The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-15


come" The best definition / know is To
come. The more you try to explain it the
more you are mystified About the first
thing mother does is to teach
her child to look. At noon
time she takes the child to the window
and says, "look baby, see papa COM
ing. "You are taught to come before you
remember. You don't want any minister to
tell you what 1t is to come. We have got
something worth more than a thousand
dollars, something worth more than all
Providence, and you can have IL IL you
wish. Christ Is not mocking you, he
wants you to come, not with any feeling
or emotion, only come, that's all. Now,
will you come? tell you what think 1t
means to take up the cross. III you are
going to get rest you will get it at the
cross. DO you ask me what that is? /
don't know. / don't know what your
cross may be; it may be to go home and
tell a Goddess husband that you have
made up your mind to serve God.
was preaching in Chicago to q hall full
of women one Sunday afternoon, and after
the meeting was over a lady came to me
and said she wanted to talk to me. She
said she would accept Christ, and after
some conversation she went home. Hooked
for her for whole week, but didn't see
her until the Sunday afternoon. She
came and sat down right in front of me
and her face had such sad expression.
After the meeting was over l went to her
and asked her what the trouble was. She
said: "Ob, Mr.. Moody, this has been the
most miserable week OF my life." asked
her il there was any one whom she had
had trouble with and whom she could not
forgive. She said: "No, not that know
Of" "Well, did you tell your
friends about having found the Saviour"
'Indeed didn't, have been all the week
trying to keep it from them" "Well," /
said, "That is the reason why you have no
peace" She wanted to take the crown,
bet didn't want the cross. My friends,
you have got to go by the way Of cal
vary. II you ever get rest you must get 1t
at the foot of the cross. "Why," she said,
"If should go home and tell my infidel
husband that had found Christ / don't
know what he would do, Think he would
turn me out" "Well,"I said, "Go out"
She went away promising that she would
tell him, timid, pale, but she didn't want
another wretched week. She
The next night gave a
hall there were eight thousand men and
one solitary woman. When got through
and went into the inquiry meeting found
this lady with her husband. She intro
duced him to me, (he was doctor and a
very influential MANI and said, "He wants
to become Christian" took my Bible
and told him all about Christ, and he ac-
cepted Him. said to her after it was all
over, at turned out quite differently from
what you expected, didn't it?" She said,
"Yes, was never so scared in my life. /
expected he would do something dread
full, but 1t has turned out so we'll" She
took Gods way and got rest. You may
have rest. Don't you believe it, ministers?
"a hearty response from the pastors on
the platform.) Youhave seen 1t over and
over again.
want to say to you young ladies, per-
haps you have Goddess father or mother,
a skeptical brother, who Is going down
through drink, aud perhaps there is no
one who can reach them but you. How
many times godly, pure young lady has
taken the light into some darkened home!
remember the last time Mr.. Sankey and
myself were in Edinburgh there was a
father, two sisters and brother, who used
every morning to take the morning paper
and pick my sermon all to pieces. They
were indignant to think that the Edin-
burgh people should be carried away
with such preaching. But one day one OF
the sisters was going by the Hall and she
thought she would drop in and see what
class of people went there. She happened
to take seat by Cody lady, who said
to her, 81 hope you are interested in
this work" She tossed her head and
said, "Indeed am not. i am disgusted
with everything have seen and heard"
"Well," said the lady, perhaps you came
prejudiced." eyes, and the meeting has
not removed any of it, but has rather in
creased it," 81 have received a great deal
ofgood from them. "There is nothing here
for me. / don't see how any intellectual
person can be interested" To make q
long story short she got the lady to prom
ise to come back. When the meeting
broke up just a little of the prejudice had
worn away. She promised to come back
the next day. She went so far as to tell
that skeptical father, brother and sis
ter, but they just laughed. You
have got to take the cross IL
you get rest. But one day the two sisters
were together, and the other said, "Now
what have you got at those meetings that
you didn't have in the first placer" 81
have peace that never knew of before,
am at peace with God, myself and all the
world" Did you ever have little war of
your own with your neighbors, in your
own family? And she said, "I have self
control. You know, sister, IL you had
said half the mean things before was
converted that you have said since would
have been angry and answered back, but
IL you remember correctly, / haven't an
swered once since have been
coverted, you can get this same
rest and peace" Like Martha
and Mary, they had brother Lazarus,
but he was a member OF the University OF
Edinburgh. He to be converted? He go
to these meetings? IL might do for
women, but not for him. One night they
came home and told him that chum of
his own, member of the university, had
got up and confessed Christ, and when he
sat down his brother got up and con-
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