Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28
From Mr.. Moody's Sermons.


They may glitter for few months and
then they will pass away. Where are the
men who have been talking against the
Bible for the past twenty-five hundred years?
But look at the men that believe it. Look
at Abraham. He had faith in God, and his
name has lived four thousand years. Look
at Daniel down there in Babylon; twenty
five hundred years his name has been shin
ing and it will shine as long as there is
church on earth. | don't know as he was a
great man in the sight of Babylon, and yet
suppose that in the sight of the true men
he was one of the ablest men that ever lived.
Whenever man takes God at His word,
God will bless him. Blessed are they that
die in the Lord, for they shall rest from
their labors." We hear good deal about
evolution. Bring on the man that is a
match for Paul Talk about your Boston
preachers Where is there a man that You
can compare with Paul He does not live
in your day or mine. Talk about men i'm
proving so very fast, | would like TO see
them. A man who is full of the Word of
God, God will hear and bless. Let us stick
right to the Word.
REVEALS NOTHING NEW.
A great many people have got an idea
that revivals are a new thing, that they have
occurred within the last few years, but they
have always been in the Word. In the
eighth chapter of Nehemiah: And Ezra,
the priest, brought the law before the con-
gregation, both of men and women, and all
that could hear with understanding and he
read therein before the street that was be-
fore the water gate, from morning until
midday, before the men and women and
those that could understand, and the ears of
the people were attentive unto the book OF
the law" They had an all-day meeting.
Now, that is my idea of preaching that is
about the only way to preach, is to just
read the Word distinctly and cause the peo
pile to understand, and if we can only get
them to understand the Word the whole
thing is settled. And there they were all lis
tening to the Word of God. Then turn to
the days of jeremiah, twentieth chapter,
ninth verse: "Then said | will not make
mention of Him, nor speak any more in His
name. But His Word was in mine heart as
a burning fire shut up in my bones, and ]
was weary with forbearing and | could not
stay" The Word had got inside his bones,
and jeremiah could not keep still And so
it is when we have the Word of God in us,
we will have desire to preach and pray.
FIFTEEN CENTS SAVED A DRuNKARD.
A man came into our meeting in the Hip
podrome the last night we were there, and !
have been anxious to hear how he was get
ting along, and this week heard from him.
He was not only tramp, but he had got
down about as low as any tramp could get.
His will power was all gone. He had no
rags to cover his nakedness. He was as filthy
and as far gone as any man ever saw. He
came into the Friday meeting and stayed to
the second meeting, and some friends prayed
with him whether they effected any change
in him at that time, | don't know. He told
them he didn't know anything about Jesus.
He said, ole won'tanswer my prayer, am so
great a sinner" But this was his experience
as he narrated it to me afterwards. He said
he had fifteen-cent scrip in his pocket, and
he said the first day after, " If the Lord
will help me keep that piece of scrip twenty
four hours ] will take that as a token He
will answer my prayer. If | shall Just be
able to walk through the streets of New York
twenty-four hours without spending it for
whiskey will take that as an answer to my
prayer" He had no place to lay his head,
but wandered about the streets all that time
and when he came back to me afterwards
and asked him how he was getting along
all he said was :" have got it now," heard
from him last week, and he said " have got
it now." He hadn't spent it for whiskey.
daughter and applause) He says he in
tends to keep that piece of currency as long
as he lives God help him to do it (Cries
of Amen.) That shows how God can save
the poor drunkard. Let us believe in prayer.
CHILD SAVED.
know a young lady who was sent to a
fashionable boarding-schoo, where she met
one faithful Christian, whose example and
influence led TO her conversion. When she
returned home, her parents were annoyed to
find her Christian for they wanted her to
mingle in what are called the first classes.
She went to the Sunday-school of her church,
and asked the superintendent for class !;
but he, who only thought her frivolous,
fashion-seeking girl, did not give her what
she asked. So she picked up little street
Arab, and, hand i'll hand, walked him into
the Sunday-school room, and asked the SUI
perintendent for permission to have her lit
tie boy to teach all by himself, which was
granted. When hatOoy heard the children
sing, il took him off his feet as the saving
is, and on his return to his home he told his
mother that he had been among the angels
She questioned him, and said That was a
Protestant Sunday school; don't go there
any more, or III tell your father" But he
went next Sunday, and the father was duly
informed and the boy duly fogged. But
he went again and again, and took his whip
ping every time cheerfully, until at last he
said to his father, Daddy, won't you fog
me before ! go, so that the thoughts of il
mayn't bother me in the Sunday-school p
| The father saw he couldn't whip him out OF
it, so he tried to bribe him. All the week
the boy sold apples in the railway station
so he promised him if he did not 90 to tn,
Sunday-school, he might sell for himself OF
Saturday afternoons. The boy agreed, anC
went Immediately TO the young lady anC
asked her If he might come TO her house
because his father was determined he SHOULD
not 60 to Sunday-school. She gladly con
sented, and opened week by week his younl
heart to the truths of Christianity. Shortl,
afterwards his foot slipped when he wa
selling his apples at the windows of a rail
way-carriage, and the train went over botl
his legs. lie asked the doctor who wa
dressing his horrible wounds, Doctor, shal
| live to get home :" "No, my poor boy,
said the doctor, "you're dying now" "Then,
said be, huskily, " tell em at home ! died
Christian and so passed away. When tina
| young lauy appears oeiore tne great thfOn
she will not be stranger, for that boy
whose soul she saved, will take her by tn
hand and lead her TO Jesus. And he wi
watch for her coming patiently, and sprin
TO meet her when she comes.
IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE WHAT
MAN BELIEVES.
A great many men tell us that it don
matter what a man believes, if he is onl
sincere in his belief. believe that theor
came out of the pit of hell. You can beley
one of the greatest lies ever told, but If yo
are sincere it is just as true as anything thi
was ever told. My friend, what do you b.
lieve Is it true The truth always ell
Yates, lie always degrades. Why, thos
men on Mount Carmel were the most earnel
men ever heard of. They cried, 40 Baal
o Baal | suppose you could have hear
them miles off. Not only did they cry
the top of their voices, but they took kniv,
and cut themselves, and they cried for hour
They were terribly in earnest, but there va
no answer to their prayers. They coudn