PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
Moody's Anecdotes And Illustrations Related in his Revival Work by the Great Evangelist
Moody, Dwight Lyman, 1837-1899 · 75,130 words · 147 reading sections
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Produced by Don Kostuch [Transcriber's Notes] Here are the definitions of some unfamiliar (to me) terms. antediluvian Person who lived before the Biblical Flood. Very old or old-fashioned. cavil Raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault unnecessarily. conies Rabbits Chromo (chromolithograph) Colored pri…
69 wordsSECTION 2FULLY ILLUSTRATED FROM GUSTAVE DORE
REVISED EDITION. EDITED BY REV. J. B. McClure. CHICAGO: Rhodes & McClure Publishing Co. 1899 Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1896 by the Rhodes & McClure Publishing Company, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C. All Rights Reserved.…
44 wordsSECTION 3PREFACE.
The breathless interest given to Mr. Moody's anecdotes while being related by him before his immense audiences, and their wonderful power upon the human heart, suggested to the compiler this volume, and led him to believe and trust that, properly classified and arranged in book form, they would still carry to the gener…
205 wordsSECTION 4REVISED EDITION.
We retain in this, all that was in former editions and give forty pages additional of new anecdotes, properly classified, taken from the revival work in Boston and elsewhere. We also give engravings of Messrs. Moody, Sankey, Whittle, and the late lamented P. P. Bliss, the four evangelists who have so long and industrio…
133 wordsSECTION 5REVISED EDITION 1896
This edition includes additional anecdotes and many handsome and appropriate illustrations. Over one million copies of this book have been sold since the first issue. No single volume in the history of literature on the American continent has met with such a sale, and probably the only approximate comparison in the wo…
99 wordsSECTION 6DWIGHT L. MOODY
Self-made, and conscious of the absolute truthfulness of every Bible declaration, Dwight Lyman Moody is today, perhaps, the most independent and powerful of living evangelists. Man, rather than books, and God, rather than man, have been his study, and made his life intensely individual, and one which has constantly inc…
161 wordsSECTION 7IRA D. SANKEY.
Ira David Sankey, known throughout the world as the companion of Mr. Moody, was born in Edenburg, Pa., August 28, 1840. His musical talents were early developed. Political glee clubs at first monopolized his genius, but after his conversion in 1857, the Sunday School and Church opened wider fields, in which he has sinc…
173 wordsSECTION 8D. W. WHITTLE.
For many years D. W. Whittle has been engaged in evangelistic work, giving it all his time, talents and energy. His first effort in connection with Mr. Bliss, who afterwards became his companion in the cause, was made over twenty years ago in a small town near Chicago. It was on this occasion that he told the story, "H…
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Philip Paul Bliss, the "Sweet Singer," was born in Clearfield County, Pa., in 1837. It was not until after he had reached the period of manhood that he "felt the stirrings of his musical gift." And then, under the inspiration of his wife, he entered upon the study of musical science, and laid the basis of his immortal …
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A Blind Man Preaches to 3,000,000 People A Boy's Mistake--A Sad Reconciliation A Business Man Confessing Christ A Child at Its Mother's Grave A Child Looking for its Lost Mother A Child's Prayer Answered A Child Visits Abraham Lincoln and Saves the Life of a Condemned Soldier A Commercial Traveler A Day of Decision A D…
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Believe Bible Study Black-Balled by Man--Saved by Christ Blind Broken Hearts By the Wayside…
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Calling the Roll of Heaven Cast Out but Rescued Child Stories Christian Work Christian Zeal Christ Saves Condemned to be Shot Confessing Christ Conversion…
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Decision Deliverance "Deluged With Blood" Dr. Arnott's Dog "Rover" E "Emma. This is Papa's Friend" Engaging Rooms Ahead Excused at Last Excuses…
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Faith Faith More Powerful than Gunpowder "Father, Father, Come This Way" Five Million Dollars Forgiveness Forty-one Little Sermons Four-score and Five "Free"…
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George H. Stewart Visits a Doomed Criminal Get the Key to Job Gold (Appears in many pages) Governor Pollock and the Condemned Criminal Grace…
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Heaven "He Will Not Rest" "Hold the Fort, for I am Coming" How a Citizen Became a Soldier How a Little Study Upset the Plans of a few Prominent Infidels How a Young Irishman Opened Moody's Eyes How Christ Expounded It "How Funny You Talk" How Moody's Faith Saved an Infidel How Moody's Mother Forgave her Prodigal Son Ho…
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I Am not All Right I Am not One of the Elect I Am Trusting Jesus--A Young Lady's Trust. I Can't Feel "I Don't Know" "If I Knew" I Have Intellectual Difficulties "I Know" Infidel Books Infidelity Intemperance It's Better Higher Up "It Will Kill Her"…
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Jesus "Wants them All to Come" Johnny, Cling Close to the Rock Jumping into Father's Arms…
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Lady Ann Erkskine and Rowland Hill "Let the Lower Lights be Burning" Liberty Liberty Now and Forever Little Folks Little Jimmy Little Moody Love Love, not the Rattan, Conquers Little Moody Love's Triumph in John Wannamaker's Sunday-School M Madness and Death Money Blind Moody and his Little Willie Moody and the Dying …
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Napoleon and the Conscript Napoleon and the Private Never to see its Mother Note What Jesus Says…
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Obedience O, Edward Old Sambo and his Massa One Book at a Time One Word Out of Libby Prison…
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Parental Peter's Confession Praise Prayer Prayer Answered Pull for the Shore "Pull for the Shore, Sailor"…
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Rational Belief Reaping Reaping the Whirlwind Removing the Difficulties Reuben Johnson Pardoned…
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Sad Ending of a Life that Might Have Been Otherwise Sad Lack of Zeal Safe In the Ark Sambo and the Infidel Judge Satan's Match Saved "Saved" Saved and Saving Snapping the Chains Song Stories Sowing the Tares Spurgeon and the Little Orphan Spurgeon's Parable Stubborn Little Sammy Sudden Conversion (See Conversion)…
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Taking the Prince at his Word Ten Years in a Sick Bed--yet Praising God Terribly in Earnest That is the Price of my Soul "That is Your Fault" The Arrows of Conviction The Artist and the Beggar The Bible The Blind Beggar The Blood The Cross and Crown The Cruel Mother--Hypothetical The Czar and the Soldier The Demoniac T…
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Very Hard, yet Very Easy Very Orthodox…
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"We Will Never Surrender" What a Woman Did What Moody saw in a Chamber of Horror Wisdom Word Pictures Why Did he not Take his Wife along? "Won by a Smile"…
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"You Know me, Moody" Young Moody, Penniless in Boston, is Warned by his Sister to "Beware of Pick-pockets" D. L. MOODY'S Anecdotes and Illustrations.…
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Love, not the Rattan, Conquers Little Moody. I remember when a boy, I used to go to a certain school in New England, where we had a quick-tempered master, who always kept a rattan. It was, "If you don't do this, and don't do that, I'll punish you." I remember many a time of this rattan being laid upon my back. I think…
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I want to tell you how I got my eyes open to the truth that God loves the sinner. When I went over to Europe I was preaching in Dublin, when a young fellow came up to the platform and said to me that he wanted to come to America and preach. He had a boyish appearance; did not seem to be over seventeen years old. I meas…
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Mr. John Wannamaker, superintendent of probably one of the largest Sunday schools in the world, had a theory that he would never put a boy out of his school for bad conduct. He argued if a boy misbehaved himself, it was through bad training at home, and that if he put him out of the school no one would take care of him…
734 wordsSECTION 32AFFLICTION.
A Child Visits Abraham Lincoln, and Saves the Life of a Condemned Soldier. During the war I remember a young man, not twenty, who was court-martialed down in the front and sentenced to be shot; The story was this: The young fellow had enlisted. He was not obliged to, but he went off with another young man. They were w…
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The next visit I made was to a home where I found a wife with a bitter story. Her husband had been neglecting her for a long time; "and now," she said, "he has left me, and I don't know where he has gone. Winter is coming on, and I don't know what is going to become of my family." I tried to comfort her, and prayed wit…
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I was thinking to-day of the difference between those who knew Christ when trouble comes upon them and those who knew Him not. I know several members of families who are just stumbling into their graves over trouble. I know two widows in Chicago who are weeping and mourning over the death of their husbands, and their g…
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"I thought I was going over a barren field, and I came to a river so dark and chill-looking that, I was going to turn away, when all at once I saw on the opposite bank the most beautiful sight I ever looked at. I thought death and sorrow could never enter into that lovely region. Then I began to see beings all so happy…
510 wordsSECTION 36GOLD.
-- Christ never preached any funeral sermons. -- His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion. -- Take your stand on the Rock of Ages. Let death, let the judgment come: the victory is Christ's and yours through Him. -- The only man who ever suffered before Christ was that servant who had his ear cut…
328 wordsSECTION 37ASSURANCE.
Napoleon and the Private. It is said of Napoleon that while he was reviewing his army one day, his horse became frightened at something, and the Emperor lost his rein, and the horse went away at full speed, and the Emperor's life was in danger. He could not get hold of the rein, and a private in the ranks saw it, and …
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Every man and woman who wants one, if you have not already got one, had better make up your mind. Send your names up now. I would rather a thousand times have my name written in the Lamb's Book than have all the wealth of the world rolling at my feet. "He Will Not Rest." Suppose a man is going to Cincinnati, and he g…
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How many people in the Tabernacle when I ask them if they are Christians, say, "Well, I hope so,"--in a sort of a hesitating way. Another class say, "I am trying to be." This is a queer kind of testimony, my friends. I notice no man is willing to go into the inquiry room till he has got a step beyond that. That class o…
184 wordsSECTION 40GOLD.
-- There cannot be any peace where there is uncertainty. -- There is no knowledge like that of a man who knows he is saved, who can look up and see his "title clear to mansions in the skies." -- I believe hundreds of Christian people are being deceived by Satan, now on this point, that they have not got the assurance…
287 wordsSECTION 41BELIEVE.
Moody and the Dying Soldier. After the battle of Pittsburgh Landing and Murfreesboro' I was in a hospital at Murfreesboro'. And one night after midnight, I was woke up and told that there was a man in one of the wards who wanted to see me. I went to him and he called me "chaplain!"--I wasn't a chaplain--and he said he…
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Well, let me illustrate it then, and perhaps you will be able to understand it. Suppose I am dying with consumption; which I inherited from my father or mother. I did not get it by any fault of my own, by any neglect of my health; I inherited it, let us suppose. Well, I go to my physician, and to the best physicians, a…
717 wordsSECTION 43GOLD.
-- God is truth. -- What grounds have we for not believing God?…
11 wordsSECTION 44THE BIBLE.
"How Funny You Talk." No book in the world has been so misjudged as the Bible. Men judge it without reading it. Or perhaps they read a bit here and a bit there, and then close it saying, "It is so dark and mysterious!" You take a book, now-a-days, and read it. Some one asks you what you think about it. "Well," you say…
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A good many years ago there was a convention held in France, and those who held it wanted to get the country to deny a God, to burn the Bible, wanted to say that men passed away like a dog and a dumb animal. What was the result! Not long since, that country was filled with blood. Did you ever think what would take plac…
152 wordsSECTION 46GOLD.
-- There are over two hundred passages in the Old Testament which prophesied about Christ, and every one of them has come true. -- God didn't give the world two different Bibles; they are one, and must be believed from back to back, from Genesis to Revelations, or not at all. -- I haven't found the first man who ever…
339 wordsSECTION 47BIBLE STUDY.
How Moody was Blessed--"Mark Your Bible." I want to tell you how I was blessed a few years ago, upon hearing a discourse upon the thirtieth chapter of Proverbs. The speaker said the children of God were like four things. The first thing was: "The ants are a people not strong," and he went on to compare the children of…
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I have found it a good plan to take up one book at a time. It is a good deal better to study one book at a time than to run through the Bible. If we study one book and get its key, it will, perhaps, open up others. Take up the book of Genesis, and you will find eight beginnings; or, in other words, you pick up the key …
746 wordsSECTION 49GOLD.
-- The best truths are got by digging deep for them. -- When we know our Bible, then it is that God can use us. -- When we find a man meditating on the words of God, my friends, that man is full of boldness and is successful. -- When a man is filled with the Word of God you cannot keep him still. If man has got the …
198 wordsSECTION 50BLIND.
A Mother's Mistake. While I was attending a meeting in a certain city sometime ago a lady came to me and said: "I want you to go home with me; I have something to say to you." When we reached her home, there were some friends there; After they had retired, she put her arms on the table, and tears began to come into he…
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I was at a meeting in London, when I was there, and I heard a man speaking with wonderful power and earnestness. "Who is that man?" I asked, my curiosity being excited. "Why, that is Dr. ----. He is blind." I felt some interest in this man and at the close of the meeting, I sought an interview, and he told me that he h…
408 wordsSECTION 52GOLD.
-- Now I am no prophet, nor the son of a prophet, but one thing I can predict; that every one of our new converts that goes to studying his Bible, and loves this book above every other book, is sure to hold out. The world will have no charm for him; he will get the world under his feet, because in this book he will fin…
148 wordsSECTION 53THE BLOOD.
A Mother Dies that her Boy may Live. When the California gold fever broke out, a man went there, leaving his wife in New England with his boy. As soon as he got on and was successful he was to send for them. It was a long time before he succeeded, but at last he got money enough to send for them. The wife's heart leap…
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A friend in Ireland once met a little Irish boy who had caught a sparrow. The poor little bird was trembling in his hand, and seemed very anxious to escape. The gentleman begged the boy to let it go, as the bird could not do him any good; but the boy said he would not; for he had chased it three hours before he could c…
233 wordsSECTION 55GOLD.
-- The most solemn truth in the gospel is that the only thing Christ left down here is His blood. -- A man who covers up the cross, though he may be an intellectual man, and draw large crowds, will have no life there, and his church will be but a gilded sepulcher. -- There is either of two things we must do. One is t…
353 wordsSECTION 56CHILD STORIES.
"Little Moody." I remember when I was a boy I went several miles from home with an older brother. That seemed to me the longest visit of my life. It seemed that I was then further away from home than I had ever been before, or have ever been since. While we were walking down the street we saw an old man coming toward …
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He looked at the boy, but they didn't have any such looking little ones in the school. A place was found, however, and she sat down in the corner and tried to win that soul for Christ. Many would look upon that with contempt, but she had got something to do for the Master. The little boy had never heard anybody sing so…
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So I urged him to talk to her that night, and I said "I will pray for you both." When he got to the sitting-room he found some people there, and he sat waiting for an opportunity, when his mother said it was time for him to go to bed. He went to the door undecided. He took a step, stopped, and turned around, and hesita…
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Well, the mother began to write and plead with the boy to write to his father first, and he would forgive him; but the boy said, "I will never go home till father asks me." Then she pled with the father, but the father said, "No, I will never ask him." At last the mother came down to her sick-bed, broken-hearted, and w…
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I heard of a Sunday-school concert at which a little child of eight was going to recite. Her mother had taught her, and when the night came the little thing was trembling so she could scarcely speak. She commenced, "Jesus said," and completely broke down. Again she tried it: "Jesus said suffer," but she stopped once mo…
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Public domain in the USA; original historical text digitized by Project Gutenberg.
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.