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
After the meeting we went home. I remember going down La Salle street
with a young man who is probably in the hall to-night, and saw the glare
of flames. I said to the young man: "This means ruin to Chicago." About
one o'clock, Farwell Hall went; soon the church in which I had preached
went down, and everything was scattered. I never saw that audience
again. My friends, we don't know what may happen to-morrow, but there is
one thing I do know, and that is, if you take the gift you are saved. If
you have eternal life you need not fear fire, death, or sickness. Let
disease or death come, you can shout triumphantly over the grave if you
have Christ. My friends, what are you going to do with Him to-night?
Will you decide now?
"A Day of Decision."
I believe there is a day of decision in our lives--a day upon which the
crisis of our lives occurs. There is a day when the Son of Man comes and
stands at our heart and knocks and knocks for the last time and leaves
us forever. I can imagine when Pilate was banished how this recollection
troubled him day and night. He remembered how that Saviour had looked on
him--how innocent He was; he remembered how, when the Jews were
clamoring for His death, and the cry echoed through the streets of
Jerusalem, "Crucify Him! crucify Him!" It seemed as if He had nothing
but love for them. Probably some one told him the story of the
crucifixion, and how when nailed to the cross and the howling mob around
Him, He cried, "Father, forgive them; they know not what they do;" he
remembered how they clamored for his life, and how he hadn't the moral
courage to stand up for the despised Nazarene, and that preyed upon his
mind, and he put an end to his miserable existence.
Moody Puts a Man in his "Prophet's Room."
A few years ago as I stood at the door of a church giving out
invitations to a meeting to take place that evening, a young man to whom
I offered one said, "I want something more than that. I want something
to do!" I urged him to come into the meeting, and after some
remonstrance he consented. After the meeting I took him home, and after
dinner I told him there was a room which I called the "Prophet's Room,"
and up stairs was another which I called the "Unbeliever's Room," and I
would give him till night to decide which he would take. He was able by
night to take the first, and the next day was at work urging young men
to attend the noonday prayer-meeting. When I was burned out in the great
fire and was left perfectly destitute, I received a letter with some
money from this young man in Boston, who said:
"You helped me and took me in your home, keeping me six weeks and
refused to take anything for it, and I have never forgotten your
kindness." I had lost sight of him, but he had remembered that as a
turning-point in his existence.
GOLD.
-- If you receive Him it will be well; if you reject Him and are lost it
will be terrible.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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