The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-04-10
"MOodyisms." ="
The following epigramatic sayings Of
Mr.. Moody were :gathered by the Times
Herald and printed in prominent type:

The following epigramatic sayings OF
Mr.. Moody we're :gathered by the Times
Herald and printed in prominent type:
A lot of people would deride Rebecca
did she live today. They would cry aloud
to wait and see.t They would advise her
not to say much until she saw whether
the well was going to hold out or not
Some Christians are like the well of
man 1 know. The well is all right with
two exceptions-it freezes up in the win
ter and dries up in the summer.
Peter and John didn't have barrel of
sermons to fall back on. They had some
thing else to do besides preaching on sci
ence, Cuba Armenia, gold, silver or geol-
ogy.
Some preachers are drier than Gideons
fleece. They need the dew of God upon
them.
I am tired of people who say they want
to live on crumbs. Crumbs are good
enough for cats and dogs. The Christian
wants nothing but the whole loaf
Don't you borrow trouble by thinking
that there will be no good men on earth
after you are dead.
Christians who get half over the border
get it from both sides; the church clubs
them on one side and the world throws
bricks at them on the other.
A great many Christians keep men out
of the church by their gloom and solemn
ity; they hang their heads down perpetu-
ally like bulrushes.
1t does not pay to get sour as you get
old.
1 pity man who lives in the past. He
lives on stale mama.
You never saw shadow in the dark.
There must be light near by OF there is
no shadow. Get out of the shadow; move
over into the light.
Christ never preacheda funeral sermon;
he broke up every fnneral that he at
tended
Christ did not tell his congregations that
they would be saved in return for build
in G fine churches or endowing colleges.
A Ch ristian who is a lazy man bears
false witness in favor of himself by claim
ing he is Christian.
There are no hearses in heaven; there
is not word in the Bible about celestial
graveyards.
The man who refuses salvation fings
back into the face of the Jehovah the
promise of eternal life.
A man might as well try to eat enough
at bre akfast to last him all his life as TO
try to get graceenough at once to last him
until he dies.
Many Christians have not enough grace
to ma ke them hold their tempers.
A lieis lie whether it is political lie
a so cial lie or business lie.
Mr.. Moody has been criticised from
the time of his first preaching as an un-
skiiful sermonizer, having had no hom-
iletical training. and recently we heard
another very able preacher similarly
criticised. This leads to the suspicion
that the art Of homiletics may be re-
garded as something apart from nature,
an indepen dent and unrelated invention,
something like the logic of the scholas-
tics. Judging from the effects which
Mr.. Moody's oratory produces, the fact
that it reaches mems convictions as well
as their emotions, that it proves to be
perfectly adapted to all classes of minds,
that its influence is acknowledged by un-
believers upon themselves, we do not see
how the CO Inclusion can be escaped that
it is the finest of fine art, most skilful
exhibition of homiletic genius. 1t may
be admitted that art is beauty, that
beauty is ymmetry, and so on. but there
is much more than beauty in Angeles
Moses and in Rsphael's Madonna. in the
Minister of York and the Cathedral Of
Cologn e-there is power, irresistible
force, which overcomes and overwhelms
Moody may not follow the formulas-no
original genius does that-but, because
he is not conventional, is no reason for
saying that he is inartistic. 1t may be
said that his power is that of the simple
gospel-but there is something super
added. Many men preach the simple
gospel as directly as he. who reap no
such results.-Interior.