The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-09-06
Ghildrem's Column.
Mr.. Moody and the Children.
The Hand


about the hand?" The man with
the withered hand" avery good ; any
thing else ?" elf thy right hand offend
thee. " " Yes what are you to do with
n" Cut it off. 1T is good deal
better to lose the hand than to lose the
soul, is it not? But suppose l. strike
this boy blow with my right hand,
would cutting it off make HE all right !?
l might still strike him with the other
hand, Then if both my hands were cut
off, might strike him with my foot.
Would the trouble be with my hand and
my foot? The trouble would be with my
heart would it not? Yes"
But the passage want to call your
attention specially to is this Il, the
Lord thy God, will hold thy right hand,
saying unto thee, Fear not, will help
thee Us. XII. 13). We want to put our
hand in Gods, and let Him keep us.
You know, little girls often want to
be like their mothers and their elder sis
ters When my Emma was little girl,
she kept teasing her mamma to get her
muf. At last she got one, and she felt
SO big. She wanted to show off her lew
muft, so she came to me, and said, Papa,
l want you to take me out walking
am very busy l said, cannot go Just
now She kept teasing me so that 1 put
on my overcoat, and went out 1t was
in the winter, and when we got out it
was very slippery. said, Let me take
your hand, or you will be sure to slip
down oh no, papa, want to put my
hands in my muf, as mamma does. She
Strengthened herself up, and looked very
independent, and let her have her own
way. By and by, down she went on the
ice, When she got up, she said, Wont
you let me take hold Of your little fin
ger?' You had better let me take your
hand, and 1 will hold you up oh, no,
papa, let me take your little finger
let her have her own way again. Some
times the Lord does that, to let us see
it is not a good way. Again she slipped
and went down, and hurt herself This
time she put up her little hand, and said,
Papa, take my hand put my big
her up so that she did not fall. So God
says: |, the Lord thy God, will hold
thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear
not, 1 will help thee. >"
The Heart
A hymn having been sung, Mr.. Moody
continued: "You have been singing
Jesus loves me- Now if you love Jesus,
is it with the eye or the foot or the hand?"
" Nc" What then?" With the hearth"
" And if you love Him you will do
what?" Keep his commandments" eyes,
that is the test of love; if child loves
his mother he will obey her, will he not?"
Yes" What does the Bible say about
the natural heart ?" at is deceitful and
desperately wicked" Did your heart
ever deceive you? Have you never
promised to be better, and then gone out
and done, the same thing again p Eyes"
"Well, what are you going to do with a
deceitful heart? Can you make it good ?"
" No" What will you do with it? If
you broke your arm what would you do
with it?' Go to the doctor What
are you going to do with your heart
VIII medicine help your" "No." What
then p The blood of Jesus" "That's
right, my boy. Jesus blood can do,
what? 1t can cleanse the blacklist heart
Some one asked little Christian boy
in Edinburgh: Doesn't Satan ever
tempt you ? oh yes, he often tempts
me- What do you say to him /? say,
Satan, get behind me-. Does he mind
little boy like your The little fellow
hung his head No, he does not always;
does Satan always mind your The friend
replied, don't tell Satan to get behind
me- What do you do then?' say
Lord Jesus, you put Satan behind me- -
We have no power, therefore we need
Christ to help us A little girl who was
listening said, 1 won't ask the Lord to
put Satan behind me I want Satan put
behind the Lord I think she had the
best of it.
Now Christ wants to dwell in your
heart Martin Luther said that if some
one should come knocking at the door of
his heart, wanting to get in, he would
say, No, Luther has moved out, and the
Lord Jesus Christ dwells here now A
little girl in America wanted to give the
Lord Jesus something, because He had
given her SO many good gifts-father and
mother, brothers and sisters. On Christ
mas morning she was going to give Him
something but she kept it secret. In
the morning she went to her grand
mothers room and knelt down and said,
give myself to Thee as a Christmas
gift. Wasn't that the best thing she
could give? That is what the Lord wants
from you to-day.