New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-15
AT THE EVENING MEETING.
ONE TEXT BETTER THAN MANY sERMoNs-THE
EVANGELIST TELLS OF A GAMBLET SAVED.


AT THE EVENING MEETING
| ONE TEXT BETTER THAN MANY sERMoNs-THE
EVANGELIST TELLS OF GAMBLER SAVED
There again great attendance. IN the even
ing. the body of the hall being full. while there
were many in the galleries. The usual programme
Of music alternated with prayer followed The
four young men from Yale, whose singing was
much admired Sunday, were obliged 70 return to
the University on Sunday night. but the Mount
Iiermon Quartet will sing during tho whole mis-
sion. The hymns sung by Professors Towner and
Burke are also great feature OF these services
Just before Mr. Moody spoke las, night Professor
Towner sang The Home Land in a that
evidently deeply affected many present.
"AlI meetings yet held during this mission have
been very good" said Mr. Moody in his address.
but the most encouraging OF all was the prayer
meeting at 10 o'clock this morning Tomorrow, at
the same hour. shall hold another prayer-meet-
ing. Requests have been coming to me all day for
special prayers from people who want the help Of
the Lord in their affections l hope many
possible will come to to-morrow's prayer-meeting
because If any good is going 10 be done IN this
mission 1t is going 10 be through prayer
"a very encouraging thing happened TO me this
afternoon. man sixty-six years old. who had
| spent his life in gambling. came TO and said
| that he had heard my sermon. that he was sick
and tired OF sin. and wanted to work for God
God bless him. ! he is here tonight. A good
many people have written TO say that they have
not come to the meetings because they could not
get any tickets. want to again that no tickets
are necessary Everybody is welcome If you can't
get a good seat anywhere else take mine the
| platform All l ask you to do Is TO come The
object OF the meetings is that We may tell you what
| you must do 10 be saved.
THE GOSPEL THE BEST THING.
| II believe IN my heart that the best thing on
this earth is the Gospel OF the Son OF God. / said
last night that the keynote Of this mission IS the
saying Of Christ, The Son OF Man Is TO seek
! and 10 save that which was lost Tonight will
| take another text 10 follow It, And want you 10
remember that the object of tho is to drive
| home the text. I would rather have text OF
the Bible than all the sermons IN the world There
| are enough Of them preached in New-York every
| week TO the city ten times In John l.
| 90 are the first words recorded by the evangelist
| as having been spoken TO him by Jesus Christ
| They are, What seek YEP 1t may have been sixty
years after John heard those words that he wrote
| them down. but they had made such an impression
| on him that he remembered the time and the place
| With another who afterward became a disciple he
| had gone to look at Christ, and asked Him the
question. Where dwelest Thou Come and see
| answered the Saviour. and the two disciples went
| and never left Him.
1t is very evident that these two men found more
| In Christ than did good many Others OF their
| time And do you know that there are a good
| many in NewYork the way. 1t is recorded
| in the gospels that many of those who followed
the Saviour left Him. and there many who fol-
| low him to-day who say they disappointed
Why? l think | tell you When the crowds
followed Christ in the Holy Land they did so from
various motives. Some Of them wanted 10 see Him
perform miracles They wanted 10 see the devils
cast out and the leDers cured, and they were
| always saying TO Him, Master. show Us a sign"
Others thought He going to found an earthly
founded IL. Others thought that they might Cnan-
| gle Him into saying something against the Mosaic
| or Roman laws which would lead to his condemns-
tion and death. Others followed just from morbid
curiosity 10 see the crowd and hear something new
Others lie himself accused OF being after the fishes
| and the loaves They did not care about His mes
| sage.
NO TRUE FOLLOWER DISAPPOINTED.
"All these people got tired of following
| Christ: but can vouch for one thing-that no
man for eighteen hundred years who has followed
| Jesus Christ for what He is has ever been dsap-
pointed. lie is all that you make Him TO be
Little Of Him e' ''''''"
What seek ye, you that are here tonight? Come.
Just the same motives actuatlng you Us those who
followed the Lord in Palestine. There are. some
other has come because his wife has been nagging
at him for the last three weeks and he promised
whePe else to ge says Re 3ef he had nae mas edo
comfortable bic home you would not nnd him here
he wanted TO hear something. anyway Altboieb
some of you have come with low motives rhaTE
God you have at all, and you NAV change
your mind before you're through. I'm glad TO haye
change az you, whatever your motives for hoinS
here may be. '''"
Here is another text want TO read: Seek We
first the Kingdom OF God and His righteousnese
ana all these things shah be added unto Won e.
many people think that they Will attend 10 ,emnoroi
things DrSt. anc after they have made a or,for,o
! ole fortune and settled down they win attend a.
eternal things God says, No You must drS, soap
done you would never come 10 want we're reaHE
THE KINGDOM OF GOD FIRST
| i have been besought on all sides 70 D-so,,,
sermons on capital and labor md similar sub,ec,s
Ny friends. believe as long as you start rich, "a
follow that text you Will turn right +, tho ord
believe so many don't get on because the XII
dom OF God comes last. not first. with them W.,
! can't tell what may happen before the roor,,r,,
| Chflst would not even allow a man who Yooa'si
Him 10 bury his dead father before he had ob.ss~eI
I the Kingdom Of God. believe there are thousand
written Oh the nyleaves OF their Bibles by some
| loving Ia Their or mother the text | have quoted
| from Matthew vi %.
III Moses should suddenly appear here what 90
| you suppose would be The first words he would
! say 10 you? II you asked him TO TO the plat