Arizona republican., 1899-01-26
HOW IS IT WITH YOU
Have You Room for Christ
 in Your Heart?
Fir. NfOody'S Address on inc Power and Love of inc Son of God-Be- lieVe and Be Saved.

| O'Neill hall was crowded again last night to listen to MT. Moody. Profes- scr Towner was in his usual place ana all were glad to hear his voice again.
 Mir. Moody spoke to his hearers from the words found il Luke 2:7: "An1 they laid him in a manager; because there was no room for them in the inn" T want to show you tonight said Mir Moody, the human heart is like that inn; ii has no room for Jesus. For 4.0O0 years people had been look ing foI the Messiah, and now when He did come there was no room for Him.
 Forty years ago the Prince CT Wales visited Chicago, and for weeks before his arrival the newspapers her aided his coming, the mayor of the city, together with the council, made elaborate preparation to receive him, and when he neared the city the bands played bells were rung, business was suspended and great excitement prs vailed. I never saw much more eX- citement in Chicago than there was then And then the question was passed from lip to lip, why has he
 
 vestigate our republican form Of gov ernment; others thought he was in search of health, while many were of the opinion that he had come to join a buffalo hunt out on the western prairie But we never knew what his object was in coming, and l can't see that Chicago was ever any better be- cause he had been there.
 HIS MISSION TO SAVE.
 ''The Prince of Heaven had no secret mission He told why he came to this earth. He came to seek and save that which was lost; to restore the deaf, to cure the lame, to heal the broken hearted, to give rest to the weary ana to reveal the Father to men. No city ever gave Him a royal welcome, no bells were rung, no shouts Of joy were heard and no hallalujahs greeted His ears. You say He was not known. Had He been known He would have received Q royal welcome. But when the wise men saw the star and made known the presence of the Holy One, He-od and all Jerusalem were trOu- bled, and when the wise men being di- rected of God, did not return to HerOd he sent Out and had all the male chil- dren put to death, hoping to destroy Him. That was the welcome accorded the Prince of Heaven.
 NO town was ever 50 hOnOTed as the little town Of Nazareth You would have thought that when they heard what had happened on the shores of the Jordan how the voice was heard saying, This is my be- loved Son, in whom I am well pleased and when they knew Of all the mighty miracles He performed, they would have felt highly honored to have Him dwell among them. He could have raised their dead and healed their sick. When the Sabbath came there was great excitement and they won dered if He would ba at tho synagogue Oh, yes, He always went there on the Sabbath. When He entered the scribe handed Him the book and He opened 1t and read from the prophecy of Isaiah: The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed ma to preach the gospel to the poor Then 1 He closed the bOOk and this sentence l fell from His lips: This day is the scripture fulfilled
 TAUGHT AS NEVER MAN TAUGHT. |
 ''He taught them as never man | taught, and they began to marvel at i such wisdom and such sweet. com 1 forting words and they Were delighted 1,
 
 indignant at His words. and in their | rage they led Him tc the top of a high | and would have thrust Him | over to death, but He goes away from | them mir8culOusly, never to return now He must have felt to be rejected ! by His own people, when He had come 1 to them to heal theiy sick, to lift LID the fallen and to forgive their sins.
 He goes to Caper1aum, and for a time He is popular, but after a little while He is not wanted there. And SO He goes from place to place, from town to town, from city to city, but no royal welcome is anywhere given his pTincely visitor Not even Jerusa- lem, the holy city, the city of God, gave Him welcome or allowed Him to enter more than the court of the lempIe, His own Fathers house. Al though He was rich, yet for our salzes tie became poor. For us He gave LID heaven with all it's glory and came to 5arth and lived i1 a mangar. We read Ii The foxes have holes and the birds Of I' he air have nests, but the Son of Man |, hath not where to lay His head He i; became lonely, tcO, for not even His |! disciples understood Him. At enc K -ime two of them warted to call down K ire from heaven as punishment {: lpOn the people, but He rebuked them E md told them He came not to destroy. Ij He saw death all around Him. He saw : he sick, the la2er. the suffering, and4 wanted to heal them, but they would /; 'ather die than be healed by an inn poster. There are men today who ] would rather die in their sins than ; lave Him forgive them. He comss with blessing, but you won't accept it. NIFTY AND CTVTTTZATTON : Let me ask you a question: If He anne back now would He receive any better reception than He did then? s there any country that would vote or Him to rule over it as He rules 'ver heaven? 1 don't believe there is me state or ore territory or even one ,cunty that would vote fer Him. There is no civilization where He has