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Title: Great joy. Comprising sermons and prayer-meeting talks
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Moody, Dwight Lyman, 1837-1899
Subjects: Evangelistic sermons Sermons, American
Publisher: New York, E. B. Treat Chicago, Palmer, Augir & co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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rvellouspower, at once resolved to enlist it in his great work.After a formal introduction, Mr. Moody said to him : I want you. What for ? said Mr. Sankey. Tohelp me in my work, was the reply. But I cannot A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. zz leave my business, was the response. You must,said Mr. Moody. You must give up your business,and come with me. I have been looking for you theseeight years. Thus suddenly was this world-renowned Singercalled to join the most efficient evangelist of moderntimes. The history of his work with Mr. Moody inEurope, in Brooklyn, in Philadelphia, in New Yorkand Chicago, is too recent to need extended notice inthis brief sketch. Suffice it to say, the almost uni-versal conviction is that Mr. Sankey is as necessaryto the great evangelistic work as Mr. Moody himself. Both are divinely accredited heralds of the Cross—one heralding in simple, lucid language the Gospel ofGreat Joy, and the other enunciating the GladTidings in sweet, triumphant strains of ChristianSong.
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GREAT JOY. HINDRANCES. I want to call your attention for a few minutes thismorning to a verse you have heard read in the nth chap-ter of the Gospel according to John—a part of the 39thverse: Jesus said, take ye away the stone. Now I havenot any doubt but that nearly all this congregation are look-ing for a blessing in Chicago. Ive no doubt that hundredsof you are expecting a great work here. If you are not soexpecting you ought to be ; and if God does not do a greatand mighty work here it will not be His fault, but it willbe our own. I find a class of people who say, Well, wemust wait until God works, and when God is ready wewill see a great work. Now, if I read my Bible and under-stand Scripture, God is always ready. We talk about the set time for God to favor us. The set time is whenyou and I get ready to let God work for us, just when wechoose to roll away the stones that- prevent His coming toour souls. Some one must take away these stones, someone must roll them off, so the Lor

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