The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-03-13
SOME THINGS MR.. MOODY SAID

S0ME THINGS Mr.. MOODY SAID.
There is no power like love. Iloved
my little boy long before he loved me
Oae night I heard him say to his
mama, when he thought me asleep, II
love papa" What a htill Of Joy that
gave me I had loved him from infancy
but now he vas beginning to love me.
A few weeks before he might have
seen me carried out of the house In q
coffin and, perhaps, not kno wing bet
ter, have thoughtlessly laughed at it.
But now my love for him had found a
response. Something like this is the
feeling God has when a siCner melts
under His love. Love produces love.
What a power it might become in u
pulpits and Sunday School classes and
m%eetingsl The reason we have SO little
love for Jesus Christ is that we are so
little acquainted with him. The more
intimately we get acquainted with the
Son Of G)d, the more shall we love
him, and we may get acquainted with
Him by reading about Him in the
Word.
AN OLD BED3IDDEN WOMAN S PRAYERS
remember preaching in Liverpool
in q certain church and the results
we're astonishing. In ten days that
church took up 400 new members. I
IVES amBz2d. But l learned that a poor
old bedridden woman had been pray
ing about it. When we get to the other
world and find out the secrets of
heaven, we will hud that some people
we never hear of no w-some bedridden
saint, s)me one living way up near the
gates Of Paradise-will have accom-
pIished a great deal more than some
men who have been heralded through
the press.
LIBERTY.
I believe a man who is full of the
Holy Ghost will have liberty. What
we want in our churches more than
anything is this liberty. Why, lock
at the stiffness in most Of our chrches.
Put a man in an audience where men
and women are going to criticise and
ne WON'T have much lioerty-much
freedom. II the day of PentecOst
no many do you suppose crlticised9
l don't believe Peter would have
! preached near a. we'll as he did if PEG
pie had been %criGicising him. But
while he was preaching the people
we're listening in a proper frame of
mind and they helped him right on.
Ha just had liberty that dsy-great
liberty. When you see a minister 10
the pulpit who doesn't have liberty,
pray for him.
FEELINGS.
a class CT parsons are in great
trouble about their feelings. They ale
afraid they don't feel right, or don't
feel or ough. So they get into doubt
and the devil will keep them on that
plank for a few weeks and then let
ghem down into the pit again. l want
TO say there isn't a word about feeling
IN the Scriptures in reference to saliva
ton. Il doesn't say, He that feeleth."
1t is ''he that belteveth." Not one
word about feeling. do a great many
Ehinrs that I don't feel like doing
| Obedience mems marching right on
" 1t ther We feel like it or not. Many
times we go agaiLs5 our feelings. Faith
is one thing; Feeliug is another. What
was it that made the slaves free3 Wsa
it their feellngs9 Suppose they hsd
tried it-jusE imagined they were free
and acted on that feeling TneY would
very 5000 have heard the crack Of the
slave drivers whip. No; it was Abra-
ham L Dcoln's proclamation. Nov,
the proclamation OF the Gospel: He
that beI,eveth X X X hath everlasting
life" I remember some years ago
h, how / used to pray for feeling! |
bought faith YVES feeling aud that
some strange kind Of feeling would
come stealing over me. But it wasn't
that At sll. T0en I found in Romans,
| 10: II, this,text-end how it came upon
me ike a Fl ssh of light, Faith cometh
by hearing and he caring by the word OF
@ d." S3metimes we 60 right against
our feelings D1n'G mind you feelings.
Let feelinEs take care OF themselves.
What YOU want ia TO obey, When
people begin telF ing about heir feel
inge. bring them right to Scripture
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