Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-14
When the Situation Changes,

pented and let the Jews CO. He was good
enough as long as God threatened him, but
the same old Pharaoh again.
When the Situation Changes.
"A storm comes upon ship and the
sailors grow frightened, and begin to think
Of a hereafter. They stop their swearing
and begin to pray. Presently the storm goes
by, and all Is calm and safe once more
Then just watch those old sinners bring out
their oaths and return to their wickedness
once more. tell you there is no driving a
man into permanent religion. You see men
in jail weeping bitter tears and you think
they are reformed. You get them out of
jail and that night one Of them breaks into
your house and steals your watch They
had been weeping only because they got
caught
was asked how he had been saved He an
swered that God had just said to him:
Halt! Attention! Right about face! Marchv
That had done it. There was but one way.
and that was the one directly opposite to
the old way Of sin.
You can't resolve yourself into the king
dom. l once pricked my wrist and wrote
out lot Of good resolutions with my blood
had broken some of them even before I
signed them. You have got to give up
everything. You can't keep this or that
habit. Give up all that Is keeping you out
of the right path. If am out on the river
plug three OF them. the other will soon sink
my craft
He's got his own way of doing things. God
him. You mustn't dictate to the Almighty,
Human religion. wisdom and righteousness
are the three great stumbling blocks in a
mans way. God has to sweep them away
and get into the heart"
Mr.. Moody closed his sermon by relating
an incident that marked the close of q
series OF meetings that he once held in
Hartford. On the last night he spoke to
the same text Let the wicked forsake
his way" and he felt that he would never
meet those people again.
One of Mr.. MOOdy's Stories.
Five young men sat in the front row
right under the pulpit and seemed so much
interested that spoke directly to them. I
besought them to give up their old ways
and to come unto Christ. I had never talk
ed SO before. The occasion was a great one
and felt its inspiration. The next morn
ing there came the dreadful news that an
excursion train that had brought many
hundreds to our meeting the night before
had been wrecked on q bridge and scores
of souls had gone forth to meet their God
Later, a man, who escaped from the wreck
told me that just before the train went of
the bridge he had passed those five young
men as they stood on a platform, They
were discussing whether or not to give up
their ways of wickedness in obedience to
my call. In another moment they had all
been plunged into the great hereafter"
Mr. Moody followed his address with a
brief prayer and then the choir and audi
ence sang Christ Receives the Sinful Man"
Mr.. Moody told the Christians in the audi
ence that they might go then If they de-
sired, but that there was to be short
prayer meeting held, to which he invited
all who were not Christians While about
two hundred of the people moved to the
doors, Miss Carrie Kidweli sang Come, We
Disconsolate." with the choir doing the
chorus.
Mr.. Moody asked for silent prayer and
Rev. Joseph T. Kelly prayed verbally after
a moment. Miss Kidwell came to the front
of the platform, and, with Prof. Fosters
accompaniment sang q solo IN . style that