The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-01-24
SECOND NIGHT OF SERVICE.

A Talk to Parents and Teachers About
Soul Saivatiop-Th CRY Needs To lie /
Turned Up Side Down Auditors In
Tears.
There was another large crowd OF |
Church people at the /
second evening service last night OF |
the Moody and Sankey meetings. BY |
the time OF opening the service every |
chair in the building was occupied |
and standing room was at premium.
II. i. Potter OF Union NJ. l.. Church |
presided at the organ.
AT Z o'clock Mr.. Moody announced
that the choir would sing Hymn, No.
46. After congratulatlng the chair on
its rendition of the piece Mr.. Moody
asked that the audience Join in tho
chorus. The request was greeted with
much vim. Hymn Nos. 40, 207, $50, 49,
and Al intersperced with prayers by
lteys. Thomas q 4. Terry and John
Y Dobbins.
The regular service was opened by
singing hymn No. $50. Prayer was
of Newport. lie asked that great
revival be the result of the meetings
and many souls saved. BY request,
MIR. Sankey sang hymn No 81, Lead
Me. Saviour" The chorus was sung
as a duett Miss Nirgie Common as
sisting Mr.. Saakey. Rev. o. q. Bud
dington offered another prayer, asking
that wave of salvation might roll
through the audience, converting
many OF the auditors. A few minutes
were afterward spent in silent prayer.
The choir sang again hymn No. 1876
Presiding Elder Smith, OF the Laston
district, then offered another prayer
By request OF Mr.. Moody, MIR. sankey
again sang hymn No. 175. Nothing
but Leaves" Before singing Mr..
Sankey always makes q short review
OF his subject. He stated that the
author of tho hymn had taken it from
the parable when God found the fig
tree unfruitful and cursed it. LYNN
No. 22i was then sung. the audience
standing. Before singing Mir. Sankey
asked that all the people sing. He
never saw nor heard better choir
than the one engaged, but he was
ashamed OF the audience.
II the people would sing they would
not go to sleep during the sermon.
] Owing to the scarcity OF hymn
books it was announced that they
could be purchased at any store at a
nominal sum. The speaker also an.
lrounced hymns Nos 141, 152. 1876
and 2ll, and requested all to study
them as they would be Sung tonight
Mr.. Moody then read a portion OF
Exodus XIV. When the Lori called
Moses to build the tabernacle he listen.
ed TO him. ut is good thing to lis.
ten wien God called upon man" The
rich were to bring their gold and their
SILVER, the poor their goats hair. | am
glad God asked for the goats hair, as
Ievery one could bring this.
7 The OBJECT have in bringing this
chapter before you tonight is to show
that God has something for every
man, woman and child to do Let
Christ have full; control over you and
i don't care how weak you ara he can
use you. All through the Scriptures
The uses tie weak ones to build up his
Kingdom. For $500 years he has
worked in this manner, having passed
by he rich and strong, and bestowed
his power upon the poor and weak.
4 Think OF Moses delivering Israel
with dried up stick. II some OF the
.'nodcrn free-thinkers had net Moses
as he was on his way to meet tho
army, they would have called him an
idiot and If there had been any insane
iasyluns, Moses would have been cast
into one of them by the philosophers.
But that rod WIS worth more than all
the batteling rams in the universe
/. when God was with it. With the rod
the Red sea was also opened and per-
formed its duty on many other oCca
slons. II God can use Il stick SO eff
,fect,aily, can he not use ust If you
have faint desire fol the work before
you, bring that desire. little as it NAV
Zoe, to him that he may increase it and
then be Il power tor good.
/ Look again where he takes the weak
10 do the work When
the children of Israel surrounded and
captured the city of Jericho by simply
blowing of the rams horn. The walls
of that strong city had to come down.
and SO must the barrierN knian fall
when God begins his w-ra
I When God spoke to Gideon and his
sIarmy of 1921 men and told them to
-Igo against the Israeltes. what
,,simple instruments did they use2 After
j he army had been reduced to but 800
men. these were ordered to take
i pitchers and go against the enemy.
and the result was that they were
conquered. These few mon were right
vi Ia God and they won the battle.
lSoae people say to-day am nothing.
land my Work will not DO noticed but
lput God, who is something. by the
nothing and then you will have some
thing.
ii lie used these simple things can
ihe not use rs? As David killed the
Itiiant OF Gath with a pebble, let us
take the little pebble If 1t may be ours.
Our weapons ara not caInal but spir-
lltual.
Look again at those five barley
loaYes and ishes, ii he can feed 5000
little incident of Mary and the alahas.
tor box brought to that woman tho
greatest blessing she ever received
from Christ No wonder she forgot
herself as she poured that precious
ointment on the Saviour, as her heart
was so filed with love toward Him.
Christ also paid to her tho greatest
Ieulogy ever paid to any human being
We want to do what we can and
thereby erect monuments which viii
live forever. We want Ii monument
with legs and not ones which will
l'erumble into dust in years to come.
/ The monuments OF Paul, John and
: tall the ether disciples are still stand
ing. and notice how they shine, while
, those erected by Cyrus and NobueLad.
.nez2ar have long since fallen into
dust.
He then made an earnest appeal to
Sunday school teachers 10 be after the
souls of their scholars Something
is wrong with the net about the sun.
: day school. Tho boys are getting
: away and ending mp in tho saloons.
land we must soon help them or they
will tie lost. 1t is tho greatest mistake
wo are milking. People think bat lit.
/ tie of persuading the boys TO enter
: the church and live a Christian life
5 There may be n reformation in one of
tltliem, What if Mrs. Wesley had ne
glected tho caro- of her son John?
y Make up Your minds mothers aud
teachers. that you will go after your
,teacAers and scholars, and endeayol
to get them into the church. Their
good morals won't save them If this
, Is not attended to. much sorrow will
come from them,
This town needs to be turned ur
side down by Il man OF salvation. Arc
son ready. to do the wGrk2 Ii so, start
right in and | will assure You that
such a disturbance would not have its
equal i'll any past year. God, ] believe,
Ih0nui'S parents Who honor him ard
do his work. MAJ God break tile
hearts of parents to see the neglect
and then salvation will come to VII