That is
enthusiasm. That is what we want.
[Illustration: Saul's Conversion. GUSTAVE DORE. Acts, ix.]
CONFESSING CHRIST.
What a Woman Did.
One place we were in, in England, I recollect a Quakeress came in. The
meeting was held in a Methodist Church, and the Spirit of God was
there--souls were being saved: multitudes were pressing into the
kingdom. She had a brother who was a drinker and a nephew who had just
come to the city, and he was in a critical state, too. They came to the
meeting with her. Everything appeared strange to her, and when she went
home she did not know really what to say. She and her brother and nephew
went up stairs, and coming down she thought, it may be that the destiny
of their souls depends on what I say now. When she entered the parlor
she found them laughing and joking about the meeting. She put on a
serious face and said, "I don't think we should laugh at it. Suppose Mr.
Moody had come to you and asked you if you were converted, what would
you have told him?" "I would have told him to mind his own business,"
replied one of them. "I think it is a very important question, and a
question a Christian ought to put to any one; Mr. Moody, as a Christian,
has a right to ask any one.
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