After they had conferred about it for six
months, one night the council sent in their decision, sealed, that they
thought it was not expedient. The Emperor went down to the Greek Church
that night and partook of the Lord's Supper, and he set his house in
order, and the next morning you could hear the tramp of soldiers in the
streets of St. Petersburgh. The Emperor summoned his guard, and before
noon sixty-five thousand men were surrounding that palace. Just at
midnight there came out a proclamation that every slave in Russia was
forever set free. The proclamation had gone forth, and all the slaves of
the realm believed it. They have been free ever since. Suppose they had
not believed it? They never then would have got the benefit of it. If
one man can liberate forty millions, has not God got the power to
liberate every captive?
Moody on "Duty"--How He Loves His Mother.
I have an old mother away down in the Connecticut mountains, and I have
been in the habit of going to see her every year for twenty years.
Suppose I go there and say, "Mother, you were very kind to me when I was
young--you were very good to me; when father died you worked hard for us
all to keep us together, and so I have come to see you because it is my
duty.
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