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
I remember while in a town East at the time of the loss of the Atlantic
on the banks of Newfoundland, there was a business man in the town who
was reported lost. His store was closed, and all his friends mourned him
as among those who went down on that vessel. But a telegram was received
from him by his partner with the word "saved," and that partner was
filled with joy. The store was opened and the telegram was framed, and
if you go into that store to-day you will see that little bit of paper
hanging on the wall, with the word "saved" upon it. Let the news go over
the wires to heaven to-night from you. Let the word "Saved" go from
everyone of you, and there will be joy in heaven. You can be saved--the
Son of man wants to save you.
Terribly in Earnest.
I read a number of years ago of a vessel that was wrecked. The
life-boats were not enough to take all the passengers. A man who was
swimming in the water swam up to one of the life-boats that was full and
seized it with his hand. They tried to prevent him, but the man was
terribly in earnest about saving his life, and one of the men in the
boat just drew a sword and cut off his hand. But the man didn't give up:
he reached out the other hand. He was terribly in earnest. He wanted to
save his life. But the man in the boat took the sword and cut off his
other hand. But the man did not give up. He swam up to the boat and
seized it with his teeth. Some of them said, "Let us not cut his head
off," and they drew him in. That man was terribly in earnest, and, my
friends, if you want to get into the kingdom of God, be in earnest.
"The Moody and Sankey Humbug."
There was a man, while we were in London, who got out a little paper
called "The Moody and Sankey Humbug." He used to have it to sell to the
people coming into the meeting. After he had sold a great many thousand
copies of that number, he wanted to get out another number; so he came
to the meeting to get something to put into the paper; but the power of
the Lord was present. It says here in this chapter (Luke 5) that the
Pharisees, scribes, and doctors, were watching the words of Christ in
that house in Capernaum, and that the power of the Lord was present to
heal. It don't say they were healed. They did not come to be healed. If
they had, they would have been healed. But sometimes there is a prayer
of faith going up to God from some one, that brings down blessings. And
so this man came into that meeting. The power of the Lord was present,
and the arrow of conviction went down deep into his heart. He went out,
not to write a paper, but to destroy his paper that he had written, and
so to tell what the Holy Ghost had done for him.
The Reporter's Story.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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