Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-15
A SERMON FOR PARENTS.
MIR. MoOdy's Revival Meeting at
the PhVtliOn.

MIR. MOOdy's Revival Meeting at
the PnVtli0n.
Mr.. Moody did the work of giant
yesterday. for he preached at Pasadena
in the morn ing, lectured at the Pavilion
in the afternoon and held his customary
revival service in the evening. The
attendances on all three occasions were
enormous, and that in the evening
almost euualled the rush on the opening
night. Every seat was occupied half an
hour before the proceedings commenced,
and by O'Clock the vast building was
crowded from gallery to floor. The usual
preparatory praise service having been
given, Mr.. Moody comm enced his SER
mon by announcing his text as follows
"And the Lord said unto Noah, Come
thou and all thy house into the ark ,"
zone hundred and twenty years before
this" said the evangelist, "Noah re-
ceived the most awful communication
ever given to the world, for God con-
veyed to him the news that he was
going to destroy the dwellers of the earth
by a food. l can imagine how Noah
was ridiculed by his friends and asso-
ciates when he commenced to build the
ark of refuge. Can you imagine the
wickedness of the world in those days.
There is no record of how they lived,
but / believe that there were saloons, for
we read that there was violence abroad,
and where there is violence there is rum.
l suppose the joke of those days, in the
drinking shops, was Noah and his ark,
and if they had newspapers, Noah and
his folly' doubtless often appeared
at the heads of articles and report
ers dropped around, occasionally, to
see how the old man was getting
along. The contractors who helped
him probably had twinkles in their
eyes as they labored on the structure,
and skeptics smiled and scoffed at olo
Noah and his doiags. But he did not
care; he was deaf to the words of man,
for he had heard from God and he knew
that he was doing right. Astronomers
read the heavens and said, we see nc
signs of any coming storm; the sun is
shining and the stars twinkling as usual.
Business men laughed at the idea, and
kept on with their work some said that
perhaps there would be a storm, but il
30 they could do better in boats than in
the old ark, and they reviled the build
ing on the mountain top that was slowly
drawing to completion. The years rolled
on, and the merriment increased as the
ark was nearly finished, but still no signs
of the threatened deluge. Noah went of
occasionally, preaching to his country
men and warning them of their i'm.
pending fate, but he was laughed
at and pointed out as visionary old Noah.
The l20th year arrived at last, and one
beautiful morning Noah and his family
started to move into the ark, derided by
those living about, who called him an
old fool for locking himself up in the
structure when there was not even the
signs of a storm about. A few days later
though, the air became black with fowls
fying to the ark, and animals came
from their dens and caves, startling the
people who at last began to think tina
their was something going to happen.
| At last the hour of mercy was over, an(
God came down and closed the doors o
that ark with the believers inside unde
His protection and the unbelievers with
out. Then the storm and all was over
At the midnight hour the thunder wa
heard from the distant skies, and the al
frighted people rushed to the doors of tn
ark and, beating on the doors cried Oh
Noah to let them in. 4 cannot, he an
swered, for God had closed the doors,
and to help them was beyond human
power
"The object l had in taking this tex
tonight was to speak to parents. Re
member the words that the Lord spake
Come thou and all thy house into tn
ark God wants you not only to go int
this place of refuge yourselves, but H
wants you to take your childre
with you. l would like to put the que!
ton to you all tonight, are all your chi
dren in the ark ? Where is your eldest DO
now? Where is your daughter? Is sh
keeping company with some ungodl
Young man who SCOTS at religion an
all things connected with it. If she
bring her back if you wish to save hel
take her with you into the ark. Mothe,
do not stand in the way of your ow
children by thinking that they are tC
young to understand Christ's words, b1
from their earliest moments let the