Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-10-26
Wednesday.
THE NOON MEETING

THE NOON MEETING.
The halt-hour PRAYER meeting was very
largely attended. The regular noon meet
ing of the day, in the Winooski Avenue
congregational church. opened with the
; HYMN, Joy to the world While all en-.
gagged in silent prayer. Rev. Mr.. Stafford pre-
sented the requests. embracing about forty
subjects for prayer. President Buckham
made an earnest petition with reference to
the requests. After the singing of the
hymn, Rejoice and be glad" Mr. Moody
made brief remarks on ''Joy one of the
Fruits of the Spirit" Many have a wrong
most think they had heard, Enter thou
into the mise-ies Of thy Lord" instead OF
Enter thou into the Joy of thy Lord -
they wear such long face There
are three kinds of joy; The joy
Of our salvation; the Joy of hay-
ing helped another to Christ: and
the Joy of seeing Gods people walking
IN grace. No backslider knows the true Joy
They may have happiness for short time,
or now and then. but happiness is not Joy
and the JOY of our Lord flows on steadily
and fully. lfyOu have this joy pass it around
Joy communicated always doubles itself
The happy Christian always has strength
Joy Is our strength. Men like to be talk
ed to by those who have it. 1t is some
thing they have not got, and they want it,
II you want joy, 90 to work for the Lord.
Wemust feed on the Word Jeremiah, xv.
Ii Many do not feed on the Word, and
have no joy, and wonder at it, The reason
Is they don't teed on the Word. think
enjoy myself more now in a week than
did IN year when | knew my
Bible less. Many don't like to come out
and be conspicuous on account of the dis
agreeable remarks of those who may say,
"Oh, he processes to be better than the
rest OF u.s." etc. Don't be dismsyed God
rewards persecution. and we know our re-
ward. lt IL only for a little while God has
promised great reward, and none can com
! prehend the greatness of the reward which
God means Christ has bequeathed to US a.
Il legacy. Mans JOY can be taken
/ away but no one can take away from US
Chrlst's JOY Let US lay hold of these
| things. Mr.. Moody concluded with
prayer, and left the meeting open to all.
Prayer was offered by Rev Mr. Stafford
Mr.. Sankey sang, The half was never
told Interesting remarks were made BY
several present. Confessions of backslid-
ing and requests for prayer were made
quite numeruusly. two or more frequently
arising at once. Mr.. Moody finally request
ed all desiring prayers to arise, and IN re-
spOnse, twenty-five or thirty arose. With
an earnest prayer on their behalf, Mr..
Moody dismissed the meeting,
THE THREE O'CLOCK MEETING.
The meeting opened with hymn II3. and
prayer. MIR. Sankey sung WINTER THAI
snow" Mr.. Moody's subject was The
Precious Blood" the discourse to be con-
tinuei Thursday afternoon. Mr. Moody
read from | Peter iii, 10. believe, said
the speaker. | was Christian many years
before could give a reason Tor the hope !
that was in ms, IT any one had asked me. ! /
think here, in this subject OF the Blood, |
II We study 1t carefully, We will find the |
reason. We will turn 10 Gods dealings
with Adam. | used TO be puzzled about
God telling hun that the day be sInned he
would die, and yet he did live many years
lie was his soul which was to die. The first
sign OF the Blood was the mention of the
skin given to Adam with which to be
covered. These skins could not have
been procured without blood A pre-
cIous thought here. Is that sin .was I'M
modiately covered by Gods mercy.
Next was Abel's offering of the first of the
dock. Cam was the first Set-rlg hteOus man.
lie wanted his own way. AMI thought his
offering was As good AS his brothers. Some
sell righteous men, now, wish to come by
some other way than By the Blood. After the
tl1ud, it was 20 important to take the new
world by way OF blood that Noah preserved
IN the ark all the animals. and the first thing
done on landing was an offering OF blood
Abraham, too. believed IN this doctrine
{ The speaker gave a brautitul delneatlon OF
the story oil Abraham ready to offer hi, son }
Did YOU ever think that 1t was on the same
mountain, few hundred years later, that
artist was led up to sacrifice God spared |
Abraham son. but not Ills own Quoting
Exodus XII. IL, the speaker said ! think
Ihi- chapter one OF the most important
N the Old Testament. ard etery chili J
II God should no familiar with it. "rhe
blood shall he t0T a token" Now some say
il Is the Lille OF Christ that should
be- preached and not the Death The Bible
lncsn't say 81. Some say, Oh, # had only
lone Us much good in the world AZ thu
me. or had served tod faithfully a. long as
hat one, | should feel sure Oi being safe c
But IT you are behind the blood, yuu are I
ust a. tie as they are. even II YOU are the ,
Scakcst The fly was lust a. safe in the
ITk ~ the elephant was. The blood is the ,
'eginnIng. People dated from the tall OF Il
nan, and afterwards from the landing of
he ark when blood was offered, and We
low date from the cross, where Chrlst'S
hood was poured out. ''rhc blood shall 30 l.
or u token. They were net only to show II
he blood hut were to cat the lamb. One q
eason why ~ many are weak, they forget u
o down here. We are not to go right to /