Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-06
DUTY OF OBEDIENCE
The Lessen That Mr.. Moody Taught
Last Night.
THE MIGHTIESf CROWD OF THE SERIES
Listened to the Words of the
Evangelist.
o T II E r S P E A X E r S

The mightiest crowd OF the whole series
of gatherings was in attendance a. the
Moody and Sankey meeting last night
At 1:l5 O'Clock the big Convention Hall was
packed the platform was occupied. every
foot of space by a human being and The
people thronged the spaces in the front and
rear of the hall. Outside, the crowds who
could not gain entrance wandered up and
down the street in a disappointed manner.
and finally found their way to the overflow
meeting at the Assembly Church
After the preliminary service of song by
Mr.. Sankey and the choir, and prayer by
the attending clergymen, Mr. Moody an
nounced that the meeting tonight will be
for men. This statement is made to give
the men, especially workingmen, an oppor-
tunity to come TO the meeting If il
happens, however that there should he a
small attendance of men, and after 80
O'Clock there should be any vacant seats,
the hall will be filled with whoever comes.
A Talk on Obedience.
81 am afraid you won't be much inter
ested in the subject tonight" said Mr..
Moody. Il want to talk to you about
obedience. People don't like to talk about
obeying. But it comes home TO us all.
There are Christians here tonight, I be-
lieve, who do not realize the Joys that
they expected in their Christianity. 1T is
because they are not obedient Perfect
obedience means perfect joy and perfect
rest Eternal salvation begins here and
begins when We begin to obey God. All
nature obeys Him. Do you realize that
everything in the world obeys God, except
the heart of man? All the elements obeycd
God: death. disease and the grave obeyad
Him. 1t is the disobedience of the heart Of
man which causes sin and sorrow. Adam
and Eve fell because they disobeyed God.
Lucifer disobeyed Him.
4" He that obeyetb the will of God abidetl
forever 1t is the privilege OF every ore
of us to get into that inner circle by obey
ing God. Christ loved those disciples hest
who loved Him most Mr.. Moody then
read from the twelfth chapter of Matthew
upon the love of Christ for His disciples.
THE person in Washington tonight nearest
to God is the one who obeys Him best.
Not n Matter of Feeling.
obedience is not a matter of feeling.
If you do only what you like to 90, that
is not obedience Some people have no Joy
in life. simply because they are trying to
pick out the things they want to do and
letting those things go by which they don't
want to do. Some people try to make up
for lack of obedience by works of charity
and by sacrifice That won't DO. DISC
bedience is sin. IL is treason against God
Suppose / have child. who. instead of
going 10 school, PLAYS truant, then when
he comes home and knows that he must
make his peace with his father. he resolves
TO make a sacrifice. TO give UP something
of which he is very fond; he will make a
sacrifice. But that is not what / want; /
don't want sacrifice. | want that boy to
be obedent and until he is obedient moth
ing will satisfy me- If you are disobedient
you can not apDease God by building
church. There are good rlany people who
are willing to make a surrender of almost
anything but themselves, and IL is them
selves that God wants"
Mr.. Moody recited the story of Saul and
his obedience to God.
why. If one of US should get one stripe
on our backs in the cause of God he con-
tinued, I'VE would be the greatest martyr
of the age, but Saul was whipped five times
and received forty stripes each time vet
Saul went forth each time to obey his God.
He was stoned and put in jail, but he went
ahead to obey God just the same. He raised
his voice TO sing praises to the Lord One
Of you would not sing many praises if you
had forty stripes on your back.
Walking Where Paul Tred.
when / was in Rome / walked along
the road which Saul is said TO have trav-
ersed. 1 Just wanted to put my feet in his
tracks If 1 could.
Paul was obedient and he lives on and
on forever. shining light here below, and
oh, what must he be up above
Listen while 1 read from Deuteronomy
how God blessed Israel when they Were
obedent. No nation was able to stand be-
fore them. God had promised that. Now
turn to the last chapter of Joshua and hear
what He says. What God wants today is
men and women He can trust. If could
just get every one here TO give up their
wills to God and obey Him. Martin Luther
said he would rather obey God than TO
work miracles, and / believe that is the
highest type of discipleship. II you want
your sins forgiven, just obey God and He
will forgive them tonight. The blind man
who was healed became whole because he
Cbeyed Christs command to go and wash
in the pool OF Sloan. The palsied man MAS
commanded to take up his bed and walk
III he had hestated he would not have been
healed, but he obeyed the command, made
the effort. and was healed.
One Step TO Reach Jesus
There is just one step to reach Jesus
believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and YOU
will be saved. Obey the will of God and YOU
will be saved. 1t is the will of God ttat
You repent. Seek first the kingdom OF God
Are you willing to seek Him tonight? II
you do you will be obeying Him: if Won
don't and go away you will not be obeying
Do II tonight. Some people say to me,
Why do You urge people to act upon the
moment? Why don't you let them 90 away
and think about it?' Well, If L told my boy
to go bring a bucket of water and he said
he would think about it, l would certainly
have talk with him.
mo, would not give this audience twen-
ty-four hours TO think about salvation /
tried that once and will never forgive N.Y.
self for II. have asked God to forgive me
and believe that He will, but l won't for
give myself.
The Chicago Fire.
Il had been preaching in Chicago for five
nights. and enc Sunday night had brought
the audience TO that point in the life of
Christ where Plate asked what he should
do with the man Jesus. l told the audience