The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-21
MORE MOODY MEETINGS.
Concludes to Stay in
MINNEAPOLIS Two Days Longer.

At the solicitation of75the Minneapo-
lis people VINO invited him to come
here, Dwight L. Moody consented to re-
main in town for two more days Ten
o'clock yesterday morning found him
again in the pulpit at the Swedish
Tabernacle, facing an audience fully
as large as the preceding day. More
than half an hour was occupied in the
preliminary praise and prayer service.
''Wiu the pastors please give notice
of the meeting for men tomorrow after
noon at Westminster Presbyterian
church," said Mr.. Moody in opening.
I'VE come to the subject of the morn
ing-the Bible. An interleaved Bible is
a very good thing. When you get a
good thought on the seventh chapter
of Romans, put it right down opposite
If YOU get in the habit of reading a
little passage of Scripture each day.
you will never be a backslider. You've
got to have something besides saw
dust to feed the soul on. And it will
strengthen you a great deal to have a
little interview with God every day
Did you ever notice that a good many
of US never come into the presence Of
God except when we want something?
We come to teaze him for something.
You can afford to go a thousand
miles to get a good Illustration Of
passage of Scripture" Mr.. Moody here
gave his opinion on the subject of
Christian perfection. You can lead
a blameless life in the world, but not
a perfect one" he said. "a man who
is doing his best is blameless, but he
cannot be perfect"
Continuing his references to the value
of thoughts illustrating religious mat
ters, Mr.. Moody came per1lously near
politics, and questions of the day."
when he said:
81 was in Washington awhile ago,
and one of the officials took me down
into the treasury vaults and showed
me tons and tons Of silver piled up
there in bars. There was dust all over
it, and it wasn't any good. You want
to get that into circulation, don't you?
You want it out where it can do some
good Well, that's just the way with
good thought; get it into circulation.
well, we must get back to the
Bible" he said, presently. Here 1 am
rambling around like an old-fashioned
shotgun; 1 hope L shall hit somebody.
I don't have any sympathy with the
people who are trying to pick the Bible
to pieces. When a man thinks he is
wiser than the Son of God, he had bet
ter get out Of the pulpit"
Referring rapidly to many of the
miracles, Mr. Moody reaffirmed his en-
tire belief in every one of them literal
ly as they are written in the Bible. eff
you overthrow the story of JONAH" he
said, you overthrow the resurrection,
for Christ connected it with his resur-
rection 1 am glad there are heights
in the Bible 1 am unable to climb, and
depths / am unable to sound. 1t is a
scheme of the devil to destroy our faith
in the rest of the Bible, when he at
tacks parts of it. There is no book In
the wide world so misjudged as the
Bible. If anyone is going to cut my
Bible, 1 propose to do the cutting; I
don't propose to have a professor in
Germany, who has never been born Of
the spirit, cut it up for me. 1 have
never seen a man living In close COM
munion with God who had any trouble
with the Bible. I believe any minister
who will go into the pulpit and cut
that Bible up is doing the devils work
better than he can do it himself.