, 1876-11-07
Encouraging Adyices Concerning
The Work OF Salvation.
Mr. Moody Discourses ut Farwell Hall
on tic Blind Men Whom
Christ Healed.
4 Fair Attendance ut the Tabernacle It
the Evening.
The Religious Awakening in tho
Provinces.
FARWELIl HALL.

Mr.. Moodyfs North Side Church, led tho pre-
li'n|nary singing yesterday, MD did It well.
The Rcv. Mr.. Davis presented the requests
for prayer, about seventy In all, Including re-
quests TN behalf Of the Christian wo.kcss 1T
Downcr's Grove, for the church aud pastur NJ
Riverside; for Lyons, ILL.,, where a revival IL t1
progreas, with already 4 good many conyer-
sions; for the young mcn's praycr-meetlngs at
Memphis, Tenu.; for Vina]llayun. Me-; for
Metropolis, where Brother Dcau Is holding rc-
ytyal services; for tho students Of the Chicago
University; for Plymouth Congregational
Church, In this city; for Kalamazoo; Piper City,
ILL.,; Clinton, IN. Galcsvllc, Wis, aud Oshkosh
for the Las1lta' Temperance Society at Ga1cs-
burg, ILL.,; for tho young men and women cn.
ployed In thu telegraph offices anil hanks Of
this city; for fifteen sons by thu!r parents, cig.
husbands by wives, Sir wives by husbands, Xix
daughters by mothers. for twenty-five young
men by Christian friends, and BY one or two
;, Prayer was then delivered by tho Iscs. ". VI.
Patton, p. j..
The lesson Tor the DAY was The ninth chapter
uf JOlu.
AZ TIE Address.
At the closc Of tho lust chapter VIC left the
Jews with their bands full OF stones. which
they had taken, up to cnst ut JESUS brcause lie
sail Ht was before Abraham. N'i,cn liz told
te tne tat thsy Eot nna they 1ns hcllsse IN
Ear whose eyes the Lurfi restored. I lnn't
t!ifnk there ever was II blind nun whom The
Lprd passed by. But what want to call your
attention to IL the bllnn man himself, bcgn.
ming MIL! the nint!l ycrsc: "somc sntd, 1l,.a
Mn he.h
Now il ho had been like a good nnuy people
nowadays he would have said to himself:
"Ihere T. great ssurnl brewing. Thu cldct
,$f I'm nit
SONG Of then! think Tic Is a prophet, and so1nc
any lie Is MI in,poster; 80 gress had better
keep still: lsavc rot my eiglt anyhow. Now
LINK n! 60 OF home to my parents, and keep
that why ut all. lie says right out: IL aln
llc.n
In tho first place, With Ills heart lie had be-
HGvca unto righteousness, and now with bis
mouth ic makes confession unto salvation. lie
was not going to hold Ills peace. Ills eyes had
been opened, and hc now begins to tell lis cx-
pcricnce. Experience. That Is what nude our
frtaay noon meetings 80 interesting, because
those men got ZIP aild told their experience.
experience Of conscience. All tho unbclle7ers
lit the worl! CAN'T get over Rucls fact us the
convcrs!ul! of SAUL
Some oile oncc wrote an article against the
friends sa to lin, SWhat are W you gi go!ng II to DO
abou: III That Is a strong argument against
yUl."
~ shall do nothing at all." was his reply.
ct this woFk spcnk for itsef.'
Nuticc nov TINT this man ut once obcyei the
Mastcr. lie told him to put clay IN his eyes
enough to spoil his sight II It liaa been g0od, -
and then 81 and waal The man might hltyc
n,mle good many objections, but no. Ho goes
ho l!as dong Il he gets Ills slgllt. 'solnobody
might say, " Why couldn't Christ have saved
him all Tint trouble lud have spoltcn tho word,
and opened bis eyes on tho spotr' Well, He
could; llo did In another place. But my
1llalc two mel Just alikc or converted two men
Just alikc. Tllls is where great linny pconlc
bunder, looking for God to give thcn soine
body csse's experience.
Here, In the twelftl. verse, they ask, "Whcre
Ia lfef II don't know" answers the man.
You SEQ he don't try to tell more than l.e
kllows. 50. young conycrts don't you try to
tell mare tl,an you Know: DON'T gct pufIcd up
With conceit aud spiritual prldc over what the
Again, they, ask FIN. how he got his sight,
a1!h lc tells hs experience over nguln. DOu't
Gs afraid to tcl your experience, 50 long as God
a prophet" Here are tho three degrees OF this
mans progress: First, he confcsses himself Il
saved ,nun. ~ ain he.." second, he tells what
Chrlst ias done for him; and third, having got
about The Muster and 70 prensh Him as O
prophet. So with yuu. Get douc talking about
yourselges " quick rs you ca'', aud begin to
kacw vol enough who lind opcnctl tho blind
eyes Of their son. He ha1 told them himaclf:
but they were moral cowarls. They were afruid
they would hc put out of the Synagogue II they
confessed WHO it was that had urnught them 50
great u b.esaiug. 1t wus terrible thing to be
put ont Of the Synagogue. III these days, II Il
;ua1I Is put out oi the Presbyterian Church. they
t.ay takc him !nto tbs Methodist Church, and
when tho Acthodlsts turn him out, Ilo cau gu
any Frcsbyserl:ll.s, and Mct!lolista, and Episco-
palians, anu CongreEntona]sts, nt,d Baptists, d,
those dnYs. There was 0nly oit Church, and It
was Terrible thing 10 be put out Of that. So
Ills parents COMPROMISED the lluttcr by turning
HUT"
Again they came back to the man him
self, and he ts ready to repeat the
s!ofy, II they Will ,ouly. believe ~ Christ.
rharsccs to brluYu IN thu prophet, Win has
given lin his sight. lie Is full Of fas.h. like
tu have B0lne young culsvcrts round inc. rhcy
things, which other people think arc almost In
possible. Their fastA lcapa over all mountains.
but tllis man presses those pEonntl PhAriscrs
little too hard, md they get mud ut him. just
as peoplu do ii1s when tia Worl Of tod IL
Two know TINT God sla';o BY Moses, hut as
for tlla fellow, We know not whthct l,r fs." Tlu
l!aan answered, "W!iy, herein IL u .iarVclous
thing that &c know not MlIet,co lc Is, a1nt yet
hs l!!iti opullrl my eyes. kow We knuw that
tod Ae4rctl. not slnlurs, but Il my n.uiI bc II
wOrhirer of tial nlnl tlt,eth Ills will, hIEl he
hcuEctll." Dr. Fulton, ynu cs,ldn't have put
the ctsc better than thai. M Professor N
theological seminary cuull huyc inadc better
argument thin that Uut they east lin out,
null whcro lid thcy east hislt Why. right
into thu arms Ut the Lord Jesus. It wasn't long