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Title: A full history of the wonderful career of Moody and Sankey
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Goodspeed, E. J. (Edgar Johnson), 1833-1881
Subjects: Moody, Dwight Lyman, 1837-1899 Sankey, Ira David, 1840-1908 Evangelistic work
Publisher: New York, H. S. Goodspeed & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the PilgrimsProgress, and no doubt he was more thankful for the imprison-ment than for anything else in his life. Speaking of the goodness of God and of grace abounding,he told a striking story of a rich man who sent to a poor friendin distress $25 in an envelope, on which he wrote, More tofollow. Now, said he, which was the more welcome—themoney or the gracious promise of further help ? So it is withGods grace ; there is always more to follow. Let us thankGod, not only for what he gives us, but for what he promises—more to follow. Contrasting the law and the Gospel, he said. Moses, in Egypt, turned water into blood, which is death.Christ turned water into wine, which is life, joy, and gladness.Speaking of future punishment in one of his Rink sermons, hesaid, God will not punish us. We shall punish ourselves.When we come before God He will turn us over to ourselves.Go and read the book of your memory, He will say. Urgingthe duty of immediate repentance and the joy in heaven over a
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MOODY AND SANKEY IN AMERICA. 241 repentant sinner, he said, If the President should die to-night,or if the Governor of the State should be shot, that would makean outcry here. But perhaps even so great an event would notbe mentioned in heaven at all. But, said he, raising his voicea little, if some sinner in this assembly were just now con-verted, there would be a great shout of joy in heaven. Dwell-ing upon the certainty of future punishment, he remarked. Some people doubt it; they think God is so loving that Hewill make no distinctions in another world. But do youimagine that when men had become so wicked that God sent aflood to exterminate them because they were not fit to live onearth—do you suppose that when the waters came and drownedthem, He took all this wicked generation into his bosom andleft pooi righteous Noah to drift about in his ark ? Do yousuppose that when His chosen people crossed the Red Sea,and Pharaohs host were drowned, God took those idolatrousEgyptians direct

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