and saw the two men who
+had the saloon, and I said:
+
+"Is that a genuine invitation?"
+
+They said it was.
+
+"Thank you," I said; "I will be around, and if there is anything here
+I don't like I may have something to say about it."
+
+They said, "You are not going to _preach_, are you?"
+
+"I may."
+
+"We don't want you. We won't let you in."
+
+"How are you going to keep me out?" I asked. "There is the
+invitation."
+
+"We will put a policeman at the door."
+
+"What is the policeman going to do with that invitation?"
+
+"We won't let you in."
+
+"Well," I said, "I will be there."
+
+I gave them a good scare, and then I said, "I will compromise the
+matter; if you two men will get down here and let me pray with you, I
+will let you off."
+
+I got those two rum-sellers down on their knees, one on one side of me
+and the other on the other side, and I prayed God to save their souls
+and smite their business. One of them had a Christian mother, and he
+seemed to have some conscience left. After I had prayed, I said:
+
+"How can you do this business? How can you throw this place open to
+ruin the young men of Chicago?"
+
+Within three months the whole thing smashed up, and one of them was
+converted shortly after. I have never been invited to a saloon since.
+
+
+
+"Too Late!"
+
+At our church in Chicago I was closing the meeting one day, when a
+young soldier got up and entreated the people to decide for Christ at
+once. He said he had just come from a dark scene. A comrade of his,
+who had enlisted with him, had a father who was always entreating him
+to become a Christian, and in reply he always said he would when the
+war was over. At last he was wounded, and was put into the hospital,
+but got worse, and was gradually sinking. One day, a few hours before
+he died, a letter came from his sister, but he was too far gone to
+read it. It was such an earnest letter! The comrade read it to him,
+but he did not seem to understand it, he was so weak, till it came to
+the last sentence, which said:
+
+"Oh, my dear brother, when you get this letter, will you not accept
+your sister's Savior?"
+
+The dying man sprang up from his cot, and said, "What do you say? what
+do you say?" And then, falling back on his pillow, feebly exclaimed,
+"_It is too late! It is too late!_"
+
+My dear friends, thank God it is not _too late_ for you to-day. The
+Master is still calling you. Let every one of us, young and old, rich
+and poor, come to Christ at once, and He will put all our sins away.
+Don't wait any longer for feeling, but obey at once. You can believe,
+you can trust, you can lay hold on eternal life, if you will. Will you
+not do it now?
+
+
+
+
+TOPICAL INDEX
+
+
+  Assurance, 44
+  Atonement, 8, 30, 98
+  Attention, 43
+
+  Backslider, 17, 22
+  Balaam's ass, 102
+  Bible, 9, 10, 15, 16, 22, 29, 34, 44, 80, 84, 102, 108
+  Breath from God, 35
+
+
+  Child, As a, 49
+  Choice, 98
+  Christ, as Burden-Bearer, 120;
+    for all, 73;
+    seeking the lost, 86;
+    coming of, 67, 85;
+    in the Bible, 31
+  "Come," 46
+  Communion with Christ, 21, 65, 84, 103
+  Confessing Christ, 26, 27, 35, 52, 77, 109
+  Conversion, 25, 80, 88
+  Conviction, 21
+  Courage, 20
+  Covetousness, 27, 35, 51
+  Crazy from sin, 89
+  Criticising the sermon, 106
+  Cross of Christ, 31
+
+  Death, 18, 24, 107, 118
+  Decision, 10, 61, 62, 93, 122
+  Don't Worry Clubs, 31
+  Doubts, 36, 109, 116
+  Doves, Legend about, 42
+  Drawing a comparison, 42
+
+  Election, 107
+  Eternity, 81
+
+  Faith, 12, 14, 23, 55, 109
+  Finding the thirsty, 57
+
+  Giving, 23, 35
+  Grace, 20
+
+  Habit, 83
+  Heaven, 14, 62, 87
+  "Hitch on" and "Cut behind," 104
+  Holy Spirit, 20, 35, 75
+  Home Religion, 76, 85
+  Honey-dew, 37
+
+  Illuminated Christians, 26
+  Indwelling Christ, 31
+  Infidel books, 18
+  Is your soul insured? 100
+
+  Joy, 94
+
+  Keeping, 8, 76, 99, 104
+
+  Law, 72
+  Liberty, 13
+  Look to Christ, 43
+  Love, 33, 69
+
+  Memory, 101
+  Money, 33, 95
+  Murder, 67, 95
+
+  Need, 45
+  Neglecting church, 53
+  No difference, 40
+  "Not for you," 67
+
+  Obedience, 56, 91
+  Opportunity, 78, 79
+  Oratorical preaching, 53
+
+  Parables, Making, 58
+  Parents, 19, 32, 40, 50, 51, 58, 59
+  Peace, 9, 16, 23
+  Pendulum, Lady, 7
+  Personal religion, 38
+  Prayer, 68
+  Pride, 76
+  Promises, 63, 68, 99
+
+  Repentance, 45
+  Restitution, 71
+  Resurrection, 64
+  Revivals, 79
+  Rich husband, 93
+
+  Saloon opening, 120
+  Salvation, 8, 38, 82, 86, 93
+  Scarlet thread, 31
+  Sealed for redemption, 27
+  Separation, 69, 102, 118
+  Sin, 118, 119
+  Sinner's heart, 97
+  Sowing and reaping, 48, 63, 82, 87
+  Small beginnings, 64
+  Starting right, 73
+  Stealing, 35, 67
+  Substitution, 74
+  Sunday, 55, 60, 100
+  Swearing, 90
+
+  Temptation, 27, 77, 78, 85, 98
+  Theatre, 38, 111
+  Time to think, 86
+  Trial, 28
+  Trust, 8, 11, 46
+
+  Unbelief, 55, 56
+  Unity, 83
+  Use or lose, 118
+
+  Watching, 85
+  Work, 15, 24, 34, 48, 97, 106, 108, 114
+  Will, 39, 57, 66
+
+
+
+
+PSALM 23.
+
+
+The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
+
+2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the
+still waters.
+
+3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness
+for his name's sake.
+
+4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will
+fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort
+me.
+
+5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies;
+thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
+
+6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:
+and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
+
+
+
+
+ISAIAH 55: 1--7.
+
+
+Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath
+no money; come ye, buy and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without
+money and without price.
+
+2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your
+labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and
+eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in
+fatness.
+
+3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live;
+and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure
+mercies of David.
+
+4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and
+commander to the people.
+
+5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations
+that knew not thee shall run unto thee, because of the Lord thy God,
+and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.
+
+6 Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is
+near:
+
+7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his
+thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy
+upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
+
+
+
+
+JOHN 3: 1--16.
+
+
+There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the
+Jews:
+
+2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know
+that thou art a teacher come from God; for no man can do these
+miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
+
+3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
+Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
+
+4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can
+he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
+
+5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be
+born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of
+God.
+
+6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of
+the Spirit is spirit.
+
+7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
+
+8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound
+thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth; so
+is every one that is born of the Spirit.
+
+9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
+
+10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and
+knowest not these things?
+
+11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and
+testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
+
+12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye
+believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
+
+13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from
+heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
+
+14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must
+the Son of man be lifted up:
+
+15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal
+life.
+
+16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
+that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
+everlasting life.
+
+
+
+
+JUST AS I AM.
+
+
+  Just as I am, without one plea
+    But that Thy blood was shed for me,
+  And that Thou bid'st me come to Thee;
+    O Lamb of God, I come, I come!
+
+  Just as I am, and waiting not
+    To rid my soul of one dark blot,
+  To Thee, whose blood can cleanse each spot,
+    O Lamb of God, I come, I come!
+
+  Just as I am--Thou wilt receive,
+    Wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve;
+  Because Thy promise I believe,
+    O Lamb of God, I come, I come!
+
+  Just as I am--Thy love unknown
+    Has broken ev'ry barrier down;
+  Now to be Thine, yea, Thine alone,
+    O Lamb of God, I come, I come!
+
+
+
+
+JESUS, LOVER OF MY SOUL.
+
+
+  Jesus, Lover of my soul,
+    Let me to Thy bosom fly
+  While the nearer waters roll,
+    While the tempest still is high!
+  Hide me, O my Saviour, hide
+    Till the storm of life is past;
+  Safe into the haven guide;
+    O receive my soul at last!
+
+  Other refuge have I none,
+    Hangs my helpless soul on Thee;
+  Leave, O leave me not alone.
+    Still support and comfort me!
+  All my trust on Thee is stayed,
+    All my help from Thee I bring;
+  Cover my defenceless head
+    With the shadow of Thy wing!
+
+  Thou, O Christ, art all I want,
+    More than all in Thee I find!
+  Raise the fallen, cheer the faint,
+    Heal the sick, and lead the blind.
+  just and holy is Thy name,
+    I am all unrighteousness;
+  False and full of sin I am,
+    Thou art full of truth and grace.
+
+  Plenteous grace with Thee is found,
+    Grace to cover all my sin;
+  Let the healing streams abound,
+    Make and keep me pure within;
+  Thou of life the fountain art,
+    Freely let me take of Thee;
+  Spring Thou up within my heart,
+    Rise to all eternity.
+
+
+
+
+BEHOLD A STRANGER.
+
+
+  Behold a Stranger at the door:
+  He gently knocks, has knocked before;
+  Has waited long, is waiting still:
+  You treat no other friend so ill.
+
+  Oh, lovely attitude! He stands
+  With melting heart and laden hands;
+  Oh, matchless kindness! and He shows
+  This matchless kindness to His foes.
+
+  But will He prove a friend indeed?
+  He will, the very friend you need--
+  The Friend of sinners; yes, 'tis He,
+  With garments dyed on Calvary.
+
+  Rise, touched with gratitude divine,
+  Turn out His enemy and thine;
+  That soul-destroying monster, sin;
+  And let the heavenly Stranger in.
+
+
+
+
+GLORY TO HIS NAME!
+
+
+  Down at the cross where my Saviour died,
+  Down where for cleansing from sin I cried,
+  There to my heart was the blood applied--
+        Glory to His name!
+
+    CHORUS:
+
+  Glory to His name,
+  Glory to His name!
+  There to my heart was the blood applied--
+        Glory to His name!
+
+  I am so wondrously saved from sin,--
+  Jesus so sweetly abides within,--
+  There at the cross where He took me in--
+        Glory to His name!
+
+  O precious fountain that saves from sin,
+  I am so glad I have entered in;
+  There Jesus saved me and keeps me clean--
+        Glory to His name!
+
+  Come to this fountain so rich and sweet.
+  Cast thy poor soul at the Saviour's feet.
+  Plunge in today, and be made complete--
+        Glory to His name!
+
+
+
+
+DEPTH OF MERCY!
+
+
+  Depth of mercy! can there be
+  Mercy still reserved for me?
+  Can my God His wrath forbear?
+  Me, the chief of sinners, spare?
+
+  I have long withstood His grace,
+  Long provoked Him to His face;
+  Would not hearken to His calls;
+  Grieved Him by a thousand falls.
+
+  Now incline me to repent,
+  Let me now my sins lament;
+  Now my foul revolt deplore,
+  Weep, believe, and sin no more.
+
+
+
+
+I WAS A WAND'RING SHEEP.
+
+
+  I was a wand'ring sheep,
+    I did not love the fold:
+  I did not love my Shepherd's voice,
+    I would not be controlled.
+  I was a wayward child,
+    I did not love my home;
+  I did not love my Father's voice;
+    I loved afar to roam.
+
+  The Shepherd sought His sheep,
+    The Father sought His child,
+  They followed me o'er vale and hill,
+    O'er deserts waste and wild;
+  They found me nigh to death,
+    Famished and faint, and lone;
+  They bound me with the bands of love;
+    They saved the wand'ring one.
+
+  Jesus my Shepherd is,
+    'Twas He that loved my soul,
+  'Twas He that washed me in His blood,
+    'Twas He that made me whole;
+  'Twas He that sought the lost,
+    That found the wand'ring sheep,
+  'Twas He that brought me to the fold,
+    'Tis He that still doth keep.
+
+  I was a wand'ring sheep,
+    I would not be controlled;
+  But now I love the Shepherd's voice,
+    I love, I love the fold;
+  I was a wayward child,
+    I once preferred to roam:
+  But now I love my Father's voice
+    I love, I love His home
+
+
+
+
+WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS!
+
+
+  What a Friend we have in Jesus,
+    All our sins and griefs to bear!
+  What a privilege to carry
+    Ev'rything to God in prayer!
+  O what peace we often forfeit,
+    O what needless pain we bear,
+  All because we do not carry
+    Ey'rything to God in prayer.
+
+  Have we trials and temptations?
+    Is there trouble anywhere?
+  We should never be discouraged,
+    Take it to the Lord in prayer.
+  Can we find a friend so faithful,
+    Who will all our sorrows share?
+  Jesus knows our ev'ry weakness,
+    Take it to the Lord in prayer.
+
+  Are we weak and heavy laden,
+    Cumbered with a load of care?
+  Precious Saviour, still our refuge,--
+    Take it to the Lord in prayer.
+  Do thy friends despise, forsake thee?
+    Take it to the Lord in prayer,
+  In His arms He'll take and shield thee
+    Thou wilt find a solace there.
+
+
+
+
+O HAPPY DAY!
+
+
+  O happy day that fixed my choice
+    On Thee, my Saviour and my God!
+  Well may this glowing heart rejoice,
+    And tell its raptures all abroad.
+
+    CHORUS:
+
+  Happy day, happy day,
+    When Jesus washed my sins away!
+  He taught me how to watch and pray,
+    And live rejoicing every day;
+  Happy day, happy day,
+    When Jesus washed my sin away!
+
+  O happy bond that seals my vows
+    To Him who merits all my love!
+  Let cheerful anthems fill His house,
+    While to that sacred shrine I move.
+
+  'Tis done, the great transaction's done;
+    I am my Lord's and He is mine;
+  He drew me, and I followed on,
+    Charmed to confess the voice divine.
+
+
+
+
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+  1 All of Grace. C. H. Spurgeon
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+  3 Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study. Moody
+  4 Life, Warfare and Victory. Whittle
+  5 Heaven. D. L. Moody
+  6 Prevailing Prayer. D. L. Moody
+  7 The Way of Life. Various authors
+  8 Secret Power. D. L. Moody
+  9 To the Work. D. L. Moody
+  10 According to Promise. C. H. Spurgeon
+  11 Bible Characters. D. L. Moody
+  13 "And Peter." J. W. Chapman
+  15 Light on Life's Duties. F. B. Meyer
+  18 The Good Shepherd. Life of Christ
+  19 Good Tidings. Talmage and others
+  20 Sovereign Grace. D. L. Moody
+  21 Select Sermons. D. L. Moody
+  23 Nobody Loves Me. Mrs. O. F. Walton
+  24 The Empty Tomb. Various authors
+  26 Sowing and Reaping. D. L. Moody
+  28 "Probable Sons." Story. Amy LeFeuvre
+  30 Good News. Robert Boyd
+  32 The Secret of Guidance. F. B. Meyer
+  34 The Second Coming of Christ
+  40 The Power of a Surrendered Life, or Kadesh-Barnea. J. W. Chapman
+  42 Whiter Than Snow and Little Dot--Stories. Mrs. O. F. Walton
+  44 The Overcoming Life. D. L. Moody
+  48 The Prodigal. Various authors
+  49 The Spirit-Filled Life. John MacNeil
+  50 Jessica's First Prayer. Hesba Stretton
+  51 The Christ-Life for the Self-Life. Meyer
+  54 Absolute Surrender. Andrew Murray
+  56 What Is Faith? Spurgeon, Moody, etc.
+  57 Christie's Old Organ--A story. Walton
+  58 Naaman the Syrian. A. B. Mackay
+  60 Weighed and Wanting. D. L. Moody
+  61 The Crew of the Dolphin. Hesba Stretton
+  63 Meet for the Master's Use. F. B. Meyer
+  64 Our Bible. C. Leach and R. A. Torrey
+  65 Alone in London. Hesba Stretton
+  66 Moody's Anecdotes
+  69 Children of the Bible
+  70 The Power of Pentecost. Thomas Waugh
+  71 Men of the Bible. D. L. Moody
+  72 A Peep Behind the Scenes. O. F. Walton
+  73 The School of Obedience. A. Murray
+  74 Making the Home Happy. R. T. Cross
+  76 Moody's Stories
+  78 The Robber's Cave--A story. A.L.O.E.
+  81 Thoughts for Quiet Hour. D. L. Moody
+  83 The Shorter Life of D. L. Moody. Fitt
+  85 Revival of a Dead Church. Broughton
+  86 Moody's Latest Sermons
+  87 A Missionary Penny--A story. L.C.W.
+  88 Calvary's Cross. Spurgeon, Whittle, etc.
+  89 How to Pray. R. A. Torrey
+  90 Little King Davie--Story. Nellie Hellis
+  91 Short Talks. D. L. Moody
+  93 Pilgrim's Progress. John Bunyan
+  96 Kept for the Master's Use. Havergal
+  98 Back to Bethel. F. B. Meyer
+  100 Up from Sin. Len G. Broughton
+  102 Popular Amusements and the Christian Life. P. W. Sinks
+  104 Answers to Prayer. George Muller
+  105 The Way Home. D. L. Moody
+  109 Life of David Livingstone. Worcester
+  114 First Words to Young Christians. Boyd
+  115 Rosa's Quest--A Story. Anna P. Wright
+  116 Difficulties in the Bible. R. A. Torrey
+  119 Practical and Perplexing Questions Answered. R. A. Torrey
+  120 Satan and the Saint. James M. Gray
+  123 Salvation from Start to Finish. Gray
+  125 Life in a Look. Maurice S. Baldwin
+  126 Burton Street Folks. Anna P. Wright
+  127 Bible Problems Explained. J. M. Gray
+  128 Papers on The Lord's Coming. "C.H.M."
+  129 Christian: Creed and Conduct. Evans
+  130 Intercessory Prayer. J. G. K. McClure
+  131 From Death Unto Life. J. H. Brookes
+  132 Ruth, the Moabitess. Henry Moorhouse
+  134 Forty-Eight Bernard Street. Clark
+  135 Deliverance from the Penalty and Power of Sin. O. R. Palmer
+  136 Mrs. Mary's Go-Tell. Graham Clark
+  137 Bird's-Eye Bible Study. A. Patterson
+  138 "I Cried, He Answered."
+  141 Later Evangelistic Sermons. Biederwolf
+  142 Phil Tyler's Opportunity. F. E. Burnham
+  143 Moving Messages. J. C. Massee
+  144 The Christ We Know. A. C. Gaebelein
+  145 Five "Musts" of the Christian Life. F. B. Meyer
+  146 The New Life in Christ Jesus. Scofield
+  147 Problems in the Prayer Life. Buswell
+  148 When the Song of the Lord Began. W. E. Biederwolf
+  149 The Christian Life and How to Live It. W. H. Griffith Thomas
+  150 Where Is the Lord God of Elijah? Cox
+  151 The Faith that Wins. Roy T. Brumbaugh
+  152 God's Way of Holiness. H. Bonar
+  153 Souls Set Free. Mission field miracles
+  154 Thinking with God. Norman H. Camp
+  155 "Charge That to My Account." Ironside
+  156 Vera Dickson's Triumph. Sara C. Palmer
+  157 Competing Artists. Sara C. Palmer
+  158 Antidote to Christian Science. Gray
+  159 Is the Bible the Word of God? Scroggie
+  160 And God Spake These Words. W. H. Griffith Thomas
+  161 Methods of Bible Study. Thomas
+  162 Romance of a Doctor's Visits. Wilson
+  163 The Little Shepherd. Anna P. Wright
+  164 God's Picked Young Men. H. K. Pasma
+  165 The Cross of Christ. James H. Todd
+  166 By Ways Appointed. Briggs P. Dingman
+  167 Miracles in a Doctor's Life. Wilson
+  168 The Living Christ. Will H. Houghton
+  169 Portraits of Christ. Harold S. Laird
+  170 The Doctor's Best Love Story. Wilson
+  171 Full Assurance. H. A. Ironside
+  172 To Show Thyself Approved. R. A. Torrey
+  173 A Sure Remedy. Walter L. Wilson
+  174 The Truth About Grace. Chas. C. Cook
+  175 Vivid Experiences in Korea. Chisholm
+  176 The "True" Mystery Solved. Wright
+  177 The Resurrection of the Human Body. Norman H. Camp
+  178 On Silver Creek Knob. Story. Cannon
+  179 The Princess Beautiful. Story. Cannon
+  180 Remarkable New Stories. W. L. Wilson
+  181 Rivers of Living Water. Ruth Paxson
+  182 "Called Unto Holiness." Ruth Paxson
+  183 The Soul-Winner's Fire. John R. Rice
+  185 Aunt Hattie's Bible Stories--Genesis. H. I. Fisher
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