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. Ashamed of his mother that loved him and toiled for him, and bore so much hardship for him! She seemed to have entered into the misery, instead of the joy, of the Lord. “No.” Once, as I was walking down the street, I heard some people laughing and talking aloud. I remember blaming my mother for sending me to church on the Sabbath. “Dear me,” he said. If a friend were to see me searching about a building, and were to come up, and say, “Moody, what are you looking for? Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people. 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. So it is with the sinner; if you are really willing to take the Water of Life, YOU CAN DO IT. The entrance had a door with a spring lock. The wide grin on his face and the fresh sparkle in his big brown eyes reflected his newfound joy. I said to a man one day: “Indeed I didn’t. God wants us to put our faith in Him. There are some generals whose name alone is worth more than a whole army of ten thousand men. I’ve got one man in my mind now who ruined nearly all the sons in his neighborhood. He spoke of Christ’s death on the cross for all mankind, of Christ’s resurrection from the dead, and of Christ’s desire to be the friend of each one who trusted Him. Repentance isn’t feeling. Turn to the light of God, and the reflection will flash in your heart. How ever did you manage to get a room?” Mother, clothe me; I am naked, and cannot clothe myself. Dwight’s struggle came to a head, and he surrendered his will to God’s will and came to Christ through Kimball’s invitation. If his heart is in lands, it won’t be long before he’s talking about real estate, improvements, houses, and so on. May God help you to make a right choice! Some time ago a vessel had been off on a whaling voyage, and had been gone about three years. He seemed to put too much confidence in me. 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. It won’t be God who will condemn us; it will be ourselves. He said: Make haste to be wise; for “how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?”. My dear friends, there is not one commandment that has been given us which has not been for our highest and best interest. In the name of our great Commander let us march on to battle and to victory. The Lord will be very merciful if you set your face to do right.” This friend said to the guide: That great Christian leader, the late Rev. It was such an earnest letter! “Why, the war is over! If we go against His laws, we suffer. Horatio Gates Spafford was born in New York, on 20th October 1828, but it was in Chicago that he became well-known for his clear Christian testimony. That was the summing up of his life. But,” he said, “we have rented all our pews and are able to pay all our running expenses. 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.”. Now, this is the time for action. The chaplain knew the man and his besetting sin, and quietly looking him in the face, answered: Why is it that many Christians are cold? ... Return to D.L. “Now is the accepted time.” She said, “No, not that I know of.” 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: Moody, you said——.” She asked the Lord to have mercy on her afflicted child. If we would work, “not as one that beateth the air,” but to some definite purpose, we must have this power from on high. I remember a man telling me he preached for a number of years without any result. Christ proved His superiority right there. He tried, but couldn’t catch up again, and pretty soon he began to look out for another chance for a ride. “Yes, sah; it says forty miles to Liberty.” And Willie said he got a new view of that father. They cannot believe, because they are tied to this world. It is the god of some men. They tried it a few years ago. “There is a man that has seven children, and I have only three, and he is having a hard struggle. “Can you tell what is on that sign-post?” Then he said to me, “Let me jump again.” 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 officer asked what was the trouble, and he told him. That made me think of Lot down in Sodom. 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. But one day a thing happened that made him go down in my estimation. 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. A man’s sleigh was standing near by, and the boy began to eye the man. They found the man’s name entered as drafted, sent to the war, and marked off as killed. The other said he did: 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. 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. He heard the sermon, and became convicted and converted right there. The sheep stopped eating and looked up. D.L. Your service has become tedious and monotonous. 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! His mother said, “Oh,” was the reply, “we must go to market.”. 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