The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-11-21
MOODY'S LETTINGS.
He Puts the Serious Question,
Where Art Thou -
A Personal sermon to the PROGRESSED
Christians, TO the Baeksiiders,
and to the Ungodiy.
ro.n.Y,s NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

ro-pAy's ANNOUNCEMENTS.
At 10 a. M at the Methodist Protes-
tant church. corner of Second and
Madison streets
At3p. IA. at the First Presbyterian
church, corner of Third and Madison
streets.
Atsp. m. at the armory.
The three meetings addressed by
Mr.. Moody yesterday were all well at
tended, the audience at the armory in
the evening of course being the largest.
At the morning meeting at the Metho-
dist Protestant church he took up the
book of Luke. The afternoon meet
ing was held at the First Presbyterian
| church, the theme being THE Holy
Spirit for Service" At this gathering
much power was manifest In the
evening Mr.. Moody applied to his audi
ence Gods question in the garden of
Eden 10 Adam after Adam had sinned
"Where art thou ?" found in the third
chapter of Genesis, He said:
The very first thing that happened
after the news reached heaven of the
fall OF man. was that God came straight
down 10 sees out the lost one. As He
walks through the garden in the cool
of the day, You can hear Him calling
| "Adaml Adam. Where art thou p
| 1t was the voice of grace, of mercy,
and of love. Adam ought to have
! taken the seekers place, for he was the
| transgressor. He had fallen, and he
ought TO have gone up and down Eden
CRYING. my God! My God. Where
art Thou2' But God left heaven to
grope through the dark world for the
rebel who had fallen-not to huri him
from the face of the earth, but to plan
him an escape from the misery of his
sin. And he finds him-where? Hid
ing from his Creator among the bushes
OF the garden.
The moment man is out OF COM
munion with God, even the professed
child of God, he wants to hide away
from Him. When God left Adam in
the garden, he was in communion with
his Creator, and God talked with him;
but now that he has fallen he has no
desire to see his Creator, he has lost
communion with his God. He cannot
bear to see Him, even to think of Him,
and he runs to hide from God. But to
his hiding place his Maker follows him.
Where art thou, Adam? Where art
thoJr2,'
Six thousand years have passed
away, and this text has come rolling
down the ages. | doubt whether there
has been any one Of Adams sons who
has not heard it at some period or
other of his life-sometimes in the
midnight hour stealing over him
ssl n
am | going? and what is going to be
the end of this? ~ | think it is well for
a man to pause and ask himself that
question. | would have you ask it,
little boy; and you. little girl; and
and eyes growing dim, and natural
another world. | do not ask you
where you are in the sight of your
neighbors; | do not ask you where
you are in the sight of your friends;
do not ask you where you are in the
sight of the community in which you
live. 1t is OF very little account where
We are in the sight of one another, it is
of very little account what men think
of us; but it is of vast importance
what God thinks of us-it is of vast
Importance to know where men are in |
the sight of God; and that is the ques |
ton now. Am | in communion with |
my Creator, or out OF communion? |
If am out of communion, there is no |
peace, no Joy, no happiness. No man |
on the face of the earth, who was out |
of communion with his Creator, ever |
knew what peace, and JOY, and happi- |
ness, and true comfort are. Do not |
think am preaching TO your neigh |
bors, but remember | am trying to |
speak to every one of you as if you |
were alone. 1t was the first question |
put 10 man after his fall, and il was a |
very small audience that God had
Adam and his wife, But God was the |
preacher, and although they tried to |
hide, the words came home to them.
where art thou?" | should like
to divide my audience into three
classes-the professed Christians, the |
backsliders, and the ungodly.
First, | would like TO ask the pro-
fessors this question. or rather let God
ask it-Where art thou? What is my
position in the church, and among my |
circle OF acquaintance? Do my friends
know me to be, out and out, on the
Lords side? You may have been a
protesting Christian for 20 years, per-
hsps 80, perhaps 10 years. Well.
where are you to-aight? Are you
making progress toward heaven? Sup
pose | were to ask those who are
really Christians here to rise. would
you be ashamed 10 stand up? Sup
pose | should ask every professed
child of God here, ''If you should be
cut down by the hand OF death, have
you good reason to believe YOU would
ha GQraH ~ Pm
over the past years; would il be con-
sistent for you TO say, Il am Chris
TAM and would your life correspond
with your profession? 1t is not what
we say so much as how we live. Ac-
tons speak louder than words. Do
your shopmates know that YOU are n
Christian? Do your family know?
Do they know you to he out AMI out
on the Lords side2 Let every pro-
fessed Christian ask, where am / in
the sight of God2 Is my heart ioyal
to the King of heaven2 Is my life
here as it should be in the community
/ live in2 Then. am | standing mn
for Jesus as | should in this dark
worid2 III q man is for God. let him
say SO. a man is for God, let him
come out and be on Gods side and II
he is for the world, let him be in the
world This serving God and the
world at the same time-this being on
both sides at the same tlme-is lust
the curse OF Christianity at the pes
ent time.
As have said, there are a great
many in the church who make one
profession. and that is about all Won
hear of them; and when they come to
die you have TO go and hunt ND some
musty old church records 10 know /
whether they were Christians or not.
God won't do that. ! have an idea |
that when Daniel died, all the men in
Babylon knew whom he had served 4
There was no need for them to hunt \
up cid books. His life told his story. |
What we want Is men with q little I
courage to stand up for Christ. There l
Is one thing which | fear more than /
anything else, and that is the dead /
cold Journalism OF the Church OF God /
Talk about the isms! Put them all 4
together, and do not fear them so /
much as dead, cold Journalism. Talk /
about the false ismsi There are none |
50 dangerous as this dead, cold formal |
ism which has come right into the /
heart of the church.
How many fathers and mothers
how many Christian men. are sleepins
now while their children wander over |
the terrible precipiee right into the |
boftomless pit OF hell. Father. where |
Is your boy tonight Ii may be inst |