Moody's Anecdotes And Illustrations: Related in his Revival Work by the Great EvangelistMoody, Dwight Lyman
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Moody's Anecdotes And Illustrations: Related in his Revival Work by the Great Evangelist
Moody, Dwight Lyman
Christian life -- Fiction; Homiletical illustrations
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 everyone 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 soon, but the retribution
will 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 men and then 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.
A Distiller Interrogates Moody.
In Europe in a place where there was a good deal of whisky distilled,
one of the men in the business was a church member, and got a little
anxious in his conscience about his business. He came and asked me if I
thought that a man could not be an honest distiller. I said, You should
do whatever you do for the glory of God. If you can get down and pray
about a barrel of whisky, and say, for instance, when you sell it, "O
Lord God, let this whisky be blessed to the world," it is probably
honest.
The Most Hopeless Man in New York now a Sunday-School Superintendent.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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