Identifier: lifeworkofdwight00chap (find matches)
Title: The life and work of Dwight L. Moody, presented to the Christian world as a tribute to the memory of the greatest apostle of the age
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Chapman, J. Wilbur (John Wilbur), 1859-1918
Subjects: Moody, Dwight Lyman, 1837-1899 Evangelists Evangelistic work
Publisher: Philadelphia, Universal Pub
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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e are trying to remove these difficultiesourselves instead of going to God in prayer. Q:—Why was it the Lord Jesus could not do anything atNazareth ? Mr. Moody:—On account of their unbelief, but that was theworld, not the Church. Q:—Is it best to put the test question In a church, asking thosewho are anxious to arise, or rather to go to another room ? Mr. Moody:—I think so. If any man is going to be saved,he is going to take up his cross, and if it is a cross, I would like toask him to do it. What you want is to get them to do somethingthey dont want to do, and it is a great cross generally for peopleto rise for prayer, but in the very act of doing it, they are veryoften blessed. I do not think I should attempt to have meetingswithout the Inquiry-room. People are impressed under the ser-mon, but what you want is to deal with them personally. Hereand there one is converted under the sermon, but for every oneconverted under the sermon, hundreds are converted in the Inquiry-room.
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REVIVAL CONVENTIONS 373 Q:—Do you advocate anxious seats? Mr. Moody:—I would rather call it seats of decision ; but inunion meetings you know we have to lay aside a good many of thedifferent denominational peculiarities. The anxious seat isknown to the Methodists, but if we should call it that, the Pres-byterians would be afraid, and the Episcopalians would be soshocked that they would leave, and I find in the union meetings,it is best to ask them to go right into the other room, and talk tothem there. Q:—What would you say to a person who replies, I can be aChristian without rising for prayer ? Mr. Moody:—I should say, most certainly he could, but as ageneral thing, he wont. Q:—What method would you recommend to get people ontheir feet to testify for Christ ? Mr. Moody:—In the first place, I would bury all stiffness. Ifa meeting has a formal manner, it throws a stiffness over it, sothat it would take almost an earthquake to get a man up, butif it is free and social, just

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