Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-02
THE SECOND DAY.
MR. MOODY AGAIN BREACHES TO IMMENSE
AUDIENCES YESTERDAY,
Great Good Being Accomplished by the Revival Meet
ngs-SynOpsis Of Two Excellent
Sermons

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largely attended, the major portion OF
the audience being composed of ladies, all
the ministers of the city also being present.
A number of gospel hymns were sung,
after which the services proper opened
with hymn III, my Faith Looks up to
Thee" Rev. J. Gibson CAN'T, OF st.
Luke's Episcopal Church, then made
fervent opening prayer, which was followed
by singing hymn 2S2, Wonderful Words
of Life"
Rev. J. T. Mcclure of the United Pres
byterian Church then offered an earnest
prayer, being Immediately followed by
Mr.. Moody in short and feeling appeal
to the Throne of God for the redemption
of sinners. Hymn 113,
Not all the blood of beasts
On Jewish altarS slain"
was then sung, after which the Evangelist
arose and said,
SYNOPSIS OF Mr.. MOoDY's TALK.
suppose all of Christ's people in this
city are anxious for work of grace; If
there is to be such work, we must be
brought to the Word of God; true re-
vival will be the work of God; without
that the good of any revival will fade
away, we want to stir up the people to
read the Bible | am a good deal more
anxious about the church than about the
outlying masses. There has been great
deal of letting down throughout christen-
dom regarding the Word Of God. The
church is the medium through which the
people are brought to God, and the church
should be more earnestly cOnsecrated to
the work. We should all pray for relish
for the reading of the Word of God. / am
talking to Christians this afternoon. 1t Is
quite fashionable now for people to say, l
believe in the Bible, but not all OF 1t;
there are parts | cannot understand
1t is master stroke OF
the devil to get us to
discredit any portion of the Bible. When
a man begins to disbelieVe in any part OF
it, it only takes about five years to make
him discredit all oft, for if man cuts out
of the Bible what he doesn't like or what
doesn't suit him he will soon have nothing
but the covers left, and the speaker went
on to quote incidents from the Bible which
are generally disbeleved, and clearly show
ing his audience why they
SHOULD NOT BE DIsCREDITED.
People claim that there are too many
supernatural things in the Bible. If we
believe in God at all, we must believe IN
the whole Bible, for there isn't book IN
the Bible in which there are not supernat-
ural things. God is supernatural being.
His birth was supernatural, and during
the three years OF his ministry he perform
ed many miracles, and his death and reSur-
rection were supernatural so II you throw
out the supernatural things you destroy
all. The Holy Ghost is carrying on super
natural work all the time; God
is saving souls every day in this manner.
What we want are men and women who
will accept the whole word of God. |
can imagine a modern frec-thinker stand
ING around when Christ said, Heaven
and earth shall pass away, but My word
shall last forever" and thinking what a
conceited individual he was. Intidels are
going around telling us the Bible is going
out Of date, but, thank God,
1T Is JUST COMING IN.
| One London house prints 500 Bibles every
| hour another 600, and so on, and never
did the grand old sun that shines in ut
| that window throw its rays upon so many
Bibles as we now have in the world. The
reason there are so many spotted Chris
tians is because they do not take the whole
word. All the Scriptures are inspired.
Eight or ten years ago we thought the
far western territories were deserts, bat
as soon rs they began digging in them
and discovering gold, they soon became a
big part of America. 1t is the same with
the Bible; there are many parts which
you think contain nothing, but if YOU
will dig you can find many things you
never thought of. Mr.. Moody then spoke
of the many propheSies in the Bible, and
how they had all been fulfilled, and if
people were only acquainted with these
many truths the arguments of skeptics
could easily be knocked down. If you
want to convince intidels, take the Old
Testament.
ACQUAINT YOURSELF WITH THE BIBLE.
believe | was Christian for five years
before ! knew anything about the Bible;
no man hungered for it more than ], but |
did not know how to take it up. This
was the result of the unfortunate way |
was treated in this regard when | was
young, was seventeen years Of age before
had a Bible in my hands. Right here |
want to warn you to get these question
leaves and quarterlies out of your Sunday
schools and get Bibles in their stead.
Then the speaker gave an amusing account
of his first experience in a bible class in
Boston. A great many boys, said he,
hang on the outside of our Sabbath schools
because they do not want to show their
ignorance of the Bible, and i'll this con-
nection he advised all bible readers to
secure copies of Alexander Cruden's Con-
cordance, which will greatly assist them
in finding the truth they seek for.
Many people have mistaken idea of
faith. was waiting for faith to strike
me and suddenly give me power to shake
the world and perform other great things,
but one day a friend read just one SEN
tence from the Bible to me and the whole
TRUTH FLASHED UPON MY MIND.
Show me man or woman
who has well marked Bible,
and / will show you person who has
| faith. If the word of God teaches US as
surance and sudden conversion we should
believe it, Get church full Of doubling
Christians and | wouldn't have it. We
cannot have any real power with man or
| God unless we have assurance in the word
of God. The reason we have so many
dumb Christians is because they
have no assurance. What we want
is to get the ifs out of
the way. Speaking of sudden conversions
he cited instances of the large number of
people converted after Christ's ministry on
earth. There are lots of people who can
not tell you what they do believe except
to say they believe what the churches
teach; and they don't know what that is;
what we want is more scriptual christians,
and preachers who
PREACH THE PURE GOSPEL OF GOD;
| IL ynu want IN huild nm tho churoh Give