Moody's Anecdotes And Illustrations: Related in his Revival Work by the Great Evangelist — John Shaqi
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
-- It Is said that old Dr. Alexander, of Princeton College, when a young
student used to start out to preach, always gave them a piece of
advice. The old man would stand with his gray locks and his venerable
face and say: "Young man, make much of the blood in your ministry."
Now, I have traveled considerable during the past few years, and
never met a minister who made much of the blood and much of the
atonement but God had blessed his ministry, and souls were born into
the light by it.
CHILD STORIES.
"Little Moody."
I remember when I was a boy I went several miles from home with an older
brother. That seemed to me the longest visit of my life. It seemed that
I was then further away from home than I had ever been before, or have
ever been since. While we were walking down the street we saw an old man
coming toward us, and my brother said, "There is a man that will give
you a cent. He gives every new boy that comes into this town a cent."
That was my first visit to the town, and when the old man got opposite
to us he looked around, and my brother not wishing me to lose the cent,
and to remind the old man that I had not received it, told him that I
was a new boy in the town. The old man, taking off my hat, placed his
trembling hand on my head, and told me I had a Father in heaven. It was
a kind, simple act, but I feel the pressure of the old man's hand upon
my head to-day. You don't know how much you may do by just speaking
kindly.
"Won by a Smile."
In London, in 1872, one Sunday morning a minister said to me, "I want
you to notice that family there in one of the front seats, and when we
go home I want to tell you their story." When we got home I asked him
for the story, and he said, "All that family were won by a smile."
"Why," said I, "how's that?" "Well," said he, "as I was walking down a
street one day I saw a child at a window; it smiled, and I smiled, and
we bowed. So it was the second time; I bowed, she bowed. It was not long
before there was another child, and I had got in a habit of looking and
bowing, and pretty soon the group grew, and at last, as I went by, a
lady was with them. I didn't know what to do. I didn't want to bow to
her, but I knew the children expected it, and so I bowed to them all.
And the mother saw I was a minister, because I carried a Bible every
Sunday morning. So the children followed me the next Sunday and found I
was a minister. And they thought I was the greatest preacher, and their
parents must hear me. A minister who is kind to a child and gives him a
pat on the head, why the children will think he is the greatest preacher
in the world. Kindness goes a great way. And to make a long story short,
the father and mother and five children were converted, and they are
going to join our church next Sunday."
Won to Christ by a smile! We must get the wrinkles out of our brows, and
we must have smiling faces.
A Little Boy's Experience.
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