That is a mother’s love! “We won’t let you in.” 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. I always intended to become a Christian some day, but I thought I had plenty of time, and put it off.” “I have a peace that I never knew of before. It was time for the whaling-vessel to return. 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. When his brother got up on the first branch, he said: He did not want to be punished, and he knew his mother would punish him if he did not lift the Bible. By D.L. 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.”. He brings joy when He comes, and we cannot have joy apart from Him. 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. All his energy and every faculty were pushed toward that one end. what do you say?” And then, falling back on his pillow, feebly exclaimed, “It is too late! This man thought it was too simple and easy. “Many conversions?” When he got home with it, he dared not show it to his parents, because it would have led at once to his detection. They say that death has torn down everything in this world, everything but a mother’s love. We see very few illuminated Christians now. That great Christian leader, the late Rev. He and a friend of his went out riding one Saturday in the country. 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. And Willie said he got a new view of that father. Faith is the simplest and most universal experience in the world. “Hypocrite! After I had reached the hotel where I was to stay, and had got comfortable quarters, she came, and said: He is all the time going out of His way to find the lost. 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. A lame man might not perhaps be able to visit the sick; but he can believe. Have you ever seen anything in the sermons against the theaters?” He set fire to the hymn book, but he could not burn up the little word “Come!” 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. 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. I said to the mother, “We cannot have our boy grow up to hate Sunday in this way; that will never do. “Next day?” If his heart is in lands, it won’t be long before he’s talking about real estate, improvements, houses, and so on. Presently, when the surgeon touches another spot, “Ouch!” says the man. It will take bitter toil to uproot them. The teacher readily put down “gold,” and they all comprehended it, for all had run to that country in hope of finding it. One day he saw an officer riding by. Don’t take your ideas. But he began to cry, and I could not convince him that he was dirty. Some people think they have to tear down the scaffolding before they begin on the building. Then I found there was another bolt at the top and another bolt at the bottom. So with salvation. Moody If we keep back the Gospel of Christ and do not bring Christ before the people, then the Spirit has not the opportunity to work. The home was established before the church, and he sadly needs more home piety. He will never satisfy. They say, “I don’t believe in that man’s religion.” And the church clubs them. “Write these things to the churches.” He told them it was his business to sell liquor, and he was going to sell liquor to every one who came. “When the life-boat came to you,” said a friend, “did you expect it had brought some tools to repair your old ship?” He is a liar, and has been from the foundation of the world. We just want to know what men do believe. Being a Second Volume of Anecdotes, Incidents and Illustrations. He went into another saloon, and drank some more whisky; but the words kept ringing in his ears: “Come! 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. Ashamed of his mother that loved him and toiled for him, and bore so much hardship for him! Two of her masts were gone, and if we had stayed mending her only a few minutes, we must have gone down sir.”          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.” “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.” 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. The story of evangelist, teacher and urban ministry pioneer, Dwight Lyman (D.L.) Moody, you said——.” “Oh, papa, will you take me to see the bears in Lincoln Park?” When preaching in Chicago, Dr. Monro Gibson once asked in the inquiry meeting, “Now, how can we find out who is thirsty? Some years ago I wanted to teach my boy what faith was, and so I put him on a table. we need rousing; there is too much apathy amongst professing Christians. The Bible is like an album. A wild and prodigal young man, who was running a headlong career to ruin came into one of our meetings in Chicago. Rock of Ages, cleft for me, You need not go to the Bible to find it out. 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. It may not come immediately, but the retribution will surely come. 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. I ask you, sinner, to settle it now. In the twinkling of an eye my whole life came flashing across my mind. He proves that God can truly use anybody from anywhere; you do not need to be a Bible scholar to be successful in the Lord. If you are a Christian you will be glad to do whatever will please Him.” “Yes,” she replied; “I was never so scared in my life. 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. In the name of our great Commander let us march on to battle and to victory. He said: “I hope you are interested in this work.” This kind of thing won’t do. “Didn’t I tell you I would catch you?” And let him that is athirst, come. Current Issue The Lord will be very merciful if you set your face to do right.” 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: 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. Lift them up toward God and heaven. “Oh,” said one of the men, “they are after the honey-dew.” “I thought I would die when I found I had lost my hold on that son.” “Yes, but he has cut off all the roots, and just stuck the tops into the ground.” It is said that Tennyson once asked an old Christian woman if there was any news. What does it mean?” I remember being in a meeting after the Civil War had been going on for about six months. Well, then we will put down ‘rum.’ ” “He wants to become a Christian.” When he got there, he picked the boy up in his arms, and brought him up to the house. He never could get to see him from that day until one day he met him on a corner, and he said: Why, she had married a rich husband; that was all. I was once preaching in Chicago, and a woman who was nearly out of her mind came to me. “Can you read?” The little boy said, “I won’t.” If I become a Christian, that furniture will have to go, and my wife will know it.” It was poor policy. Settle it now, my friends, once for all. “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.”. 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. There was a large family of girls, and we had tickets for the theaters three or four times a week. Always the same, wherever a man’s heart is, there his tongue will be sure to go. 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. D.L. 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. He didn’t worship God, but he worshiped that boy. A friend of mine was in Syria, and he found a shepherd that kept up the old custom of naming his sheep. How many men fold their arms and say: Some years ago I heard of a poor woman who sent her boy to school and college. “You are not dead; you are alive and well.” When a man has broken his arm, the surgeon must find out the exact spot where the fracture is. So when you have seen the state your heart is in, look up to Christ, and nowhere else. She promised to come back again the next day, and then she attended three or four more meetings, and became quite interested. He tells you there is no hell, no future—there is no retribution. So there is a scarlet thread running all through the Bible—the whole book points to Christ. No response! 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. “Were you at such a place on such a night?” asked the first. I tried, but I couldn’t make them. | I remember, when we were in London, they found one old woman who was eighty-five years old, and not a Christian. So he said to the shepherd: They went to take him, but he remonstrated. He looked all around, but he could not see him. You would say that he was a first-class lunatic, wouldn’t you? “Why don’t you cast him off?” Nothing that is done for God is small. 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. My friends, if you read your Bibles you will find your own pictures there. 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?’ ” There are a lot of people running around who haven’t got any roots. 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. You cannot touch me; I died in that man, and I go free. As soon as she got home, she sent some flowers out of her garden. This being true, D. L. Moody was an evangelist in the truest sense of the word. It was too big. It was past midnight before he got down on his knees, but down he went, and was converted. God says, “There is my Son; take Him as your Saviour. They laughed at her, and made her the butt of their ridicule. 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. She said: “You must. It might be a very insignificant work—very small; but if it was done in the right spirit, God accepted it. The blood is on the mercy-seat, and the vilest sinner can be saved for time and eternity. Then, I decided to make a dash for it and have it over at once.”, "The old sun shone a good deal brighter then it ever had before—I felt that it was just smiling upon me; and as I walked out upon Boston Common and heard the birds singing in the trees, I thought they were all singing a song to me. One Lord’s day in Patmos, He said to him: If his heart is in money, he will soon have you deep in talk about mines, speculation, stocks, bank rate, and so on. There was a boy who was very bad. I just took him up in my arms, and carried him into the house, and showed him his face in the looking-glass. The men who have studied the Bible for fifty years have never got down to the depths of it yet. I was on sentry duty on the edge of a wood. “Well,” I said, “I have seen you in the audience every afternoon for several weeks, and have you heard me say anything against theaters?” I am not going to stay here, I am going home.’ He said, ‘Don’t make a fool of yourself. 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. 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. Where will you be, on the left or the right hand of God? I was a Union soldier, and was in the wood that night with a party of scouts. There is a woman down there who has an awful tongue; she keeps the whole neighborhood stirred up. “Well,” says she, “I don’t remember.” I stood back three or four feet, and said. 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. 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. Will you not decide now? “Well,” he replied: “Some people it strikes, and some it doesn’t. She lives by faith. “Dear me,” he said. A young man comes from his country home, and enters upon city life. The little fellow said he would not. 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. “Well,” he said, “there must be something in it.” Moody wrote: "I do not see how any Christian, most of all a Christian minister, can go into these secret lodges with unbelievers. can you spell? Dear friends, let us expect that God is going to use us. We shall condemn ourselves, and we shall stand before God speechless. He was a lay evangelist who preferred to be called, simply, Mr. Moody. “I am not going to give up the theater.” Suppose a man said, “Mr. “What made you think that?” There is a beautiful legend about a conference held by the doves to decide where they should make their abode. I don’t want to have anything to do with him. He will make you an heir of His kingdom, if you will accept the gift of salvation. I went up to see her, and when I told her, the tears trickled down her cheeks, and she said: “Mr. “Pretty! 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