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 confess I feel like hanging my head.
Go to him in the Philippian jail and ask him what he is going to do now.
"Do? press forward for the mark of my high calling." And so he went on
looking toward one point, and no man could stand before him.
Saved and Saving.
One day I saw a steel engraving that I liked very much. I thought it was
the finest thing I ever had seen, at the time, and I bought it. It was a
picture of a woman coming out of the water, and clinging with both arms
to the cross. There she came out of the drowning waves with both arms
around the cross perfectly safe. Afterwards, I saw another picture that
spoiled this one for me entirely, it was so much more lovely. It was a
picture of a person coming out of the dark waters, with one arm clinging
to the cross and with the other she was lifting some one else out of the
waves. That is what I like. Keep a firm hold upon the cross, but always
try to rescue another from the drowning.
A Story Moody "Never will Forget."
A few years ago, in a town somewhere in this state, a merchant died, and
while he was lying a corpse I was told a story I will never forget. When
the physician that attended him saw there was no chance for him here, he
thought it would be time to talk about Christ to the dying man. And
there are a great many Christians just like this physician. They wait
till a man is just entering the other world, just till he is about
nearing the throne, till the sands of life are about run out, till the
death rattle is in his throat, before they commence to speak of Christ.
The physician stepped up to the dying merchant and began to speak of
Jesus, the beauties of Christianity, and the salvation he had offered to
all the world. The merchant listened quietly to him, and then asked him,
"How long have you known of these things?" "I have been a Christian
since I came from the East," he replied. "You have been a Christian so
long and have known all this, and have been in my store every day. You
have been in my house; have associated with me; you knew all these
things, and why didn't you tell me before?" The doctor went home and
retired to rest, but could not sleep. The question of the dying man rang
in his ears. He could not explain why he had not spoken before, but he
saw he had neglected his duty to his principles. He went back to his
dying friend, intending to urge upon him the acceptance of Christ's
salvation, but when he began to speak to him the merchant only replied
in a sad whisper, "Oh, why didn't you tell me before?" Oh, my friends,
how many of us act like this physician? If we don't practice in every
particular the professions we make, and try to influence the lives of
others, and lead the lives of Christians according to Christian precept,
the world will go on stumbling over us.
The Missing Stone.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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