The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-11-18

Arsother. ssrr1aesl Dy Mt. Mood W.
fReportcd FOR ,e baltimore Aister tcs',, ot:'.l
an. Moody yesterday afte Tncon SPOKE 70
4 congregation Of swo thousanft perse ns on
ssChrIstIan Utility. which be dehaed az
,aborjus TO bring to God those WHO IRE re-
moved from Him out OF pure love ana
rett,rr for tile blessings God gives OUT
se,yes. You will read. he said, in tue nItn
chanter OF Luke aud the seycnt NTH verse,
80 Add &c came to pass on O certain cay, as
Christ ss teaching, that there were MARI
sees and (iocsorso al the law sitting by. winch
were coiae out OF every town OF Gaiilee
and Judca and Jerusalem, and the poweroi
she Lord was present TO heal then. NOW,
here syerc these PhaEIsees Just Ike 4 see
h good many 7of their kindred, now DIV peio 1s
me. ALI three OF the evan elists record
This circumstance. and whenever the! a.,
tbreeex,paasize anJt thing you may Know ", tnat
IL is to convey some great truth. in at.'e
was q great revival In that country at eiat
time. People talk a great deal now aga,n ~
rav;raIs. b,,t IL would be we'll to turn back
and st1,dy that one little. Mothers carried
their babies witt! them 10 hear the eospei,
and peopIe not only stayed out late 10 near
IL. bat they even stayed all night: IL was
sust after Christ had come out OF the Will
derness and gone down to preach TO sne
reonle or Capernaum, who, we are toId,
were g astonisbed at His doctrine" lie
,cas inst beginning to show His power.
Yhe star OF His divine nature was rising.
THE, heavens had already opened. and the
HOLY Ghost descended In q bodily shape,
like u dove, upon Hira, and voice naa
come from Heaven, which said, Ihou ART
my beloved Son, in whom ain wen
pleased"
You remember He had found Peters
mother-in-law down sick Win the ie'er,
and He stood over her and IL ielS her. an
whom He laid hands upon were Healed, ana
the n,,1ltit,1de OF fish had been brought into
PETERS nets. People all around were be-
| Ginning 10 hear about these things, and
sSSonfcd to sec and hear this strange man.
II they had been familiar with the Testa'
ment they would not have been surprised,
for everything about Christ's coming ana
what he would do was recorded there. we
must remember that the Old as wei! as tGe
New Testament cemposes the Bible, anu II
we accent one we must the other. Ihere IS
very little In the Old Testament that christ
did not set his seal to. These wise men OF
Jerusalem came down to Capernaun, "here
.Iesns had gone to live. Mir. Spurgeon says
!" Christ introduced new fashions into the
world" He did. indeed, commence heal.
ing without medicine. Never before had
any one done such things. He even read
mems thoughts.
THE MIRACLE OF HEALING THE. SICK.
The miracle we are about to consider was
threefold. Christ did three things, either
Of which was enough to show any reasona-
bic mind that he was divine. Now, want
TO call YOUR attention to few things. THESE
doctors of law and divinity did not come
there to be blessed. They wanted to reason
the thing out, and reason got Just all 1t
wanted. Mind you, they were not con-
WINGED; they went back as firm IN their un.
belief rs ever; but their reasons were given
n very hard tIstle. Jesus was nothing Dut
n moor carpenter; and it was because he
was so poor-just as poor rs the very lowest
man in Baltimore to- day-that they despised
Him and would not listen to Him. Because
he was poor they Judged that He must be
very ignorant. That is why they would not
accept what He said.
Some of these Pharisees were gust ike
some of the PharisceS we gee around us
they were great on forms. These formall-
ties objected to Christ because he dld not
come to them as an expert. III lie mao Deen
educated at one OF their seminaries, ike the
rest of the Prophets, and had been resu-
lar priest. they would have listened to HIM
and taken His utterances as truth. SO with
fine Journalists of to-day. More of them were
fuult-fuders; they found great deal OF
f'brist
10 criticise. We hear people say to-day they
don't like Moody's style; they don't like the
wax he does this and that and the othef
thing. Now, all I have to say is that no one
should talk that way if they can't do any
better themselves. Some arc indifferent.
They say they wonder what brings the
crowds here, anyhow; the sineing's Just
tolerable, but as for the preaching, they
don't think much OF that; they CART see
anything in that man Moody to draw any
body.
More. again. come to these meetings just
out of idle curiosity. They see the crowds
coming up Charles street, and read the pa
pers and say, 81 wonder what there Is IN
it, anyhow?', and they go and get a ticket
and come in and sit us impressive as statues.
Then there are good many who come to
the meetings Just for the enjoyment. l
think the congregation may be divided into
these classes. They enjoy the singing ana
the speaking. They are like sponges, anu
absorb everything that comes along. they
20 to all meetings and never get tired.
They will take class in Sunday school, or
do almost anything, so it is new. All they
care about is to enjoy themselves. Ihey
are all for getting, but nothing for giving.
= scoFFERs cRowD1NG OUT THE SINNERS.
Luke goes on to say i: g And behold, men
in a bed man which was taken
with a palsy, and they sought means to
bring him in and to lay him before Him;
and when they could not find by what way
they might bring him in, because OF the
multitude, they went upon the housctop|
and let him down through the thing with
his couch into the midst before Jesus"
There were the scotlers and the curious SO
crowding the place that the man who
needed Christ could not reach him. These
four men who carried in the palsied man,
while cannot assert it rs fact, were pro-
badly young converts. They wanted to do
some good. and went out and hunted UP the
sufferer. Very likely one OF them had been
blind, and Christ had given him his sight.
Another may have had his legs paraly-
zed, and when Christ maue them well
he concluded to use them to help some
body else. So they put their palsied man
on what we now call Stretcher, and
determined to get him before Christ, in
spite OF the immense crowd and great eX-
oit eu,a,,t There were en- MANY there lust