The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25
A SPIRITUAL OUTPOURING.
The Extraordinary Interest Awakened
by Mr.. Moody's Christian Convention.
The Evangelist Prociaims His Faith in the
Weird of Both Testaments-An Injunc-
ton to Christian Workers.
FAITH IN TIE WORD.
Mr.. Moody Gives Reasons for Believing All
the Stories Of the Old Testament


no grand flights in it. He is not handsome
man, but he is we'll fed rotund, wholesome He
is not great theologian. He is simply Bible
talker. He talks it as no other man ever has
talked it in this city, and yesterday morning, as
| on the previous evening two thousand people
listened. They listened so profoundly, and the
quiet was SO marked, that even the ordinary
noises from the streets at times seemed to DIS
turb them. Yesterday mornings audience was
of church people, those who are familiar with
the gospel yet they listened to the old story told
| with new life and force Mr. Moody's diction is
unornamented direct and clear. He cannot be
| put upon paper The skeleton of his words may
| be, but they will lack the flesh and blood of the
| takers presence. He talks as all fervent, earn
est men do, rapidly. Cold words slowly.
His words run like quicksilver, and he drives
the truth in upon the listening soul by his earn
| estness.
The services opened by singing Draw Me
| Nearer and DR.. Ryland t. Brown prayed
Rev. David Walk spoke THE Bible In
| Christian Work. He said that without the
| Bible there would be no redemption. as it Isl in
| large sense, the story of the redemption. What
the seed is to the sower the Bible is to the spirit
ua husbandman. What the sword is to the
soldier the word of God is to him who would fight
the battles of the Lord. 1t is the Book of God
| and the God of Books IE our view it eompre-
! hends both the Old and the New Testaments. It
is the only guide from earth to heaven The
| Old Testament was written to teach the Jew and,
| through him, all the world who Christ was. In
the law and the prophets all the testimony is of
| Christ Take Christ out of the Old Testament
and it is the most meaningless book ever written.
To the Jew it was the pedagogue to lead him to
the Great Teacher.
| The song, :'Wonderful Words Of Life" was then
sung.
Mr.. Moody said: II believe we have but one
| Bible Ihaveh heard many persons say the OLD les
lament does not come to them with the sameforce
as the new one. Now, when / give it up, I'll
| give up both at once. Oh, but they say you GER
tainly don't believe tho plaques of Egypt Yes.
| l do; and believe the story of the food as much
as believe the sermon on the mount Christ
! bel ieved all the stories of the Bible. Men say
| they don't believe in the story of Sodom
and Gomorrah Jesus Christ did, and said '.As
| it was in the days of Lot" He believed in the
| story of the brazen serpent upon the pole. You
don't believe that the children of Israel were fed
upon mama in the wildcrness7 Jesus did. Oh
| you don't believe in the story Of Jonah and the
whale Jesus believed in it, and made use
| of it to illustrate the resurrection A
gentleman one day. in conversation with a
| Scotchman said he didn't believe in the story
that Balaams ass spoke. Why said he, Tn
scientist. | have examined an ASS throat
and its q physical impossibiity for him to do it.
/ oh, man. said the Scotchman, you make
| an ass once. and I'll make him speak It's alb.
surd for man to say I'll believe the new and
not the old Believe it ALL Awhile ago people
Were afraid we were going to lose the Bible.
Some men were running up and down the
| land talking against it. But the Bible is here
yet These men will go. but the book will re-
main forever In London l saw a great Bible
cut in stone a public building Time ard
| again it has done my eyes good TO see it. The
Word of God endurcth forever London
| will crumble into dust, but the word is
| mpershable. But say some, there are so many
| things that can not be understood. What of
that! 1t proves to me that it comes from God. If
could understand it might write one. The
| greatest theologans on the earth have merely
] begun to skim the book. And here I want to
| say to everybody, get a concordance. 1t will
| help you greatly. You can then inform your
self thoroughly and readily on any subject You
| could find out all about assurance then Some
ministers say there's nothing in the blood of the
| Sayior--no more than in the blood of chicken
to save man. Now l refute that easily-I
care not how fluent or fiippant these ministers
may be-out of the law and the testimony. In a
court perhaps you have heard lawyer make an
/ eloquent speech, and you have thought it very
| fine, wonderful. remarkable Then some one
would follow with the law and knock it to pieces.
| and all that eloquence would go for nothing.
'Some ministers don't believe in sudden con-
versions. They say man can't be changed
| that way, all at once. Suppose man comes to
such minister and says: I'm converted. I've
| been stealing thousand dollars year must
quit that and If possible make restitution
| Then the minister who does not believe in sud
den conversion, to follow out his view would
have to say: oh, you can't be converted that
I t.tV1If STR alita.p
must take only $500 this year, and next year
$3.50, and the year after $50. ] don't believe in
these sudden conversions. They not last
| ing Or man who has been beating his wife
! Shouldn't the minister who doesn't believe in
sudden conversions say: You've been beating
your wife twice week. Try now to beat her
only once week. Perhaps aftera while you win
only need to beat her once a month"; Conver-
| sion, tell you, means no such thing; it means
| right about, face!
/ when you hear minister preaching that lie
doesn't believe in the supernatural-the super
natural of which the old as we'll the new
| book is fuil-he teaches that this book is not
true, and you want to put your Bible under your
/ arm and walk out He is trying to pull the
| foundation from under your house. There were
| those in that day who turned in scorn when they
/ heard that Jewish peasant say: Heaven aad
earth shall pass away, but my word shall not
| pass away There was no short hand reporter
| to take it down as now nor was there any tele-
graph to send the full text of the entire revised
| New 1SStdUenC from LonuOu anu nave IL all
published in one morning in Chicago newspa-
| per. / filed away copy of the paper
thinking that some day, in twenty years perhaps,
some inGde might say there wasn't any such
/ thing. so could draw the paper on him.
What we want in this day is somebody to tell
ms what the word of God is. There is great
deal in the pulpit that is not Scripture. You
can feed people saw-dust sometimes but
| they find it out after awhile One day man in
vented an artificial bee. He didn't think it could
be told from a real bee and placed the two upon
a table man thought he could tell, and put q
drop of honey on the table. Tie genuine bee
was at the honey in an instant, while the artifi-
cal bee went wabbling round over the table.
| He didn't know anything about honey Now
| this Bible is great medical work The soul has
its diseases as well as tho body, and the remedy
| is here. Some ministers it as if there was
but one remedy in it, just like doctor have
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