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
his mother was, and went up to her and said, "Mother, mother, don't you
know me? I am your son." But she raved and slapped him on the face and
shrieked, "You're not my son," and then raved again and tore her hair.
He left the asylum more dead than alive, so completely broken-hearted
that he died in a few months. Yes the fruit was long growing, but at the
last it ripened to the harvest like a whirlwind.
Madness and Death.
I was coming along north Clark street one evening when a man shot past
me like an arrow. But he had seen me, and turned and seized me by the
arm. Saying eagerly, "Can I be saved to-night. The devil is coming to
take me to hell at 1 o'clock tonight." "My friend, you are mistaken." I
thought the man was sick. But he persisted that the devil had come and
laid his hand upon him, and told him he might have till 1 o'clock, and
said he: "Won't you go up to my room and sit with me." I got some men up
to his room to see to him. At 1 o'clock the devils came into that room,
and all the men in that room could not hold him. He was reaping what he
had sown. When the Angel of Death came and laid his cold hand on him, oh
how he cried for mercy.
SAVED.
A London Doctor Saved after Fifty Years of Prayer.
When I was in London there was a leading doctor in that city, upwards of
seventy years of age, wrote me a note to come and see him privately
about his soul. He was living at a country seat a little way out of
London, and he came into town only two or three times a week. He was
wealthy and was nearly retired. I received the note right in the midst
of the London work, and told him I could not see him. I received a note
a day or two after from a member of his family, urging me to come. The
letter said his wife had been praying for him for fifty years, and all
the children had become Christians by her prayers. She had prayed for
him all those years, but no impression had been made upon him. Upon his
desk they had found the letter from me, and they came up to London to
see what it meant, and I said I would see him. When we met I asked him
if he wanted to become a Christian, and he seemed every way willing, but
when it came to confession to his family, he halted. "I tell you," said
he, "I cannot do that; my life has been such that I would not like to
confess before my family." "Now there is the point; if you are not
willing to confess Christ, He will not confess you; you cannot be His
disciple." We talked for some time, and he accepted. I found while I
had been in one room his daughter and some friends, anxious for the
salvation of that aged father, were in the other room praying to God,
and when he started out willing to go home and confess Christ, I opened
the door of the other room, not knowing the daughter was there, and the
first words she said were: "Is my father saved?" "Yes, I think he is," I
answered, and ran down to the front door and called him back. "Your
daughter is here," I said; "this is the time to commence your
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