The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1900-02-10
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A favorite hymn with him after a season of
toll like this was, "Oue More Day Work
for Jesus
think it is safe to say that no other
man has reached by his personal influence
so many men as Mr.. Moody. Perhaps no
other had so many ways Of reaching them
And that influence was always for good
1t was always helpful, and not harmful
His motive was always noble and bepevo-
lent-there was no evidence of selfishne.s
in anything he did, When he was in
Wilmington, Del. was with him, and
was associated with the management of the
| meeting, and when the question Of COM
pensation was mentioned he absolutely re-
fused to have anything whatever to say
about it. He was not in the work for the
revenue thee was in it.
Moody stands most prominently before
the world as an evangelist, but this was
only one phase OF the work he did. He
was intensely interested in the work of
education, especially in the education of
the poor young men and women who were
within his reach, aud for this purpose he
established several schools. Beside the
Summer School at Northtield, which was,
| perhaps, his favorite if such he had among
them all, he established the Mortified
Seminary for girls in 1879. In 1881 he
founded Mt. Hermon School for boys and
young men. 1889, the Biblical Institute
for men and women, in Chicago, and in
1880 the Mortified Training School for
women. What a monument he has thus
built to his memory,
Then in the field Of literature he has also
added his proportionate share, not of such
books as lngeIsoll has left behind him: for
there is not among all the writing of Moody
single one you can read to your hurt.
They are as pure and clean as sunlight, and
will help men to a better way of living in
the days to come, when the writings of
lngersoll shall have persisted with the rub
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Mr.. Moody was an unique character.
Some have said he was uneducated; this
was not so-he was self-educated: self.
made, and this makes the strongest kind
of sturdy manhood II polished SHAFT
may represent the character of Ingersoll,
then Moody was a rugged boulder, contain.
! inn in, itsalf oil tIa -
needing only the dressing aud polishing to
make it shine. Mr.. Sankey, who knew
him as few Others had the opportunity to
know him, in summing up his character
says, "He was actuated by great common
sense, and devotion to the cause OF Christ "
| If ! were asked to name his chief character
istics, should say they were faith in God ;
love OF his fellowmen, and transparent
sincerity. When he had examined q matter
and had made up his mind where he ought
to stand on any question, he was as i'm
movable as Gibraltar. l heard him one
day in speaking of the offers he had of
books on ntidelity by infidel authors, say,
Tell your friends they need not send me
any such stuff, for l shall not read it;
! have not time or disposition to read it,"
When asked to discuss the relative merits of
Christianity and iniidelity he said, "My
mind is made up. | know what the Lord
Jesus has done for me for the last 10 years
since | trusted him. Let the members of
your club accept Christ their personal
Savior, and they need not waste time dis
cussing such question. If ! had a remedy
that never failed to cure disease for 40
years, l should not stop to compare its
merits with any other remedy" Jesus
Christ and His salvation were all he had
to offer for the malady Of sin, and he
wanted nothing ese believed in nothing
else; preached nothing else. He could
truthfully say:
ellis only righteousness | show,
His saving truth proclaim:
Ills all my business here below,
To cry, Behold the Lamb"
Happy, if with my latest breath
may but gasp his name;
Preach him to all, and cry in death,
Behold, behold the Lamb"
If asked to name the three greatest Bib
lical teachers of the Nineteenth century,
should say they were Randolph S. Foster,
Charles H Spurgeon and Dwight L. Moody.
Foster is the philosopher, the metaphysi-
clan, who strikes out through the thick of
the uncut forest, and blazes the way where
no man has trodden before him, and leaves
the path clear for others to follow him.
Sturgeon was the tender, loving teacher
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