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He could not tell how many plans he had prepared while the minister was preaching. “Why don’t you cast him off?” If a farmer neglects to plant in the springtime, he can never recover the lost opportunity; no more can you, if you neglect yours. All the boys were sleighing. “ ‘You have had enough of this. She said: Some men, noticing this, took a boat and came upon her from the sea and shot her. I took my Bible and told him all about Christ, and he accepted Him. She took him out, and she held him right to it. The story of the cross followed him through life; and if we tell children these truths, they will never forget them. 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.” 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?” Where did you die?” “The highest proof of the infallibility of Scripture,” said the late A. J. Gordon, “is the practical one that we have proved it so. If you can’t, your friends can. 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.”, I heard of a boy who stole a cannon-ball from a navy-yard. Dear friend, make sure that you do not miss eternal life at last. 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. Suppose I accept the cent; the man takes up the Bible and marches away home with it. A man’s future will be according to what he is here prepared for. 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: Eventually a hard-looking fellow came on board, and said: There was an architect in Chicago who was converted. 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. By D.L. “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.” Begin now to confess your sins, and pray the Lord to remember you. The father of one of the sailors had charge of the light-house, and he was expecting his boy to come home. Next day the young man said: Pastor Kirk emphasized the sinfulness of man and man’s inability to save himself. Links. There have been reporters here every day for all the different papers, and they are giving my semons verbatim in one paper. This man was suspected, was tried and found guilty, and was sent to the penitentiary for life. Sometimes there comes a little breath from God that touches our souls. The idea of there being conversions there! The Life & Times of D. L. Moody. Many men want a religion in which there is no cross, but they cannot enter heaven that way. A little nephew of mine, a few years ago, took my Bible and threw it down on the floor. You say: “That is a contradiction, a paradox.” I will illustrate what I mean. I don’t see anything.” They all understood what fast horses were—they knew a good deal more about fast horses than they knew about the kingdom of God. A blind man, by reason of his infirmity, cannot do many things; but he can believe. The moment we receive Christ we should receive Him as a friend. Some years ago I wanted to teach my boy what faith was, and so I put him on a table. 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. He will never amount to anything.” I began to wonder whether I ought to go just then during business hours, he latter reported. But the Lord Jesus is able to give all that He offers. Content of The Life of D.L. After the meeting was over I went to her and asked her what the trouble was. “What makes you feel so joyful?” Anecdotes, Incidents and Illustrations-D L Moody. It has driven me nearly mad.” I remember Mr. Sankey singing, and how his voice rang when he came to that pleading verse: “To-day the Savior calls, He had been smuggling opium into the States. He offers a seat in His mansions. There are two who are bidding for your soul and mine—the Lord Jesus and Satan. That was a good many years ago. Then I found there was a bar, and then I found a night-lock. 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. “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? I had not been gone long when my little boy said, “Mamma, I wish you would get me ready.” And yet this was one of your modern philosophers.’. result is lack of power in testimony and work. Nothing that is done for God is small. No. If they have not always done so, it is probable that they have not yet matured. He was calling out to the small boys to hitch on, for a pung is like a ‘bus, it always holds one more. There is a beautiful legend about a conference held by the doves to decide where they should make their abode. 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. I have been all the week trying to keep it from them.” “I will give this up; take me back.” Yet that is just what thousands of people do. He didn’t have a perfect one in his flock. She had a family of children. “The life of Christianity,” says Luther, “consists of personal pronouns. “Why not?” With her dying breath, she said: I could not see why the shadow always kept ahead of me. Cut the cord! “Oh, no! 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. they had never loosed the mooring line or raised the anchor! He never could get to see him from that day until one day he met him on a corner, and he said: If you were to pay ever so little, it would not be a gift. And I thought maybe my mission might embarrass the boy, that when I went away the other clerks might ask who I was, and when they learned might taunt Moody and ask if I was trying to make a good boy out of him. 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. 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. References | So he went into the woods, and stayed there, living on roots and whatever else he could get, until finally he was starving. Your service has become tedious and monotonous. Sambo said he wished he had given him ten dollars, and let the lot go. “There is the invitation.” 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. We see very few illuminated Christians now. And WHOSOEVER WILL, let him take the water of life freely.’ ”, Dr. Talmage tells the story that one day while he was bothering his theological professor with questions about the mysteries of the Bible, the latter turned on him and said: 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. Let us look at—. 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. “Have you got some one who can write a plain hand?” Sambo got his expectations up very high. She introduced him to me (he was a doctor and a very influential man), and said: “Up where?” said the old man. 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. When he got to the meeting, they were singing the chorus of a hymn: Come! come! He lived and died without God, and without hope in this world or the next. Repeatedly stressing that the spiritual issue was one of choice and of yielding ones will to Another, Kirk emphasized that this choice led to a life of faith. 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. 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. Their voice was like the air—there wasn’t any power back of it; they trusted in their eloquence and their fine speeches. “Oh! He had about a third of the Bible cut out; all of Job, all of Ecclesiastes and Revelation, and a good deal besides. I said: “What has never struck you.” I could not understand it. “I have been near You for ten years. An old Welshwoman said Christ was Welsh, and an Englishman said: 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. The dying man sprang up from his cot, and said, “What do you say? She said she would accept Christ, and after some conversation she went home. 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. His father found him, and just took him in his arms, book and all, and carried him upstairs. I said to the little newsboys: A man was taken into one of our insane asylums a few years ago from one of the Western cities. 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. “But I am not here to sell Bibles; take it, if you want it.” “I am dead,” was the reply. That is not what the Church of God needs to-day. — D.L. She was so shabby that she was afraid he would be ashamed of her. “Next day?” 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 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. “We saw him going into the theater.” “Oh, there are no two alike. Men will say, “That is splendid,” and will want all their friends to go and hear the preacher. But you cannot put too much confidence in God. I wouldn’t give much for his respect or admiration; I wouldn’t give much for his friendship. It is a good deal better to keep just as far from the line as you can if you want power. Then I wound the thread around and around, and by and by I said: I have a very quick temper. 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. He was very anxious that all his employés should be reached, and he used to send them one by one to the meetings. 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. Young Dwight sensed the minister was right, yet seemed unable to yield his will to God. He opened it, went down, and found the miser lying dead on the ground, in the midst of his riches. 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 Just come as you are, and throw yourself upon His bosom, and He will not cast you out.” A friend of mine was going back to Scotland, and he heard a couple of these little modern philosophers discussing the Bible. Years passed. 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. “I hear the voice of that child day and night. “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. Let me give you a cent for it; though, to be sure, it’s worth about five dollars.” “This means ruin to Chicago.” “Why,” she said, “do you ever go?” “Missed what?” I want a man to tell me what he does believe, not what he does not believe. “No; I have always had a great contempt for a man who repents when he is dying; he is a miserable coward. “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.” 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. This list of D.L. Presently some dove suggested that they go and hide in the clefts of the rocks, and there they were safe. A true Christian is wretched where there is no fellowship, and an unregenerate man is not at ease where there are only Christians. What is the matter with my Christianity?” I thought if I had the consumption or some lingering disease, I would have plenty of time to become one, and in the meantime I would enjoy the best of the pleasures of the world.. What a mistake! “Now I lay me down to sleep.” No one saw her; no one knew anything about it. It turned out that this teacher was not a Christian. 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. That’s just the way with many who are striving to enter the kingdom of heaven. He went off to bed, but could not sleep; it seemed as if the very pillow kept whispering the word, “Come! 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. 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. He at once went to see if he could not yet save some one who might be still alive. If you ever get peace and joy you must get it at the foot of the cross. Moody’s Stories Being a Second Volume of Anecdotes, Incidents and Illustrations. 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. You are not training your children for God and eternity. Then surely every true Christian ought to desire that men who are in danger of perishing eternally should be saved and rescued. He met her at the station, and took her to a nice place to stay. 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.”. The sheep stopped eating and looked up. But if allowed to run too late, the bald patch remains. 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. “I hope you are interested in this work.” 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. 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. The little fellow said he could not do it. That was the summing up of his life. Moody, I have no faith in you whatever.” Don’t you think it would grieve me? May God help you to make a right choice! 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