The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-01-20

Mr.. Moody on tho Social EVIL

At one OF his meetings last week in
Montreal, Mr.. Moody thus exposed in It's
true colors the social evil which many
insist should he concealed. On this posi-
Liop earnest Christians are on one side,
and, VITA few exceptions, those who have
little or no religion are upon the other:
Mr.. Moody announced that his text was
the seventh verse OF the sixth chapter of
Galatians, "Be not deceived; God Is not
Knocked for whatsoever . man soweth
that shall he also reap" at was easier
to blot the sun out Of the heaveps," he
said, than to blot out That text" L-av-
ing the Bible ont of thu question they all
knew that man reaped what he sowed
He would not bear long upon the tirs'
portion OF hts text. They ali knew what,
il was to be d, ceived by your friend, by
your enemy, by your own heart. but the
God of the Bible never d ceived anybody,
An that God was MT Him-ef deceived
He would divide tue latter part of the tex
into four heads, he said, "When a man
-ows he expects To reap the same seed
that he y VS.; he expects to reap more
than he sows, and lastly, ignorance OF the
kind Of seed did not make any difference
No man in Canada would plant the ground
h. did not expect harvest time. When
a man served long apprenticeship it was
with the expectation OF getting it all back
at some future time. No man wnen he
sowcd wheat expected to reap OATS he
expected to reap wheat. When q man
Earned to be a blacksmith he did u *
pect to earn living ~ a carpenter. God
made men reap the same Kind of a spirit
ual crop as the, sOwed 10 the same way
Ii they sowed wheat they reaprd wheat,
il they sowed tares they reaped tareS. If
a merchant taught his clerk to say that u
thing was all wool when 1t was hall cotton
In a short time that clerk would lie to him
As well as to IL customer. This was the
strongest argument against that hellisb
business OF selling liquor. fla man broke
up family aud ruined life. he must tx
. ct that his s,n or his son iD-aw, or
some memner of his family, will be ruined
N the same way. This WAS a most solemn
truth, and If there was any man here who
sold liquor let him knock the head out of
ais barrels aud let The stuff run out " here
II belongs, for if they sowed the wind
they would reap the wbirlwind
Mr. Moody tneD took up the story OF
JACOB and of David. In telling the story
i jacob he characterized the method in
which he obtained the birthright blessing
Is .the mean, miserable trick he played
nS brother Esau." Jacob lied to aud de-
rtived his father, and in turn his master
lied to aud ceceive / him, and his sons lie d
W MIN and deceived him, 50 that for
twenty years ne uIourneu for Joseph
Mauv characteristic touches such as ''psr-
TALLY In any home Is sure to raise the Old
Adam at any time," added interest to the
manner In which the story was told aud It's
moral forced home. DAVID" he said,
fell into the dark and damable sin OF aj-
uitery, and when the reaping-time came
mis- son brought il into his family. The
time has come" he went ON with sud en-
reryor, TOR every man to cry aloud and
pare not, against this fearful sin of adul-
try. don't know u shorter or quicker
way to hell than by impurlty. The
thing Ia this world was the
way in which faiien women we're treat ed"
Does any man think that be can ruin u
woman, drag her down to death, blast her
soul and htr body down 10 b. II, and that
4 just God will let him escapeY The law
Df the Ia, d may not reach MIN. For this
dark. damable sin IN n may not push him
but God Is act going to let man break
up zones and iuin mems daughters aud
then let him 90 fr,e The man who sows
The tar.s OF this dark sin, will reap more
than he sows. A man told me some time
,go that he had bean that produced u
ou-aDd iold-just think Of IL. Aud God
will multiply The harvest Of these d. ably
spiritual sius in like manner" A great
hush sprsug over Mr.. Moody's audience
~ he appealed 10 any Impure man present
10 beware Of the reap n It me. He then
Told the story of Davids sin aud OF his
how severe 1t WAS and how
lone billow after Ano' her swept over him
until he was lad to sink into the grave"
Ignorance OF the seed made no ditfercnc
How careful farmer whO expt cted to
reap In the Fall what he sOws In the
Spring was OF his seed, anu how foolish
ne would look il he had 70 say that he did
not know wha, his seed was! But the
spiritual seed men now sowed was to tie
reaped through all eternity, aud they had
better lOnk well to 1t that 1t was good
81. d they sowed. He next explained ''y
one or twu pointed Illustrations how
was that although Gin was forgiven tb,
Evil effects of 1t were still 10 BIZ borne.
The people Of Montreal were not going t"
say that he had not spoken to TEN OF
future retribution. Christ had said th A
''where am you cannot come" and be
believs: there would bs Q division made
by which the druukard, the sdui erer and
the thief would be separated from tns'se
Who followed the Lord. A man must
have the desire for Heaven, the heavsuly
nature implanted IN him before be could
6e ht for Heaven. He closed with ~
appeal " the sinner ~ repent.
short rrayer-meestu4 VI nft+en min.
utes, for which most Of the auiisncs -.
mainsd, closed this oeeting.