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ECHOES

FROM THE

PULPIT AND PLATEORM

OR

LIVING TRUTHS FOR HEAD AND HEART

ILLUSTRATED BY UPWARDS OF

FIVE HUNDRED THRILLING ANECDOTES AND INCIDENTS,

PERSONAL EXPERIENCES, TOUCHING HOME SCENES,

AND STORIES OF TENDER PATHOS

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AS RELATED BY

DWIGHT L. MOODY

DURING HIS

FORTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE AS AN EVANGELIST

INCLUDING THE

STORY OF MR. MOODY'S LIFE AND WORK By REV. CHARLES F. GOSS, D.D.

Pastor of Mr. Moody's Chicago Church for Five Years INTRODUCTION

By REV. LYMAN ABBOTT, D. D.

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WITH STEEL-PLATE AND OTHER PORTRAITS, AND MANY FINE ENGRAVINGS FROM ORIGINAL DESIGNS BY EMINENT ARTISTS

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THIS volume has been in course of preparation for several years, and nearly every line of it was in type when Mr. Moody died. His death neither hastened nor delayed its publication. All of the pictorial illustrations were in the artists' hands and were nearly completed; Dr. Abbott's Introduction was in type; the story of Mr. Moody's life, by Dr. Goss, was well along: and the steel-plate portrait of the great evangelist was finished, when he passed away. These facts are mentioned as evidence that this volume has not been hastily brought out simply to meet a demand caused by Mr. Moody's death. All that pertains to it had received the most painstaking care that ample time could give, long before his public career closed.

It presents the story of Mr. Moody's life and work not only through the pen of one who was intimately associated with him for years — Rev. Dr. Goss, whose name was suggested to the Publishers by Mr. Moody's son — Mr. William R. Moody — to whom they had been referred by Mr. Moody himself, — but also through the medium of Mr. Moody's recorded speech, thus making it largely autobiographical. His best thoughts, his most touching stories, his most thrilling anecdotes and incidents, together with the many personal experiences and reminiscences he so often and effectively told on the platform, are here preserved in permanent form.

In 1896-7 Mr. Moody conducted a series of revival meetings in New England, the last great series which he ever conducted in the East. A month in Providence, another in Lowell, and two months in Boston, were among the notable meetings of that time. The preparation of this book may be said to date from that period. The Publishers employed an expert stenographer to report Mr. Moody's .sermons verbatw^-ct literatim. The Rev. W. D. Bridge was chosen for this important work. Of his skill, Bishop John H. Vincent said: " I take great pleasure in commending my old and honored friend, the Rev. "W. D. Bridge, my stenographic secretary for more than nine years. His college training and long experience have made him a thorough expert in everything that pertains to shorthand writing, re-

4 PREFACE.

porting, etc." It is believed that Professor Bridge's reports of Mr. Moody's sermons are the most accurate that have been made. They form the basis of this volume. The aim has been to present, in connected form, the stories, illustrations, and personal experiences that Mr. Moody so effectively used, together with their application. Whenever he told a story, or related a personal experience, it was invariably to illustrate a great and living truth, and in this volume these truths stand out as beacon lights. Although Mr. Moody had an almost inexhaustible fund of stories and apt illustrations, he drew very largely from his own experience. He never repeated them in precisely the same way, nor in the same words, nor did he always use them under the same head. Some of those told in his earlier years were narrated in greater detail; some were better told on one occasion than on another. Whenever a better version of an incident or personal experience could be found, than those specially reported for this volume, it has been used. But his earlier addresses, while perhaps more vigorous, lacked the smoothness — or shall we say polish? — of his later ones, because during the last few years of his life he broadened in many ways. He read and studied in certain lines to great advantage, and his acquaintance with many distinguished men and women in Europe and America freed him, to some extent, from the limitations of his earlier years.

Mr. Moody was desirous that printed copies of his words should be widely circulated. He often acknowledged from the platform his great obligations to the press. In Boston, in 1897, looking down upon the reporters' table, he said: " I want to speak a word for the papers. They are a great help to us. Buy papers. Buy lots of them. They are for sale. Religious people grumble about the newspapers and say they don't give enough space to sermons. When a good sermon is printed, buy that paper. Buy them by the hundred, and scatter them broadcast." And again : " And I say once more that we want to thank God for the reports which the press are sending out. Let us ask God to bless the reports more and more." He then read a letter sent by " a laboring man," expressing his thanks for the reports of the meetings in one of the papers, " which", he said, " I read every day on the way to and from my work." At that time the papers did not report Mr. Moody's sermons in full. Some gave the substance of only a portion of them, others made brief mention, some none at all. If the publication of fragments of his sermons in the daily press met with Mr. Moody's emphatic approval — and we have his testimony that it did — it is believed that the accurate and permanent form in which his latest words are here presented would not have been distasteful to him. The only full reports made during his last two months in Boston, in 1897, as well as those made in other cities, were made for this volume. When Mr. Moody knew that his words were being taken down verbatim, it seemed to stimulate him to still greater exertions. He confesses to this in a remarkable incident he relates on page 119, when "everything went in, blunders and all."

Mr. Moody was a rapid speaker, and when intensely in earnest, or carried away by the excitement of the moment, he sometimes unconsciously made slips of the tongue, which otherwise might not have occurred. In these " Echoes" obvious mistakes have been corrected; but with slight editing the great and living truths he so successfully advocated and defended for forty years before millions of eager listeners, are given in this volume substantially as he proclaimed them from the platform.

THE PUBLISHERS.

i. PORTRAIT OF DWIGHT L. MOODY . . Frontispiece

Engraved expressly for this work from a photograph made by Pierre Petit, Paris, in 1882, when Mr. Moody was 45 years old. The negative of this photograph was destroyed at Mr. Moody's request. Engraved in pure line and stipple by Mr. John J. Cade, New York.

2. Ornamental Heading to Preface ...... 3

3. Ornamental Heading to List of Illustrations ... 5

4. Ornamental Heading to Contents 7

5. Ornamental Heading to Rev. Lyman Abbott's Introduction 25

6. Engraved Autograph of Rev. Lyman Abbott ... 32

7. Ornamental Heading to Rev. Charles F. Goss's " Story

of Mr. Moody's Life and Work" 33

8. Where D. L. Moody was Born. The Moody Homestead

at Northfield, Mass -34

9. D. L. Moody as he Appeared at the Time he Removed

from the Family Farm to Boston 37

10. D. L. Moody at the Age of 26 45

11. Ira D. Sankey, Mr. Moody's Yoke-Fellow, Age 35 -54

12. D. L. Moody's House at Northfield, in Winter, Look-

ing East 7 1

13. Dining Room, D. L. Moody's House at Northfield . . 73

14. The Northfield Auditorium. It has a Seating Capacity of

three thousand 77

15. D. L. Moody's House at Northfield, Looking South . 79

16. D. L. Moody's Study 91

17. Engraved Autograph of Rev. Charles F. Goss . . .112

18. Ornamental Heading to Chapter I, with Engraved Au-

tograph of D. L. Moody 113

19. Portrait of D. L. Moody at the Age of 62 . . .113

6 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

20. A FATHER RECOGNIZING HIS LONG-LOST SON.

DEATH OF A PRODIGAL IN A LONDON GAR- RET. (Full Page.) From an Original Design by Charles Coteland Facing 132

" No. father, I am too far gone, I am dying ; but I can die happy in this garret, now that I know you have forgiven me." In a little while he breathed his last, and out of that dark garret, from a wretched bed of straw, his soul rose up into the kingdom of God.

21. AN INCIDENT IN MR. MOODY'S EARLY CAREER.

PREACHING TO A STREET CROWD. (Full Page.)

From an Original Design by Charles Copeland Facing 184

" Well," I said, " we can go into the street and preach the Gospel there." I tried every way I could to get the church people to go into the street with me, but I couldn't ; then I said I would try to get the sinners. When the hour came I stood upon a drygoods box and I went at it. There were a lot of young men sneaking around the outside.

22. A DRUNKARD SURPRISED IN A BAR-ROOM. THE

LITTLE CARD HEADED 'MY DEAR FRIEND." (Full Page.) From an Original Design by Charles Copeland Facing 232

He was a miserable drunkard ; his friends had left him and he was sinking rapidly into a drunkard's grave. When he entered the saloon a few hours afterwards, the little card headed "My Dear Friend" was handed to him. " Why," he said, sarcastically, " this is singular, I've got a friend." He read on : "If you will come up to the hotel to-night at 7 o'clock I should like to see you."

23. REMARKABLE SCENE IN A DRUNKARD'S HOME.

(Full Page.) From an Original Design by Edmund H. Garrett Facing 238

" Mary, have we a Bible in the house? " " Oh, John," Mary said, " I hope you are not going to take my mother's Bible from me. Oh, John, don't pawn it!" "No," said John, "I don't want to pawn it." And she brought the Bible. The children can't understand it ; they had been used to hearing him curse and swear.

24. MR. MOODY AND SOME FRIENDS PREACHING AND

SINGING HYMNS IN HAUNTS OF VICE. (Full

Page.) From an Original Design by Charles Copeland

. . . Facing 246

I don't know any work so blessed as going into saloons and preaching the Gospel there. If drunkards will not come to church, go down where they are, in the name of our God, and you will reach them. We took sixteen out of a saloon in that way one night, and nine of them went into the inquiry-room. If you say, " Oh, they will put me out," I say, " No, I have never been turned out of a saloon in my life."

25. MR MOODY HOLDING A MEETING IN A COUNTRY

SCHOOLHOUSE. A SCENE IN HIS EARLY CA- REER. (Full Page.) From an Original Design by Charles Copeland • . . Facing 280

If I didn't get into a church, I would get up a meeting in some schoolhouse. The first man who came to the meeting would bring, perhaps, an old dingy lantern. He would set the lantern up on the desk. Perhaps the next one who came in would be a woman, and she would bring out from under her shawl an old sperm-oil lamp. The next man would bring out of his pocket a tallow-dip, and he would light his match and set that up on the desk. That is the way we would light up the room.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 7

26. AN INCIDENT OF THE CIVIL WAR. A LITTLE

GIRL PLEADING WITH ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND HIS CABINET TO SPARE HER BROTHER'S LIFE. (Full Page.) From an Original Design by Edmund H. Garrett ......... Facing 306

When she entered the room the President was surrounded by his counselors, and when he saw the little country girl he asked her what she wanted. She told her sad, simple story — how her brother, whom her mother and father loved so dearly, had been sentenced to be shot; how they were mourning for him, and if he was to die in that way it would break their hearts.

27. DEATH OF LITTLE ADELAIDE. MR. MOODY VISIT-

ING A DRUNKARD'S HOME. (Full Page.) From an Original Design by Edmund H. Garrett . . Facing 312

I took my little girl, four years old, and started for the home of the drowned child. Little Adelaide used to go to the Chicago river and gather floating wood for the fire. That day she had gone as usual ; she saw a piece of wood, a larger stick than the rest, a little way from the bank, and in stretching out her hand to reach it she slipped and fell into the water and was drowned. There were four children in the room, and the husband sat in the corner — drunk.

28. IN PERIL UPON THE SEA. A THRILLING INCI-

DENT IN MR. MOODY'S LIFE. (Full Page.) From

an Original Design by Charles Copeland . Facing 340

I went to my berth and lay down. I said, " I may be in Heaven when I awake. But I may reach Northfield." About 2.15 that morning my son came to my stateroom and awakened me, telling me to come on deck. There he pointed out in the dim distance a tiny light that we could occasionally catch a glimpse of as it shone over the waves as our ship rolled heavily from side to side. " It is our star of Bethlehem," I said, " and our prayers are answered."

29. MR. MOODY TELLING THE SOLDIER'S WIDOW'S

STORY IN CAMP. (Full Page.) From an Original Design by Charles Copeland .... Facing 374

The father and husband was gone, but the widow and children wanted to pray for some one. So I went to the Bible house and bought two Bibles and took them with me into the army, and when in front of Richmond I told the widow's story. I held up one of the Bibles and said, " If there is a soldier here who wants to come forward and take this Bible, and have the prayers of that widow and those children in Chicago, will he come forward."

30. "HERRINGS, HERRINGS, GOOD FRESH HERRINGS,

FOR NOTHING ! " (Full Page.) From an Original Design by Edmund H. Garrett .... Facing 402

" Well," said the man, " if you will cry, herrings for nothing! Good fresh herrings for nothing! I will pay you for them." He accepted and went on crying: " Herrings for nothing ! Good fresh herrings for nothing ! " But he couldn't get rid of a herring. He walked the whole length of the street crying "Herrings for nothing!" But he finally stopped and said: "I didn't know there were so many fools in the world." The secret was, nobody believed him.

31. DYING ON THE BATTLEFIELD. THE PARTING OF

TWO BROTHERS. (Full Page) From an Original Design by Charles Copeland .... Facing 446

At last a bullet passed through his brother's body. Putting a knapsack under his head he made him as comfortable as he could, and started on. As he was turning away he heard his wounded brother say : " This is glorious! " " What is glorious ? " ' Oh, I see Christ in Heaven ! " Lying in a pool of his own life blood, he looked up and caught a glimpse of the glory beyond.

8 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

32. MR. MOODY LEAVING HOME FOR THE FIRST TIME.

(Full Page.) From an Original Design by Edmund H. Garrett ......... Facing 492

But one cold day in November, — I have never liked November since, — a day of leaden skies and frozen ground, my brother came home, and said he had lound a good place for me, and I must go down and spend the winter in Greenfield. I said I wouldn't go. But as my mother and I sat by the fire, she said : " Dwight, I think you will have to go. I don't think I shall be able to keep the family together this winter." It was a dark night for me. I didn't sleep much that night. I cried a great deal. The next morning after breakfast I took my little bundle and we started. I was about ten years old. When we got a mile away from the house we both sat down and cried.

33. "ARE ALL THE CHILDREN IN?" (Full Page.) From

an Original Design by Edmund H. Garrett . Facing 528

Her husband was sitting by her side, as she lay dying, and he was watching the flickering life go out, when all at once she opened her eyes, and looked around, and said : " Why ! it is dark." "Yes, dear." "Is it night?" "Yes, dear, it is night." "Are all the children in?" That dear old mother was living life over again. The youngest child had been in his grave twenty years; but the old father and husband said, " Yes, wife, they are all in." Then she fell asleep in Christ.

34. "JOHN THOMPSON, YOUR FATHER WANTS YOU.'

A FATHER SEARCHING THE HOSPITALS FOR HIS SON. (Full Page.) From an Original Design by Edmund H. Garrett Facing 558

Going down through the hospital ward he would cry out : "John Thompson, your father wants you." The sick and wounded soldiers would lift their heads, and, I suppose, said to themselves, " I wish that was my father calling to me." He passed from one hospital to another and his voice would ring through the wards, "John Thompson, your father wants you." And by and by a wounded soldier lifted his head and said : " Here I am, father ! "

35. THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER DISCOVERING THE

DEAD BODY OF HIS ONLY SON. (Full Page.) From

an Original Design by Edmund H. Garrett . Facing 602

His fears were well founded, for there had been a terrible wreck. He walked along the beach, hoping to save some one who might still be alive. The first body that came floating toward the shore was the body of his own son ! He had been watching for that boy for many days, and he had been gone for three years. He had perished in sight of home, because his father had let his light go out !

36. Ornamental Tail-Piece, ''Good Night" .... 640

By Rev. Charles F. Goss, D.D.,

Pastor of Mr. Moody'' s Chicago Church for Five Years.

Chapter I

Dwight L. Moody's Birthplace — Death of His Father — The Widowed Mother and a Heavily Mortgaged Farm — The Little Red Schoolhouse — An Uncontrollable Love of Mischief — Incidents in His School Days — Flow His Teacher Conquered Him — A Wanderer at Seventeen — His Advent into Real Life in the City of Boston — How He was Converted — Decides to go to Chicago — Finds Work at Last — Running Down Country Merchants on the Streets — Becomes Identified With a Church — Rebuked for His Rough and Ready Speeches — Starting a Mission School on His own Responsibility — An Outfit of Ragamuffins and Street Urchins — His Sunday-school Grows to 1,000 Pupils — Loses his Interest in Business — "I am working for Jesus Christ" — No Money, but Plenty of Friends 33

Chapter II

Opening of the Civil War — Mr. Moody Enters into New Experiences — An Important Epoch of His Life — His Work as Chaplain in the Union Army — Its Effect on His After Life — Organizing a Church of His Own — Raising $20,000 to Build His First Church — His Helpers and Leaders — Sleeping on Benches or on the Floor — His Great Capacity for Work — " Getting the Hang " of Meetings — His Inexhaustible Fund of Anecdote and Story — Captivating Eastern Audiences — Some of His Amusing Oral Blunders — His Marriage and Home Life — Scraping the Flour Barrel at the Bottom — Getting Hold of the Bible — Discovers the Value of Music — Meeting Mr. Sankey for the First Time — The Partnership that Followed — Plans to go to England on an Empty Pocketbook — The Shadow of Coming Events. . . 44

IO CONTENTS.

Chapter III

Mr. Moody and Mr. Sankey Sail for England — Their Arrival in Liverpool — The Sorrowful News that Greeted Them — A Discouraging Outlook — "I Will be There to-night " — The First of the Remarkable Meetings in Great Britain — An Audience of Eight Persons — How Interest in the Meetings Grew — Disagreeable Critics and Ministerial Sharpshooters — Taking Scotland By Storm — Mr. Sankey's " Kist fu' o' Whustles " — The Excitement Spreads Among All Classes — Remarkable Scenes — Sweeping through Scotland and Ireland — The Evangelists Arrive in London — Mr. Moody Questioned by a Conference of Ministers — The Wit, Shrewdness, and Candor of His Replies — The Most Wonderful Meetings Ever Held in London — Personal Experiences — Dining With Mr. Gladstone — Premonition of Sudden Death — Followed by an Assassin — Arrest of the Would-be Murderer — Using up the " Best Minister in Scotland " — Farewell to London. . 57

Chapter IV

Return of the Famous Evangelists to America — Great Preparation for Their Home-Coming — Erection of Buildings for Immense Audiences — The Campaign in Eastern Cities — Sweeping Through the South — A Work That Never Ceased for Twenty-eight Years — First Steps Towards Organizing Educational Institutions at Northfield — Great Results From Small Beginnings

— The Northfield Seminary for Girls — The Boys' School at Mount Hermon — Mr. Moody Grapples with Intricate Problems

— The Summer School at Northfield — Visited by the Most Famous Men of the Times — Marvelous Vacation Work — Cherished Life Plans — "I'm Trying to Reproduce Myself" — Mr. Moody's Fervor, Energy, and Faith — ■ " I'm Awfully Concerned About this Matter " — A Man of Action, as well as Words — How He Raised the Money to Found and Support His Institutions 69

Chapter V

Mr. Moody's Wonderful Capacity to Stand Hard and Continuous Labor — Always "Ready for Business" — His Disregard of Ordinary Laws of Health — " Have You Got Anything to Eat? " — His Miraculous Power to Stand Fatigue — His Intellectual and Moral Endowments — Looking into the Faces of More than One

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Hundred Million People — His Wonderfully Retentive Memory — A Life of Incessant Activities — How He Treated Men he Personally Disliked — Dropping Men as if They Were "Hot Coals " — His Devotion to His Friends — Standing by Henry Drummond — How Drummond's Death Affected Mr. Moody — His Great Will Power — His Humility and Modesty — Refusing an Offer of $25,000 for His Autobiography — Offered $10,000 by a Newspaper for a Two-Hours Interview — The Power of His Eye — Did He Possess the Gift of Hypnotism? 83

Chapter VI

Mr. Moody's Theology — His Power as a Preacher — What he Regarded the Most Fascinating Doctrine in the Bible — His Belief that Things Were " Going to the Bad " — Waiting for The Final Crash " — His Fine Sense of Humor — His Unshaken Belief in the Bible — His Broad Sympathies — His Oratory and Pulpit Power — Born With a Silver Style in His Mouth — Characteristics of His Platform Addresses — His Limited Vocabulary — His Source of Illustrations — Drawn from Real Life — "Corner Groceries " in Noah's Time — How he Secured the Sympathy and Attention of an Audience — His Intense Energy on the Platform — Conditions that Aroused His Highest Powers — His Ideal of Music, and the Use he Made of it — Electrical Effect of Some of His Sermons — Flis Last Sermon, and His Last Audience. . 93

Chapter VII

Mr. Moody's Loyalty to the Regular Institutions of the Christian Church — What Might Have Happened if he had Unfurled His Banner — The Countless Multitudes that Would Have Flocked to Him — His Ability to Organize and Bring Order out of Chaos — How he Supported the Regular Work of the Churches — One of Four Men " Sent Forth by God " — His Last Meetings in Kansas City — Great Preparations and Enormous Crowds — His Sudden Illness — "Oh, I am Much Better" — Forced to Remain Away From a Meeting for the First Time in Forty Years — Alarming Symptoms — He is Sent Home in a Private Car to Northfield — Watching at His Bedside — Helpless, but Cheerful and Hopeful — "What is Going on Here?" — Nearing the End — Close of an Illustrious Life — Mr. Moody's Last Words — His Funeral — His Grave on Round Top 105

Chapter I. Simply Believing, Simply Receiving

An Incident in Manchester, England. — "Oh, I See It Now" — " I Understand You Have Been Stealing " — Calling Things by Their Right Names — Two Men Who Saw What they were Looking For — Story of a Remarkable Conversion — Forging His Own Chains — On the Deck of a Sinking Ship — "Jump Into the Lifeboat!" — The Man with Handbills — The Story of Little Nellie — " Help ! Help ! " — A Wicked Yorkshire Miner — "Don't Cry, Lass; Don't Cry" — The Silver Key and Tress of Auburn Hair — A Bed of Straw — " No One Cares for Me " — From a Dark Garret to the Kingdom of God. . . . 113

Chapter II. The Prodigal Son

A Noble Character — Seven Children, and No Two Alike — A Jolly Fellow — A Father Who was " a Little Soft " — Trying to Borrow a Dollar — A Scheme of the Devil — Saloon-keepers and Free Lunches — The Gnawings of Hunger — " Use or Lose " — A Jew Caring for Swine — Sowing Tares and Reaping Shame — The Hardest of Battles — " There Goes a Tramp" — Watching for His Son — Love Makes the Eyesight Keen — The Forgotten Speech — A Story of Mr. Moody's Early Life — A Mother's Grief for the Wanderer — The Little Circle By the Fireside — Tears and Silence — The Roar of the Storm — The Wanderer's Return — What if there Were Two Graves There? — The Face of a Stranger — His Tears of Penitence Betray Him — Welcomed

and Forgiven 136

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Chapter III. The New Birth

A Photograph of the Heart — "I Will Take Fourteen Dozen " — Breaking the Plate and Abusing the Artist — " Ticketed " through to Heaven — " My Brother is an Archdeacon " — Signing Good Resolutions with Blood — The Crab-apple Tree — "Can't You Give Me Something To Do?" — Turned Out of House and Home — A Personal Experience — Story of the Crane and the Swan — "I Want Snails " — The Descent into the Pit — No Such Thing as Wind — A Puzzling Question — The Mystery of Life — A Thrilling Incident — " He Isn't Going to Catch Me" — Cornering Him in One End of a Pew — Jumping Over the Backs of the Pews — "I Am that Nephew " — Joking at Mr. Moody's Expense — A Drunkard's Downfall — The Empty Cot. , . 150

Chapter IV. Seeking Christ And Following Him

Faithful, Anxious, and Curious Followers — The Man Who Came to See the Chairs — "I Thought You Were a Humbug " — A Startling Question — " Do You Know That Man? " — Reward of Ten Thousand Dollars for a Lost Diamond — Crawling Under the Chairs — Jumping from the Gallery — " You Are Just the Man " — Mr. Moody's Condition When He Arrived in Boston as a Boy — Crying Unto God in His Extremity — "Moody, I Don't Like Your Style " — Personal Reminiscences of the Burning of Chicago — A Night of Horror — An Indignant Woman — " None of Your Business, Sir" — "Where is Mary?" — The Man Who Ran up Behind Mr. Moody — " Talk to the Other Man; I'm All Right" — The Man Who Pretended He Wasn't Listening. . 167

Chapter V. The Holy Spirit And His Work

What Is the Holy Spirit? — " What Made You Tell Mr. Moody All About Me?" — An Old Negro Preacher's Observation — The Clock Without Hands — " Everything Going to Pieces " — A "Long-headed" Man — One "Long" Eye, and One "Short" Eye — The Hon. Mr. Lot, of Sodom — Grumblers and Faultfinders — Coming " To See How Moody Does It " — People Who Write Letters to Mr. Moody — "The Terrible Sin of Robbing

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Contents

Hen-Roosts " — A Caution to the Old Grave-digger — "To Rent, With or Without Power" — Two Ways of Digging a Well — A Well that "Froze up in Winter and Dried Up in Summer" — The Old Wooden Pump on the Farm 190