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
There's a story told in history in the ninth century, I believe, of a
young man that came up with a little handful of men to attack a king who
had a great army of three thousand men. The young man had only five
hundred, and the king sent a messenger to the young man, saying that he
need not fear to surrender, for he would treat him mercifully. The young
man called up one of his soldiers and said: "Take this dagger and drive
it to your heart;" and the soldier took the dagger and drove it to his
heart. And calling up another, he said to him, "Leap into yonder chasm,"
and the man leaped into the chasm. The young man then said to the
messenger, "Go back and tell your King I have got five hundred men like
these. We will die, but we will never surrender. And tell your King
another thing; that I will have him chained with my dog inside of half
an hour." And when the King heard that he did not dare to meet them, and
his army fled before them like chaff before the wind, and within
twenty-four hours he had that King chained with his dog. That is the
kind of zeal we want. "We will die, but we will never surrender." We
will work until Jesus comes, and then we will rise with Him.
The Faithful Aged Woman.
An old woman who was seventy-five years old had a Sabbath-school two
miles away among the mountains. One Sunday there came a terrible storm
of rain, and she thought at first she would not go that day, but then
she thought, "What if some one should go and not find me there?" Then
she put on her waterproof, and took her umbrella and overshoes, and away
she went through the storm, two miles away, to the Sabbath-school in the
mountains. When she got there she found one solitary young man, and
taught him the best she knew how all the afternoon. She never saw him
again, and I don't know but the old woman thought her Sabbath-school had
been a failure. That week the young man enlisted in the army, and in a
year or two after the old woman got a letter from the soldier thanking
her for going through the storm that Sunday. This young man thought that
stormy day he would just go and see if the old woman was in earnest, and
if she cared enough about souls to go through the rain. He found she
came and taught him as carefully as if she was teaching the whole
school, and God made that the occasion of winning the young man to
Christ. When he lay dying in a hospital he sent the message to the old
woman that he would meet her in heaven. Was it not a glorious thing that
she did not get discouraged because she had but one Sunday-school
scholar? Be willing to work with one.
A Dream.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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