New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-13
WIEN MOODY WAS sCHoOLBOY.
A STORY TOLD BY THE EVANGELIST IN ONE OF
his NORTHFELD TALKS.

| A STORY TOLD RY THE EVANGELIST IN ONE OF
HIS NoRrHFELp TALKS.
Eas, Nor,hAed Mass. Sept u (speciaD Mr..
! Moody gave an interesting talk Saturday morning
on Grace at the Seminary. and later at the MI.
I-rnon School He told this incident OF his boy
hood DAYS to show how the grace OF a teacher won
him when H. OF the worst boys In school:
In the little red schoolhouse which stood nearly
opposite the house where lived. there were some
bad boys who things and OF the
worst We had man teacher. who used the rat
tan good deal. and took Us by the ears and
and spun vs. around when We tried 10 do as we
pleased. There a great deal OF excitement In
our end Of the town over the punishment OF the
boys. one faction said that love would do for the
boys what the rattnn failed 10 do. The other fac
ton thought that the rattan was the only proper
punishment After while the love faction rulsd
and there was u lady teacher In the schoohouse.
My. but didn't We think We were going to make
things hum. SAID to the other boys: Now we Will
have all the fun want Well. the first one 10 be
punished was Dwight Moody. was told TO say af-
tor school told the boys II she tried the rattan on
me there would be music. What do you think that
teacher did? She sat down and told me that she
had come 10 the school hoping 10 do good. that she
loved every one OF the boys and that she WASH {
s gov TO use the rattan on any one Of them II
boys Boy she would resign She spoke most lovingly.
wnT Tr r ~ne taking Ina broke me al up
see her cry: said: You will never have any more
trouble | viii settle him That woman Won me- bS
fraGrsc; The next day one OF the boys cut up and
teacher tod me that was not the way TO win the
s7ST T"S sn6p Some p:op
mink that they are not worthy to have God
worthy you win never be converted Tha grace 1% ar" os
God Is free to all The nearest to grace That hu.
ask them to loan $1,000 They get another thiN m nnn
70 tbs sign o the note Win me who worth good dea
,erost on the money for thirty days When the time
~ UP they give me three days grace When those
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sell the house house over my head and put me on the
street street. But the grace OF God is different. The law
caHno' save you but II Is given that you may see
the need OF grace. Grace hath appeared 10 ali II
5 SiamS one Is not saved no one but himself is
=, The Rev John r. Devins of Hope Chanel Now.
Braeboro to-day to speak T'f Ss here
gational Church on Mission Work in Lower New.
Mr. Moody asked for some of the hes, thoughts
that the people had taken from the talks So FAR
had heard from the three conferences this sumner
WAS WAS what some one had quoted: 'Character is
from the seminary could have secured rood
s trusted ' When S MSs found an5 that she could be
She was good In school. and kept the rules in the
c'a ass % nut WhGn alone she broke the rules
schools. Mr.. Moody announced yesterday that no
would speak at each one every day this week "
IN one of his talks OH God Is Love Mr. Moody
of 9f hc %nf broken BY
he had denied Him. | asked "A young lady once Z
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b h% dd d at times When she was good She thought
thought lie didn't love her | asked her il her
nothcr loved her, and she made the same replv
tod her that che was sanderlng both her mother
ana her God. God loves Us even when we sin He
does not love the sin, but lie loves the sinner Can
2 mother forget her child? Yes. but God never
iorgets us. He loves unto the end. He loves ma
better than our mothers can. " Vs.
i heard OF man who had barn. and on the
weather,yane he put the text God Is love- spur
gcon said 10 him one day. DO you mean to saw
that God's love IL as changeabe az the wind?' oh
no. said the man. l that God is love which.
ever way tho wind blows God L. love when trials
come to YOU. When everything seems against YOU
whcn your lessons are hard. when sickness and
death come. remember that God Is love. II is a
comfort TO know that God loves In spite OF
my many failures. When this world wakes up to
the fact that God is love. Il Will turn from dark
ness TO light
But why does God love? 1t Is His nature to
love. Yes but He is angry at times with us. so is
a mother when her child does wrong Her very
anger Is love. She does not want her child to grow
up bad. She loves him too much to want that state
OF things to come about. II my son drank whls-
key. wouldn't be angry? II didn't love him
wouldn't be angry. but would let him so on and
on, and At last die drunkard. My anger shows
my love for him. God loves us more than we car
love Him In return. Gods love Is unchanging an,
unfailing The mothers love Is very strong but