Morning journal and courier., 1891-04-14
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at Dwight Hail and Batten Chapel.
Mr.. Moody, the evangelist, spoke again
Yesterday to the Yale students in Dwight
hall at and at z o'clock in Battell. It is
needless to say that both times the halls
were amply filed He addressed the stu
dents confdentially, telling them how glad
he was to meet them so nearly and infor-
mally. He touched in his warm hearted
way on all the dangers to which the stu
dent is liable, speaking somewhat as fol-
lows:
eff any man has become of God he's be-
come new creature. It's sin that keeps
YOU down. And want to say that be-
cause you've been converted your nature
isn't changed. thought was changed
when first found out God and that all |
of a sudden had lovely temper and
wouldn't have any more trouble, |
but I found out I had to fight.
You'll find the old nature isn't
rooted out all at once. You've got the
new man, but you haven't got rid of the
old man." For the flesh lusteth against
the spirit and the spirit against the flesh
People talk about not being able to get
along with others. If I can get victory
over myself don't have any trouble with
other people. 'Twasn't Alexander with
his whisky, nor julius Caesar that were
the biggest conquerors by a good deal.
The biggest victory is over yourself. And
the first thing to do is to find out what
you are When the war broke out the men
up here were going down to crush it in
ninety days, and when man thinks
it's all done he'll find himself mighty mis-
| taken The reason you think you're
worse than before-because your con-
science didn't trouble you then. Bad
| thoughts come, and you can't keep them
| away, but you needn't harbor them. I'd
know. I've been in a car with them and
heard their filthy language and had to go
| outside, for couldn't stand it. I'd rather
live with frst-class pig than such men.
A pig never gets drunk or swears. Don't
you he deceived by these men and their
professions. A woman came to me and
| said, I've got husband 1 want you to
pray for. He's good man and nice
| husband, but he isn't Christian'-and 1
| found out that man was living in adultery
| all the time. The natural nature lie at war
with God. And tell you what, these
men so angelic, so pure and so upright,
you're deceived about When the testing
time comes then they fall. A man that's
| going to live in adultery can't be the child
| Of God, and these doctors that tell him he
can are doing the DEVILS own work. Put
| off the old man and all his deeds There's
| been a good deal of sham conversion in this
country. People think all they've got to
| do is to join some church. I remember of
hearing of colored slave. He was good
| Christian man, but he didn't understand
all the science of it. His master, judge,
says to him, Il don't understand about
you're having fight with the world and a
| fight with the devil. I don't have any
trouble with them Well, he couldn't
explain it, but the judge took him shoot
ing one time and he shot two ducks
on the water; but he only wounded one of
them, so he shouted to his slave Jump in
quick and get that one, never mind the
dead one but get the live one. So he
swan in and caught it, and then he says,
Now, I'll tell you, master, Pm like that
live duck that tries to get away, because I
know the DEVILS after me-but your like
the dead one and don't move, because the
DEVILS got you anyway
"Dont let your character go, or COM
promise your Christian influence; and
don't try to be a tfborder Christian" and
follow Christ and try to get all you can
out of the world. You'll be like the Dor
der men in the war, the world III club you
and the Christians III club you, and you
won't enjoy your Christianity much, l can
tell you. When man asks you to vio-
late your conscience, you tell him, No,
sir! Yes, Christ says his disciples were
in the world, but he didn't say the world
was in them. There's good deal of diff
ference between the boat being in the
water and the water being in the boat"
| In the evening Mr.. Moody spoke on
| Rom tSTha frat thine 70 do 10 70
believe with the heart and the second to
confess with the mouth. There'd be a
great many converted right here tonight
if you only had the moral courage to stand
up and say 80. You can't come into the
kingdom of Christ unless you take up your
cross If there was a side door to heaven
you'd see how fast men would go into it.
no mans afraid of his ism, but here's the
religion of Jesus Christ, which gives man
power over the devil and sin and the whole
world, and men are afraid of it. In the
way to the throne there's Cross and you
can't go around it nor over it nor under it,
When Christ asked his disciples who he
was he answered right out Thou art the
Christ, the son of the living God,
and Christ knew right away that
flesh and blood didn't reveal
afraid to show his colors. You can't be
secret disciple-its utterly impossible.
You've got to bear the cross daily, and you
have opportunities enough. I don't think
much Of Christian if after he's dead
you've got to look up in the records to
know whether he ever joined the church
or not whatsoever shall save his life
shall lose it, What'd you say of solder
who was ashamed to put on his uniform,
or servant who was afraid to be seen in
hiS rr1in OF
here, Christ will deny him in heaven. If
you've got light can't you help someone
else7 You can't tell what it may lead to.
That's cross-bearing. Many man in this
chapel can do what no preacher
could do. We're all just towards
Let a man say, I've drunk my
last DROP or, I've played my last
game of chance'-there'n be lots of
bitter things said against him,-but let
of glory hereafter,-the Christian men
take bold stand in this university and
they can revolutionize it. Venture to say
they only had the courage to do the first
thing that comes to hand. I tell you one
thing, gentlemen, I've been afraid of my
| self lots of times, but I've never been
afraid of Jesus Christ A man says to a
preacher in public place Young man,
| you OuSut W NO dSudmou VI yourself,
ing all that nonsense!' YES said he, I
am; but Pm not afraid of Jesus Christ I
tell you God can take up some poor tramp
right here in New Haven and do more good
with him than all Yale university.
That blind beggar Christ healed
might have said I haven't seen him.
| When he opened my eyes I was blind and
don't know who he was" Instead, he
answered his Knockers, He is prophet
He knew one thing anyway, Whence
was blind, now I see' His parents and
friends crawled out of it, but he stood
fast and was cast out. I'm here to help
men up, not down, and I mean to take
| my stand. I can see Nicodemus and
Joseph rising in that assembly where
Jesus was condemned, when everyone
said to him: "You know that mans got
| no friends. One of his own disciples has
| sold him, and don't you identity yourself
with that lost cause can see Joseph
rising and exclaiming 'I'll never consent to
| that just mans deathp can see him rise
when all was lost, Christ was dead
and universal hiss through Jeru-
| salem, rise alone and beg that
mane1ed body; he lost more friends that
hour than any time in his life, and after
that we never hear again of Joseph or Mic