Year: 1875

'Nhal ud you 40 with the blood Of my SOM" There
are only two things can do with it, tramplc it under
foot and make fun Of IT, accept and take refuge
behind H. Are you saved tonight Are you behind
this boodS May the last words OF AN here tonight be
those ol Alfred Cooknan, upon which is founded the
song


ROBBED in whiteness, I'm sweeping through the gate,


which Mr.. Sankey will now sing


The stiffness Of the hushed audience perfect
while Sankey sang this beautiful melody, and every
watching the expressions that passed over his
Illuminated face The meeting was closed with tho
Doxology, and general handshaking ensued Mr.
Moody was out OF the pulpit in twinking aud over
the seats speaking 10 all whom he met and was soon
engaged in discussion with group Of friends
10th 70 leave the house and his inspiring presence
SUNDAY SERVICES


much larger crowd came ON Sunday than on Satur-
day At eight o'clock IN the morning sankey Bliss and
Whue conducted prayers in the ladies' parlor OF the
Pckard House Al nine O'Clock PRAYER meeting
opened the church. and continued till the sermon at
eleven O'Clock Professor Bliss sang some Of his best
hymns including Where are the Miner" The people
had passed into the little church, and yet hundreds
were unable get admission, whereupon Mr. Moody
announced that, many could not get inside,
those inside would 60 out and service would be
held before the church. That curious con
gregaon There were cripples on crutches the aged,
inhrm and the young, men from far and men IRON
near; people on loot and people in ever manner OF
vehicles sitting the church steps and standing the
fences and swarmng over the green out into the wide
road Here they came 10 hear these plain men tell the
plain truth After the singing Of Jesus paid il all"
and prayer by Mr. Moody, MI sankey sung IL his Of


Jesus of Nazareth passcth by


Mr. Moody then said he would read from the third
chapter OF John the account OF Nicodemus coming TO
Christ He spoke particularly upon the third verse;:
Except man be born again he cannot see the king
dom OF God"


Now believe in the Bible and for that reason take
my text from the Bible If believed that Shakespeare
was as good as the Bible might take my text from
Shakespeare II a man is unsound on the third chap
ter OF John as general thing you will find him un
sound every other chapter IN the Bible II is the
stone OF religion After speaking at some length
the Importance of being born again, he said 1T is
Cod a new
inspiration II Is not our own trying that will save
us. Some OF you, perhaps have been addicted
you would stop You try to overcome this
running appetite and fail You try again and again,
but always fail. Some of you profane You deter


to break yourself Of the disgusting habit but per-
haps the next provocaton you find yourself swear
ing than ever and 50 all your determination To
overcome your vices failures Ii is not your
own efforts that will YOU but the receiving OF the
Lord Jesus Christ The moment you receive Him then
YOU have power over Satan and over sln The work OF
regeneration the work OF God and Gods work alone
II is impossible 10 save yourselves. We are no match
for satan he is good deal smarter shrewder than
we are he has had more experience he
has been 200 years You may be surprised when
l say that | can't reason out regeneration never
u man that could reason God out You might as
well try out creation. great many people
grumbe and find fault because God says, Except
man be born again he cannot the kingdom OF God"
HASN'T God right TO say who Will come INTO His king
dom? Now, God has just as much right TO say who
shall come into His Kingdom as we have to say who
shall be President. You say you u moral man,
you go to church, you pay your debts,
you are man Of character, you don't need
To be born again Let me say right here SO
was Nicodcmus to whom Christ said these words am
glad he didn't say them to Zaccheus the chief publican,
to the poor Samaritan adulteress but to Nicodemus,
of the chief men OF Jerusalem, man Of influence
and position. Why, if had Ncodemus here he
would be one of our greatest men. 1t would be


NICODEMUS,


the Rev. Nicodemus, d, d., LII. d. Yes the highest
man on earth well as the lowest must be born again


AFTERNOON MEETINGS.


An interesting meeting for the children was held at
three O'Clock the church. A meeting conducted
simultaneously in the open air opposite the church,
where d. W. McWilams, of Brooklyn, and Colonel
Franklin Fairbanks OF ST. Johnsbury VT, spoke The
great meeting Of the day. however, was the preaching
service at live O'Clock, before the church, when
the multitude of vehicles filled with people and by those
who stood about Professor Bliss sung a" Almost Per-
suaded preacng the solo by the remark that great
many present to-day had told them they were gong TO
with them for heaven and many others had said
they wanted but had not quite made up their minds


MOODY on EXCUSES.


Mr. Moody said he wished to speak especially upon
the verse in Luke xiv" They all with one accord be-
gan 10 make excuse" He said:-I want to call your
attention TO clause in this verse-that the way
they made excuses they didn't have any, and they
made | never met a man who wasn't Christian
that hadn't an excuse and II he didn't have one he
made one. Now want 10 call your attention to the
excuses offered by these three men, The first one-I
don't know what his name was it may have been Mr.
Lev-the messenger comes 10 him and says
'Mr. Levi, the King Is going TO have great
feast in honor Of the marriage Of his son and
you 10 come" Mr. Levi said:-''Iell
your master ! should like 10 60 but / have
bought land to-day and must 90 to look at It,
Why didn't he look at it before he bought ity II a
man here in Northleld should buy piece OF land with
out first seeing you would call him green His land
wouldn't run away he could look at II after he had
to 20 and get a deed for IT, but that lac had
bought piece Of land and must go and
let US look at of the other's:-'l have bought
five yoke OF oxen and can't come" Well. DECLARE the
third had excuse than either OF the others He
had just taken young wife and couldn't 60 Why,
who likes 20 to marriage feast better than young
bridey Why couldn't he take his young bride with
him. They were all downright lies Now have
never found all my travels who had better
excuse than these three men, You can just bundle
them up and label them as downright lies. That IS
what the devil does He just gets them into this cradle
Of excuses and rocks them 10 sleep No man can give
"a good excuse why lac does not come TO church l want
10 take up some OF


the present age For the last $500 years the wisdom
OF the world has been contrivng invent better
cuses and have failed Their not good
those three used in the Scriptures one OF the
popular OF to-day Is the dear Old Bible itself
They say that book keeps me out OF the Kingdom there
are a great many things in that book that don un
dcrstand, that are dark and mysterious Because they
don't understand the book from back to back they
don't believe IT, Now, OF this class OF skeptcs have
found one who has read the Bible from back TO
back They read a psalm, then they turn over and
read short chapter or two ia jeremiah;
read a chapter Two Of the gospels, picking
out those that but the regenerated mind
understand, shut II up and say, Il don't believe
it." Now, suppose send my little boy 10 school
morrow; he comes home night and say


'.Wel, my son, have you learned reading writing,
arithmetic philosophy and astronomy"


''Why, father, what are you talking aboutf have
been ali day trying to learn A, Il, c."


''Whatl don't know anything about history arthme-
tic philosophy astronomy III take you OF that
school to-day. You shall not 20 there any more. ~.


Now, If did this what would you sayy Why you
would say, Moody has gone crazy" Well that IS the
way some people In the churches read the Bible
There's man over there in the audience who says
That's my excuse believe my Bible; but know
OF some Ia the church that good deal meaner
= fhuu ou a - |. but that 0ot
to 90 with itl will admit that there hypocrites
the Church. One Of the disciples chosen by Jesus
proved to be black hearted hypocrte as ever
lived II don't want TO associate with hypO-
critesn We don't ask you to associate with
hypOcrites but TO God and follow
Christ | will show you one hundred hypOcrtes out
OF the Church for every you VIII ind III It. II you
don't want TO associate with hypocutes IN eternity
come TO the feast Of the Lamb. over there IN
that carriage says, my excuse IS that believe Ia cleo
tiOn. II 1 70 be saved shall be saved" Now
why don't you apply the doctrine Of election right here
on your farms Northleldy Don't cut your hay or
gather your gram; if the Lord wants you 70 have II IL
Will be cut Don't put IT into your barn; II II Is de-
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