MOODY HIS WORK , WORK AND WORKERS

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Introduction

———_+4—__—_— for the Gospel needs is to be told. Once out, it achieves its own victories. All the advance it has made in the centuries has been made by its inherent power, and the work of the Christians of to-day is by all agencies to tell the Good News, to scatter the Glad Tidings.

A forward movement has been made in the labors, experiences, and successes of Mr. Moody. The sum of his influence is not confined to the audiences that gather within the sound of his voice. A fire on the summit of a promontory does more than consume the fagots with which it is fed; it illumines the valley, and casts its guiding ray far out over the breakers. Mr. Moody, seizing upon the great cities of the English-speaking peoples, has cast his light from these promontories down into the neighboring valleys, and out over the perilous coasts and on to the stormy sea. The people who read, as well as those who hear, are recipients of his reflected light. The workers who rally around him, and the stronger workers who spring up in his path to imitate his example and disseminate his influence, are parts of his work. The newspapers are one section of his platform. Presses are a sort of speaking-tube to project his accents in the hearts of other thousands.

Publishers shun volumes of sermons which it is difficult to push out: they seem possessed of the instinct of inactivity. To this rule the volumes of Mr. Moody’s sermons are exceptions; not because he omits the “ev. from his name, nor that his sayings are not called sermons; it is rather that he makes his discourses sparkle and shine from end to end with the truths that the Church wants, and the world needs to hear.

His machine bees bespeak genius. They were so made

4 INTRODUCTION and so wound up that one could not distinguish them from the natural bees when all crowded and hopped about together in front of the hive. A stranger, required to distinguish between them, dropped a little honey down among them: the real bees dashed after it; the machine bees buzzed and crawled about as before. So the Gospel is made to distinguish the true from the machine Christians.

Discourses full of such hits cannot fail to have readers.

It is the peculiarity of the great military leader of our time that he has what his great companion in arms calls “ the instinct of victory,” by which “ he divines the precise moment for the decisive blow.” He seems “inattentive to minor points on the field, knowing that if the main points are held the others can be easily retaken.” This is a crude outside type of Mr. Moody’s style of usefulness. He has “ke ínstinct of victory.’ He knows when to strike the decisive blow. With him it is inspiration, the reception of that wisdom which is promised to them that ask. He seems “ inattentive to minor points on the field;” with him it is a comprehension of the essential points for the world’s salvation, and a simple conviction that the others will easily and speedily drop into their proper places and receive all necessary attention.

The signs of Mr. Moody’s power are too numerous to be doubted. His name is familiar to every English-hearing ear; he discourses and exhorts in many modern. languages; more space in the dispatches and reports of the secular press is given to him than is given to any other living teacher; vast auditoriums are built by the great cities to make for him a temporary abode; he rallies a great army of co-workers: all these things demonstrate his alliance with the real forces of the world.

Luther bequeathed to us the Reformation, Wesley bequeathed Methodism, Mr. Moody is destined to leave to mankind the Young Men’s Christian Association, in whick he has been chiefly trained, and whose leader and patron he has now come to be.

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This Association means a baptism of respansibility and of tabor upon the laymen of the Churches.

The grand results of Mr. Moody’s work are :—

1. The salvation of many thousands of precious souls.

2. The re-enthronement of the supernatural power of the Gospel as a practical answer to the impious prayer-test challenge of science.

3. The awakening of believers to new achievements.

4. The unification of Protestantism.

5. The exaltation of the vital doctrines of the Calvinistic Churches to the practical retirement of the old Five Points.

6. The rendering ubiquitous the vital truths and practices of Arminianism, without the embarrassment of their dogmatic projection.

7. The transforming of the old uniform of the saint into the business dress of the believer, so that Christianity is at home every-where.

8. The promulgation of the priesthood of believers so far as to require them to tell the story of the cross.

In projecting a great character and a great life-work at least two things are necessary: first, the character and work itself, both genuine and vast; second, some just, able, and equally inspired historian to arrange, crystallize, and transfigure the man and his doings.

This publication is caréfully edited by Rev. W. H. Daniels, who is so widely and favorably known through his former book entitled “D. L. Moopy AnD HIS Work.” The present volume has received the utmost care to perfect it and make it available for permanent usefulness. The editor has carefully compared, arranged, and classified Mr. Moody’s theology, so as to give it shape and consistency. It almost deserves the name of a system. If it were as new as it is powerful it would revolutionize the world; as it is, it only reinforces the old teaching, as well as the old methods, of apostolic evangelism.

Mr. Moody’s work and character are in competent hands. Mr. Daniels seems called of God to complete, extend, and perpetuate this work of the great evangelist, not less than is

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Mr. Moody called to his part of the ultimate result: his book, and especially this one, must live and repeat the good news to several generations and to many millions.

A portion of the book is devoted to some of the noble Workers that have grown out of this great movement. Of course there is but one Moody; but it is heroic to stand in one’s lot and do one’s best. This service God is honoring. A sorrowful interest will be added to the work by the sad fate of Mr. P. P. Bliss, andthe melody of his music will linger among the devout long after his memory has faded away.

A few pages are given to another work of absorbing interest, that is destined to increase until it fills the whole earth—that work is the Christian Temperance movement, started and being carried forward principally by women, who have the sympathy to feel for these lost multitudes, and the courage to undertake their recovery. In the foreground of this picture is Miss Frances E. Willard. Her great gifts asa speaker, her abilities on the platform, her zeal in this work among drunken men and abandoned women, her maturing experience, and her association with Mr. Moody in directing this especial branch of the Revival, all combine to give this work increased promise of permanency, and add to this volume an interest and attractiveness not otherwise secured.

This book, put forth as an incarnation of the Gospel of Mercy in every-day life, goes to the millions who need it, and we bespeak for it the attention of the whole people.

C. H. FOWLER.

OFFICE OF THE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, NEw York, Afri 10, 1877.

Contents

INTRODUCTION, BY REv. C. H. FOWLER, D.D., LL.D.

PART I, Lire anD Lasors oF D. L. Moony. Page Page

Early Life—Northfield and Boston 10 | Moody and Sankey in Great Brit- Chicago—Sunday-school Work... 18 an and POLAT te see eneee 41 Mr. Moody with the Young Men’s Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and

Christian Association........ 81 Naw York. nn E 50 Mr. Moody’s Bible Work........ 88] Chicago and Boston..... SAOS 55

Part II. Bible Portraits

The Prophet Daniel............. 65 | John the Baptist............00.. 184 Major-General Naaman.......... Oil RES ara DAR e e e EENE soon T88, Mephibosheth.............. 2 97 | The Worldly Wise Man......... 190 The Penitent Thief.......... NOD iire Ineurables kesene cleric oaea 197 The Character of Lot........ ... 115 | The Widow of Nain......... Ame 206 Wornelins ne esso E A O 123 | The Good Samaritan............. 208 The Prodigal Son....... Ae eo eso TAON TU OL LATE 556 on & dd ae eae - 217 Noah 1381 Some Blinds Menne eeaeee sieeve 227 PAID T AWAIT nena renee ATAOE How to Cure a Blind Man...... oe 283 Elijah The Lame Man Healed..........

Jacob SIMON PE Ovo a E eea Joshua ZACCHCUB.L sees aeee Aedes

The Pharisee and the Publican... 177

Mary of Bethany........... ae

PART III. OUTLINES oF BIBLE DOCTRINE

Prophecies Concerning...... 277 Announcement of his Birth.. 280 The Divinity of Christ ...... 281 What Think Ye of Christ?... 284 Jesus the Messiah........... 288 Temptations of Christ....... 291

Jesus Carist—( Continued.)

Miracles of Christ......00.2. 202 Christ the Refuge ........... 294 The Redeemer... sass 3s. Re PEM The Resurrection of Christ... 812 Jesus the Anointed......... 815 Christ the Saviour........... 838 Christ the Keeper’. ........- 334 CHristi the Lid Dts oeae sis 836 The Good Shepherd......... 337 Seeking the Lost Sheep...... 338 The Restoroke asete ssas see 844

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Jesus Curist—(Continued.) Tue Hory Spmrir—( Continued.) Plenty and Safety with Christ. 350 The Sword of the Spirit..... 595 Feeding the Multitude—The Baptism of the Holy Spirit for

Bread of Life..-.-. pare 351 Services... s0seeeewe ae s- 896 The Water of Lites... s.---- 355 Emblems of the Spirit..... . 403 How to Find the Thirsty Ones 859 Grieving the Holy Spirit..... 404 The Light of the World..... 360 The Sin against the Holy Ghost 407 The Resurrection and the Life 862 | Suv AND SatvaTion—

Tue Hoty Srrrit— Man a Failure... ...---...5.. 416 The Person of the Holy Ghost. 365 ap WS eS Ghee ee, os Re eae 414 The Work of the Spirit...... 372 Law and Grace............- 421 Conviction sere eae eee 874 Prep SAVA so. pessoas oe 426 Our Leaders eerde iaae acim 376 Righteousness First ......... 430 A Witness for Christ........ 380 Sermon to Fallen Women.... 433 Indwelling of the Holy Spirit. 383 How to be Saved ........... 442 Regeneration elec sees e= = 385 | Last Tornes—

Fruits of the Spirit.......... 308 Heaven. -canes caeran saat ae 448 The Inspirer of Prophecy and Hell tase ee os ace ete eisielate 457 Pray Glas ccicss S00ebo% ceccee SOL The Return of our Lord..... 467 PARTLY.

Mr. Moopy’s Co-W orKERS.

vas GS anlke verre a e aa ASI Rev. Wede Erdman. 026. -~-e 505

Mr. and: Mrs. P. Po Bliss... en 489M ajor J- H- Golo hoe eedan inane 506

Memorial Services............. 491 | Miss Frances E. Willard, A.M.... 508 DSW Whiten emea nee rae 495 | George C. Stebbins.............. 510 Charles M. Morton.............. 500 | Charles W. Sawyer.............. 511