Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-03-21
Extracts from Mr.. Moody's Sermons.

The soul that trusted Him indeed.
--Georgs NeamareE, 1858.
Extracts from Mr.. MOody's Sermons.
THE GOOD SHEPHERD.
In this chapter (John X lD we have
Christ as the door and the good shepherd.
Some one has said that the Lords sheep
have three marks. First, they hear the voice
of the Shepherd second, they know the
voice of the Shepherd; third, they follow
the voice of the Shepherd. They hear, they
know, and they follow The Lord does not
say they shall try to follow him, but they do
follow him. | once heard of a missionary
who was in SYRIA he was at Mount Lebanon
and a shepherd came down from the moun-
tain-side to a spring which was there with
his sheep, and in little while another shep-
herd came with his flock, and then another
and another, and it wasn't long before quite
a number of shepherds met there with their
sheep, and there were nearly ten thousand
sheep gathered around that spring of water.
This missionary wondered how they were
going to get those sheep separated. They
We're all together; the shepherds sat there
some time talking, but by-and.by one of the
shepherds got up aud, in his own language,
said, " Follow" and his sheep knew his voice,
and they just came out from the rest and
followed him up the mountain-side. Pres
emily another shepherd did the same, and
his sheep followed and he found that those
shepherds guided and controlled the sheep
by their voices. This missionary said, 4" Let
me see if they will follow me let me have
your cloak and shepherds crook !" and he
dressed like them and repeated in the same
language the same word, because he was ac-
quainted with the Arabic language, and the
sheep would not follow him. A stranger they
would not hear, and he said to the shepherd,
Don't they ever follow strangers ?" The
shepherd said Yes, they do sometimes"
THE MISSIONARY ASKED HIM WHEN,
and he said, Mena, mena," which means
"When they are sick" | suppose that is
the reason why great many Christians fol-
low strangers, because they are sick. A
man comes along with new gospel and
those who are not healthy Christians follow
after him. If they really know the true
Shepherd they are not going to follow a
stranger. If a man comes with some uu.
sound doctrine they are not going to be car
ried away. They know the Shepherds
voice and will follow the true Shepherd. In
this chapter Christ speaks, think, twenty.
eight times. He tells what he is, who he is,
and what he has come for, twenty weight
times He uses the personal pronoun, 81
am the way" " AM the door," " | am the
Good Shepherd" lay my life down fol
the sheep" " | am the Son of God" Twenty
eight different times he tells us what he i,
and who he is. He is the door of heaven
if we ever enter heaven, we have got to en-
ter through Jesus Christ. d" lie that climb
eth up some other way, the same is thiei
and a robber." You may enter house
through a window or break in through the
roof, but if you are going to enter heaven
it must be through the door, aud that dool
is Christ himself. 81 am the way and the
truth and the life" Then that twenty
eighth verse to me is very precious Anc
| give unto them eternal life--life without
end-and they shall never perish, neither
shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
In this verse the word man is in italics. Il
might be put stronger, and none shall pluch
them out of my hand neither devil MOI
man. No one shall pluck them out of my
hand. lie will take care of all his sheep h,
is good shepherd; he never lost one yet
Suppose you had flock of sheep, and wanted
a shepherd, and one came to you with hi
credentials and everything aud you fount
that he had lost good many sheep, yol
would not want him. The Lord will tax,
good care of them that put their trust il
him. He will not only give them eterna
life, but he will let none of his flock slip GU
of his hands. Let us trust ia him; let u
make him our shepherd and let us say frol
the heart "The Lord is my shepherd,
shall not want"
THE GOSPEL FOR ALL.
And he said unto them, go We into al
the world and preach the gospel to ever
, creature" He that beieveth and is bar
tized shall be saved, but he that believed
not shall be damned" Mark xvii l5lt
These were the words of Christ after his rei
direction. Gethsemane, with all its horro
and agony, was past. He had already bee
tried and condemned by the Jews aud b
PLATE. Calvary, with all its blood and ho
ror, now lay behind him yea, the sepulchr
was now past, and he is way back to til
world where all knew him and honored hiI
) and loved him, to world where every on
, believed in him, world with not an unb
lever in it. He called his little band of b.
levers around him, and these were his par
ing words, his last commission. 1t was I'll
= Captain of our salvation calling around Iii
the little band of men that were to conve
the world. Undoubtedly the unbelevel
: looked on that little band with scorn. Thel
{ was not man of influence or wealth anon
a them there were no generals; he put not
4 sword into their hands there were no might
a statesmen or philosophers, and yet these u
learned men were togo forth aud conquer Il
world. Ii some one had told in Jerusale
d that day that soon the Roman Empire wou
t fall before these Gallileans, they would hay
d thought the man had gone clean mad th
it could not be possible that these men, wit
out education, without wealth, without pos
d tion, men that were not great philosopher
e that were not great in the sight OF the worl
a were to go forth to conquer and win Il
world 10 Christ But look and see how tn
u little band, full of the Lord, shook the worl
g. and how they have gone around the wor
n carrying the gospel OF Jesus Christ, SO tn
ar not nation but has heard the joyful new
- Bear in mind that Christ was not going
~ leave them though he was going TO
N taken from them in bodily form" Lo, | a
e going TO be with you unto the end OF time
m lie was going yonder aud was going to SCI
-, the Holy Ghost upon these men, the chi
!" man OF whom had denied him few da
y before. And yet that man was TO becol
the very prince of preachers when the llu
Ghost came upon him. Undoubtedly t
x wise men of Jerusalem would have scoif
'f at the idea, as some skeptics scoif to-nigl
ic that this man was TO convert three thousal
=. men at his first sermon. These unbeieye
!. were to be the first converts, for he told the
u to tarry in Jerusalem Till they were imbu
ii with power from on high. can imag
c. they said, " But, Lord, they will not belle
re in you you have been in Jerusalem al
"A have performed some of your wonderful IN
As acles you raised Lazarus right out here on
IN two miles from the city, but they do not
,e lieve in you, aud what can we do after you a
d gone They will not believe our testimon
a. they will mock u.s." All, but you shall
d, ceive power when the Holy Ghost com
" upon you"