The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-12-31
PULPIT EPlCRAhS BY D. |. MOODY.

man can no more take In supply o
grace for the future than he can eat enough
today to last him for the next six months
Or take sufficient air into his lungs at one,
to sustain life for week to come. We mus
draw upon Gods boundless stores OF grace
from day to day, as We need IT,.
Gods best gifts, like valuable Jewels. are
kept under lock and key, and those who wan
them must, with fervent faith. UNFORTUNATELY
ask for them, for God Is the rewarder oil
them that diligently seek Him.
When men go up in balloon they carry
small bags OF sand--and when they want to
rise higher they just throw out some OF the
sand. So we, II we want to rise nearer
heaven, must just throw out some of the
sand and cast aside every weight. We won't
rist higher till we do So
There are three classes Of people-the
wills" the ''wonts' and the "can'ts." The
first accomplish everything, the second op-
pose everything and the third fail in every
thing.
Very often a man will hear a hundred good
things In sermon, but there may be one
thing that strikes him as n little out OF
place. and he will go home and sit down at the
table and talk right out before his children
and magnify that one thing wrong, and not
say u word about the hundred good things
that were said. That is what people do who
critlrise.
II you have a good excuse, don't give 1t
up for anything have said don't give 1t up
for anything your mother may have said
don't give it up for anything your friend may
have said. Take it up to the bar of God and
state 1t TO Him But II you have not got Il
good excuse--an excuse that VIII stand in
eternity-et 1t 30 now and flee to the arms
of loving Savior.
A great many people say you must hear
both sides; but If man should write ME a
most slanderous letter about my wife, / don't
think | would have TO read it; should tear
II up and throw i to the winds. Have to
read an the infdel books that are written to
near both sides? Have to take up book
that Is SANDER on my Lord and Mastei,
who has redeemed me with His blood? Ten
thousand times no. / will not touch It. What
we want Is family piety, righteousness In our
homes. young minister came to me and
said he couldn't get along with his wife. and
what should he do? | told him to get out
OF the ministry. A man has no right to be in
me pulpit unless he can get along with his
family.
seldom meet bankrupt sinner. Most Of them
think they can pay 20 cents on the dollar.
some 80 per cent-they Just come short a
little and the Almighty will make 1t up some
now, Don't let Satan make you think you
ire SO good that you don't need the grace of
God We are bad lot, all OF US.
John Wesley used to ask his young men
"hom he had sent out to preach on probation
wo questions; Has anyone been convert
'aE and did anyone get mad?" II the
mink the Lord had called them to preach
he gospel, and sent them about their bust
less. When the Holy Ghost convicts OF sin
'eopie are either converted or they don't like !
and get mad
II God put Adam out of the earthly Eden
N account Of one sin do you think He will |
ct us into the Paradise above with tens OF
thousands OF our sins upon us?