Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-20
"G0D Is LOVE-"
Mr.MOOdy's Closing Discourse at
the Pavilion.

mr.. .MOOdy's Closing Discourse at
the Pavilion.
The "overfow meeting" which Mr..
Moody announced would be held in the
Southern Methodist church in the event
of the Pavilion proving inadequate to &C.
commodate all who attended the closing
meeting of his mission here, was sorely
needed last night. Half an hour before
the services commenced in the main
building every seat was taken, and the
ushers were short ly afterwards notified
to close the doors and allow no more to
enter. AS result, several hundred peo-
pie who relied on getting in at the last
moment found themselves stranded on
the steps and compelled to adjourn
to the branch meeting place if they
wished to join in the exercises of the
evening. The members of the press ex-
perienced good deal of difficulty in
getting into the hall, one making his
way to his chair via coal-chute, while
two others were surrendered into the
hands of the law at the instance of
pompous individual because they were
endeavoring to seek ingress by means of
the back door. They were soon released,
however, and, despite the protests of the
pompous gentleman aforesaid, who did
not believe in the liberty of the press,
they made their way to the reporters
table.
Prayer and singing opened the meet
ing as usual, and then Mr.. Moody an
nounced that those who so desired could
obtain from him a pamphlet on religion
by leaving their address with him at the
close of the meeting. Mr.. Moody then
spoke of the good work done by the Y.
M. G. A., but said that the branch here
was not doing half as much as it could
because it had a milestone around its
neck in the shape of heavy debt. "This
incumbrance should be taken up" said
the speaker. "Better spend few thou
sand dollars on the men while they are
young than to have to pay out tenfold in
after years for the expenses of county
jails and poor-houses. hope that there
is some one in the city who will take this
debt on his shoulders and carry it away.
1t will be one of the noblest acts he will
ever have chance of performing during
his life."
Mr.. Moody then expressed his pleas
ure at his experiences during his ten
days stay in the city, and said that he
wished he could remain longer, but as it
was big world, he had to move on. He
concluded the preface to his sermon by
very touching prayer, in which he in
voked the Lords blessing on the city,
those who had been attending the services
and those who had not, the choir,
the ushere and the reporters. The evan
gelist then commented his discourse by
stating that his text was one that good
many people did not believe. fGod is
Love-" "There is no one point that Sa-
tan works on more than this" Said the
evangelist: "He tries to make you be-
lieve that God is not love. But l want
to say to every sinner and backslider in
this house tonight that God loves you
with an unchangeable love and that if
you spurn it you will not stand much
chance of being saved. A mothers love
for her child is the noblest
form of human affection, there is
nothing that can quench it; it is deeper
and broader than the world itself. But
even this is as nothing compared to the
love that God bears for us. You ask
how has he shown it. Did he not send
his prophets down to the earth, and then
His beloved Son, and tonight the Holy
Ghost is with US. God is trying to WOO
you at the present moment, but many in
this building are turning aside and re-
pulsing Him. God loves a sinner, but
He hates sin."
"Parents, remember thatyour children
look on you as God; don't forget that.
1 have heard mothers, when reproving
their infants, say, 'If you do that again
[ will give you to a policeman" But
they don't mean it, and by-and-by the
children discover that, and what is the
effect, think you? Look out for the early
training of your babes; it means the
moulding of their lives"
Mr.. Moody concluded his address with
number of interesting anecdotes, deeply
interviewer with good advice, during
which he displayed great powers OF
pathos, which visibly affected number