Year: 1875

The Brooklyn Tabernacle filed at an earlier hour
yesterday morning than on the previous mornings Te
while away the time one started hymn, and sev-
era hymns sung before the meeting was regularly
opened. After the church packed tull possi-
BILE the chapel opened, and the overflow poured
into IT, Mr. Moody opened the meeting with silenh
prayer after having read the requests for prayer which
had been handed IN. The Rev. Fred Bell then prayed
and the twenty ninth hymn was sung.


Mr Moody read from the fifth chapter OF Luke tho
story of Christ healing the ieper. Then he said:-Here
is man full Of ieprosy. No one dares 60 near him..
yet he had faith to believe Christ could heal him. and ha


WENT STRAIGHT CHRIST,


which every ought TO do He did not say, like tho
man in the ninth chapter Of Mark If thou canst heaE
my boy" He says 'If thou wilt, heal me; and
Christ said will Be thou clean" Where the lepj
rosy went don't know The lesson we ought 70 Learnt
from this s that II have faith 70 believe God cam
heal u.s. would like to have been in Capernaum when
these brought the sick man down one OF tha
streets perhaps Jericho street These four men had
faith for the sick Matthew, Mark and Luke an
tell about the sick with the palsy, but they
don't say he had faith. Perhaps he had, but ths
four men had faith for him.


If men have not enough faith let have faith for
them and If We cannot come ourselves let some ono
help Suppose you go to neighbor and say, "Coma
with me to the special meetings am anxious aoous
your soul and he says, 'No don't believe in those
meetings. But another comes and asks him, and he
says mo, don't have any faith In that kind on
e.
gins feel uncomfortable and before he goes TO bed y
fourth comes and says, ~ am anxious about yourt
soul Gomez And I'll venture TO say he goes. Let uA
keep working till get them at the feet OF Christt
May God give love for souls and give us WISDOM,
that we may bring souls TO Him. Let US have faith IN
Him.


The ninety.ninth hymn then sung, after which
address By Rev George W. Martin Was delivered.


A CHRISTIAN FAMILY


When IL was ended Mr.. Talmage my grand-
mother was a good Christian woman, One night ar
the children going 70 party and she sara 'come
into my room after you dressed. want TO see you
They did So The old lady blessed them an, ana tod.
them she hoped TO them Christians They went TO
early. The morning the old people heard COM.
motion in the room below, and they went down ahN
found one daughter crying, '0h, what shall 10 to-
be sayed2 Father mother, pray for me Pres
being told that something was the matter
with Tom Of the brothers. They went out there
and found him his face before God, and he cried,


Father mother pray for me-" just then the servants
came in from the barn and told them that something
was the matter with David (afterward my father. Ha
was crying 'What shall do to be saved2 Father,
mother pray for en Well, there was young woman
about a milo OIL, Catharine Nanness aftcrward my
mother), and he and told her She did not want
to be left out Of the kingdom and she was
into the church. After my mother
had little family around her she got together band
OF six mothers, and they met for prayer every week.
and they kept praying till all their children were in tho
would 60 little further and she prayed day sn1
night that OF might become ministers, and four
OF us did. Oh would not be vile intdel II ala nob
believe prayerY oh, mothers pray, pray.


Rev. Mr.. Greenbury of Leeds, England, then de-.
livered address and the meeting closed by the
singing of the "Gaes Aar, at the request OF an aged
and feeble woman, who thought that 1t might be the
last time she would hear it,