The times., 1897-04-18
HOT SHOT FROM MOODY.
fool can he a very busy critic.

A fool can be a very busy critic
1t takes no brains TO be a grumbler.
God is love, whichever way the wind
blows
May God put the cursed spirit of criticism
nut of the churches.
If the country is TO he evangelized the
battle has got to be fought in the homes
Many men make gods of themselves and
fall down before them in the baldest idol
airy.
The Bible says ten times a S much against
covetousness as it does against drunken
ness
Peters sermon would probably not have
been reported by the papers had 1t been
delivered by hirnia this age and day. The
critics would claim it lacked logic, was
not argumentative and did not meet the
views OF higher criticism
The church needs baptism Of love. 1t
Will then hc a ball of fire rolling over the
world
He who steals the affection of another
mans wife is blacker man than 10000
sneak thieves.
Christians nave much to confess; tie
church will have the power it prays for
when it gets right.
i his Is lO Ilitt lOi pNp'iii''H'h 1900
not learn to be n pessirnist if I should
live to be 900 years old.
The worlds wretchedness and Woe
come from turning aside from the law as
determined by the ten commandments
Chicago has many men in high places
with characters as black as he'll. They
are worshiped because they are rich.
preacher with his hope gone can in
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congregation hang down like bulrushes.
Chicago has a new reform movement
every time 1 come here. The only kind
complete regeneration.
There are too many preachers without
liberty. They stand in the pulpit, bound
like Lazarus, head and foot, with napkin
tied about their mouths
1t is a dishonor to the Holy Ghost to run
after every new criticism of the theo-
loglans. We have a new ism in this
country about each twelve months.
Chicago has as many gods as Shanghai,
or Canton, or Calcutta Its largest con-
gregations worship MammOn. Its hosts
bow down to the golden calf.
1t would be rs sensible for me to try TO
cover up Lake Michigan with a blanket as
to TRY 10 neIp sinners WldnOut tHS toHSlCG-
| ing power of the Holy Ghost.
Many a man can be won back from dis
honor and sin If his wife is right; there
| are many SONS in wickedness and despair
| because their fathers are not right
1t takes an American husband about
| twenty-four hours to get back his temper
| after he has quarreled with his wife III
| takes a Scotch husband about forty eight
| hours.
If the church of God would move into
| the thirteenth chapter of Corinthians
| and stay there twelve months the number
| of useful disciples would be Increased
! three-fold.
l want all the men who are forced to
| work on Sunday to strike. They need one
| days rest. 1 used TO work seven days in
| the week Itmade me older at thrty-seven
| than a IN now at sixty.
| Gabriel might come down from heaven
| and preach to the multitude for five tUurs;
| you would not save soul without the
| presence of the Holy Ghost. When he be
| gins work there are results.
There are hundreds of men dead and
| buried who told me forty years ago n Chi
| cago that could not come from Puritan
| Boston and teach this town Puritantsm
| They have left not so little as memory
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