New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-20
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MR.. MooDY's EVENING DISCOURSE A coNTINUA.
TON or THAT OF THE AFTERNOON
Mr. Moody also preached Sowing and Reap
ins M the evening meeting. The attendance was
not so great as on the previous night but there
must have been between FIVE thousand and six
thousand persons in tho audience.
Mr. Moody chose the same tex: as in the after
noon In the course Of powerful address he said:
saints and sinners. preachers and hearers al
have to suffer the consequences OF this law II Is
Iohs eternal decree. II Is no new theology II
came into the world with Adam and Adam had 20
reap the consequences OF his sin. Those who don /.
believe The word Of God, | would like you TO tel
me who made this law OF retribu,ion? II Is like no
human law. That is infallibe. We can sometimes
escape the police detectives. but we can't escape
Gods detectives. There is thing sure your sin
VIII hnd you out some day. That is the teaching
OF thls oid Book 1t can't be broken. I; doesn't
Ter whether you're believers or atheists you've
got TO reap whether YOU want 10 or not
This afternoon spoke on two heads OF tho text
There are two more heads. The first Is that n
man expects to reap moro than he sows. the second
'hat ignorance Of what has been makes no
dinerence 1f man did not expect to reap more
than he sows he wouldn't SOW. The same rue OF
increase holds good In the Kingdom of God man
may SOW in few hours what II Will take him all
his life 10 reap. Jacob lied to his father once but
ten or Jacobs sons lied to him about Joseph and
MS ore lie brought back ten others through which
he
"hom ne supposed to be dead. ] could destroy this
building In an hour, but couldn't build (; apai,,
20 save my life. J haven't any doubt that ,o-nio,,
some Inah or won1n VII commit some act tha con-
sequences Of which II will take all tho res, Of ,bo,,
hVes TO reap. The great daily newspapers are fu.l
or Such cases crimes committed In AN hour which
IT will take years OF suffering to pay for
1T doesn't take long for drink to get the he,,er
Of man. but when his character is gono and bis
money Is gone and his friends have lef, hin, T.,
takes him long time 10 get back TO his old posI-
ton again. As talking truth tonight? Is ,boro
man or woman here who will dare 10 challenge
my statement? 1t don; take woman long 70
turn from the path OF virtue. bat af.erward how
many hours and hours when her conscience lashes
her and despair has her.
Then the other head | spoke of-cnorancc OF
what secd | am sowing makes no difference And
therefore It becomes ne as rational man to look
wei 10 what Kind of seed am sowing Suppose
you saw n man putting coed in the ground and he
'old you no didn't know what il was and didnt
care; al he knew was that Il was seed You'd
call hir: a .unai". wouldn't you? But is tina; an
ont-na'; as mad as the man VINO keeps on sowing
nave 10 reap IN THIS life for wrongdoing but afer-
ard ask 'Wlt s d", us pMII 9urSelyea together
sewers We sowcd to-day and YESTERDAY and the
Gay oefore, What's the harvest going 10 be?
vi harvest you are going 10 have if you tell me
wi,]i SEED YOU are SOWING Tell no how you spend
"I'I VI !OI what your harvest VIII
De; yen me how you ireat your parents. ard / viii
'e !i YOU ~nai you are goins TO reap.
nave me most utter contempt for any Young
man who speaks OF his father as the old man or
o. ms molhe; as the Old woman For the young
man VINO TAX mat way the harvest is going be
you VII! be treated in just about the same wav a.
you treated your parents
But. some one once asked me. II we reap az we
SOW, where forgiveness comes in IJs,er You
can nave a law without a penalty There would
not ne any law II there were penalty for people
10 be afraid oil DO YOU suppose that God IS rum
ning This un''crse without laws? And The penalty
Tor breaking Ills laws is. The soul tina, sinne;b
shaH die Jesus Christ PAID tina; penalty FOR us
But there are certain consequences that We must
meet II we SIN. though Goa has forgiven us II
get drunk and gci my arm crushed and II has TO
De cut on, God may forgive me for being drunk bu,
nave 10 go ihiough NE without an arm. That's
consequence which have to suffer"
Mr. Moody brought the meeting to nm earlr close
recaugc ne SAID that he was anxious iha. all who
wished 10 do so should have the chance Of heng
told how 10 live better lives. when he talked 10