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of eleven years Both testified to the power
OF Christ to preserve His own.
| a lady testified to a Christian life of
forty seven Year,. and a brother to one of
| over fifty years.
Mr.. Harvey Spencer told of a recent re-
vival in a struggling church in another
| town, whose membership has moro than
doubled without the help of any evangelist
When God's Spirit can so work, we need
not lear that this WORK will end with Mr..
Moody's departure.
Alter testimony from others, Mr.. Moody
spoke OF Christian progress, and told a
story illustrating how the Christian life
brightens as it rises
The closing moments were spent in
prayer.
AFTERNOON MEETING.
The large audience room Of the Methodist
church was completely filled, the aisles as
well as pews being filed with listeners A
large number present were persons from
other towns. Mr.. Moody gave out the goth
hymn: left it all with Jesus" The
opening prayer was offered by Rev. Mr.
GriHin. The choir and congregation sang,
Guide me . thou great jehovah"
NIX MOODY LECTURE.
MIR Moody said he should speak of nine
new things which we shall have If we are
children of Tod. Let us test ourselves by
them. The first is the Nep Birth. Some are
substituting something which they have
done for this. Christ said Except a
man be born again, he cannot see the King
dom of God" The new birth is the work
of God. 1t is God coming into US and
impIanting a new principle. Let us not
try to patch up the old Adam or to save
ourselves by our own merits. Painting the
| pump will not make the water OF bad well
good. The new birth is not a mere pro-
fession-the form is nothing, and those who
have only the form are to be piled. If
Christ is formed in US tho hope Of glory. it
will not be hard to serve God We must
overcome the word. Putting on the uni
form does not maxi the man soldier. Many
put o. the yarb OF the Christian who have
not been born again. This is the question
of questiOns-llave we been born into Gods
Kingdom 1t is inO consl queIce lust uhen
YOU came into it. To some. Gods King
dom comes like flash Of light, to Others
like the gradual rising of the sun. Next,
We are born into Nelr Creation. Old things
are passed away. and all things have be-
| come new. How many can testify that men
and things look different to them when they
| look at them from u new heart. Accepting
| Christ, We become citizens OF another wor. d.
Our home is above Neither circumcision
nor uncircumcision availeth," Paul says,
"but a new creature The natural man
recelveth not the things of the Spirit of
God" The Bible is full of mystery till one
is born again-then it is food for the new
man. II the man is converted. he will want
to get into the society of Christians. Having
l., I'LL IS tha l.-,, L.
will have no taste for worldly pleasures.
One young man in this city has told me
he would like to become Christian but
he did not want to giveU up billiards. bad
said nothing about billiards. II a man be-
comes child of God he will not care Tor
these worldly amusements We must be
ware of whatever is liable to lead US into
sin Satan doesn't care how much you go
to church if you renOunce no sins. You
may choose your own chariot to perditiOn.
Christians should separate themselves from
the world. They must be more gOdy, as a
class, than most OF them are in our day.
Next, We get a Neg Nature, We are
told, In I'd Peter, that the Christian be
comes ''psrtaker of the Divine nature"
lie will PUT Christ above business, above
pleasure, friends-everything There will
be new aims. But God does not take away
warfare between the old and new. You will
find you have to fight yourself. have had
more trouble with d. l.. Moody than with
any other man. Put off tho old man. and
watch closely lest he resume control. With
| Chrisis help, it will be a continual victory.
| Don't think, because the old nature some
times comes up, that you have not been
converted, but if you do not strive against
the old, then you are in danger, and may
doubt il you are saved The Spirit lust eth
against he flesh. and the flesh against the
Spirit. 1t il wonder to me. not that some
fall, but that more do not tall, so many do
not feed the new nature. The dead fish go
with the current. but the living can stem
the current of the world, and overcome it.
This new nature. il You feed it from Gods
Word, will rise higher and higher. unto
the perfect day"
Then you will have Nep Name We
are saints of the Most High. God calls US
| 50, poor as we are, and He wants US to live
worthy of the name. He makes US kings
and priests unto God. Ii we bear the name
of Christ, let us live like Christ. Ii
We have been taken out of darkness,
let us live like the children of light,
and not like the children of darkness. If
We are his children We shall be godly, in
our walk and conversation. II We had more
! cody men and women, what power they
| would be in these communities.
Mr.. Moody read from the history of Jacob
where the patriarch went down to Shechem
and fell away to idols. God sent him to
Bethel, but he wanted to get away, and
God bad to stilct him by taking away
Rachel. Too many Christians go down to
Shechem. Mucn OF modern Christianity is
OF false stamp. These churches have too
many "boarders" in the place of children of
Gods family. There is good deal of in
structiun in the life of Jacob and in the
punishment God inflicted on him for his
| sins. God dealt in judgment both with
Jacob and with David. David's sins were
followed by fearful retributiOn. God pun
ishes sin. Jacob was worldly-minded
Christian. lie wanted to walk by sight, not
faith, and he testified in his old age. that
few and evil had been the days of his life.
lie did not have the JOY with which God re-
wards faithful service.
Then We are brought into NeuU Way
Satan leads all in the old way. Christ leads
in the new. 1t is the way of peace. joy,
love and light. We are either in the old or
in the new way Which is it? You know
that the way of the transgressOr is hard.
Give it up for the new way.
God gives US NeiU Tongue ln the 10th |
chapter of Mark. Christ says his disciples |
shall speak with new tongues. Ii you have
tho new tongue, you will not be making fun |
OF the scriptures. or backbiting your
neighbors, or lying. Christians must be
men OF their word and woe to the Christian
ity which does not make men honester and
better. God wants US to be true men.
With these new tongues We are to havea
NetD Song in our mouths. There will be new
beauty for the Christian in the songs of
Zion. The power of the Methodists has been
largely because they have been joyful,
singing Christians.
Next We are to have Nep Food. The man
who would rather read novels than the
Bible, may well doubt if he has been saved.
The child of God needs new food. He will
feed on the Bible and on books that explain
and enforce its teaching. We need more
Bible Christians. A hundred Bible Chris
tians like Wesley, would shake the world.
We must not let the Bible and sacred things
be lightly spoken of. or derided in our
presence. Let us leave the company which
treats with disrespect the Word OF Life
One more thing. We shall have NeS
Friends. You can't let friends, or even
father or mother, stand between you and
Christ Ii they will not follow Him with
you. you must leave them and go your own
way. Let your companions DO Christians,
il possible older Christians from whom you
can learn something. The true disciple OF
Christ. will not enjoy goddess society. If
You have these nine new things you are
ready to go out into the world and go to
work. And you will grOw. Christ seems a
thousand times more To me now, than when
first became His follower. lie will DO all
TO us that We make Him to be. lie should
be all in all to US.
Mr.. Moody closed this most earnest and
4 81.
for the growth in grace OF Gods children,
and especially OF the new converts and
that Christ might reign in all hearts with
out rival.
The meeting closed with the benediction
by Mr. Stafford.
Tuesday Evening.
AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH.
The meeting opened with the 63d hymn, {