Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-26

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Moody said in loud tones and a high key.
Let us sing 40, number 40; Mr. Sankey has
to go to another meeting and I'll ask him
to sing number 40. and want you to come
in on the chorus"
1.-The Window Opened Toward Jerusalem
was the next hymn, and after the first verse
had been finished, Mr.. Moody shouted at
the choir. with intense enthusiasm. Sing
the next verse! Sing it ten times louder!'
And the words. DO you see the captive
kneeling, morning, noon and night, to
pray?" were peculiarly appropriate to the
preaching which was soon now to follow.
Mr.. Moody said, with a reverent and strong
voice: Let us all unite in prayer" Rev.
DR. Kelly advanced, and with bowed head
offered prayer, in which he expressed
thanks that they could come here In the
name OF Jesus and life up the prayers which
He gladly heard. He asked that the win
dows Of heaven might be opened and stated
that their souls were crying out for deliver
ance. He asked that God would exert His
power and His might and come down in
their behalf. He asked that the great truths
about to be spoken would find an echo In
the hearts OF the unsaved people and that
they might turn away from evil ways and
sinful thoughts to the Lord Jesus Christ.
MI. Moody-"Let the choir sing 1876, num-
Der l35. 'Halleluja for the Cross" After
this was sung. he said: Let us again look
to God for His blessing" Rev. Dr. George
Q: Little said that we were thankful for that
OLD, old story of the cross Let us come in
out or the storm Of life and come into our
Home, Sweet Hcme.'" He prayed that
souls might be saved and religious principles
be Quickened; that those in the audience
who came with indecision in their hearts
| might see the truth.
Mr.; Moody was growing enthusiastic and
his feet marked time to the music. He
next said: Il am going to ask Mr. Sankey
TO sing 49, No. 423, and I want every
man Of you to join in the chorus" No. 423
was Dare to Be Daniel" "Now we
come In on the last verse;" said Mr..
Moody Sing it out and If you can't sing
say it: 1t will do you good" AS the choir
ana congregation would shout forth the
words Dare to Be Danier' Mr.. Moody
would clap his hands and sway his body as
though he were helping the thing along.
Now, let's sing it without the choir 70
Done. Now. let's see If the choir can sing
| choir did Now all together without the
organ" And the audience obeyed. Now.
everybody all together, the reporters, too
Mr.. Moody next made the announcement
on which he would dwell In them. He
| said some little pleasantries that made
| the audience laugh. He congratulated the
people on having braved the storm. He
| In storm 1t showed that they meant
business. This audience meant business.
You wouldn't have come II you didn't
have a purpose in it. I've heard a great
| seen it." Gaughter) Now let us get
| closer together. Let the choir move down
here nearer and the people in the back
s sasts hall can ,b,s move up There's plenty
a general shuffing and changing Of posi-
ton. Mr.. Moody held a consultation with
Mr.. Foster and said: Let US sing one
more rousing piece" No. 100 followed
| Moody was by this time thoroughly in
sympathy with his work and the audience
was burning with religious fervor.
Talking About Daniel.
II am going to talk about the Prophet
| Daniel" said MIR. Moody. He is one of
the very few men in history who have
| shone all the way II rough his long life
and in whose life there is not to be found
failure. If all the Bible characters were
| like this one it would be very discoura ging
to poor mortals like u.s. Mr.. Moody then
| told the story Of Daniels removal to
| Babylon as a captive by Nebuchadnezzar.
He was in slavery and he was thrown
among idolators, but he took his stand for
the right; he refused to yield to tempta-
| ton. Nine-tenths Of the battles of life are
| won IL you start right. He mad many
| temptations, but he was made of the right
metal. 1t may have been that he was a
pupil of the Prophet jeremiah. for about
| the time of the captivity of the Jews Jere-
| miah was teaching the young in Jerusalem.
| He had the spirit of God in his neart.
Once when the king ordered the best and
| brightest of the young captives to be put
to the school of the Chaldeans and to be
| fed on the same wine and meat as sup
piled his table Daniel refused this diet and
| asked the captain of the guard for bread
and water. The captain thought that
Daniel was making a big mistake in thus
dsdaining the bounty of his king and ex-
| planned that disobedience 10 this order
might not only cost Daniel his head, but
might imperil that Of the captain also, for
if he should refuse to eat the fine diet
provided for the other students at the end
| of a month he would appear so thin and
| weak that an explanation would be de-
manded and the punishment for disohe-
dience to the kings order would follow;
But Daniel refused to eat of the meat and
to drink of the wine of the king and at the
| time when all appeared before his ma
jesty Daniel and his three companions
were as fair and strong ana as rat as any
of them. If he had bech like the compro-
missing Christian Of ,uday he would have
| followed the dictates of policy and would
| have done as :he Chaldeans would have
him. He would have reasoned: We'll,
here l am a thousand miles from home,
| and il / don't submit my views to those
| of the ruler off will go my head, and If l
| am to hope for preferlncut and faVors !
| must be accommodating, and how can
| be more accommodating than by doirG as
those in the highest authority would have
me to do? He wouli have consulted the
emergencies of the case. 1t was then that
he fought the greatest battle of his life
| and won it. He had purpose in his heart.
That is the place to have purpose.
Many men have purposes in the head,
but that isn't the place. Purposes in the
head don't amount TO any hing. Daniel
denied the kings meat and wine and by
his studiousness had ezceiied many or the
| Chaldean scholars If YOU beat the FIRST
! Temptation you are well on toward VIC
/ tory. If you fall to me temptation OF
| working on the sabbath you are fallen
man. Two years from that time Nebuchad-
/ nezzar had a dream. When he tried to re-
| call his dream he could not do it. He
| could not think what il had all been about.
He called UP all his wise men. but they
| could not tell what the king had dreamed
and could not divine what the dream
| meant.
| PANEL Interprets the Dream.
The king was about to put his wise men
to death for failing to satisfy him, when
Daniel asked to be given a chance at de-
ciphering that dream. He was up in the
books of Moses and sought for help from
them. but it didn't come. Then he prayed
| for a revelation Of the meaning Of the
kings. dream, and laid him down to sleep
His prayer was answered, and the next day
he appeared before the king. Said Daniel
| You dreamed of an image with head OF
| fine gold and breast of silver" THAT
/ was it, that was my dream" and the king
Then Daniel went into the details to the
| great surprise of all. Then Daniel told the
/ significance of the dream. MI. Moody talked
| for some time on how the subsequent
events had proved the correctness
| Of Daniels Interpretation. Then
| Daniel was put into office He didn't