Birmingham age-herald., 1894-11-01
TIE FAREWELL SERMON Of Evangelist Moody Heard by an
 Immense Audience. MUCH INTEREST SHOWN By Those PreSent-WordS of Good Advice to All-The
 Farewell at the Depot.
MUCH INTEREST SHOWN

Evangelist Moody and his assistant, Pro- lessor Towner, are gone.
 He preached his farewell sermon to about 5000 people in the First Methodist church at o'clock yesterday morning.
 Early as the hour was for the services to open people began to pour into the church fully an hour before the appointed time.
 For about thirty minutes preceding the sermon praise service was held. Beautiful hymns were sung and fervent prayers went up to God for the benefit of those who are not Christians. During this service tears by faithful Christians were shed and men beseeched to turn from the paths of sin that they might walk in the light of Heaven, and finally, when this worlds work is over, be landed in place of eternal rest.
 Dr. Handley led in prayer and asked that the mornings meeting be made tho browning one of the series. It was fervent and went home to the hearts of many. He asked God to especially bless Mir. Moody and his assistant for the noble work they had done while here.
 After Dr. Handley's prayer MT. A. B. Johnston told the audience that he hoped all who had so kindly sent chairs to the WlgWam WOulO SO anu get db ueltuer he nor the committee knew one from the other. lie thanked all the people for the manner in which they had financially aided the cause of Christ and Christianity in furthering the benefits of the meetings. He was gratified at the manner in which the people had taken hold of the meetings and held to them from beginning to end.
 MT. Moody followed MT. Johnston and suggested that union social prayer meet ipg be held as often as possible. He rtf hi rof !. .ic t ind in I,i iph the people could get warmed up, would do great goo6 and in fact more than little cold meetings. held about at the different churches. His ides was that where there was warmth of heart and warm surround, ings there was also great good, He ssientsd this social prayer meeting to be taken hold' of and to have many different persons offer up short, but impressive prayers. He thought more good would come of a short prayer than long one, and argued that long prayer, which was dry, made people inpatient and drove away all interest. After impressing upon the people the necessity of organizing such thing as social prayer meeting he stated that he was indeed well pleased with the work that is going on in the various prisons. He wanted this good work kept up, for he knew that even among criminals, hard hearted as they were, there were some and even many who could be brought to Christ from the rough road of sin they are travel ing. To illustrate the good work that could be done he told a story of how he went to work in St. Louis prison and converted hundreds and how he "caught' the hard hearted warden.
 Dr. Hale then announced that the usual collection would be taken up aud that he hoped the people would give thanks offer ing freely, for the money was needed to carry on good work, the end of which was to save souls.
 Professor Towner sang a solo, 'When the Mists Have Rolled Away.o MT. Moody began his sermon, or rather talk, upon Christ, and what he was to the people of this earth by saying that there was one thing remarkable about him, and that is that he was all person would make him. He can be made something great or very small, and his greatness with each in- dividual depends entirely upon what they make him.
 He came on earth that he night teach men the way of life and show them how to obtain an eternal home in Heaven with his Father.
 He said that the best way for one o>tell whether or not he was a true follower of Jesus was to know whether he had com plete control over his every sin. When man knows that he has and keeps control over every tempting sin then he may know that he is a follower of Jesus, that is if he believes in Christ.
 He said to the people that today they were pot worshippng a dead Jew, but live Christ, one who shook of the confines of the grave and ascended after three days to his Fathers right hand in Heaven. This he followed up by saying that man who followed a heathen religion had to work his way up to God, while God worked his way to men who believed in the re- ligion of the Lord.
 He assured his audience that Jesus Christ never made single promise he failed to keep, and he never failed to save a single person who went to him.
 His assurance was that Christ would de- liver all from every existing evil If only faith was put in hipC.,f it's lust he will take take it n from all.} E5s came to destroy the works of the dev.i and to show people the way of life. He didn't care what the sin was, great or small, Jesus Christ could cleanse them all and keep them away. He didn't believe that. if the heart was pure and true evil desires would come. He said that if Christian went into bar room and took drink his conscience would lash him afterwards, and that he would feel bad over it.
 He laid down the way for husband to act toward his wife, and roasted thO hOse who went home cross and who had not pleas ant word for wife or child. He thought that 1t was an awful bad thing to see man 20 home from his place of business fn cross mood and not have smile for his loying wife or a cheerful word for his chill dren. To be pleasant and congentai around the freside was great thing in his eye. The way. he said, to be delivered from sin is to take God's way and follow the path of Jesus, for God came to save and not to crush down. He said all the Lord had to do was to speak out and the devil had to get out. He asked the people to put faith In Christ and to keep 1t there, for It was