New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-17
THE EVENING ADDRESS.
NOT A VACANT CHAIR AT THE OPENING OF The
MEETING-sOME REMARKS on oRDl-
NARY CHRISTIANS.

NARY CHRISTIANS
There was not a vacant chair in the Whoie nan
a short time after o'clock. when the evening
meeting began. In the first part Of the meeting
which consisted ~ usual OF hymns and prayer
Professor Town, II sang MY Ain Coun,ree, the
singing strongly affecting many of those In the
audience.
Mr. Moody. in some preliminary words. SAID
"To-nigh, closes up one-half this mission.
believe that great harvest can be gathered in
tho next four days II Christian people will only
make an effort to bring their unconvorted friends
here | don't know thai | have ever attended
better prayer meetings than those OF the last
three mornings. Whoever doesn't believe that God
answers prayer let him come 10 the prayer meet
ing here tomorrow morning. hope those who
are not churchgoers will find some church to go
10 before next Sunday. Some people say they
left of going to church because there was some
thing wrong witt the church. Let them look In
the mirror Maybe they will find out what's wrong
there. OF there is no perfec. church In
the world. Nothing IS perfect. Did you ever sec
a perfect horse? Just because OF that you don'r
refuse to ride do you? Then why shouldn't you
go TO church,
CHRIST AND JOHN THE BAPTIST.
~ want to tell you tonight" went on Mr..
Moody. after another hymn had been sung, what
Jesus Christ wishes to do for everybody here. Not
that can tell you everything that He wants 10 do
for you couldn't do that IN a week. F1rst-ie
saves His people from their sins once was
asked why did not preach John the Baptist
man told me that John was greater teacher than
Jesus told him that John was dead and buried
He will rise again one day. but he's dead now
But Christ has risen again. We don't worship
dead Jew by a good deal We worship nving
Christ.
NO man can ever get to heaven by his own
merits Men are constantly trying 70 save them
selves TO break themselves Of some habit or vice.
They climb uD little, but they slip back Man.
look 10 Christ He is able to save; He is willing TO
save II this was fiction. don't YOU think II would
be found on, by now? Has the world been fooled
for nineteen hundred years? But don't stop there.
You want TO know Christ not only as Saviour. but
rs a Deliverer. He will deliver us from passion.
bad temper. every besettng sin. II we VIII let Him
ut wouldn't take long 10 convert this city. II
every Christian was in earnest. But wha, you
expect II they go TO church one night and to tho
theatre the next. and TO a cuchre party the night
after? II takes about a thousand Christians 70
make one decent one now.
DEVILS TO CAST OUT NOW.
'rf you have not got control of some besetting
SIN YOU haven't got delverance. The courts attrb-
ute many Of the twenty-five thousand divorces that
occur here every year to incompatbility OF tenn
per- You want to get control of that temper
You want to 90 to Christ as Deliverer."
Referring to the story in the NTH chapter Of St.
Mark OF the devils cast out of man by the Saw
Jour Mr.. Moody said that there were devils 10 be
cast cut nowadays The Son OF God he said.
can deliver every drunkard in New-York city. I
wish could encourage every drunkard here and
give him hope. What grand day it would be II
we could get hold Of all the drunkards. and let
Christ get hold of them! Is He PARTIAL What lie
does for one cannot He do FOR all? The idea Of
SIXTY thousand men going to drunkards graves
every year What calamity, what a shame,
when the Lord can deliver them all
Man can't you sec al around you what the Son
Of COD is doing? Look what He did for that man
Hadiey who spoke 70 you this afternoon. and who
is now working for Christ in the Water Street Mis-
sion. Look what He did for Jerry" McAuley. an
ex-cOnvict.
When the sick woman touched Him and
healed He asked. Who touched Ne" Maybe those
around Him wondered and said. Why, Lord, there
are hundreds in the crowd who have touched you
whom they pressed close They did not know the
4 ference between the touch OF the crowd and the
toLch OF faith But Christ knew The difference.
And Il Is the now. Maybe some OF YOU
listening TO saying. VIVA; Is that man talk
Ing about? II Is al nonsense. While next TO the
one who says thar IS some poor weary soul who
has found salvation and peace.
CHRIST rs THE WAY.
"Our good friends OF The Roman Catholic Church
saw that theirs is the way The Greek Church
SAYS theirs Is the only way. Or Wharton will tell
you that the Baptists are the way and Dr. Chap
man will say that the way Is through them But
am the way He said II YOU want TO know wha,
truth is knox Him and you will know the truth.
He is not way. He is the way. Let Him be
your Saviour. SanCtifer. Redecmer tonight
An after meeting followed. To-day will be- Chris
tian Endcavor Day. ana addition 70 the speakers
who have been heard during the rest Of the week
Or F. T. Clarke and John Wills Baer Will make
addresses.