Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-03-28
TIE WORK OF The HOLY SPIRIT.
A Sermon BY MOODY In Norfolk.

A Sermon by Moody In Norfolk.
On Sunday afternoon of last week, at
the great meeting held by Moody and
Sankey in Norfolk, the subject of Mr..
Mooly's text was 1.-The Work of the
Holy Spirit What He Came in the
World to Do" He said that the Holy
Spirit was person that the Father
has His work. the Son has His Work
and the Holy Spirit has His Work.
THE Holy Spirit came into this world
1st to convince the world of sin, End to
shed abroad the love of God in your
heart, Sd to give liberty, 4th to testify
of Christ. 9Th to show you things to
come, 9th to comfort you, 7th to give
power" Under these subdivisions the
speaker discussed his subject for about
forty minutes in q most earnest man
ner.
He said that fine preaching, good
chOirs and the like would never con
vince the world of sin, and if the Holy
Spirit WAS not there Gabriel could do
nothing. Love must be spontaneous,
and when the Holy Ghost gets into II
man he can't help loving God. All the
graces can he summed up in the word
love. Faith gets the most, humility
You can't find man or woman who is
full of the Holy Spirit that is not filed
with hope, and whenever YOU find a
preacher without hope you will find
church asleep. l don't want any
gloomy, lopg-faced Christians. There
is nothing going wrong here, and l be
lieve God thinks more of this world
than of all the others put together, be-
cause His Son died here
You can find any number of men
who can talk by the hour on any other
subject, but on salvation they are as
dumb as an oyster. They need liberty.
There are lots of people good to stand
in the way. but who have no liberty to
go on. One of the greatest sins in the
world to day is criticism, and the rea-
son preachers have no more influence
is because they are picked to pieces by
their hearers. Oh man, get beyond
the messenger, get the message" He
poured hot shot in the ranks of spirit
| ualists and eulogized very highly the
praise of God in songs. He said that
he believed in the beginning the gospel
was sung as well as preached. He said
that the Holy Spirit had comforted
more people in the last twelve months
than all the isms had in the last 1900
years.
He said there were good many
Christians without power, and ex-
planned the difference between infiu-
ence, strength and character and power.
"There are three classes of Christians
second are full of the Life, while the
third have rivers of Life flowing from
them.' In the latter class he mentioned
the late Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, whom he
praised very highly. MANY people
have asked me to preach against
theatre going, dancing, card play ing
and the like, but there is no need OF
this. Get a person full of the Holy
Spirit and he won't want to attend
these places. There is no greater
blessing than the Holy Ghost baptizine
new converts He closed by advising
all to go to their rooms any pray fol
the power which could be given them
by the Holy Ghost, after which he
pronounced the benediction.
REGENERATION.
On Sunday night, Regeneration
was his subject, and Except man be
born again he shall not enter the King
dom of Heaven" was his text. During
| his forty minutes discourse he hello
the closest attention of his hearers and
| delivered the most effective address
during his stay there. The text, be
said, meant that man must be born
of the Spirit or born above, and among
other things which seemed to fall heavy
on the ears of his listeners was his ex
PLANTATION of many answers given BY
people to the question How do you
know YOU are Christian ~
Some know it because they say theil
prayers, some because they go tC
church. the latter class forgetting, sale
the .peaker, that the devil is the most
regular attendant on the churches o.
Norfolk of any of its inhabitants MeI
are naturally bad, and especially in the
heart, and he had been often told thai
his way of preaching was only fit fol
the slums of New York and Chicago
and not for good people. II All artist
were to come to Norfolk who could
take an exact likeness of your hearts
showing it's feeling and sentiments ex
actly as they are, you would not &C
near him, but an artist who can take 6
likeness of your face and fiatter you 6
little, can get your order for hundreds
of pictures.
Couture is all right in its way, but
it requires a new life to enable you tc
| 20 W a6dV0u. luIS Dy
a man vino continually plows and har
rows his farm. but never sows any seeC
in it. Cultivation wont make the corr
grow without first planting corn" He
next turned his attention to intemper
ance and. his appeal to all to lei
whiskey alone, giving several illustra
lions of it's effect on its user. brought
tears to the eyes of many-"Blue rib
bon AMI pledges will never save g
man." l am tired and sick of hearing
reform, reform; that is not what you
want, you need regeneration.
After talking along this line about
five minutes Mr.. Moody gave the his
tory of barrister of London who al
one time had been hard drunkarG
but who had become converted, and
just in an interesting part he cried out
Think, think, for Gods sake think
young man. and when you do we will
have the grandest meeting ever hello
in Virginia. The effect was electrical
1t was startling, and as the speaker
raised both arms upward and brought
them down vigorously he seemed in
spired. He closed by saying, There
is life for a look, and let US all rise AND
| sing that hvmn."