Moody's Stories: Being a Second Volume of Anecdotes, Incidents, and IllustrationsMoody, Dwight Lyman
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Moody's Stories: Being a Second Volume of Anecdotes, Incidents, and Illustrations
Moody, Dwight Lyman
Homiletical illustrations
"Many what?"
"Many conversions here?"
"Ah, man, this is not a Wesleyan chapel."
The idea of there being conversions there! And you can go into a good
many churches in this country and ask if they have many conversions
there, and they would not know what it meant, they are so far away
from the Lord; they are not looking for conversions, and don't expect
them.
A Hundred Years Hence
Once, as I was walking down the street, I heard some people laughing
and talking aloud. One of them said:
"Well, there will be no difference; it will be all the same a hundred
years hence."
The thought flashed across my mind, "Will there be no difference?
Where will you be a hundred years hence?"
Young man, just ask yourself the question, "Where shall I be?" Some of
you who are getting on in years may be in eternity ten years hence.
Where will you be, on the left or the right hand of God? I cannot tell
your feelings, but I can my own. I ask you, "Where will you spend
eternity? Where will you be a hundred years hence?"
A Free Gift
Remember, salvation is a free gift, and it is a free gift _for us_.
Can you buy it? It is a free gift, presented to "whosoever" will
accept it.
Suppose I were to say, I will give this Bible to "whosoever" will take
it; what have you got to do? Why, nothing but take it. But a man comes
forward, and says:
"I'd like that Bible very much."
"Well, didn't I say 'whosoever' will can have it?"
"Yes; but I'd like to have you mention my name."
"Well, here it is."
Still he keeps eyeing the Bible, and saying, "I'd like to have that
Bible; but I'd like to give you something for it. I don't like to take
it for nothing."
"But I am not here to sell Bibles; take it, if you want it."
"Well, I want it; but I'd like to give you something for it. Let me
give you a cent for it; though, to be sure, it's worth about five
dollars."
Suppose I accept the cent; the man takes up the Bible and marches away
home with it.
His wife asks, "Where did you get that Bible?"
"Oh, I bought it."
Mark the point; when he gave the penny, it ceased to be a gift. So
with salvation. If you were to pay ever so little, it would not be a
gift.
What Seed Are You Sowing?
Suppose I meet a man who is sowing seed, and say, "Hello, stranger,
what are you sowing?"
"Seed."
"What kind of seed?"
"I don't know."
"Don't you know whether it is good or bad?"
"No; I can't tell. But it is seed--that is all I want to know, and I
am sowing it."
You would say that he was a first-class lunatic, wouldn't you? But he
wouldn't be half so mad as the man who goes on sowing for time and
eternity, and never asks himself what he is sowing or what the harvest
will be.
Father, what seed are you sowing in your family? Are you setting your
children a good or a bad example? Do you spend your time at the saloon
or the club, until you have become almost a stranger to them? or are
you training them for God and righteousness?
Bound Hand and Foot
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