Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-08-17
MOODY IN BRATTLEBORO.

he SPEAKS TO 4 CROWDED HOUSE UNDER THE
AUSPICES OF THE YOUNG MEMS CHRISTIAN
AssochTIoN-SrE. AND MRS GEO. srEnB1Ns
ACCOMPANY HIM As GOSPEL sINGERs-AB.
srRAcT OF MS DISCOURSE.
On Tuesday evening of this week Mr..
ID. L. Moody, the evangelist, delivered au ad-
dress in the town hall under the auspices of
the Young Mems Christian Association. AL
though the notice of his coming was short
the hall was packed and many people went
away unable to get seats. MIR. Moody was
accompanied by Mr.. aud Mrs. Geo Stebbins,
gospel singers Of wide reputation, who led
the half hour musical service with which the
meeting opened. This service consisted of
several selections from Gospel HYMNS. in
course Of which Mr. and Mrs. Stebbins rem
dered Nos. 1863, 'Behold what manner of love"
and 35l, II shall be satisfied, as duets, with
fine effect. The Rev. Mr.. Tower offered
prayer, and also made a short statement ex-
pressing the thanks OF the Association to
the managers of the concert of the following
evening for their kindness in relinquishing
the use of the hall-it having been engaged
by them for a rehearsal on Tuesday evening
Mr.. Moody followed with an expression Of
his satisfaction in finding a Young Mems
Christian Association established in Brattle
Doro on his return to this country. He be-
lieved it would be means of great good in
the community, and as such a means it
should receive a generous support. He had
not been asked to call for a collection, but it
was good thing to take up one, and he
should have it done. The child was born. he
said, and must be taken care Of After the
collection Mr.. Moody read few verses from
the second chapter of Titus, the Rev. @. II.
Merrill offered prayer, and Mr.. Stebbins
sang ''Hark the voice of Jesus calling"
Mr.. Moody then arose and announced his
text from Titus H., lib: 1.-THE grace of
God that bringeth salvation hath appeared TO
all men, etc. He had been reading that day,
he said, the words Of an eminent English
writer who, in his old age, said that nothing
in all the works he had himself written gave
him so much comfort as the words contained
in the text. Nothing can give such comfort
to the soul as the thought that God has pro-
vided absolutely free salvation for all his
children. Who would not be partaker of
such gift? The grace of God is without
money and without price The man who
says and feels that he is not worthy to be
saved is in just the right condition to be
saved. 1t is the men who strut about, pulled
up with their own conceit, of whom there is
least hope. 'If man could have worked his
way to heaven do you think that Christ
would have come down to the earth ?" said
you can work it out. 1t is without price il
can't DO bought BY the terms of the Cos
pei salvation must come first and the work
afterward. If man could work his way to
heaven there would be no living with him
there because of his Boosting of what he had
done. 1t would be as it now is with a man
who leaves Vermont and goes to New York
and gets rich, and then comes back and
struts about telling everybody what great
things he has done. Such men, if they
could work their way to heaven, would have
to have little corner there all alone aud a
harp to play on all by themselves Saliva
ton is worth crawling around the world for
on hands and knees, but it is absolutely free,
it must be taken just as il is offered, and it
can't be bought. q college student in Eng
land asked in D religious meeting, ''Why
must l come in just this way, through Christ,
to be saved why can't l come some other
way Y'-and to him the reply was made, 'If
Queen Victoria asked you to visit her at
Windsor CASTLE would she think the better of
you If you came down through the chimney
You'd she not require you to come to her
through the door which she had furnished p
Just 90 mHst We come to God by the way