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 seeing a story some time ago in print. It has been in the
papers, but it will not hurt us to hear it again. A family in a Southern
city were stricken down with yellow fever. It was raging there, and
there were very stringent sanitary rules. The moment anybody died, a
cart went around and took the coffin away. The father was taken sick and
died and was buried, and the mother was at last stricken down. The
neighbors were afraid of the plague, and none dared go into the house.
The mother had a little son and was anxious about her boy, and afraid he
would be neglected when she was called away, so she called the little
fellow to her bedside, and said, "My boy, I am going to leave you, but
Jesus will come to you when I am gone." The mother died, the cart came
along and she was laid in the grave. The neighbors would have liked to
take the boy, but were afraid of the pestilence. He wandered about and
finally started up to the place where they had laid his mother and sat
down on the grave, and wept himself to sleep. Next morning he awoke and
realized his position--alone and hungry. A stranger came along and
seeing the little fellow sitting on the ground, asked him what he was
waiting for. The boy remembered what his mother had told him, and
answered, "I am waiting for Jesus," and told him the whole story. The
man's heart was touched, tears trickled down his cheeks and he said,
"Jesus has sent me," to which the boy replied, "You have been a good
while coming, sir." He was provided for. So it is with us. To wait for
results, we must have courage and patience and God will help us.
"You Know Me, Moody."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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