The father lived a few years, but his life was as bitter as gall, and then went down to his grave in sorrow. “Who was that I saw you talking to yesterday?” This man was suspected, was tried and found guilty, and was sent to the penitentiary for life. They were indignant to think that the Edinburgh people should be carried away with such preaching. “No.” “Look up your books,” he said, “and see if it is not so.” Some one asked him how he was converted. “Is it hard for you to love your mother? Perhaps the translators made a mistake.” If they have not always done so, it is probable that they have not yet matured. For hours they tried to reach that vessel through the great breakers that raged and foamed on the sand-bank, but it seemed impossible. Moody, I have no faith in you whatever.” Don’t you think it would grieve me? Man can’t save himself. “Well, we will put down ‘houses’ next and then “land.’ Next we will put down ‘fast horses.’ ” Let the wind blow her hat into the river, and she does not worry; she knows her mother will get her another. “Better let your wife know it, and better let your home and furniture go.” “Oh, splendid.” The letters said: Often when I have been inclined to get discouraged, I have thought of what he said. You would have a queer kind of Bible if everybody cut out what he wanted to! But you cannot put too much confidence in God. “What do you see?” He used this text, but the devil put this thought into his mind: One day the two sisters were together, and the other said, “Now what have you got at those meetings that you didn’t have in the first place?” And so it is in heaven. He explained to me what he had been doing; on some notes he had marked B, on some D, and on others G; those marked B, he told me, were bad, those marked D meant they were doubtful, and those with G on them mean they were good; and, said he, you must treat all of them accordingly. He trusted his father. That man has set out a hundred trees, and you have set out only ten. Covetousness and stealing are almost like Siamese twins—they go together so often. She came and sat down right in front of me, and her face had such a sad expression. There is one thing I have noticed as I have traveled in different countries; I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord’s people were divided. “I am not going to give up the theater.” “Oh, God, put new ministers in every pulpit.” Moody | come! Very few kind words were associated with the day. Born in 1918, William Franklin Graham was raised on a farm outside Charlotte, North Carolina. When the new administration of President McKinley went into office some clerks in one of the departments were promoted. The face was concealed by being covered with hair, and there were wings on each foot. He put on his hat and coat, and went to see his friend Black. At last she broke his will, and then he found it as easy as it is for me to turn my hand. Now what was true in these two cases is practically true with every one. D. L. Moody was born in Northfield, Massachusetts, in 1837 to Edwin and Betsey Holton Moody. The church itself had been formed twelve years earlier by Bostonians unhappy with the rigid doctrinal exclusiveness of another large city church. Have I to take up a book that is a slander on my Lord and Master, who has redeemed me with His blood? Yes, profound respect, but not faith. When the neighbors found out that the Arnot children could not climb trees, they began to tell them about the wonderful things they could see from the tops of the trees. But they couldn’t make those sailors believe it, and they didn’t dare to go into port, although they were out of water. He was a noted miser, but he was converted. I once heard of two men who were under the influence of liquor. His father was a confirmed drunkard, and his mother took in washing to educate her four children. It is not a creed, a mere empty doctrine, but it is Christ Himself we have. The storm of Justice falls, By and by a battle came on, in which he was killed, and they buried him on the battle-field. A man who lived on the bank of Lake Erie had water pipes laid to his house from the lake; and when he wanted water all he had to do was to turn the tap and the water flowed in. Then surely every true Christian ought to desire that men who are in danger of perishing eternally should be saved and rescued. And yet I was once a poor boy. “Why!” she said; “I don’t understand.” Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. 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