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HIS WORDS, WORK, AND WORKERS.

COMPRISING

HIS BIBLE PORTRAITS;

HIS OUTLINES OF DOCTRINE,

As given in his Most Popular and Effective Sermons, Bible Readings,
and Addresses in Edinburgh, Dublin, London, Philadelphia,
New York, Chicago, and Boston;

SKETCHES OF HIS CO-WORKERS, MESSRS. SANKEY, BLISS,
WHITTLE, SAWYER, AND OTHERS;

AND AN ACCOUNT OF

THE GOSPEL TEMPERANCE REVIVAL,

WITH THRILLING EXPERIENCES OF CONVERTED INEBRIATES.

EDITED BY REV. W. H. DANIELS, A.M.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION

BY REV. CHARLES H. FOWLER, D.D., LL.D.

With Portraits and Illustrations.

SOLD BY SUBSCRIPTION.

NELSON & PHILLIPS,

NEW YORK, BOSTON, BUFFALO, PITTSBURGH, AND SAN FRANCISCO.
HITCHCOCK & WALDEN,

CINCINNATI, CHICAGO, AND ST. LOUIS.

1877.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by

NELSON & PHILLIPS,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

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Kelley

INTRODUCTION.

LL 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 Rev. 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.

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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 "the instinct 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 which he has been chiefly trained, and whose leader and patron he has now come to be.

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