The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-27
TIE moody MEETINGS.
The EvangeIist's Discourse
Of Thursday Afternoon.
Mr.. MOODY TALKED ABOUT HEAVEN
His Belief Is That IL Is City just as
Much as London or Boston, Why
Men SO Often Neglect to are
for IL.

noon TO heaven. ! ! now there Is class OF
people that tell US that we know nothing aDou.
the future state, and that all we can hnu ous
Is only in our lima agination; that t Is no use ior
us 10 speculate about another world, for we
know nothing about IL. Now. there Is one
thing we do know and that il that we are not
going TO stay here very long at the longest.
was here 10 years ago, and goou many nnsn
that sat right by my side All througn .no
meetings are gone. ] miss them. j see nine
men sitting here on the front row!
all Of them, should judge, living
on borrowed time; the time allotted TO them'
three score years and ten. having alreauy
run out They know their pilgrimage IS short
here and they are going hence, ana tnins II
there il any book In the world that can tell US
anything about the future state we certainly
ought TO be interested. IL was going To emil
crate to New Zealand or TO some Island OF the
sea, or IL / was going OF 10 Africa OF any
foreign land TO spend the rest or my DAYS,
am quite sure should be Intensely Interested
about the country was going TO. III saw
man that knew anything about il would talk
10 him. N :.
Now, IL the Lord wanted US TO remain In
darkness about the future state don't think
there would be NO much In the Bible as
there is about heaven. In LIST Coninthiahs,
End chapter, 9th verse, IL says, "But as IL Is
written, eye hath not seen, nor ear
heard, neither hath entered into
the heart OF man, the things
which God hath prepared for them that love
Him." But you will ls5tice that people
always stop at the wrong place. hou want 10
read a little farther on; +" But God hath re-
vealed them unto us by His spirit; Tor the
spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things
OF God,r Now, IL the Lord wanted us 10 DC
in darkness about the future state, am quite
sure we shouldn't have all these passages
written down in the Bible by the holy uhost
about heaven. We shouldn't have had Jesus
DI
unless there was future state. NOW, let US
pray God 10 make heaven real 10 each one OF
us believe heaven Is a city just as much as
Boston or New York, or Paris or LONDON III
is a dwelling place, and 1t Is good thing Tor
US to find out who is there ana what our
chances are of getting there.
In the first place let me call your atteh.ioh
to the fact that it Is home OF God, the Father.
| have no sympathy with this idea that
Heaven is everywhere and nowhere in partic-
ular. 18th chapter of Isaiah. ioth'
verse, "For thus saith the high
and lofty one that inhabteth
eternity. whose name is Holy; dwelt In the
high and holy place, with Him also that Is OF
a contrite aud humble spirit to revive the
spirit OF the humble and TO revive the heart
OF the contrite ones" This is the only time
that the word eternity occur:
in the Bible; but we read that
il is the dwelling place of the Father.
Again in III Chronicles, chap. vii, verse "A.
"if my people, which are called by my name
shall humble themselves, and pray and seek
my face, and turn from their wicked ways,
then will hear from heaven, and WILL forglve
their sins. and will heal their land" This
was when Solomon was making that wonder
full prayer.
read these passages Just to show that IL is
the dwelling place of God. the Father. How
far away Heaven 10, j don't know, but II
wasn't SO far away but that Solomon's prayer
reached IL and brought an answer. IL
wasn't so far away but that the
prayers of Daniel reached heaven and Ga
briel came down to answer his prayers before
he had finished. IL wasn't so far away but what
Cornelius aims aud prayers came up TO God
Rs a memorial. It Is within speaking distance
from Music Hall this afternoon. You remem-
ber when Christ taught His deciples TO pray.
He taught them TO say. "Our Father who Art
in Heaven" That is His dwelling place.
Now, want TO call your attention to the
fact that IL is the dwelling place Of God, for
Christ is divine, 9TH chapter Acts, Both verse,
"But he. being full OF the Holy Ghost, looked
steadfastly unto heaven, and saw the glory of
God, and Jesus standing on the right hand OF
God and said. behold, see the heavens open,
and the Son of Man standing on the right
hand of God" Ibelieve that Is what Is going
20 make heaven so attractive; IL isn't the
Jasper walls, the pearly gates, the streets
paved with transparent gold, the river OF life
company we are TO have there, the fact that
we are going to see Jesus Christ.
can imagine as he saw stephen. the first
martyr, fighting that wonderful battle alone,
the Son of God stood up and gave Him
welcome. So that IL we are In the Spirit we
may get glimpse OF that upper world now
and then. j think q good many OF US have
seen our friends just as they were
departing from us, catching q glimpse
of another world, and their faces light up
with Its glory as IL they saw the angels and
the Son of God Himself. remember little
girl in my Sunday School district in Chicago,
who wasn't old enough TO talk. Her father and
mother were perfectly Goddess and Christless,
and they don't know where their child ever
heard the name OF God unless II was sometime
when the father was profaning Il. One day
she died. and just before she died she said,
Julie is coming, God!" Her eyes seemed to
be fixed upon something. and don't know
but that she saw the Great Shepherd. And
so, my friends. we are going TO see Christ. /
get good deal Of comfort out OF
that. BY and by I shall behold Him
face to face. What is II that makes home 80
attractive The beautiful paintings on the
wall. and the beautiful homer You know
that these homes that have been built at great
expense would be nothing but whited
sepulchrcs II IL wasn't for the loved ones
there. mother wao dying here in
Brooklyn some. years ago. and her little
child didn't understand about the sickness,
and she thought IL would be better to send
the child TO the neighbors. But every night
the little thing cried itself 10 sleep because
IL wanted 10 60 home. The mother died. and
after she died they thought IL better not to let
the child GO back 10 the home until the
funeral was over. that she might remember
her mother asshe was In life, After the funor-
nj they took the little child back home. She was
delighted to get home. and she cried. "Oh,
mamma, mamma" She went from one room
Go another crying. Mamma mamma y But
sho couldn't find her and she sat down
and began to cry and begged them to take
her ba,l, to the neighbDrs. shc didn't want
L. stay there II wasn't rlc hulne. but IL was
tnc nothcr -hc wanted 20 scc. That g. what
makes nuurl' attractive Ainothcr That is
what makes u 80 dear 20 IA; aud that Is what
~ going to make heaven so attrac-
iivc-Chrst who has gone up on high. The
great magnet Just draws ~ 10 Him. IL you
have no love for Him Gown here don't
know what son nolld dO up there. for up
there they viii .ins the sorg ~ Moses and
the Lamb. Nou viii get tired nnd weary of
80. ,,,.tv aous unless koil learn ~ lgIr Him