The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-27
Mr.. Moody's Exhorta-
ton to Young Men.
BUILD UP THE CHARACTER
THE HARVEST THAT COMES TO
=. THE WRoNGDoER.
3 Grand Chorus of Two Thousand
Male Voices Sing the Hymns at
:. the First Congregational
Church.

Every seat, aisle, nook and corner of
the auditorium of the First Congrega-
tional Church was crowded yesterday af-
ternOOn by. an audience OF men assem-
bied. TO hear Mr.. Moody preach them a
special sermon.
The evangelist seems TO be at his best
when admonishing the erring masculine,
especially the more youthful portion Of
that sex, because they are particularly in
need of saving grace and because they,
he holds, are the hope of the world. Yet
e. the old ones do not quite escape his at
teRtion, because they have duty in the
way OF example.
IF you teach your boy TO tell a lie for
you" said Mr.. Moody, soon he Will tell
one to you" And again: "A Chicago
merchant once complained to me of the
Increasing dishonesty Of his clerks and
i called his attention 10 the duties forced
% on those clerks TO deceive the customers
in the matter OF the goods they were sell
ing%. I told him if mis- employees were or
dered TO sell cotton for wooden goods,
thereby deCeiving the public, could he
complain if the employe taught 10 rob
the customer turned around and robbed
the teacher"
The services began by Professor Tow
Ier singing, with chorus by the audience,
And I Shall See Him Face TO Face and
. Tell the Story Saved by Grace 1t was
noble melody. q grand chorus OF fully
2O90 voices filling the great hall with floods
OF song.
e. Following the singing Of several hymns
Mr.. Moody began his discourse from the
sixth chapter of Galatians; BE not de-
CeiVed, God is not Knocked: Tor WhatSO-
ever a man sOweth that snail he also
Sowing and reaptng." said the revival
tst- I want TO get that in your minds.
No matter what the sowing is. the reap
ing will be in like order. Jacob sowed
when he deceived his father and his har
vest was in like order Note this: AS no
table q person as JaCOb-third in the line
E OF the covenant, back in the early dawn
OF humanity, reaped that which he sOwed.
he killed a kid and with its skin and
flesh deceived his father and robbed Esau
OF birthright. His ten wicked sons sold
the favorite boy Joseph into slavery,
killed a kid, dyed Joseph coat in the blood
and deceived Jacob for twenty long,
Gretched years. He sOwed and reaped.
Davids greatest sin was adultery, and
this sin afterJyard in his hoTsahoiS
brought dishOnor, death and rebellion to
his latter wretched days. Judas was
mean, misery, dishonest man, and he
reaped the thirty pieces of silver, the
galows tree and the infamy of all time.
BE not deceived. This text written in
this book viii stand. The one who wrote
never deceived and never can be deceived.
. ChaFacterless sinners deceive and are IN
Iurn deceived. Character IS everything.
Some people think we spend too much
money trying to build up character. In
my town recently $4,000 was spent in
, hanging a young man. We might have
got some character in him for much less
and. saved him as well as all that money.
y hIuuhaGQ Is OGCC4N cu bCCdtGSE ne never
intended TO become such. But he kept
at it till he is lost, body and soul. And
the man who sells him the whisky; will
he not reap Of the intoxicating cup? And
what OF the church member who in any
way c0Untenances this hellish trafic-the
whited sepulCher who Indirectly encour-
ages the work that sends 800 young men
to dTunkardS' graves every IWentV-fOur
honrs2 I wish I could dwell on this
thing that is rObbing our men of char
acI6T. reSpeCta bility. Christianity, life
and the hereafter. You who are engaged
IN the cursed business, better starve in
the street than continue 10 drag men
down. What a martyr he would be who
died rather than sell whisky. The church
has so few martyrs nowadays one would
be q blessing 10 IL.
'DaYids sowing brought upon him the
sins of his children. What is so bitter
10. 2 parent as the stab of a son. 1 would
rather a child of mine would kill me out
right than be years in doing so. 1t is
speaking of his fathers faith: I've had
religion crammed down my throat and
have got enough Oft As If any soul could
get enough Of what will make q man of
him and save him through all eternity!
When. you hear young man speak Of his
parents as the old man or the old
woman look out for his reaping. Isn't
like sin? It Is hard to reap, but harder
still when you make others reap with
At the close Of his address Mr.. Moody
asked everybody that would seriously
think on what he had said and make
an effort to improve their manner OF liy-
ing TO arise and all present stood up
while the evangelist offered an earnest
sYraver that they might be guided IN the
Wav of truth and light.