The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-10
A TALK With ladies
Evangelist Moody Speaks 10 Over 1900 Of
them Of Gods Love.
Plain talk TO audience OF MEN
MIR. Moody breaches on Sowing and
Reaping-Popular Sins Powerfully
Condemned - Sowing Lies and
Reaping Lies--Sins of Trade Scath-
ingly Denounced-Talle Morgan's
Choir Of 100 Male Voices Assist at
Evening Service.


Choir of 100 Male Voices Assist at
Evening Service.
The rockingham theater was over
| crowded at the men s service last night
when Mr. Moody addressed over 1000
men. Excellent music was provided
by special choir comprising 100 male
voices selected from the Sacred Musi-
cal society and conducted by Tallie
Morgan. George G Stebbins, the
musical colleague of Mr.. Moody, and
Caswallon Davis, of the Moody quar-
tette. also contributed selections with
their usual skill
The preliminary services were con-
Quoted by Secretary Pearsal Of the
Railroad Young Mems Christian asso-
citation and Secretary Mahy of Young
Mems Christian association.
Mr. Moody took his text from Gal
atians vi, T., "Bs not deceived; God ia
not Knocked, FOR whatsoever man
soweth, that shall he also reap" The
evangelist introduced his subject in
WV hOiIO"luB A"iE udbV'
Nine years ago did not see the truth Of
that verse as l see it tonight and it has
been burning deeper down in nv heart
ever since. 1t is astonishing how blind
people must be that they don't see the
gravity Of this verse, which is one Of
Gods fixed laws aud one which meets man
in every turn Of his life, aud from which
no one is exempt-the priest at the altar,
ha -.
dent Of the United States. "Be not de-
ceived." We are deceived by our neigh
bors, and to come nearer to home we may
be deceived by our twin brother, aud
above all your own heart is more deceitful
to you than all things; but one thing is
sure-the God Of that Bible never was and
never will be decetful. There are a class
Of people who, because they don't believe,
declare that thing must not ba true, but
that makes no difference to the truth new
ertheless. These men don't want to be-
lieve.
l am not in the habit of dividing my SER
mons into heads as fear Of getting lost
before concluding, but this evening pro-
pose to divide my sermon into four por-
tions. ~ a man expects to reap where he
sows. Would farmer sow if le expected
no harvestY II he expected a drought or
blight would he sow the seedy Rather
would he not leave the land and 90 and
work at something else?
WE REAP WHERE WE SOW.
The first head does not require any more
explanation as you all understand its
meaning, so will pass over to the second
A man expects in the natural world TO
reap what he has sown. No man who
plants water melons expects to get tur.
nips, neither would man SOW wheat and
expect to grow cucumbers. Neither
would man who had learned tho trade of
blacksmith expect to know all about
medicine. and just as true it is in the spir-
itual world, that man is going to reap
the same kind OF seed he sows. II you SOW
lies you are certain to reap lies.
Storekeepershave asked me to account for
the large number of dishonest clerks and
have told them that when they compel
these very clerks to sell all woolen goods
when they are half cotton, they arc SIM
ply sowing the lies and reaIing what they
nave sown, and is it therefore ANYTHING to
be surprised at that if you teach them to
cheat they are bound to cheat your II
you sow lies be certain that you shall reap
lies. wouldn't sell whisky, and why? |
would be making drunkard of your son
and would reap what was sowing by
someone making drunkard of my son.
l challenge any rum-seller il he is present
to find me man who has been in the
whisky business twenty years and who
has not u family skeleton either in
drunkard son or near relative.
My friends you cannot afford o sell,
Don't sell out, but knock in the end of
your whiskey barrels and empty it in the
sewer. Rise as one man and keep the
cursed thing out of the land. They are
sowing in the flesh to reap in corruption.
The same thing applies to the church
member who rents his property for these
purposes, or the man who holds stock in
them. You cannot bat about the bush
with the devil. You will reap what you
SOW and had better look after your invest
ments. Look whether this is not the
truth and il 1t is not to be found in the
Bible and if you don't care for it, go out,
as l am going at it still harder.
TRUTHS PLAINLY TOLD
Mr.. Moody then faithfully carried
out his promise and went at it very
much harder and rung out plain truths
which every man in the 5000 must
have felt their force in one respect OF
the other.
"Supposiug." said he, that a man
steals my pocketbook what do l lose-a
few greenbacks. what does he loser
He loses clear conscience, ne loses his
soul and forfeits heaven"
After demonstrating how Jacob and
David had resped the sins they had
sown and how adultery. rebellion and
murder occurred in David's family
and were Just the sins he had sown the
evangelist passed on to third head; a
man will reap more than he sows A
farmer told him that from one bean be
sowed. he reaped no less than 1000
beans. Jacob reaped for twenty years
what took but an hour to SOW and
while he was preaching there were
men in Scranton sowing sins which
would take all their natural life in re-
peating, Young men talk about Just
sowing their wild oats" Do they
realize that in the reaping they will
reap in shame involving devoted
wife, sainted mother, the little inno-
cent children. Where are the bank
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