The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-23
STORIES ABOUT MOODY
Some Anecdo otes Told About the Late
Evangelist

Many anecdotes are told about the
distinguished evangelist who died Fri
day. Here are a few of them:
One day when Mr.. Moody was giving
a talk to the NOrthfield seminary girls
on card-playing, theater- going and
dancing, one young lady made bold to
ask him if he could not moderate his
statements and admit that dancing
among family friends was not only
harmless, but somewhat desirable, in
as much as it tended to add grace to
ones figure. Mr. Moody heard the
young woman through patiently and
then replied: My dear girl, L would
a thousand times rather have you get
more grace in your heart and less in
your heels
HIS CREED IN PRINT.
When Mr.. Moody was asked to con-
duct his first mission in London, in
1874. il was a comparatively new thing
to hold union meetings, and he was
asked to meet a committee of ministers
to explain his methods. Everything
went smoothly until a minister of the
Church of England asked Mr.. Moody
for his creed Mr.. MOOdys reply vas
that his creed was already in print. A
number of the clergymen seized pencil
and paper, asking where it could be
found. In the 53rd chapter of Isaiah"
Mr.. Moody answered.
ALIVE TO THE TELEGRAPH.
One evening in San Francisco the
evangelist sat in his room at the hotel
playing a game of cards with Mrs.
Moody and two friends when a messen-
ger boy came in with a dispatch AS
the boy stood waiting for reply Mr.
Moody suddenly asked, Wont you sit
down, my lad, and have a game of
Authors with US ?"
The boy declined and soon left the
room.
Hardly had the door been closed when
Mrs. Moody said, Why, Dwight, what
made you think of inviting that boy to
sit down and play with us?"
My DEAR replied Moody, don't you
see, if 1 had not called that boys at
tention to the fact that we were play
ing Authors all the morning papers
big headlines that D L. Moody had
been discovered in a San Francisco
hotel engaged in a game of cards.
AROSE AT TO HELP OTHERS.
Several years ago, at one of the early
conferences at Mortified, there were
two newspaper correspondents who
sent their news letters by train that
left South Vernon about five o'clock in
the morning. The letters were taken to
the station by two Mount HermOn stu
dents, who were obliged to get up short
1y after four o'clock in order to catch
the train. The boys were always prompt
and one of the newspaper men asked
them how they managed it.
"Oh, d. l. wakes US up" they re-
piled.
Further inquiry showed that Mr..
Moody slept with an alarm clock al
most directly by his ear, and took the
trouble each morning to arouse the
messengers
SECRET OF RAISING MONEY.
AS is well known, Mr.. Moody had a
wonderful faculty for getting money,
whether it was simply a collection to
meet some current expenses or some
large subscriptions with which to erect
( new school building. Asked once as
! to the secret of his success in this par
ticular line the great preacher replied,
/ I urge people to give until they feel
| it, and then to keep on giving until they
/ don't feel il.
KNEW WHERE TO GET FACTS.
Not long ago a man who claimed per-
J fection went to Mr. Moody and com
J miserated him on his low level of Chris
tian experience. Mr.. Moody, in a kind
manner, asked his caller if he never
+ sinned nor did any wrong.
NO; 1 have not sinned for years,
neither have 1 done anything that was
/ wrong" was the prompt reply.
We'll, I'm glad to know it, said Mr.,
J Moody, but before L am convinced
) would like to ask your wife"