The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1900-02-10

| inSs are accepseu ny our young people, so
long will conscience deteriorate, and un-
godliness and immortality will continue to
sap the life of the community ; and the ter
rible responsibility for the influence that
promotes these must be charged to his
account
What an awful waste of splendid OPP
portunity? He spent his life for naught.
His whole effort has been abortive it has
brought forth nothing worth preserving.
He is gone, but the Bible lives? His in
fidelity withers and dies with him, but the
faith of the gospel fourishes. He has
fought losing battle, and died in utter
defeat, but the church he so cordially
hated, lives, and with open door still in
vites the weary and disappointed sons of
men, for whom he had nothing to give, to
a haven of rest and peace.
| The Bible declares concerning those who
given over to hardness of heart and reprob-
acy of mind, that they may believe a lie,
and be damned See in this case an Illus
tration of this solemn writing
to his friend, c. J. Robins, of Dayton, o.,
June 18th, last, Ingersoll said % still
believe that all religions are founded on
falsehoods and mistakes. | still deny the
existence of the supernatural"
Come now with me to that home yonder
at Dobbs Ferry, and view the scene that is
there presented. The great Agnostic is
has mised through their whole lives sit
around in the darkness Of a heart.rending
grief that has no solace that is absolutely
comfortless. Hear their despaiIing cry
1--WE have no hope, absolutely no hope ~
See them cling to the lifeless body as all
there is for them to love for he has said
there is no spirit there is no future life :;
there is 20 resurrection of the dead there
is no immortal glory there is no God -
and so there is no hope, no future greeting,
and no use to pray
Come with me to the funeral What
shall the lesson be? Hear the speaker of
the occasion as he leads the service. Instead
of reading the 10Th chapter of LIST Corin-
thians, he says something like this With
what body shall the dead come forth :?
They shall never come forth. Then how
shall they rise? They shall never rise !!
Then what of the future life? There is no
future life ! Then what of hope? We have
no hope And so there is no gospel read,
there is no singing, no prayer There is
nothing but the coilin and the winding
sheet, and the grave, and the worm, and
the long eternal sleep of death never to be
broken. Nothing, nothing Do yon won
der they weep? O God of infinite mercy
save us from death like this
l have another despatch, and it reads
thus Fast Northfield Mass, December
22d, 1899. Dwight l.. Moody's life work
is completed. The great evangelist died at
noon to-day, almost free from pain. He
was conscious to the last. His last words
were: 1.-The world is receding heaven is
opening God is calling me and we say
Servant of God, well done ~
Dwight l.. Moody was born at North
field, Mass, February 9TH, 1897. He was
OF humble parentage his father being a
stone mason by trade. He was good for
nothing sort Of boy, who would not learn
at school, and went to church only to sleep.
While sleeping in church one Sunday ''one
Of tbo
the preacher" That touch seemed to wax e
him not only to consciousness but to the
fact that his life was all wrong, and from
that day he seemed to live in new world
He now began to read the bible, not as a
pastime, but with view of gaining a
knowledge of the truth While thus read
ing he came to the passage He that be-
lieveth on the Son, hath everlasting life, :"
and he said 'that is for me-" There seem
ed to come to him with this faith the con-
scious revelation of great truth, and he
said ''My Mother is right the Bible is
right Christian people are right; the
Church is right"
| He now united with the church in Bos-
ton, where he had gone to live with his
uncle, being at this time II years old
When he began to speak in the prayer and
testimony meetings, the Bostonians said ::
He is too ignorant to be endured" He
went to Chicago when he was 10 to make
his home there. Here he joined Plymouth
Congregational Church, and began to do
evangelistie work, such as street preaching,
and prison work. and many of his converts
were gathered in these ways. Finally he
succeeded in erecting a large building
which he used as church, school house, and
dwelling. This was subsequently burned,
and Mr.. Moody lost everything he had ex-
cept his Bible.
Moody's first evangelistic trip away from
home was to Philadelphia where he held
meetings, in 1865 and 1870, but not much
came Of these meetings. The people did
not appreciate the man who was laboring
among them. Shortly after this he and
Sankey went to Europe where they labored
most successfully, especially in England
and Scotland. after this they returned to
this country when they held meetings in
Boston and Brooklyn, and afterwards they