The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-26
The EvangeIist's Discourse
Of Wednesday Afternoon.
ABOUT WALKING WITH ,eoD."
Dir. Moody Spoke Very Eloquently
On the Subjcct-Why He Talks to
Christians-Walxs with God Give
Power Among Men.

pOme one wants me 10 give lecture on
"How to Mark the Bible" will take 1t
up next Sabbath morning at ga. m. and
will have the tickets here tomorrow. !
am glad to have people interested enough
to ask these questions.
am going to talk today about "Walk-
ing with God" Some have complained
that have talked so much TO Christians
since have been here. They think
ought to reach the outsiders. Iwant to
say that when We get the church
all right we will have no
trouble with the outsiders. When
Jacob got his face toward Bethel,
then II was the fear of God fell on the
nations all around. And when the
church Of God gets right here in Provi-
dence there will be no trouble about
reaching the outsiders. Gods line OF
work is to begin with His own people.
IL is said that when Mr.. Spurgeon
went up to London to pJelch,
for six months he preached at the church.
For some time he preached to the Elders
OF the church, and when he had preache
to them for some time, ,one ofthcm thought
he had better let them alone and get at tho
outsiders. But his preaching hadn't
Strengthened them out, and he said he was
going to keep at them until they were all
right, and then he would 20 at the church,
When he got the church right, then the
thing began to grow, and 1t grew for 20 or
40 years. When the church gets quick
ened and Is all right, there can be more
accomplished in one day than you can
accomplish in years when the
church is not all right
believe that is the experience OF most all
men that have tried to do Gods work
when the church is right, then it is very
easy to reach those that are wrong. When
Adam fell he fell out Of communion
with God and he didn't want to walk
with God. What we want is to bring men
back into fellowship and communion with
God. When We walk with God,
then we are going to have power,
and not only with God, but with
our fellow-mep. Now turn to Levitt u
chap. %, "Ye shall make you no idols nor
craven image, neither rear you up a
standing image, neither shall ye set up any
image OF stone in your land, To bow down
unto it; for i am the Lord your God. Ye
shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my
sanctuary; the Lord" believe in that
Book of Leviticus. l believe there Is more
of the Lord Jesus in that book than in
any other book OF the Bible. Now want
to say that never saw any one who kept
the Sabbath and reverenced Gods sanctu-
ary who didn't prosper. l have never
seen man desert the house,
the law, or the statutes o.
God, but tnat he grew lean. ! was talking
witha man here yesterday Q hope he
has come back here today who was once
Christian man and had sweet fellowship
with God, but he began to do work seven
days in the week, and now he has lost all
fellowship with God, and he Is wretched
aud miserable. i believe there are thous-
ands today in just that condition. Levi
ticus, 26th chapter, 3rd and 4th verses, II
We walk in my statutes, and keep my COM
mandments, and do them; then will /
give you rain in due season, and the land
shall yield her increase, and the trees OF
the field shall yield their fruit.n Leviticus
26th, 18th. "And will walk among you,
and will be your God, and ye shall be my
people" 9th and 2Sth verses. "And IL We
will not for all this hearken unto me, bat
walk contrary unto me; then will walk
contrary unto you also In fury; and /,
even /, will chastise you seven times for
your SINS" Now, l don't see how the
Lord could talk any palmer to us
than that,-you walk with me
and i will walk with you; you
toyou. i believe the reason so many peo-
pie are having such hard times now Is be-
cause they have wandered into sim For
the last 20 years we have had great pros
perity in this country, and during that
time we have wandered away from God.
We have deserted His Laws and
His Statues, and now we
are having trouble all over the
land. j hope that out of this trouble
there is going to come great blessing;
and believe there is going to be great
blessing. In the S4th Psalm, 11th verse,
we read these words, "For the Lord God
is sun and shield; the Lord will give
grace and glory; no good thing will He
withhold from them that walk uprightly."
II we walk uprightly, no good thing will
lie withhold from us; but il we do not
walk uprightly, we cannot claim that
blessing.
Now, turn over into the 9Th chapter of
jeremiah, 18th verse, "Thus saith the
Lord, stand We in the ways and see, and
ask for the old paths, where Is the goodway
and walk therein, and ye shall find rest
for your souls. But they said, we Will not
walk therein" Now, isn't that the Ian
9uage of today OF hundreds OF professed
Christians? They don't like the old doe
trines. They want new gospel now,
n new creed, new ministers, they have got
itching ears to hear sonnet hing else beside
this old gospel. They don't like the
old way. Now, the way that our fathers
trod, the way that John Wesley trod is
good enough for us. The way Martin
Luther, John Knox and oil those men
trod Is good enough for us. Now,
you notice Israel got into
backsliden state, and suppose
they talked as men talk now, against this
creed. They say IL Is old aud worn out.
Well, IL isn't as old as the sun. When
you build a house, wouldn't have any
windows in to let that old sun in, for il
Is worn out long ago. Jeremiah 9th chap
ter, 18th 18th and 18th verses,
"Aiso / set watchmen over you,
saying, hcarken unto the sound
OF the trumpet. But they said, we
will not harken. Therefore hear, yc ma
tions, and know, o congregation, what Is