Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-06
THE MOODY MEETINGS
YESTERDAY BOTH GREAT SUCCESSES AND
MUCH GOOD WORK DONE
No Meetings To-day But Four fO-AOrOw-Ths
Work Increasing in Interest and Many
Souls Being Saved.

The lovely weather of yesterday after
noon brought out large audience to the
Moody meeting, at the Chapline street
rink, and at three O'Clock, the time set for
the opening of the meeting, the building
was comfortably filed with an audience
composed largely of ladies and children,
although an unsual number of men were
present for an afternoon meeting. The
usual half-hour song service was held,
a number of the Gospel Choir hymns
being sung.
The services proper were opened by the
choir, singing No 50, Come, Great De
liyerer, Come, the audience joining in on
the chorus. Rev. G. w. Grimes, of the
Thompson street NJ. E. Church, offered
PRAYER, after which Prof. TOwner sang a
solo "Hallelujah, what Saviour" the
choir and audience singing the last line OF
each verse. Rev. Denton, of Fulton, in
yoked the blessing of God, after which MIR.
Moody arose and said:
THE SERMON.
l wish to call your attention to subject
this afternoon rather than a text-what
Christ wants to be to us and what de came
into the world to do for us. II He isn't
what tell you He is this afternoon you
noed not turn to Him. Some people have
Christ great, others have him small. He
is lust what you make Him out to be. He
will do anything you ask Him to do II
YOU have faith in HIM. If you want the
devil DESTROYED He will do it. Don't the
Scriptures say His name shall be called
Jesus because He shall save you from sin?
Are you getting victory over sin or Is
sin getting victory over you? II you have
victory over sin you have Christ, if sin
has victory over you, you havn't got
Christ; some people don't go far enough to
know Him as deliverer, but stop when
they think they are saved. Christ not
only saves but delivers. You want more
than strength to make you safe; you must
have the blood of Christ. Do you think
He comes down here to save us then leaves
us in prison? No, He came into the world
to open the prison door and set the cap
tives tree. You want to take your sins to
Him and He'll deliver you. When the
Israelites passed through the Red sea
they were surrounded on all sides
but they had faith and passed through safe
ly. All you who have Christ have passed
through such an experience; You have
passed through the Red Sea. If there is
anything you want to be delivered from
TAKE 1T To CHRIST.
He will deliver you from q bad appetite,
bad temper or disposition, and make your
life as sunny and sweet as spring day.
He is here to heal the brOken-hearted, to
comfort the cherries, and to purify our
souls and make the world better and bright
er. And he will do it if you will
only let Him. When Lazarus came out OF
the sepulchre he had life, but not liberty.
There are lots of Christians bound like him.
Thank God we've got Q Savior from the
power of the devil Christ will deliver
you from any besetting sin, If you'll let
Him. Christ was great physician when
on earth and there were no incurable cases
when he was around. He never lost a
case, although he was the only physician
who never did. He has the same
power to heal and take away
sins to-day and He'll do it
if YOU only turn to Him and have faith.
Faith Is a good thing to have. You can
get anythingif you have faith. 1t is q
draft that God cashes on sight. There is
no pay one month after
date. about it, God is q
healer, wonderful healer, and he is ever
ready TO heal all those who apply to Him.
Is your soul sick? bring it to Him; is your
heart broken? bringit to Him; He will
heal all your tronbles. There are
lots of people in this building to-day that
don't know what ] am talking about.
They are looking AROUND at the building
and are not paying attention to what ! am
saving. They don't know what the healer
is. But right next to them sits some poor
soul who is listening; abe knows what 1t is
and she will see God and have her poor
broken heart made whole by the power OF
Jesus Christ She will reach out, touch
Gods garment and be healed. Then | beg
of you to press up to God, and
TOUCH HIS GARMENT.
What we want is the power, and
God has the same power on the
Throne to-day that he had when He was
on earth. There are many people who
want to become Christians, but they don't
know how to get TO Christ Go any way,
so you get there. Keep you eyes upon
Him and the way will be clear. There Is
only one way to Heaven and that is
through Christ. The man who says he
don't know what the Truth is, doesn't
know Christ. When you know Him,
you'll know what the truth is, and the
more we know of Christ, the more we know
of Heaven. Man in passing through
q wilderness blaze" the way. so he can re-
turn, by chOpping the bark OtfOertain trees
Christ has been down in the wilderness
and "blazed" the way. The way is plain
look right ahead; keep your eye on Him
and you can find the way. lie Is the
truth, the way, the life. If there is SOU
| in this building in darkness it's because
you've got away from Christ, and some o.
you, am sorry to say, look as if you were
in the dark. Christ doesn't want us
walking in the dark, and ii you
| want light follow Him. The reason people
get into so much bondage is because they
havn't the light. There is nothing to
hinder us getting through tie world if we
have the light, and for life and light we
must look to God. 1t you want to feel I'M
happy look within yourself. | pity PEG
pie who think OF themselves. We should
think always of Christ and then we are
sure to forget our troubles and trials be
cause we are not thinking of ourselves
we don't know there is any such person as
SELF.
AN INCIDENT.
A very touching incident occurred here
which may prove interesting During Mr..
Moody's sermon baby in the back part
of the building had been crying, and peo-
pie were all craning their necks toward the
uncomfortable mother who was attempt,
ing to soothe the little one, and shooting
harsh glances in her direction, discOm'
fitting her more than ever. Mr..
Moody seeing this, (he always sees every
thing that is going on, stopped and said
Now, my friends, don't look at
that baby and make its mother uncOm-
Portable, by 500 of you staring
at her all at once. The baby
isn't worrying me, for can talk louder
than it can cry. You can all hear a baby
crying every day, but you can't hear me
preach. ] held meeting once for women
that the ticket of admission was baby.
A woman without a baby was not allowed