The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-03-11

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THE SERVICES AT NIGHT.
Nearly two thousand people heard
Evangelist Moody last night. 1t was
the last of the services, and it seemed
as though every one of the great
crowds that have throngcd to hear
him during the past few days had come
to this final meeting. Every availa-
BILE inch of room il the Citadel Square
Church was filled with humanity, and
the Railways and entrances were
crowded. After the usual opening
hymns and a prayer by the Rev. DR..
Bays, of Bethel, Mr.. Moody came for
ward and said that instead of preach
ing a sermon he intended to tell the
people just what to do if they wanted
to be saved. Last night, he said, /
told you how Herod had missed the
Kingdom Of Heaven, tonight I shall
tell you how you may gain it.
In the tenth chapter Of Romans we
read ''That if thou shall confess
with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, aud
shall believe in thine heart that God
hath raised Him from the dead, thou
shalt be saved for with the heart
man believeth unto righteousness, and
with thy mouth confession is made
unto salvation, for the Scripture saith
whosoever believeth on Him shall not
be ashamed"
Three things are required: That we
believe on Christ in our hearts, o n
fess Him with our lips and be not
ashamed of Him. If Paul were here
tonight, straight from Heaven, I
don't believe he could make the way
any palmer.
Some people have said to me Ma
BONNET came a thousand years after
Christ and yet he has more followers.
Why is it 1T is because they have
no cross to bear. The disciples Of
Christ must bear the cross if they
would wear tho crown of life. If men
could only step over the cross to reach
that crown the Saviour's following
would be greater.
The cross is often the jeering of the
world. 1t is when you are called to
confess Christ that you become back
sliders. If you want Christianity
must believe with the heart, confess
with the lips and be not ashamed.
Christ said, eff any man will come
after Me let him deny himself, and
take up his cross daily, and follow
Me-" This does not mean to take up
the cross at church once a week and
confess Christ, but daily, in business
and in pleasures to acknowledge Christ
as the Saviour Of men.
What would you think of a soldier
or a policeman who would refuse to
wear his uniform =? What would be
said if a servant disdained the livery
provided by his employer If We
are servants of Christ we must put on
His livery and fight under His banner.
In Mark 1913 we find Christ saying,
"Whosoever shall confess Me before
men, him shall the Son of God also
confess before the angels of Cod
Now many, very many men and women
are moral towards. They will not
confess Christ because they might be
laughed at. Why is this so 4?
In every other religion under the
sun the followers are believers in it,
are proud Of it. They are workers for
it. On my way to Salt Lake City
once the engineer on the train tried
his best to convert me into the Nor
mon faith. The Cinnamon are proud
of being followers of CONTIGUOUS, the
Mohammedans proclaim aloud their
faith in Mahommet. and yet the fol"
lowers of Christ, the head and front
of the only true religion, are ashamed
to own their Master. Thank God |
have known Christ for forty years and
I have never been ashamed of Him.
What we want is hat men and wo-
men will own up to their convictions.
I believe that if those present who
wish to acknowledge Christ were not
moral towards and afraid to own up,
there would be more conversions in
this church tonight than ever before
at any one time in the city. But it
takes a hero to be a Christian. You
cant sneak into Heaven.
Men have been afraid to read their
Bibles, because their room-mates
would jeer at them. Boys in the ar
my were hooted at for praying in their
tents. They stood up for Christ and
saved not only their own souls, but
likely those of their associates. The
blind beggar received sight at the
hands of the Saviour because a true
follower of Christ. He was cross
question: by the enemies of Christ,
but he stoutly said II was blind and
now I see," and before Christ he fell
and worshipped Him.
I have often been asked by young
people, evil | have to leave the
world ?" and I tell them no need of
that. Keep your record clean and the
world will leave you. Once when |
was in Chicago a man sent me an in
vitation to attend the opening of a
great gilded gate to hell-a bar room.
I found one of the proprietors and
asked if the invitation was genuine.
He said yes. Then, I said, I will
come. But if find things not to my
liking I may say something. You
won preach, will you T.? said the man
(who had sent me the invitation as a
joke, or worse). Well, l may, and if
l see anything that needs reporting to
my Master I will have to do it. You
don't mean that you will pray ? said
the bar-keepcr, in dismay. Yes, |
may have to. Then we don't want
you to come, he said. And that's the
way with the world. Just go to a par
ty, and if you see the young men get
ting intoxicated over the punch bowl,
just protest against it and I'll venture
you will never be invited there again.
The Evangelist then described the
part taken by Joseph of Arimathea,
who protested against the crucifxion
of the Saviour, and who, after Christ's
death, had lain Him in his own new
tomb. Joseph stood out against the
members of council, who cried "cru-
city Him. and against his friends
and acquaintances who passed him the
next day with faces averted and sneers
or their lips. But his reception on
high surely more than compensated
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