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Title: Echoes from the pulpit and platform : or, Living truths for head and heart ; illustrated by upwards of five hundred thrilling anecdotes and incidents, personal experiences, touching home scenes, and stories of tender pathos drawn from the bright and shady sides of life
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Moody, Dwight Lyman, 1837-1899 Goss, Charles Frederic, 1852-1930
Subjects: Evangelistic sermons
Publisher: Hartford : A.D. Worthington
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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idnt give much light, itwas a good deal better than sitting in the dark. Perhaps thenext one who came in would be a woman, and she would bringout from under her shawl an old sperm-oil lamp. The lightwould be very feeble, but she would set the lamp up on the deskand it helped a little. The next man would bring out of hispocket a tallow-dip, and he would light his match and set thatup on the desk. Hiat is the way they would light up the room ;and by the time we got all the people there, we had plenty oflight. If every man and woman would give only a little light,they could light up a whole city. If you cant be a lighthouse,you can give as much light as a tallow-dip. or an old dingylantern. That is what we are here for, not to be mere agents torepresent our Alaster, but we arc here to shine ; not only in ourhomes, but in our places of business. Wherever our light goes,we must not let it give an uncertain light. Set the light on ahill, not in a valley; put it on top, not under the bushel.
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CHAPTER XI. THE UNBOUNDED GRACE OF GOD. Telling Mr. Moody How to Preach — The Old Lady Who Lockedthe Door—Mr. Moodys first Arrival in Boston as a Boy—Haunting the Post-office — The IMan Who Built a Ladder toHeaven —The Captured Spy —Mr. Moodys Vanished Audi-ence— The Man Behind the Furnace — Sunday-school Teacherand the Silver Watch — )\Iore to Follow — Living on OldJoy — The Man Who Never Forgot the Meetings of 57 —One of Mr. ^Moodys Experiences in London — High Level or Low Level — Is this Young Man O. O ? — A DisgustedListener — A Remarkable Story — A Tick at a Time —Peculiar People — Why Fie Put an Extra Shine on HisBoots — Weak and Lazy People — I Thought it WouldntAlake any Difference. WHEN we opened our first meetings in New York oneof the newspapers began to tell me how to preach,and said if I would tell the people to do the best theycould, it would be sound doctrine. I said that I would tellthem. I think I have enough grace not to tel

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