" She did not reprove
him; did not rebuke him. He went up stairs and did not come down for two
days. When he came to, the servants were walking about the house very
softly--everything was quiet. They told him that his mother was at the
point of death. His brother was a physician, and he went to him and
asked him if it was so. "Yes, Ned," said he, "mother can't live." He
immediately went up stairs, and asked his mother's forgiveness, and
prayed to his mother's God to have mercy upon him. "And God," said he,
"my mother's God, heard my prayers," and the tears trickled down his
face and he said: "God has kept me straight these four years in the face
of all trials." O sinner, ask for His grace and might; do not turn Him
away.
Moody Asks a Few Questions.
Let me ask you a question. Do you think that those gamblers, thieves,
harlots, and drunkards who are trampling the ten commandments under
their feet, they who have never given any respect to God's Word or to
His instructions--do you think they will be swept into the kingdom of
heaven, against their will? Do you think those antedeluvians who were so
sinful that God could not let them live on the earth would be swept into
Paradise and Noah left to wade through the deluge? Do you think that
these people, too corrupt for earth, would go there? As I have said
before, an unregenerated man in heaven would make a hell of it.
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