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 THK BIHLF. INSTirrTK COLI'URTACIK ASSOCIATION 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 CHAPTER PAGE 
 
 I. First Glimi'Sks ....,..(; 
 
 II. Miss Stroxg's Wklco.mk i.') 
 
 III. "Music Hath Charm.?" 20 
 
 IV CiiicKEX AXD Other Thinc.s ... 26 
 
 V. "Rightly Dividing the Wori/' . . -34 
 
 VI. How One Day Was Spent . . . 41 
 
 VII. Touching Human SouL^5 52 
 
 VIII About the "White Fields" .... 61 
 
 IX. Facts and Philosophy 67 
 
 X. "In Prison, and Ye Visited Me" . . 74 
 
 XI. Miss Hall and the Young Idea ... 77 
 
 XII. The Pound, "On Bell," and Thanksihying Day 85 
 
 XI II. D. L. Moody, the Servant of God . . 90 
 
 XIV. Words that I Treasure loi 
 
 XV. The Safety of the Sheep .... 106 
 
 XVI. Telling Incidents of the Work . . .114 
 
 XVII. The Faith Delivered to the Saints . 131 
 
CHAPTER I 
 
 FIRST GLIMPSKS 
 
 "So this is the Bible Institute, is it?" 
 
 The cabman pockets his fee, and says: "No, tliat 
 'ere ain't — that's where the wimen students live, I 
 b'lieve, and d'Institoot's round the corner. Say," 
 (confidentially), "do you b'lieve wimen ought to 
 preach?" 
 
 Now, being well aware that the best way to learn 
 is to come unburdened with "set and sure" doc- 
 trines I answer: 
 
 "It all depends upon the woman I suppose. Per- 
 haps I can tell you better a year from now." 
 
 "Then you intend to preach," he says very slowly, 
 and before I can tell him that he takes my inten- 
 tions for granted too easily, he adds, "yes, I sup- 
 pose it all d'pends on de woman. Hope you'll do 
 well." 
 
 "Thank you," I answer, and I shake his hand. 
 
 I would shake the hand of a pirate or a stray Fiji 
 
lO A R|-.1H)R IKR AT MOODV S 
 
 Islander to-night, for I am a stranger in the Windy 
 City, tired after the weary ride from New York, and 
 not at all certain what my life will be in the big 
 building I am facing. 
 
 A bit of personal history may not be out of place 
 here, and it may make my reader understand me 
 and my conclusions better. 
 
 I have been a newspaper woman for seven years, 
 and a Christian only four. Born and brought up in 
 the Roman Catholic faith and nurtured in its bosom, 
 I came easily to look upon it as the true church. A 
 priest once told my father, after I had answered 
 some catechism questions in a rather bright way, 
 that I would yet be a defender of the faith. He did 
 not know then how true God could make his words, 
 or how He would teach me what the faith was. 
 
 If I could describe the way in which I drifted into 
 agnosticism it would do no good, but I really can- 
 not. I had a passion for knowledge, and a con- 
 tempt for people who accepted as true what other 
 people told them, without personal investigation. 
 The only thing I firmly believed was that sex did 
 not count in either goodness or brains, and that I 
 was going to be as good and as brave as if I were 
 a boy. 
 
FIRST GLIMPSES II 
 
 I was born in Ireland, and loved it as perhaps few 
 girls ever loved their own land. I commenced to 
 love it and study its tragic history when most girls 
 are playing with dolls; and as church and state are 
 closely intertwined in the past history of the 
 country, I could not help questioning many things, 
 with the result that I dethroned some popular saints 
 and heroes and elected others that it was even 
 heresy to mention. 
 
 In spite of the beauty of the ideal Christ, religion 
 I believed to be a relic of the dark ages, crudely 
 remodeled as a family institution. Sectarianism 
 and its squabbles wearied and puzzled me too, and 
 after a time I followed Swift in his decision that 
 Protestants and Roman Catholics had religion 
 enough to make them Jiate, but not enough to make 
 them love one another. But this was the "follow- 
 ing" of an immature mind, and when I became 
 converted through the influence of that woman of 
 God, Mrs. Ballington Booth, I decided that real 
 religion was not a matter of creed, but of personal 
 conviction. It was not a question of "what denom- 
 ination," but of meeting the Savior of the world and 
 hearing Him say: "I am the door; by Me if any 
 man enter in he shall be saved." 
 
12 A KKl'ORTKR A'l" MOODY S 
 
 I went to report a si)ecch of Mis. Ii(joth's for the 
 press, and never ^ot away from her inlhience until 
 I knew my Lord. Now I eould understand her 
 statement that "soul-savini^ broug-ht more joy than 
 anvthini;- else on earth." I had experienced the 
 miracle of conversion. Doubt and denial had van- 
 ished like a mirage^ and in the light of the Sun of 
 Righteousness I saw things in their true proportions 
 and in their proper place. I learned that Roman 
 Catholicism and Protestantism had many of God's 
 jewels in their caskets, but alas! I learned too that 
 there are many jewels lost and others still unpol- 
 ished, and that the fields are white for the harvest. 
 
 Let me give this word of warning to Christian 
 workers. Meet an honest doubter honestly and 
 intelligently. It was because a clergyman "pooh- 
 poohed" my doubts that I went over to infidelity 
 where truth was (as I then thought) given its own 
 honored place, and where even kindergarten ques- 
 tions were respected. Questioning a truth is not 
 denying it. Every person has the sacred right of 
 saying: "Has my Lord said this, and is this the 
 true interpretation?" As Mr. Torrey said one day: 
 "Whatever God does is right, and God will not do 
 anything that is not right." 
 
WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT (MAIN BUILDING). 
 228, 230, 232 L,aSalle Avenue. 
 
14 A REF'ORTER AT MOODY S 
 
 My Bible was practicall}' a sealed book to me, and 
 I wanted it opened by hands that would handle its 
 pages reverently and point me to the truth. It was 
 not theolog-y or controversy or scholarship I wanted, 
 as much as the "words of life, "the "Thus saith the 
 Lord ' that I could live and die by. I wanted to 
 make up to my blessed Lord for all the years I had 
 denied Him. I wanted to work for the salvation of 
 the lost, because He had put something within my 
 own soul that would not let me keep quiet. I 
 believed my Bible, because when I took its Author 
 at His word He saved me, and gave me new life, 
 new desires, a new vision, new power, — Himself. 
 Yet of course there were things in the Bible I could 
 not understand, so I commenced to read on the sub- 
 ject. But alas! the libraries contained whole rows 
 of books trying to compromise on certain truths the 
 writer's own darkened soul could not accept; but 
 few indeed did I find who believed God's Word 
 fully. 
 
 I turned away sick at heart. Was God a liar? 
 Could Christ tell a truth in one place and a lie in 
 another? Was the Bible His Word? Are there no 
 prophets to-day? Is there no one who is a living 
 monument to God's truth? 
 
FIRST GLIM PS KS I 5 
 
 "Yes, there is Moody." 
 
 The answer came from a New York society 
 woman, who, while not accepting the Bible as j\lr. 
 Moody did, yet saw God's marvelous power in his 
 life. She was a true Christ-follower, and felt her 
 own spiritual life quickened by his teacliino^. 
 
 "I believe in Moody," she said to me. "He is 
 honest, he is not a fanatic, he is practical, he 
 believes and lives what he says. Go to Moody's. " 
 
 Then I recalled the fact that the newspapers be- 
 lieved in him, that they gave columns to his simple 
 talks, and that while the reporters smiled at his 
 out-of-date orthodoxy and his attacks upon the 
 Sunday newspaper, they said: 
 
 "But he means what he says. Moody cannot be 
 bought." 
 
 So much for one man's sincerity. I thank God 
 that I listened to the voice of the friend who said, 
 "Go to Moody's." And now you know why I rang 
 the bell at No. 230 La Salle Avenue, Chicago, which, 
 as the cabman said, is "where the women students 
 live." 
 
CHAPTER II 
 
 ]\iiss s'rRON(;'s welcome 
 It is lo o'clock at night, and I am ushered into the 
 library by a student. Now, every one who has been 
 fortunate enough to have been a resident of the 
 Women's Department knows what the library is 
 like. The tempting rows of books (the rows not as 
 large or as long as we wish, though), that charm 
 her into the regions of Christian philosophy, or 
 carry her away to heathen lands, or transport her 
 back to the days when Jesus of Nazareth walked 
 among men, are not the least welcome among the 
 many privileges offered. She knows, too, that that 
 stamp box on the mantelpiece is patronized often, 
 and she remembers as one of the pleasantest recol- 
 lections of the day, the half-hour spent in letter 
 writing to dear ones at home, and the enthusiastic 
 desire she was possessed of to have all her friends 
 desert the camp and come to the Institute. But they 
 
 had to "tarry by the stuff," as she perhaps is doing 
 
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MISS STRONC; S WELCOME I 7 
 
 now, if she is a pastor's wife (and theie are many 
 such among former students). 
 
 But here I am dreaming about other days, and 
 "seein' things at niglit," while ^liss Strong is wait- 
 ing to shake hands with me. 
 
 The pleasant woman before me has almost a 
 hundred students here, but I am none the less con- 
 vinced that she is glad to have inc. What a world 
 of cheer there is in a hearty handshake! I am sure 
 that when my worthy ancestor Robinson Crusoe 
 met Friday, he shook hands with him with as much 
 joy as if he had been named Sunday. Aliss Strong 
 does not take a woman's hand as if she were trying 
 to feel her pulse without letting her know it. While 
 she talks to me I recall the Avords of a letter I 
 received from Miss Sara L. Carson, a former Insti- 
 tute girl, who is now at the head of a Gospel settle- 
 ment in New York, and whose work and life do 
 credit to her Alma Mater : 
 
 "I rejoice that you are going to the Bible Insti- 
 tute," she wrote. "I know what a dear true friend 
 you will find in Miss Strong, I can promise you 
 that you will never be disappointed in her.'' 
 
 "I do not believe I will," I assure myself, and then 
 the object of my thoughts advises me to go to bed. 
 
MISS STR0N(;'S WELCOME 1 9 
 
 I like my little room; it is airy, light, and pleas- 
 ant. It contains a cozy bed, a book-shelf for my 
 treasures, a writing table, and the etceteras. They 
 are all etceteras to-night, except the bed. I look at 
 my watch and note that it is 1 1 p. m., and in spite 
 of the musical breakfast bell, I do not resume 
 acquaintance with myself for ten hours afterwards. 
 I awake with an appetite that always goes where I 
 go, and after satisfying it, I go where ev^ery one else 
 is going — to the lecture room, which is in the men's 
 department, separated only by an alley from the 
 women's quarters. 
 
CHAPTER III 
 
 'music hath charms" 
 Now, for the first time, I meet Professor Daniel 
 B. Towner— that is, I meet him at a distance— this 
 great big man 
 whose repartee 
 convulses his pu- 
 pils, and whose 
 sarcasm is a con- 
 stant delight, as 
 well as an efficient 
 means of quicken- 
 ing the mental en- 
 ergies. I think I 
 would rather meet 
 him at a distance 
 just yet. It is the 
 compulsory sing- 
 ing class that is '''^^'"•■- "'^■■^'"■-'' '•■ i'*'^vxf,r. 
 assembled, and wlien one hears the voices she 
 
 knows why it is "compulsory." There are many 
 
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MUSIC HATH CHARMS 21 
 
 fine voices at the Institute, but the other kind (my 
 kind) is not hard to find. 
 
 Of course we never think about the punctuation 
 in music, so when the opening- hymn is announced 
 we sing with a great deal of self-reliance: 
 
 'Trembling I hang upon Thy Word." 
 
 "You deserve to hang, for murdering music in 
 that way," comments the jolly-looking leader on the 
 platform, and then some of us learn for the first 
 time that there are pauses in music, as well as in 
 unmusical prose, and that we have been guilty of 
 many crimes against hymn-writers and the public 
 in general. And it may not be out of place to say 
 here, that while elocution is not taught at the Insti- 
 tute, Mr. Torrey impresses on the students the 
 necessity of proper emphasis and voice inflexion in 
 the reading of the Scriptures, and will frequently be 
 heard to say, when some one distorts a passage from 
 the Word by a reading peculiarly his own : 
 
 "Yes, but I do not think He said it in that 
 way. ' ' 
 
 Then he makes the correction. 
 
 But let us turn our attention to Professor Towner. 
 
 "Will that pleasant-faced young woman in the 
 
2 2 A RKPORTER AT MOODY S 
 
 fourth row come up and sinp^ a solo for us? — oh, 
 don't look so unconcerned! I mean you." 
 
 "But I can't sing, Mr. Towner!" 
 
 "Possibly; but we want to be convinced. Come 
 up, please, 'twill do us good, and you too." 
 
 She goes. The "bassos," as Mr. Towner calls 
 the men on the right side of the room, laugh a 
 deep but sympathetic laugh, the sopranos emit a 
 clear "he he," and the tenors and altos, together 
 with the unclassified ones, look very sober. I do 
 not know why, unless possibly they have been "up" 
 themselves, or possibly tenors and altos and unclas- 
 sified singers have more sympathy than bassos and 
 sopranos. 
 
 The girl from the fourth row sings in about 
 four different keys at once. Then she catches the 
 look on Mr. Towner's face, goes a little higher, 
 then gives it up, and laughs with much more music 
 than she sang. The whole room rings with laughter 
 now, and when it ceases the singer is allowed to go. 
 
 "You did your best — but my! how glad we are it 
 is all over," he says; and no one enjoys the remark 
 better than the girl herself. 
 
 Tradition has it that one young woman sang and 
 cried at the same time. She came to be taught, and 
 
"music hath charms" 23 
 
 Mr. Towner was determined to teach her, even if 
 she insisted upon introducing new notes in a minor 
 strain. This same girl said later that she was 
 thankful for the heroic treatment she received. 
 
 The quick eye of the teacher notices that several 
 men are dreaming instead of singing, so he says: 
 
 "We really have some good singers here, and they 
 are all aristocrats. They would not think of singing 
 with the common crowd, and I do not blame them. 
 Gentlemen, when you want to sing alone, just look 
 knowingly at me, and smile in that superior fashion 
 — you know how; then /will understand and look 
 back at you knowingly, and presently I will ask you 
 to walk up here, and show us what yoii can do. Ah 
 (turning to the class), you common people don't 
 know the surprise that is in store for you when these 
 gentlemen come up here to sing." 
 
 The common people enjoy the joke immensely, 
 and no second warning is needed. The "aristo- 
 crats" sing as loudly as the others during the next 
 selection, and not a "knowing" look escapes them. 
 
 Professor Towner is a great lover of the dear old 
 hymns, and makes it a strong point to have them 
 
24 A REPORTER AT MOODY S 
 
 sung in an intelligible, reverent way. Those who 
 can sing "Yankee Doodle" may be assured that if 
 they enter his class and take his humorous reproofs 
 in the spirit that all the students who know him 
 take them, they will some day bless him for discov- 
 ering their faults and curing them. Of course there 
 is more individual work done in his special classes, 
 and it is done in the characteristic way Professor 
 Towner does everything. Our Institute nurse used 
 to say that his classes were the best tonic she could 
 recommend to her patients. 
 
 The class is over, and as we pass down the aisle, 
 we note that there are several hundred men and 
 women in the lecture room. They have clear, 
 bright intelligent faces. Some have the student 
 stoop, but a great many have the athletic swing that 
 speaks of the country, the open air, and clear fresh 
 health. The faces that tell of a healthy normal 
 pure life; the classroom results that show thinking, 
 reasoning, unbiased minds, open to truth ; the wit 
 and humor that are disclosed on many unexpected 
 occasions; the questions that prove that the Scrip- 
 tures are searched ; the faith that kicks from under 
 
"music hath charms 25 
 
 it the props ])laccd by weak-eyed scholais, and 
 mounts to the heights above; the vigor and earnest- 
 ness tliat accompanies clear minds and strong con- 
 victions: all these make me believe that when one 
 is privileged to live among "Moody students" he 
 can be thankful. 
 
 In the meantime, as we are nearing the door, we 
 may as well glance at the Colportage books on the 
 table, and as we need some stationery we may as 
 well buy it at the book counter. We must hurry, 
 because the next lecture will commence in a few 
 minutes. We pass out into the hall, peep into the 
 library, and then step out into Institute Place. 
 There across the street is the headquarters of the 
 Colportage Association. And now we get back home 
 aofain. 
 
CHAPTER IV 
 
 CHICKEN AND OTHER THINGS 
 
 We have chicken and ice cream for dinner. Every 
 former student knows it is Wednesday, for that is 
 the day when the brown hen comes down from her 
 perch in the family coop to gladden the student's 
 heart. I do not mean that said hen is always 
 brown, or always obedient in coming down, or that 
 she arrives just in time to be cooked. I merely 
 attempt to be poetic, and make the explanation for 
 the benefit of the reader who takes everything liter- 
 ally. I am especially cai*eful about doing this, 
 because of something Mr. Torrey once said: A 
 student had announced in the classroom that a 
 friend of his "insisted upon spiritualizing every- 
 thing, and would take nothing literally." 
 
 "I know there are many who are pulling the Word 
 
 of God apart, and will not see its plain teaching," 
 
 replied Mr. Torrey, "but be careful that you do not 
 
 become too prosaic and go to the other extreme. 
 
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CHICKEN AND OTHER THINGS 27 
 
 I knew a man once who had heard Shakspere's 
 statement about 'books in the nmning brooks, ser- 
 mons in stones, and g^ood in everything^. ' He puz- 
 zled and puzzled over it, but being a common-sense 
 man he at last decided that what the poet meant was 
 that there were sermons in books, stones in brooks, 
 and that everything was good in its own place." 
 
 The grace sung daily at the midday meal is as 
 follows : 
 
 "Be present at our table, Lord, 
 Be here and everywhere adored, 
 These mercies bless and grant that we 
 May feast in Paradise with Thee." 
 
 Miss Strong acts as head of one table, Miss Carey, 
 her able assistant, as another, and Mrs. Harper, our 
 matron, as a third, and Miss Rosie as a fourth. The 
 older students (I mean of course those who have 
 been students longest; beware of a too literal inter- 
 pretation) preside at the other tables, and the 
 students who have no such responsibilities wait on 
 each other in turn. 
 
 After dinner the girls assemble in the parlors to 
 receive from Miss Strong their "verse for the day." 
 
25 A RKI'ORTKk AT MOODV S 
 
 I well renieml:)cr what the one on my first occasion 
 was: 
 
 "All that I have is thine." 
 
 It was a solemn scene when the 3^011 ng- mission- 
 aries repeated it after her, and then knelt down to 
 ask their heavenly Father to make it a real verse 
 to them, as they went out into the highways and 
 byways to carry the Gospel of their Redeemer to 
 those who knew it not. Miss Strong- seeks to 
 impress the students constantly with the importance 
 of their high calling, and with the knowledge that 
 unless the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from -the 
 dead is dwelling in them, they can no more carry 
 Life Eternal to a dead soul than they could cause a 
 flower of the forest to grow by preaching to it. 
 
 I was not at the Institute a week l)efore I com- 
 menced to realize the greatness of D. L. Moody's 
 work. No sentimental religion finds a berth there. 
 Every one who enters its doors is taught that while 
 the promises of God are true, there are conditions 
 to be met to make them so, and that if iniquity is 
 regarded in the heart, the Lord does not answer 
 prayer. The " fresh ies" know that not every one 
 
30 A K K.PORTER AT MOODY S 
 
 who says "Lord, Lord" will enter the kingdom of 
 heaven, and that the "new creature," made new 
 by the blood of the Son of God, is the only being 
 that is counted for time and eternity. They are 
 handed a Bible that contains no "lovely Hebrew 
 legends," and is tainted with no blight of modern 
 agnosticism. One of our bright girls once said that 
 an agnostic is a person who does not know anything, 
 and who gets mad because people agree with him. 
 
 'Did you ever know a man who denied the truth 
 of the Scriptures to bring fire down from heaven, 
 the fire and power of the Holy Spirit, the fire that 
 burned in the martyrs' souls, the fire that moved 
 Paul to say 'Woe is me if I preach not the Gospel'? " 
 This was one of the pertinent questions asked once 
 by Mr. W. R. Newell (whom we will meet later on) 
 during an exposition of i Kings i8. 
 
 An agnostic is all woe and no Gospel. He will 
 not take Christ's testimony; no wonder if he rejects 
 Jonah's. He thinks that much learning made Patil 
 mad, and much ignorance makes the unfortunates 
 of to-day, who believe him, even madder. But 
 behold a paradox indeed! Much learning makes 
 the doubter sane, and much credulity makes his 
 followers equally so. 
 
(:hic:kex and othrf. things 31 
 
 "Is Mr. So-and-so sound?" asked a student of Mr. 
 Torrey one day, in the lecture room. 
 
 "He is all sound," replied our teacher; and 
 knowing the "scientist" we believed it. 
 
 No wonder that God blessed you, dear, honest, 
 homespun D wight L. ]\loody. In this and other 
 lands your name will be loved and your influence felt 
 when the books of death and doubt and pessimism 
 will have disappeared. 
 
 Prompt as the stroke of 6 o'clock, so is the even- 
 ing tea-bell. If the bells were a minute late, Mrs. 
 Harper's business infallibility would be a dead 
 doctrine ; but so far it is very much alive. 
 
 At my table sit nine of the cleverest young 
 women (of course I am included in the number) 
 that ever deigned to live among ordinary people. 
 We argue the most abstruse questions, making 
 many hair-splitting distinctions ; and indeed why we 
 ever attend the lectures when we know so much, is 
 a question that perplexes us all. But strange to say 
 though we are very pompous at the table we shrink 
 into small places quite easily in the lecture room. 
 We differ on the question of woman suffrage, we 
 
32 A REPORT KR AT MOODY S 
 
 have varied opinions about the war m the Philip- 
 pines, we are even divided on the question of the 
 Biblical supremacy of man; but when it comes to 
 the heart of the question: "Is woman not as good 
 as man?" the imiversal answer is guess it! 
 
 Whatever our decision was we stood together in 
 it, and we do still. 
 
 The question of the usage of the word "obey" in 
 the marriage ceremony came up once, and caused 
 much serious reflection and a great deal of argu- 
 ment, but it was finally and irrevocably settled by a 
 student who said in a serio-comic voice that was 
 meant to impress, and certainly did : 
 
 "Girls, 'tis manners to wait to be asked." 
 
 There was at least one "new woman" at our 
 table, "new" in the sense that she believed it was 
 not a sin of woman to be "strong minded," or a 
 virtue to be weak minded. She believed with a 
 very strong belief that if a woman was given brains 
 she really ought to use them, and that the posses- 
 sion of executive ability did not mean "mannish- 
 ness. " She even had temerity enough to assert 
 that some women knew more than some men, and 
 might teach members of the stronger sex occasion- 
 ally. For a woman to learn from her husband now- 
 
CHICKr.N AND OTHER THINGS 33 
 
 adays is good doctrine too, she said, if she has one, 
 and if he knows more about the Word than she 
 does; but when he does not, as it sometimes hap- 
 pens, — well, that is a puzzler. In defense of this 
 "new woman" let we add that I never met a more 
 lovable womanly woman, or one more open to 
 reason or more given to fairness. She was con- 
 stantly doing good, defending this one or that, and 
 putting the best possible construction on everything 
 about which there Avas a doubt. And there were 
 many of her kind at the Institute — lovable, true, 
 noble women, obedient to God and His teaching, 
 but seeking the truth with the free unfettered 
 minds that the Holy Spirit imparts. The Moody 
 Institute drags no one into mental slavery, and if 
 there is one fad it is this: "See it for yourself, and 
 think independently of every one but God." 
 
CHAPTER V 
 
 "rightly dividing the word" 
 I had heard of the Rev. Reuben Archer Torrey 
 so often, and had a passing acquaintance with him 
 for so long through his books, that I felt as if I was 
 looking into a friend's face when I met him in the 
 lecture room. I wish that this book might tell a 
 little of the gratitude I feel for the privilege of 
 being permitted to enjoy his sound teaching, his 
 sublime faith, clear unbiased mind and vigorous 
 Christian strength. Mr. Torrey is a scholar who 
 followed the leopard into his lair in Germany, and 
 so knows just what his spots are, and what caused 
 them. Tackle him on Greek, Hebrew or some 
 knotty metaphysical problem, then ask him to pray 
 with you; and if he has taken any cf the conceit out 
 of you, because of his knowledge of books, you will 
 readily forgive him and love him for his knowledge 
 of and devotion to TJic Book. 
 
 I will only attempt to give a few points from Mr. 
 34 
 
RIGHTLV I)I\lI)IN(i THI'L WORD 
 
 35 
 
 Torrey's teachings here, but they will serve to show 
 his crisp, unadorned style of presenting- the truth. 
 
 Question: What does it mean, when it says in Gen. 
 1:27, "God created man in His own image"? 
 
 Answer: It is told in the following passages: Col. 
 3:10, "And have put on the new man, which is 
 renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that 
 created him." Eph. 4:23, 24, "And be renewed in 
 the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the new 
 man, which after God is created in righteousness 
 and true holiness." Col. 1:15, "Who is the image 
 of the invisible God, the first born of every crea- 
 ture" (Compare i Tim. 1:17). "The words image 
 and likeness, evidently do not refer to visible or 
 bodily likeness, but to intellectual and moral like- 
 ness — likeness in knowledge, righteousness, holi- 
 ness and truth." 
 
 Agreeing that spirit may be and has been mani- 
 fested in visible form, Mr. Torrey brings up the 
 question whether there is a contradiction between 
 Exodus 24:9,10, where it is said, "They saw the God 
 of Israel," and Jno 1:18, where the statement is 
 made that "No man has seen God at any time." 
 His answer is: 
 
 "None whatever. To illustrate: A man mav see 
 
36 A REPORTER AT IMOODY's 
 
 the reflection of his face in a glass. It would be 
 true for the man to say, 'I saw my face,' and also 
 true to say, 'I never saw my face.' So men have 
 seen a manifestation of God, and it is perfectly true 
 to say those men saw God. No man ever saw God 
 as He is in His invisible essence, and so it is perfectly 
 true to say, 'No man hath seen God at any time.' " 
 To prove the unity of God, Mr. Torrey takes such 
 texts as Deut. 4 : 35 ; Deut. 6:4; Is. 43 : 10 ; Is. 44 : 6 ; 
 Is. 45 : 5 ; I Tim. 2:5; Mark 10 : 18 ; and INIark 12:29. 
 He teaches that while "the Lord our God is one 
 Lord, and there is no God beside Him," the word 
 translated "one" in these passages denotes a com- 
 pound unity, as in Gen. 2:24: "Therefore shall a 
 man leave his father and his mother, and shall 
 cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." 
 See also Gen. 11:6 ("And the Lord said. Behold the 
 people is one"); i Cor. 3:6-8; i Cor. 12:13; Com- 
 pare Jno. 17: 22, 23; Gal. 3: 28. To show the Trin- 
 ity in the Godhead, Mr. Torrey proves that the Old 
 Testament word most frequently used for God is 
 plural in form (see Gen. 1:26: Gen. 11 :; ; Gen. 
 3:22; and Is. 6:8). In Zech. 2:10, 11 note how the 
 Lord (Jehovah) speaks of Himself as being sent by 
 the Lord (Jehovah) of Hosts. 
 
^8 A REPORTER AT MOODY 'S 
 
 Of course the question arises here: "How can 
 God be tliree and one at the same time?" Mr. 
 Torrey says: "He cannot be three and one in thfe 
 same sense. A perfectly satisfactory answer to this 
 question is manifestly impossible from tlie very 
 nature of the case; because God is spirit, and num- 
 bers belong- primarily to the physical world — and 
 difficulty must arise when we attempt to conceive 
 spiritual being- in the forms of physical thought." 
 
 I was exceedingly thankful to have answered the 
 question that follows, because it was one that had 
 perplexed me often. I put the question in my own 
 form : 
 
 "If God is an infinitely wise God, how could He 
 repent of things He intended to do, as in Jonah 
 3:10?" 
 
 Answer: "God remained the same in character, 
 infinitely hating sin, and in His purpose to visit sin 
 with judgment; but as Nineveh changed in its 
 attitude toward sin, God necessarily eJianged in His 
 attitude toivard Nineveh. If God remains the same, 
 if His attitude toward sin and unrighteousness is 
 unchanging, then must His dealings with men 
 change as they turn from sin to repentance." 
 
 An interesting proposition, and one that called 
 
"rightly dividing the word 39 
 
 forth a great many questions was this: "God is 
 everywhere. He is in all parts of the universe and 
 near each individual. In Him each individual lives 
 and moves and has his being (Ps. 139:7-10; Jer. 
 23: 23, 24; Acts 17: 24-28; Is. 57: 15)." 
 
 Student: "Mr. Torrey, is that not pantheism?" 
 
 Answer: "No, it is not. I am in this room, but 
 this room is not me. Got! is in everything, but 
 everything is not God. Then God is not every- 
 where in the same sense, by any means, (see J no. 
 14:28; Jno. 20:17; Eph. 1:20; Rev. 21:2, 3, 10, 
 22, 23; and Rev. 22: i, 3), but heaven is the place 
 where, at the present time, the presence. and glory 
 of God is especially manifested. Pantheism is 
 refuted in the first verse of the Bible: 'In the 
 beginning God created the heaven and the earth.' 
 
 A student asks Mr, Torrey whether he thinks a 
 man who has strictly evangelical truths to preach, 
 but who wants to emphasize some especial ones that 
 are neglected by the church, ought to found a new 
 church. "If he does," Mr. Torrey replies grimly, 
 "he will be apt to get in a hole and pull the hole in 
 after him." 
 
 With our teacher we see anew "the power of God 
 unto salvation," the charm of the Biblical narra- 
 
40 A REPORTER AT MOODY S 
 
 tives, the streni^th and brevity of its wonderful 
 philosophy, and with reverent hearts and bated 
 breath we are ready to say, "And the Word was 
 made flesh, and dwelt amon^- us." 
 
 Chicago is not the most beautiful place to live in, 
 but when one leaves the lecture room and walks 
 with his God, he sees what other men do not see — 
 he sees the trees in the city parks clapping their 
 hands for very joy; he sees the water in pond and 
 lake smiling, not at the kiss of the sun, but at the 
 remembrance of the Spirit of God who long ago 
 moved upon the face of the waters, and at the pres- 
 ence of the vSun of Righteousness; and he knows 
 that every bush in the autumn day is aflame with 
 God. 
 
CHAPTER VI 
 
 HOW ONE DAY WAS SPENT 
 
 The students are all rushing to and fro preparing- 
 to go out to their separate "parishes," and I get my 
 Bible and take my departure on my first week-day 
 assignment — a mother's meeting at Moseh^ Chapel, 
 Calumet Avenue and Twenty-fifth Street. I go 
 with a heart that is crying to God for the salvation 
 of souls, and on this first day I see two women 
 accept Jesus Christ as their Savior. 
 
 I am so happy over it that I can scarcely restrain 
 the tears which I used to maintain at one time were 
 a sign of unpardonable weakness. But I am feeling 
 too joyful to keep up even an appearance of 
 stolid dignity and when I see the glad light on the 
 faces of those around me, 1 forget everything but 
 my Savior's joy, and — I am a child again. Blessed, 
 blessed tears of joy, tears that relieve the mind and 
 speak of fresh unspoiled hearts — ah, we ought never 
 to be ashamed of theml They break down heart 
 barriers quicker than any preaching or sermonizing. 
 
 41 
 
42 A REPORTER AT MOODY S 
 
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 After the meeting I call on a sick child. Poor 
 wee bairnie, she is only eight years old, and as I 
 stroke her brown curls and look into her deep brown 
 eyes, I see there the light of another world, and I 
 know that mamma's girl will soon be with her lov- 
 ing Savior — the Savior who has something better 
 for every one of us than a mere extension of life on 
 earth. Her mother is a Christian, and the taking 
 of her little one from her is hard, but she is bless- 
 edly resigned. She knows that all things work 
 together for good to them that love God. He 
 knows best — He doeth all things well; and so we 
 just ask our Savior to keep the little one from pain 
 (she does not suffer now), and take her "home" 
 soon. It is not easy to see an adult endure pain, 
 but the woman who can see a little child suffering 
 without wanting to fold the little lamb to her heart 
 and bear the pain instead, has something left out of 
 her nature. 
 
 The little girl likes stories, and she is told some. 
 Then she talks wisely about Jesus. He has surely 
 taught her Himself, and she in turn teaches me. I 
 go away feeling as if a benediction follows me from 
 that girlie's bed; and I thank God for the ministry 
 
HOW ONE DAY WAS SPENT 43 
 
 to which the Institute inspires its students. Surely 
 every student who blesses and cheers and g-oes 
 among- the people "as one that serveth," finds 
 reflected sunshine finding its way back to his or her 
 own life, and glorifying it. 
 
 There are clever men in Chicago, and one puts 
 this question, to me: "Since God knew all that 
 would happen, and since He knew that man would 
 fall, and since man did fall and the world is full of 
 sin, don't you think Mr. Moody is foolish in trying 
 to do a work God failed at?" 
 
 "God did not fail," I reply, "and Mr. Moody is 
 proving that He did not." 
 
 "But creation is a failure," he says, "and the- 
 devil is triumphant." 
 
 "Do you see that house over there," I ask him 
 (pointing to a house in the course of erection) ; "tell 
 me, is that house a failure? — is the man who planned 
 it a fool?" 
 
 "Oh, I don't know." 
 
 "Of course not. You would wait until it is fin- 
 ished, would you not?" 
 
 "Yes." 
 
44 ^ rf.ih)RTi:r at moodv s 
 
 "Well, God's work is not yet complete. The 
 devil is not triumphant. He received a wound on 
 the resurrection morn that he will never g-et over. 
 Read the book of Revelation, and the Bible's teach- 
 m<r on Christ's vSecond Coming-, and you will see the 
 end of Satan and the triumph of God." 
 
 "Then why does God not destroy the devil now?" 
 
 "I don't know. Why does the United States not 
 chloroform (as some one suggests) every criminal 
 who incites others to crime? Satan is being used 
 now to work out God's plans, as in the case of 
 Joseph', who was sold as a slave by his devil-inspired 
 brothers, but was made a ruler of Egypt, for 'God 
 meant it unto him for good.' " 
 
 Now my questioner is thinking, and we talk about 
 the vSavior. He promises to go to hear Mr. Torrey 
 preach, and I turn my steps homewards. 
 
 I meet one of my Sabbath-school boys and ask 
 him what the next lesson is about. 
 
 "The Psalms," he answers glibly enough. 
 
 "And what are they?" 
 
 "They — w'y, she was de woman dat looked back, 
 an' was made a pillar o' salt." 
 
now ONE UAV WAS SPKNT 45 
 
 Rather discouraoing- outlook here, but I succeed in 
 making- hiiu understand before I oro away, and I 
 mentally remark that I am o^lad that we have 
 instruction in the matter of children's classes and 
 children's work. 
 
 One of our girls, to whom I related my experi- 
 ence with this little boy, told me about another 
 fellow who was asked by his mother, after returning 
 from Sabbath-school, what new hymn he had 
 learned. 
 
 "Oh," he answered, "something about a conse- 
 crated cross-eyed bear." 
 
 It seems that his teacher had taught her class to 
 sing "The Consecrated Cross I Bear," but never 
 stopped to explain the meaning of the words. 
 Another girl told of a child who was talking in a 
 clever fashion about the foe of her soul. 
 
 "Who is the foe of your soul?" asked the student. 
 
 The child did not know, but another precocious 
 girl said : 
 
 "Foe, foe, — oh, I know, — Spain!" 
 
 TS- Vf -TV- 4{- -sf 
 
 Well, we are all back at the dear old Institute 
 
46 A RKPORTF.R AT MOODY's 
 
 again, tired after a day of toil, but g-lad because we 
 have touched other lives and told the old, old story- 
 over ag-ain. 
 
 Now we are ready for tea. After our cups are 
 emptied and oar chatting is over, we draw our 
 chairs back to the wall and range ourselves com- 
 fortably around the room while one of our number 
 gives the customary evening Bible talk. Some of 
 the girls have fine thoughts and are deeply taught, 
 not only on doctrinal truth, but in the things of the 
 Spirit, but they have scarcely ever (with but few 
 exceptions) spoken in public, and so are more or 
 less afflicted with "stage fright." After a time this 
 wears away, and it is pleasant to see how these 
 evening gatherings develop the power of original 
 thinking, personal application of truth and freedom 
 of expression. None of us are critics, or we 
 become less so when our own turn to speak comes 
 around. The girls who have domestic work to do, 
 now go to the kitchen, and the others gather in 
 groups in the parlor and library to chat for awhile 
 before resuming their studies. Twelve hours of 
 study at the very least are supposed to be under- 
 taken every week by the student, and when five 
 "appointments" are added, besides some domestic 
 
MISvS E. S. STRONG. 
 
48 A REPORTER AT MOODY 's 
 
 work and the regular lectures, it makes it a 
 busy week indeed, and there is little time for 
 loiterino:. 
 
 Appointments include street visitation, leading- 
 religious meetings, teaching in Sunday-school, act- 
 ing as usher at some religious gathering, etc. The 
 student needs rugged health to accomplish the 
 work. A nurse, who is also a student, resides at 
 the Institute, giving professional help and advice to 
 those in need of both. 
 
 One of our students once appointed herself to be 
 "house-physician." She proved that she had 
 studied medicine by saying that her mother once 
 handed her some castor oil and she studied it for a 
 very long time before she took it. Her prescrip- 
 tions were "green fields, fresh air, eggs, milk, but- 
 ter, oysters, lots of sleep and some light cheery 
 reading until the tired feeling passes." 
 
 A witty but tired student said to her, after she 
 had given the usual prescription: 
 
 "Well, doctor, you ought to give me the prescrip- 
 tion, not tell it to me." 
 
 Our physican thereupon handed her a map of New 
 Jersey, saying: 
 
 "You will find the green field on the map. There 
 
HOW ONK DAY WAS SPENT 
 
 49 
 
 is a restaurant and grocery around the corner where 
 you can get the other ingredients." 
 
 There is a sw^eet, home atmosphere about the 
 Woman's Department that I puzzled for a long time 
 over. 
 
 "In such a large home," I asked myself, "h(nv 
 can the institutional element be kept out as success- 
 fully as it is?" 
 
 My question was answered by a more observant 
 student who said : 
 
 "Why, it is Miss Strong." 
 
 And is it not true that a person is always behind 
 a principle, a philosophy, or a truth? Yes, it was 
 ^liss Strong, supplemented by Mrs. Harper, and 
 Miss Carey. 
 
 Miss Emily S. Strong is a woman of good birth 
 and breeding, culture and refinement, but above 
 and over all these, one sees the evidences of the 
 new birth that brought to her the Christian gentle- 
 ness and the ethical strength that is breathed on the 
 Mount where that one great vSermon was preached. 
 She influences every life she touches, and she is so 
 blissfully unconscious of her own work and worth, 
 that her influence grows stronger all the time. 
 There is a gentle dignity about her that she carries 
 
50 A REPORTER AT MOODY S 
 
 even into the reading of Mark Twain's absurdities 
 (for when Christian biography and periodicals have 
 been attended to, she entertains the girls with lead- 
 ings from the current periodicals), and this very- 
 element always brings out into bolder relief what 
 she wants to emphasize. "Evenly-balanced, cool, 
 dignified, thoughtful," one would say, after seeing 
 her a few times; but, if one was present when she 
 talked about her Savior and ours, and sought to 
 lead "her girls" into the fullness of the Holy Spirit 
 and noted the tremor in the voice and the love, 
 womanly, tender love, making that quiet face beam, 
 one would long, as others often do, to get nearer to 
 the great heart they know is there. 
 
 Miss Carey, it seems to me, always points in her 
 teaching to grand, noble ideals, and Miss Strong 
 tells the new comer what to do when she enters the 
 gates where these ideals dwell. Miss Carey is an 
 inspiration to many, many lives at the Institute, and 
 if her strong personality, beaming through her 
 friendl}^ face, does not lift many a weak soul to a 
 higher level than its own, then no woman ever 
 did. 
 
 Mrs. Harper, being a mother herself, has the 
 mother qualities, and no one ever went to her with- 
 
HOW ONK DAY WAS SPENT 5I 
 
 out finding llierc the mother heart and the mother 
 welcome. 
 
 Let no prospective student ever fear that lier life 
 will be lonely and loveless at the Institute. There 
 is too much of God there to have such a fate await- 
 ing her. 
 
CHAPTER VII 
 
 TOUCHING HUiMAN SOULS 
 
 Reports of personal work are given by the stu- 
 dents every Tuesday morning- at ii o'clock, and 
 before letting the reader peep in at the men and 
 women ready to report on their work of soul-saving, 
 let me give a bit of personal reminiscence. 
 
 I called on a German family one day, and found 
 the man of the house up in arms (not Krag-Jorgen- 
 sen or Springfield) on the subject of the Boer- 
 English war. He said the British were thieves and 
 robbers and a lot of other things, while the Boers 
 were angels and a lot of other things also. He tried 
 to get my views, but I proved myself to be an apt 
 diplomat and kept my own counsel, though I freely 
 discussed the matter with him in a friendly way. I 
 knew that this was an unusual chance to be friendly 
 with the family, and would open the way for my 
 coming again, and I had sense enough to see that 
 attempting to talk on religious matters now would 
 
 52 
 
TOUCHIXC; HUMAN SOULS 
 
 53 
 
 only injure my purpose, hut my Cieiman friend, 
 knowing- I was a Christian, said: 
 
 "Hu, hul an' dey say dat Queen Victoria was a 
 Christian yet. She is a fine vun, I don't tink. A^en 
 I vas a Christian like she (here he rose up and 
 shook his fist at my passive self), I vould say to my 
 beoples: 'Ven you shocd dese harmless Boers any 
 longer I gif up de Queen pizzness. I'm de boss — 
 oder you be. You shdop now I' Vouldn't dat be de 
 vay to talk nicht var?" 
 
 I chokingly said that would be a very laudable 
 way to talk, but that possibly there were extenua- 
 ting circumstances. But he could not see anything 
 but Queen Victoria slaughtering the Boers. I had 
 a sly notion that he did not know the meauing of 
 extenuating circumstances. I have always found it 
 a good way to silence people by using or inventing 
 the strangest words possible. Many a time after- 
 wards he talked with me about God. He and his 
 wife know the Lord Jesus as their Savior, and in 
 that humble German home I often found heart com- 
 fort and rest. After all, one may talk about war if 
 it bi*ing"s peace. 
 
 It is not a bad plan for a Christian worker to be 
 well-informed about the topics of the day that inter- 
 
54 A REPORTER AT MOODY S 
 
 est his or her nci^^^hbor. You get a person to listen 
 to you if you know how to listen to him. 
 
 Mr. Torrey has charge of the personal work class 
 to-day, and he gives the students a chance to tell 
 what Scripture texts they would use with uncon- 
 verted people. 
 
 For the one who says: "I honestly want to believe 
 but cannot," John 7: 17, R. V. ("If any man 
 willeth to do His will, he shall know of the teach- 
 ing, whether it is of God or whether 1 speak from 
 myself"), is given. Let the person be only willing 
 to be made willing, and God will do the rest. Of 
 course the ever-blessed and familiar John 3: 16 is 
 given, as is also John 10:9 ("I am the door; by me 
 if any man enter in he shall be saved"), and other 
 texts that welcome the sinner to a loving Savior 
 after they have condemned him for his sin. 
 
 Mr. Torrey is a veritable physician of souls, and 
 if any student leaves the Institute with the idea that 
 he must do hurried, hasty, quack work "for the 
 night is coming," he has misinterpreted all the 
 teaching he received. 
 
 To-day he takes Isaiah 53:6 and 55: 7. "All we 
 
56 A RKPORTKK AT MOODY S 
 
 like sheep have <4one astray" he quotes, and then 
 he asks: 
 
 "Who?" 
 
 "All," is the answer. 
 
 "How have we j^one astray? — by committino^ great 
 sins and becoming very low?" 
 
 "No; by turning every one to his own way." 
 
 "Well (to supposed sinner), have you turned to 
 your own way?" 
 
 "Oh, I have never done any great harm." 
 
 "Possibly, but have you turned to your own, 
 rather than the Lord's, way?" 
 
 "Yes, 1 suppose I have." 
 
 "Very well, now you must forsake your way, and 
 even your thoughts, and return unto the Lord. 
 You are among the wicked and unrighteous because 
 you have chosoi the way of the astray sheep. But 
 listen: God will abundantly pardon you now that 
 you have turned to Kim, for 'the Lord hath laid on 
 Him the iniquity of us all.' " 
 
 ■^'Oh, but I am too bad to be saved," some one 
 may say, "and I really do not feel that God has 
 forgiven me." 
 
 "The blackest sin you can commit is not to 
 believe God — to tell your Creator and Savior that 
 
TOUCHING HUMAN SOULS 57 
 
 He lies. There is a faLse modesty that keeps people 
 out of heaven and happiness because they want to 
 be so polite and thoug^litful as to re-adjust thinii's for 
 God. He has g"iv'en His word that if you do your 
 part He will do His. He knows that you are not 
 worthy of His free grace, but at least you can prove 
 that you are not miworthy enough to doubt His 
 Word." 
 
 Over and over, ^Ir. Torrey repeats the Scripture 
 texts and their arguments, and he impresses the 
 fact upon the students that clearness and simplicity 
 are two of the most necessary implements for a 
 * ' workman approved. ' ' 
 
 "Never assume that your audience understands 
 things," he says; "explain everything, and if you 
 have not learned to be simple, become so by talking 
 to children. Get the Scripture texts classified in 
 your minds in an orderly way, so that you will know 
 just what cabinet holds the especial gem you want 
 at the moment vou need it." 
 
 At this particular report meeting one of the men 
 students tells a thrilling story of the conversion of 
 a woman whose case was one of demoniac possession 
 
58 A REPORTER AT IMOODy's 
 
 if ever there was one. She had been a Christian at 
 one time, but had deliberately disobeyed God in a 
 matter she had sure guidance about. Thereafter 
 she lost the peace of God, and after a time her mind 
 became affected; so much so that she planned to 
 murder- her husband and children. Her nature 
 seemed to undergo a violent change, and she hated 
 everbody, even her own child, declaring that she 
 knew she was eternally lost, and did not want to 
 hear about God. She tried to drive the young mis- 
 sionary from her house, but he would not go, and 
 after using the Word with her and praying to God 
 for her with the earnestness and belief of a faith 
 which had Christ for its author and finisher, she was 
 brought back to God, and restored to her right 
 mind. 
 
 A young woman told in a simple, touching way 
 of an actress whom she had led to Jesus, and of a 
 drunkard's home where she had sung the songs of 
 the Kingdom, and brought the light of the Gospel. 
 Others told of their weekly labors among the uncon- 
 verted. They learned from the failures and suc- 
 cesses of one another, and a new belief in the 
 Almightiness of El-Shaddai ("the God who is 
 enough") grew within the hearts of each student 
 
TOUCHING HUMAN SOULS 59 
 
 as they listened, and in one common faith their 
 souls became welded tooether. 
 
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 Every Saturday night both the men's and women'G 
 departments have oratherings for prayer and testi- 
 mony as to personal work and spiritual progress. 
 At these meetings former students are remembered 
 in loving prayer; their latest letters are read and 
 news of their work discussed. Students feel their 
 hearts enlarged by the knowledge that men and 
 women bound to them by ties of Christ-kinship, 
 similar interests and Institute fellowship, need and 
 long for their prayers and friendship. 
 
 Anecdotes of personal work, some full of pathos 
 and sadness, others of droll happenings and peculiar 
 people, are told in the family circles each week. 
 And hearts swell at times with praise and thanks- 
 giving, because we see the workings of the Lord. 
 
 I went with Miss H one Sunday morning to 
 
 the Pacific Garden Mission, and looked into faces 
 that were once (and not so long ago) blotted by 
 the mark of the beast, now glowing and glistening 
 as she told them of the power of Jesus and of the 
 Holy Spirit as revealed in the Acts of the Apostles. 
 
6o A RKPOKTER AT MOODY S 
 
 A drunken man broke the glass door during the 
 lesson, but not a member of the class moved. They 
 were used to such accidents and they were not used 
 to these things they were hearing about; nothing 
 could divert their attention. Ah, it was good to 
 hear them sing — "Since I found my Savior." But 
 it will be better still when we all sing that "new 
 song" that thrilled St. John's soul in the Isle of 
 Patmos. May we be found worthy 
 
CHAPTER VIIT 
 
 AP.OUT THE "white FIELDS*' 
 
 Every Fricl;iy murnin^i;- at 9 o'clock the students 
 gather in the lecture room for the sessions of the 
 Missionary vStudy and Prayer Union of the Bible 
 Institute. ^Ir. W. R. Newell, a former student and 
 now assistant superintendent, takes deep interest in 
 these meetings, and the fire and energy of his great 
 spirit always finds its way into the hearts of those 
 he addresses. The testimony of one of our girls, 
 who is preparing for Africa is an eloquent tribute to 
 his worth: "Mr. Newell," she said, "has the cour- 
 age of his convictions. He says what he thinks, 
 even if he does not always think along conventional 
 lines, and his frankness and freshness is positively 
 inspiring to me. Then, too, he is an ideal teacher, 
 for he does the students the honor to think with 
 them rather than for them. He is always studying 
 while he is on the platform, and you see the glad- 
 ness on his face as he suddenly finds out something 
 
 new about Christ. He reminds me of the men who 
 
 61 
 
02 A REPORTER AT MOODY S 
 
 fought and died for God and truth in the dark days 
 of the church. He would be a martyr (and a grand 
 one) if the voice of his Lord called him to take up 
 the cross, and I always want to do and dare grand 
 things after I come away from his missionary 
 meetings. " 
 
 With such a leader those on the seats below are 
 not indifferent to the cry of the sin -blinded and 
 night-enveloped children of the Dark Continent, or 
 the enslaved and famine-sick women of India. 
 "Women," did I say? Oh, Christian women who 
 are truly dignified with that great name, when will 
 you go to her, to lift her up to your stature, to your 
 Christ? From time to time, returned missionaries 
 attend our meetings and tell us of their work; slow 
 toil, weary toil, and sometimes so fev\r results that 
 one could not help asking how they endured it at all 
 without losing courage and forgetting to hope. But 
 they knew God! That is the answer to many a 
 perplexing question, that is the knowledge that 
 kindles the eye, binds up the broken-hearted and 
 heals the feeble-hearted, that is the knowledge that 
 sees the name of Jesus written on the filthiest 
 being that ever found a hiding place on God's 
 footstool. 
 
ACOUT THE "white FIELDS" 63 
 
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 And in these missionary meetings we are let into 
 strange secrets. A returned missionary from India 
 told us one day that the Mahomedans always seemed 
 to have a great welcome for her, and during her visits 
 the man of the house would lie on his floor, while his 
 wife waited upon him with great solicitude and the 
 missionary told him Bible stories. He always wanted 
 to hear the creation story; no matter what kind of 
 Mahomedan he was — big or little, fat or thin, nice- 
 looking or ug-ly, he wanted to hear the creation story. 
 
 "I wondered sorely about this," said our mission- 
 ary, "and one day I learned the secret. A woman 
 is of no account in the eyes of the people I was 
 working among. No matter how vile, cruel or 
 unfaithful her husband is, the woman has to bow 
 down and acknowledge him as her master and 
 superior. I was one day comforting an unhappy 
 wife, and as she recounted to me her sorrows I said: 
 'But why don't you advise your husband; he might 
 do better if you did.' 'Ah,' she said sadly, 'have 
 you forgotten the creation story you always read to 
 my husband? You know what happened when Eve 
 advised her husband. ' And then I could see why 
 the Mahomedans liked that story." 
 
MRS. S. I!. CAPROX. 
 
AI50UT THE "WHITK FIFJ.DS" 65 
 
 We langh at the pathetic luimor in that answer — 
 and is that all? 
 
 Thank God, my Cliristian sisters, tluit in Christ 
 Jesus there is neither male nor female, bond nor 
 free, that He came doin^^- away with the curse, tliat 
 He made all women royal by becoming- "the seed of 
 the woman," that He gathered faithful women 
 about Him, and that the Roman maidens who were 
 tortured to death for His sake were as truly His 
 martyrs as were the kingly defenders of tlie faith 
 who were surely our highest type of men. Sister 
 women, we owe not only life and light and hope and 
 heaven to Jesus Christ, but the right to social, men- 
 tal and physical freedom. Shall we not be Hypatias 
 of the Kingdom's philosophy? 
 
 w %v TT TV w 
 
 I cannot close this chapter without quoting some 
 of the philosophy I gleaned from time to time from 
 the talks of returned missionaries. 
 
 "When I went to Persia I found I took myself 
 with me," said one; "I had tlie same temptations 
 face me in heathendom that beset me in civilization. 
 We carry our own environment with us. Oh, tliank 
 God that it can be 'Not I, but Christ.' " 
 
 With unconscious humor a Swiss lady-physician. 
 
66 A REPORTER AT MOODY 'S 
 
 who came to the United States for a rest after her 
 arduous duties as a medical missionary, said: 
 "Please pray for the missionaries in India. The 
 hot weather is ahriost unbearable, and they suffer 
 much. The deval and his hosts don't mind the 
 heat." 
 
 "The requisites for a foreign missionary," said 
 another, "are personal consecration, common sense, 
 tact, adaptibility and versatility. O^ie must have 
 the knack of 'getting on' with people, for even mis- 
 sionaries have personal idiosyncrasies, and you must 
 try to get on sweetly with them whether they are 
 congenial or not. You will only see the queer, 
 cranky, peculiar side at first, but yon must seek for 
 the lovable. In your work you must be ready to do 
 anything, from making a coffin for a dead member 
 of your little flock to putting up a house, preaching 
 a sermon without notice or making a loaf of bread. 
 Be sure not to offend the religious or social pecul- 
 iarities of the people you work amongst. Learn 
 their ways, respect their customs and try to become 
 one of them for Jesus' sake. Then you can catch 
 them without guile." 
 
CHAPTER IX 
 
 FACTS AND PHILOSOPHY 
 
 There is little difference in the routine of life 
 between the men's and women's departments. The 
 following daily programme will ^^ive a pretty 
 accurate idea of how a student's time is occupied 
 during the winter term. 
 
 Tuesday — 
 
 9 a. m. — Chapter Summary. 
 
 10 a. m. — Elementary Notation. 
 
 11 a. m. — Personal Work, or Report Meeting. 
 2 : 30 p. m. — ]\Iale Chorus. 
 
 5 p. m. — Physical Culture Class. 
 
 8 p. m. — Synthetic Bible Study. 
 Wednesday — 
 
 9 a. m. — Normal Bible Class. 
 
 10 a. m. — General Chorus. 
 
 11 a. m. — Bible Doctrine. 
 
 1 : 30 p. m. — Elementary Harmony. 
 5 p. m. — Physical Culture. 
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68 A REPORTER AT MOODY S 
 
 Thursday — 
 
 9 a. ni. — Methods of Children's work. 
 
 10 a. m. — Advanced Notation. 
 
 11 a. m. — Bible Doctrine. 
 
 I : 30 p. m. — Advanced Harmony. 
 5 p. m. — Physical Culture. 
 
 Friday— 
 
 9 a. m. — ^lissionary vStudy and Prayer Union. 
 
 10 a. m. — Elementary Notation. 
 
 11 a. m. — Bible Doctrine. 
 
 1 : 30 p. m. — Normal Training Class (music). 
 5 p. m. — Physical Culture. 
 
 Saturday — 
 
 9 a. m. — "Romans" (analytical study). 
 
 10 a. m. — Conducting Class (music). 
 
 1 1 a. m. — International Sunday School Lesson. 
 5 p. m. — Physical Culture. ' 
 
 Monday is always "Rest Day" at the Institute. 
 The day belongs to each one to use it wisely or 
 foolishly, as they think best. Some use it foolishly; 
 they study, attend to neglected buttons and similar 
 duties, and of course they suffer for their zeal after 
 a time. Others brush up their bicycle clothes and 
 go into the parks and woods, and breathe in the 
 
FACTS AND rHILOSOPHY 69 
 
 atmosplierc that makes every bit o' green fresh and 
 inspiring, and that speaks of the God whose physical 
 laws are as sacred as His other written and unwrit- 
 ten ones. If Christian workers everywhere would 
 learn to love nature, their ministry would be 
 sweeter, holier and grander. Let a tired weary 
 woman, worn from contact with the work-a-day 
 world and her soul locked up by a common-place 
 key of her own making, see you come in with your 
 cheeks all aglow, your eyes bright and your hands 
 warm from shaking hands with Mother Nature, and 
 she will straighten up and look at you and listen 
 gladly to the Gospel of spiritual and physical health 
 you bring her. Oh, my friends, drop your books 
 and your nerves and your fretting. Stop surveying 
 sin and sadness for a time, and go apart and rest 
 awhile with the ]\laster. Go up into the mountain 
 where the air is fresh and pure, and listen to the 
 fairies of dew and sunset watering the grass and the 
 wild flowers, and hushing the birds to sleep. See 
 the sky over which the Hand of the great Artist is 
 passing. Have you ever seen gold so rare and won- 
 derful? Was ever crimson so glowing? Violet and 
 purple and wonderful sea blue arc all blending in 
 one. The grass is disarmed (jf its blades before the 
 
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KACTS AxVb I'HlLOSOl'HV 7I 
 
 beauty of it all, and down in its lowly bed it is 
 catching- the ohn-y and reflecting- it. Ah, you are 
 thinking- now that your life can be transformed in 
 just that same way. Can? Why, it is! Your face 
 is transfigured already, and your heart is bowed 
 before the love and g-reatness of God. You walk 
 home with a very tender heart this evening, for you 
 feel a kinship with everything around you, and even 
 when the raindrops commence to fall, you do not 
 hasten your steps, for they are so soft and gentle 
 and in such accord with your mood, that you feel as 
 if Mother Nature is weeping for very joy, as you do 
 when your heart is glad because of the nearness of 
 God. 
 
 Or it may be a morning walk in the woodland that 
 you have chosen, and while everything is quiet 
 around you, and you are "considering the lilies," 
 and the sparrows that God remembers, the heavenly 
 choir bursts into music. You see the birds, but you 
 see beyond them — their rich melody means "Holy, 
 Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty" to you, and with 
 the rosy face of the morning kissing all the woods 
 into life and into obedience to the Creator, you cry 
 out in the fullness of your soul, "( )h, how love I Thy 
 law!" 
 
72 A RICPORTER AT MOODY S 
 
 Can the world yonr God made, and whose soil His 
 feet have touched, ever be a common-place spot to 
 you again? If He has made us in His own image, 
 may it not be that this old earth of ours is a dim 
 reflection of the home in which the many mansions 
 are? Oh, let us go out and grow young at heart 
 again. Let our voices mingle with the harmonies 
 of nature, and let us learn to say with understand- 
 ing hearts: "Lift up your heads, oh, ye gates; and 
 be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King 
 of Glory shall come in." 
 
 The rising bell rings at 6 : 45 (except on Sunday 
 and Monday mornings), and the breakfast bell rings 
 at 7:30. Morning devotions are held after break- 
 fast, and because these contribute very largely to 
 the spiritual life of the Institute I will devote some 
 time to them later on. On Sunday morning the 
 "Act of Faith" is repeated in concert by the stu- 
 dents, before the half -hour of sweet Sabbath wor- 
 ship begins. The "act" is as follows: 
 
 "I believe on the name of the Son of God. There- 
 fore I am in Him, having redemption through His 
 Blood and life by His Spirit. And He is in me. 
 
FACTS AND PHILOSOPHY 
 
 73 
 
 and all fullness is in Him. To Him I belong by 
 purchase, conquest and self-surrender; to me He 
 belongs for all my hourly needs. There is no 
 difficulty, inward or outward, that He is not ready 
 to meet in me to-day. The Lord is my keeper. 
 Amen ! ' ' 
 
CHAPTER X 
 
 '*IN PRISON, AND YE VISITED ME" 
 
 On Sabbath morning some of the students go to 
 the city prisons. Ah, that is where one needs to 
 take the power of God and the freshness of good 
 living, and a world into which sin's defiling touch 
 does not enter. 
 
 I shall always remember my first visit to a Chi- 
 cago jail. I could not only blush for womanhood 
 that morning, but I felt as if I could bleed for it. 
 A young girl of fourteen was among the number. 
 She represented the first step in sin, and a swear- 
 ing, suffering, coarse, miserable woman of about 
 forty-five represented the last. Consumption and 
 sin had chiseled her face into a hideous thing, and 
 yet it was easy enough to discover the woman heart 
 and appeal to it. Several of the girls had faces that 
 were not at all ill-looking, but oh! the light was 
 gone. The unspiritual forces had been at work and 
 had plucked out all the light of promise and the 
 
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"in I'RISON, AND V K VISIT KI) Mk" 75 
 
 grandeur of possibility that so i^loiifics a woir.an's 
 face. Somehow a fallen man is never so wretched 
 and sad a sij^ht as a fallen woman. Not because he 
 can "letorm" easier; such a statement is a lie. 
 Lost purity and defiled character is as irrecoverable 
 in the one as in the other. But woman has built 
 her own throne, and when she does not occupy it, 
 we see with horror how far she has fallen. Suffer- 
 ing and humiliation and subjection may have aided 
 in the building of her throne, but she has grown 
 strong and pure and great through their aid. 
 
 Two of the girls in prison asked prayers that they 
 might find their Savior that Sabbath morning, and 
 some of us felt like conquerors in a land where 
 the number of the enemy was overwhelming. It is 
 a great joy to set a captive country free, but it is 
 ecstasy unspeakable to set a soul free whom Satan 
 has bound with chains of his own forging. Oh', 
 thank God that the Lion of the Tribe of Judah can 
 break every chain, and that the Blood of Jesus 
 Christ cleanseth from all sin. 
 
 Homes for girls are needed in Chicago. The few 
 there are, are crowded, and it is most heart-rending 
 to find a girl willing to give up her evil way and no 
 place to take her to. 
 
76 A KKPORTER AT MOODY's 
 
 vSo a student's life is not all joy. A little heart- 
 ache comes occasionally with all of the gladness. 
 Perhaps it is a part of the fellowship of His suffer- 
 
CHAPTER XI 
 
 MISS HALL AND THK YOUNG IDEA 
 
 Miss Mabel Hall is one of the instructors at the 
 Bible Institute, her s])ecial branch bein<^- training- 
 students in children's work. I discovered she would 
 make a good journalist, after listenino^ to her a few 
 times. She is quick to separate a real fact from a 
 supposed one. A student might quote a text illus- 
 trative of mercy, which really stood for justice, and 
 in a few seconds Miss Hall would have shown him 
 to his own satisfaction (as well as to hers) the differ- 
 ence. She never takes anything for granted, but 
 gets at the bottom of it as quickly as a diver for 
 truth coukL 
 
 Some one may ask here, for the writer's special 
 benefit, 
 
 "Oh, but do not journalists do that?" 
 Yes, they do. On the whole, a journalist pos- 
 sesses as much veracity (if not more) than a jew- 
 
 77 
 
eler, a tailor, or a fisherman. Every reputable 
 newspaper wants the truth. It is the people who 
 lie. Over and over I have been asked by men and 
 women to put downright lies into newspaper reports. 
 There are some who are constantly seeking inter- 
 views and newspaper notoriety, and then wondering 
 "how these terrible reporters ever find out so much 
 about me!" There is another class of persons who 
 refuse to answer questions, and so the seeker for 
 news has to get his information elsewhere. 
 
 Mr. Moody recognized the power and influence of 
 the newspaper, and the newspaper recognized the 
 same in him. Because I too, see the scepter in the 
 reporter's hands (for that stub of a pencil is a 
 scepter), I wish that Christians in public work would 
 treat him with Christian courtesy for his soul's sake 
 and for the sake of the good that he can do. Hun- 
 dreds of journalists never attend religious gather- 
 ings except in a professional capacity. Are they 
 worth saving? Mr. Moody thought so, so did Mrs. 
 Booth, and so did Frances Willard. 
 
 One of Miss Hall's great points was "the point of 
 contact." 
 
I\ri.SS \l\\A, AND TIIK YOUNG IDIIA 79 
 
 "Children arc painfully literal," she used to say, 
 "and so you must not say a single thing that will 
 lead them astray or give them a false impression. 
 They understand simple words and simple illustra- 
 tions, and 3^ou must never lake it for granted that 
 they know anything. Your business is to teach 
 them the lesson you essay to teach, so that if they 
 have never hea^d it before or never will again they 
 will get the truth. Christ always discovered the 
 point of contact. He never used scientific terms 
 and learned arguments that would puzzle the com- 
 mon mind, but when He wanted to show them how 
 He was to be their spiritual food Pie showed them a 
 loaf of bread. 'I am the bread of life.' They all 
 knew about b'ght, so He chose that, and told them 
 He was the light of the world. They lived in a 
 grape-producing country, so He pointed to the vine 
 and told them v\^hat relation they bore to Hini, and 
 illustrated it by showing how the branch produced 
 fruit by abiding in the vine. His method of teach- 
 ing was simple, clear, dignified. His words were all 
 little ones of one or two syllables, yet His language 
 was classic, chaste and vigorous." 
 
 It was amusing to see the student who used 
 rhetoric with terrible prodigality, abate his zeal in 
 
8o A REPORT KR AT MOODV'S 
 
 the use of flowery lanf^ua^^e when Miss Hall 
 reminded the class that the o-reatest Teacher that 
 ever walked the earth found a wonderful lesson in 
 a grain of salt: "Ye are the salt of the earth. " And 
 the up-to-date student who was prone to dispense 
 with good English and use slang in order to be 
 "one of the people," found that Christ was one of 
 them too, and yet that He never became vulgar or 
 coarse. 
 
 vStudents were given special subjects to study, 
 week after week, and then they were told to tell 
 them as if they were talking to an audience of 
 children. The other students were allowed to "play, 
 being children," and ask questions of "teacher" 
 from time to time, but these became so very preco- 
 cious, and "I'enfant terrible" became so much of a 
 nuisance that he (she too) was suppressed after a 
 time. 
 
 "Do not pound the application home," was one of 
 Miss Hall's favorite maxims. "Bible stories can be 
 made full of interest if you get the local coloring 
 and the vividness of story telling that you can have 
 by reading everything possible on the subject, and 
 exerting your imagination so that you can live 
 among the things you are talking about. You must 
 
82 A RKPOKTER AT MOODV's 
 
 sec a thing- yourself before you can picture it in 
 such a way that others can see it. Leave the truth 
 in the child's mind, but do not hammer and ham- 
 mer it in until yyu hammer the charm of the story 
 out." 
 
 As each student told the stoiy (the birth of Christ, 
 the stilling- of the tempest, the healing of the par- 
 alytic were among those narrated) Miss Hall took 
 notes, and then criticised ver}^ kindly, but very 
 clearly and firmly, every fault. (Jne student made 
 the statement that "punishment is always caused by 
 sin." Miss Hall denied it vigorously, stating that 
 she was once punished wrongly when she was a 
 child, and that the wrong in that punishment left a 
 trace of bitterness for some time. Others in the 
 room had a similar testimony to give, and it was 
 readily shown by the teacher how a high-spirited 
 child would resent siich teaching. Miss Hall 
 changed the statement to "sin always brings pun- 
 ishment." 
 
 The importance of children's meetings and the 
 scarcity of people who know the child nature or can 
 make themselves intelligible to the child mind, were 
 among the things that occurred to me during Miss 
 Hall's teaching. 
 
MISS HALL AND THE VOUXG IDEA 83 
 
 People do not say: "(July a children's nieetino, " 
 as much as they used to. They are getting to see 
 that the child is really "father to the man," and 
 that the time to influence him is before he has 
 decided what his fatherhood will be. 
 
 One of our former students told us of a little Ger- 
 man girl, named 'Annie, who had learned to know 
 Jesus as her Savior, and who organized a Sunday- 
 school in a cellar, gathered in the children of the 
 neighborhood, and maintained it herself until teach- 
 ers were obtained. This was the work of one little 
 girl in South Chicago who had been led to God 
 through the student's Bible stories. Her work has 
 only begun, and the prophecy of her teacher that 
 she would develop into a Gospel settlement worker, 
 did not seem strange or improbable. 
 
 Miss Hall encourages the use of the blackboard, 
 and makes a plea for tact, alertness, love and 
 prayerfnlness whenever she speaks to those who 
 work among children. She believes in good inspir- 
 ing music and has a bell-song that plays a musical 
 "ding dong" of welcome while the children swing 
 their arms to and fro as if they were "really truly 
 bells." This not only amuses them, but it gives 
 them a chance to "rest from their labors" and gives 
 
84 A REPORTER AT MOODY 's 
 
 them some of the physical exercise children delight 
 in. Sometimes she stops in the middle of the exer- 
 cises and orders the windows to be opened, while 
 the little ones "play steam engine" by taking along 
 breath and then exhaling. This purifies the air of 
 the room, expands the little lungs, and amuses the 
 children. Besides this it rests them to rise from 
 their seats, and relax their bodies for a time. She 
 believes in symbols and blackboard illustrations, 
 and in short she believes in and encourages every 
 art that will bring the truth home to the child mind 
 in a simple, effective wa^^ 
 
 It is fitting to close this chapter with Miss Hall's 
 oftenest repeated phrase: 
 
 "Feel what you talk about; get into the spirit of 
 the thing; see what you are picturing; practice tell- 
 ing your story to a number of chairs (if you have no 
 better audience) before you tell it to your class; and 
 remember that prayer is the greatest power 5^ou can 
 wield." 
 
CHAPTER XII 
 
 THE POUND, "on I5ELL," AND THANKSGIVING DAY 
 
 The "pound" is a great institution at the women's 
 department. Many a time and oft h.ave I looked 
 for my hat, umbrella, overshoes, or some favorite 
 book, and after \'ainly searching my poor brain for 
 a record of their disposal, some one w^uld suggest 
 "the pound"; and I would go down to that room 
 that witnessed to our careless habits, and find my 
 property. The pound is a splendid thing for care- 
 less people, but what is one going to do to the 
 student who deliberately deposits her belongings 
 there, philosophically remarking: 
 
 "Well, I am liable to .forget them around the 
 house somewhere, and they will be put there any- 
 how. If I put them there myself I will know where 
 they are, and it will save me the trouble of bringing 
 them down stairs again when I need them." 
 
 Again and again I suggested to Mrs. Harper to 
 have a fine imposed on the student who appeared at 
 
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36 
 
 A RF.I'ORTr.R AT MOODY S 
 
 the pound more than once a week, but she would 
 sl3'ly remark that she thought wr money would not 
 last very long under such circumstances. 
 
 The "bell girl" is as important an individual as 
 the pound is an institution. Being "on bell" is a 
 duty that falls to the lot of each student from time 
 
 to time. In the 
 men's department 
 they are said to be 
 "on the door," but 
 whether this is a 
 more comfortable 
 position than the 
 other has never 
 been explained. 
 
 The girl who is 
 "on bell" has to 
 receive all visitors. 
 The one who is on last at night ha:^ the added 
 responsibility of seeing that the doors are locked 
 properly, the lights all extinguished, and everything 
 left in an orderly condition, and is kissed by all her 
 fellow students by wa)^ of recompense. When I was 
 a "freshie" T did not know of this custom, and as 
 newspaper women never kiss each other in that 
 
 CRAM) STAIRWAY, MAIN KUILDING. 
 
THE POUND, "on P.ELL," AND TH A NKSGI VINCi DAY 87 
 
 "cuddling-," "dearie" fashion less important people 
 assume (indeed, anything- but a hearty warm hand- 
 clasp would make them blush for weakness), I was 
 a strang-er to it all. One awful night I sat in the 
 bell girl's chair. I did not know it belonged to that 
 important individual, or that it had any meaning- 
 for the rest of my fellow students, and so I allowed 
 myself to become absorbed by a book on astronomy. 
 But presently I was "seeing stars" of a different 
 variety, for one after another approached me, and 
 saluted. I vaguely wondered if they thought I was 
 a cousin to some war hero, the bone of a saint or a 
 sacred relic. Evidently they thought I was some- 
 thing or some one I knew I was not. As kiss after 
 kiss rained on my helpless face I grew more and 
 more dazed. I commenced to wish I had whiskers 
 like "Oom Paul's," or was going through a doctrine 
 examination. I do not know but 1 would have even 
 been glad at the time to be faced with a heresy 
 trial. I was on the point of running away ignomini- 
 ously when the real bell girl came and claimed the 
 remainder of her patrimony. 
 
 ^ ^ ^ ^ 7T 
 
 Thanksgiving Day and the Christmas season are 
 very pleasant times at the Institute. On Thanks- 
 
88 A RKPORTKR AT MOODV's 
 
 giving" Day the men extended an invitation to "the 
 lesser man" to take dinner with them, and after 
 that to enjoy an original programme especially pre- 
 pared for the students. It was a delightful day and 
 evening, and the "original paintings" were espe- 
 cially enjoyed. "Old Dog Tray" has not yet been 
 forgotten. I will not tell the secret of that famous 
 art gallery, lest those who take our places in the 
 years to come would be deprived of the privilege of 
 an original appreciation. But there is one picture I 
 will speak of, for it puzzled, me sorely, and has ever 
 since. I was chosen to describe the paintings, and 
 so, of course, was standing on the platform. Behind 
 me was the screen which hid the pictures from 
 view, and as I announced each new one the screen 
 was drawn. When I came to No. 8: "Not so much 
 of a fool as she looks," the screen was drawn but 
 there was nothing there — nothing and no one, but 
 Diysclf. Every one roared. 
 
 On a similar occasion a potato race was in prog- 
 ress. Miss G and Mr. W were making 
 
 rapid strides, but like many others who started out 
 hopeful in greater races they were defeated. Mr. 
 
THE POUND, "on I'.ELL," AND THANKSGIVING DAY 09 
 
 W received a tack hammer as the booby prize, 
 
 and Mr. Hunter presented it to him with a twinkle 
 in his eye and mischief in his voice, saying: 
 
 "We know you are on the right tack, and (placing 
 his hand on Mr. W's head) you can be a head, but 
 you are not yet. I hope this will help you to ham- 
 mer in some things so that you will be. " 
 
CHAPTER XIII 
 
 D. L. MOODY, THE SERVANT OF GOD 
 
 Some blinded beings whose philosoph}^ (to say 
 nothing of their religion or common sense) was no 
 longer than their noses, asked us over and over 
 again as we visited amongst them, or talked to them 
 in churches: 
 
 "Why did God take away Mr. Moody if he was 
 doing such good work?" 
 
 A Christian young man had the following to say, 
 and he said it as if the timbers of the world were 
 going to be shivered : 
 
 "I tell yon, it makes me go dangerously near 
 becoming an infidel to see a man so much used of 
 God as D, L. Mood)^ taken away in the midst of his 
 usefulness. " 
 
 A "Moody student" answered him by saying 
 
 quietly: "There will be many like you discovered 
 
 to themselves, my brother. Your faith is built on 
 
 man, not on God. You give the Creator and 
 
 Redeemer the glory for raising up great workers, 
 
 but you turn and revile Him when He says, Well 
 
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i). L. MOODY, THE SERVANT OF GOD 9I 
 
 done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into the 
 joy of thy Lord. " 
 
 It is told of Mr. Moody that he was once walking 
 with a friend at Northfield, and after listening to 
 liis friend's praises of him he said with great emo- 
 tion: 
 
 "See this handful of earth I have picked up from 
 the ground — that is all bloody is, except what God 
 has done for him. " 
 
 The lesson that God wants to teach the world 
 when He works miracles through a human life, is 
 the greatness and power and love of the heavenly 
 Father. The lesson the dull - headed and dead- 
 hearted world gets is: "Oh dear, things were going 
 all right, and now they are all wrong — a man has 
 been taken away. " An evil and adulterous gener- 
 ation seeketh after a sign. It has to be in a con- 
 tinual state of kindergarten training, and it must 
 see and feel its object lessons, or else it will not 
 believe. Oh, when will we learn to praise the Lord 
 at all times, to learn to trust Him and not His 
 servants, who are merely the miracles of His grace. 
 
 One of our students once said to me: "Our 
 prison work has been blessed very much since Miss 
 So-and-so went away." 
 
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 A REPORTER AT MOODY S 
 
 "Why, how is that?" I asked in surprise, for I 
 knew what a consecrated woman of God the woman 
 spoken of was. 
 
 "Because we trusted in her, and not in God," 
 was the reply. "We felt she knew all about the 
 work and could get through it all right, but when 
 she went away we felt so helpless that we cried to 
 God in prayer to help us, and He has been blessing 
 us wonderfully ever since. Our work is better than 
 ever." 
 
 It was with a great sense of personal loss that 
 every student heard of the death of the beloved 
 
 founder of their school. 
 A little over a month be- 
 fore, he had talked to us 
 in the lecture room, and 
 his cheery voice and ear- 
 nest pleading and homely 
 teaching were still with 
 us. He was then on his 
 way to Kansas City to the 
 last meetings he ever con- 
 ducted on earth, and at which he broke down. 
 
 iDY S ROOM AT THE 
 INSTITUTE. 
 
D. L. MOODY, THE SERVANT OF GOD 93 
 
 "I must have souls in Kansas City — never, never 
 have I wanted so much to lead men and women to 
 Christ as I do this time," he told us with the tears 
 running down his good friendly face. His "rugged 
 righteousness" was never more apparent than on 
 that day when he laid bare to each one of us our 
 inward selves, and said in his direct quick way: 
 "Own up now, own up now," as he mentioned one 
 sin after another that was keeping us from the 
 fullness of the Holy Spirit. He made honest con- 
 fessions about his own unworthiness, and the cap- 
 tivatingly simple way he talked of "Mrs. Zebedee" 
 and the other Bible characters made his preaching 
 full of pictures. 
 
 I once heard him say in New York City that if 
 Nicodemus was living now he would be called "the 
 Honorable Mr. Nicodemus of New York," and poli- 
 ticians would whisper one to another to look out for 
 him, for he was the one who controlled the Jewish 
 vote. He would wear a diamond in his shirt front 
 and live up at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. A little 
 later he said: "Mrs. Nicodemus is the only human 
 being who can tell us how good or how bad her 
 husband was. If you want to know a man's real 
 character go to his wife." 
 
94 A kEPORTER AT MOODY S 
 
 Mr. Moody did not care much for the faithfulness 
 of his picture's setting- as long as the picture was 
 real. He used to talk about Daniel taking- out his 
 watch in the lion's den, to see if it was time to pray. 
 You laugh, but was it not a great lesson of the 
 quietness and assurance of faith? Did it not make 
 Daniel real to those who heard it? He used to 
 picture the men of Noah's day scoffing at him in 
 the corner groceries because he went on building 
 the ark and believing the word of God. Then Mr. 
 Moody would explain that the world had become so 
 bad that there must have been corner groceries in 
 existence. Though you laugh at the idea, Noah 
 had walked out of the heroic dust of centuries ago. 
 His miraculous personality had faded, and you 
 just saw an ordinary man who had to endure ridi- 
 cule and persecution from a lot of scoffing, blinded 
 sinners. 
 
 Mr. Moody's personality and work pervades every 
 corner of the Institute. He ])elieved in students 
 being "doers of the Word," and while no man 
 believed in study more than he, he would never let 
 the study of books take the place of the study of 
 human souls and the labors in their behalf. He 
 founded the Institute, whicli was opened on October 
 
D. L. MOODY, THE SERVANT OF GOD 95 
 
 I, 1889. He saw the need of proper study of the 
 Word itself, not of theological treatises; he saw that 
 people needed to be taught how to lead sinners to 
 Christ; and with the sturdy faith in God of which 
 he was such a rich possessor, he went ahead and 
 made this possible. 
 
 The lecture, music rooms and offices are all in the 
 men's department. The women's department con- 
 sists of three houses adjoining Chicago Avenue 
 (Moody's) Church, and an annex farther up the 
 street. Our principal need is a chapel to worship 
 in, but we are very optimistic and are content to 
 await God's time, giving thanks meanwhile that in 
 the sanctuaries of our hearts our God is pleased 
 to dwell. ]\lay we worship Him in spirit and in 
 truth: 
 
 In the matter of woman's work and sphere there 
 was no one who was more progressive than ]\Ir. 
 Moody. He was criticised some time ago for an 
 attack on women's clubs, but as a matter of course, 
 as all Institute and Noithfield Seminary girls know, 
 he never made the remarks attributed to him. 
 
 He did not encourage the ordination of women, 
 because he saw no authority in Holy Writ for such 
 a proceeding, but since he was not ordained himself 
 
96 A RKPORTER AT MOODY 's 
 
 that formality would not interfere with her useful- 
 ness, he knew. 
 
 "A woman was the first preacher of the resurrec- 
 tion," he was fond of saying, "and though there 
 were a rascally Judas, a lying, weak Peter and a 
 doubting Thomas among the apostles, the women 
 all remained true." 
 
 People said Mr. Moody was not a scholar, but 
 only a scholar can teach all shades and conditions 
 of men, and he did that. He did not know Hebrew, 
 but he knew men. He learned from God, so what 
 he knew was the truth, not conjecture and specula- 
 tion. He had a fine, clear, evenly balanced mind 
 and good common sense, and whatever he taught 
 was strong and fresh, and it appealed to the strong- 
 est mind and the tenderest heart. Had he been a 
 writer he would have beaten Dickens in character 
 delineation. He could grasp a truth and make it 
 clear to others while a scholar with titles enough to 
 colonize a district, would be tr3nng to squeeze it 
 into his pet theory mold. Oh, yes, he was a 
 scholar, and it is a mistake to suppose that he did 
 not read and study, for he did. 
 
 "You can't know too much" he said to us during 
 his last visit. 
 
D. I.. MDODN', rilK SIRV.^N'T OF GOD 97 
 
 * -vv -vv -X- 7f 
 
 I)iirin<4- the ten years the In.stiLute lias been in 
 
 existence nioie tlian 3,000 men and women have 
 
 studied there. Of those wlio liave entered upon 
 
 their life work : 
 
 202 are in home and city and rescue missions. The 
 combination of study and practical w^ork throu^^h 
 which each student is obliged to pass, fits men 
 and women especially for this kind of Christian 
 work. 
 
 180 are engaged in evangelistic work as preachers 
 and singers. These needed a difierent training 
 from that given in theological seminaries to can- 
 didates for the regular ministry. 
 
 368 are pastors, pastor's assistants and church 
 visitors. Many of these are in frontier pastor- 
 ates, where a knowledge of the Word of God and 
 of men is regarded as more important than an 
 extensive scholastic training. 
 
 58 are Sunday-school missionaries. Institute stu- 
 dents are eagerly sought by the Boards for this 
 line of Christian service. 
 
 25 are Christian Association Secretaries. The train- 
 ing given in the knowledge and practical use of 
 the English Bible is a good equipment for these. 
 
98 A REPORTER AT J^IOODY's 
 
 32 are Colporters, This form of Christian activity- 
 has been revived since the Colportage Department 
 was added to the Bible Institute. 
 186 are preaching- the Gospel in foreign lands. The 
 Institute has representatives in nearly every part 
 of heathendom where missionaries have pene- 
 trated. 
 38 are in educational and philanthropic work. That 
 is, as Bible and music teachers, superintendents 
 and matrons of institutions, etc. 
 64 are superintendents of city missions and other 
 5uich responsible institutions in the largest cities 
 in this country and Canada. 
 
 Three other classes of students may be briefly 
 mentioned : 
 
 I. Graduates of colleges or theological seminaries 
 who wished to supplement the valuable education 
 received at these schools by a thorough study of the 
 English Bible and methods of aggressive Christian 
 work. 
 
 Many college and seminary students spend their 
 vacations at the Institute. The late Dr. A. J. Gor- 
 don, of Boston, said that "without intending it, the 
 Bible Institute is really supplying a post graduate 
 course to many candidates for the regular ministry. " 
 
1). L. MOODY, TliK SERVANT OF (.Ol) QQ 
 
 2. Ministers, evangelists, returned missionaries, 
 and Christian workers in general, who have had 
 actual experience in the field, and who wish to give 
 some time to further study and preparation for 
 larger usefulness. 
 
 3. Men and women who do not intend to devote 
 their entire time to Gospel work, but who desire a 
 larger acquaintance with the Bible and methods of 
 Christian effort, that, while pursuing their secular 
 callings, they might also work intelligently and suc- 
 cessfully in winning others to Christ. 
 
 To meet the needs of these classes is regarded no 
 small part of the object of the Bible Institute. 
 
 The Bible Institute has been well called the West 
 Point of Christian work. Its students are taught 
 nothing they do not need to know, and are called 
 upon to put into actual use what they do know, so 
 that they do not become rusty from lack of use or 
 puffed up with their own good opinion of them- 
 selves. The Institute is cosmopolitan in character, 
 and men and women from all quarters of the world 
 (Japan, India, Bulgaria, the British Isles, Canada, 
 etc., etc.) study within its walls. The institution 
 
lOO A RF.PORTKR AT MOODV S 
 
 at present owns land and buildinLi's which (with a 
 limited endowment) exceed $300,000 in value. 
 vStudents are only charged $3.50 weekly for board, 
 tuition beinj^^ entirely free, and visitors who wish to 
 study methods and take advantage of the lectures 
 and the musical instruction may do so without 
 enrolling by paying $5 a week. 
 
 I wish that wealthy men and women throughout 
 the country would found scholarships, and enable 
 earnest 3^oimg men and women who desire a train- 
 ing in Christian work but have not money enough 
 to pay their expenses, to preach the Gospel of the 
 Kingdom. They cost only $150 per annum. A 
 lump sum of $3,000 for the Endowment Fund would 
 make this scholarship permanent. 
 
CHAPTER XTV 
 
 WORDS THAT I TRKASLRE 
 
 Miss Strono^ is a woman of great faith, of orreat 
 power in prayer, a woman around whom the sweet 
 fragrance of the gardens of God ever hangs; and the 
 girl who needs a sweet home life, a true friend, a 
 knowledge of God, and the refinement and beauty 
 of true Christianity will be glad to get to know her. 
 She did not allow any one of us to drift into mere 
 piety. To her, faith is a practical, vital force, and 
 God a living God, not a being to be dreamt over. 
 After Mr. Moody's last visit to us, new life seemed 
 to take possession of her, and day by day, with 
 patient work and striving, she sought to lead us 
 into higher truths and deeper experiences. Some- 
 times she would leave her office at lo p. m., worn 
 and weary after having gone through one interview 
 after another, but we would see her next morning 
 at our devotions, her eye bright, her face full of the 
 glory of God's new morning, her voice ringing with 
 
 lOI 
 
WORDS THAT 1 rkl'.ASUKK IO3 
 
 truth and power. After Mr. Moody's death slie 
 became even more zealous that our lives should be 
 filled with power from on high. 
 
 "I never realized tlie value of a life until he was 
 taken from us," she told us one mornino-. I think 
 it was on that same mornini;- she told us that Mr. 
 Moody used to say: "Character is what a man is in 
 the dark. " For days and days her one theme was 
 "Be filled with the Spirit," and with that she would 
 tell us to "rejoice evermore." Here are a few of 
 her gems : 
 
 "Every soul filled with the vSpirit is full of joy, 
 for joy is the fruit of the Spirit.*' 
 
 "It is only an understanding of sin that makes 
 the cross of Christ intelligible." 
 
 "Samson arose and shook himself, not knowing 
 his strength had left him, and we often arise in our 
 ignorance and go about our work blind to the fact 
 that God is no longer with us. Shall we give up 
 God and strength and power and light, for Delilah 
 and weakness, powerlessness and blindness?" 
 
 "If we go with the 'I am holier than thou' spirit 
 to sinners, we will convince them of nothing. We 
 must have sympathy and tenderness before we can 
 reach a suffering, sin-sick soul." 
 
104 A kll'OR'lLU AT MOODV S 
 
 "If we arc not conscious of our own sin and (xod's 
 ^•oodness and grace to us, we cannot find the way to 
 a sinner's heart." 
 
 "We ought to have the power to convict people 
 of sin. That is what Jesus said He would send the 
 Holy Spirit to us for. If this is not so in our lives, 
 something is wrong." 
 
 "Powerlessness is the result of unbelief. It may 
 be scarcely conscious unbelief, but it is tliere all the 
 same. God never failed any one who believed in 
 Him." 
 
 "A lack of prayer always results in poverty of 
 soul. " 
 
 " 'Able to do.' If we believed these three words 
 we would have souls saved every day. 'God is 
 able.' If we looked to Him for power, instead of 
 looking all the time at the hard things we wanted 
 done, we would be looking at results instead of 
 waitinof for them." 
 
 The results of ]\Iiss Strong's faith were soon 
 apparent, for before long the power of the Holy 
 Spirit descended upon the Institute, and power from 
 on high seemed to possess every student. It seemed 
 
WORDS THAT 1 TRKASUKE IO5 
 
 as if God loved I). L. Moody so well that when lie 
 took him home He wanted to show the world liow 
 mueh He loved him by ponrin^j^ blessino^s from 
 heaven upon his work. The power of God went 
 with onr workers into the jail, and one vSunday the 
 Spirit of God so wroui^ht in the hearts of the women 
 in prison that six of them came to Him, and many 
 others wept over their sins and asked us to show 
 them the way to God. Our meeting was cut short 
 because of prison rules, which demanded that we 
 leave the jail at a certain hour, and so we had to 
 ask other enquirers to wait. But the good work 
 commenced, and is continuing. One girl, herself a 
 prisoner, led her friend to God after she was con- 
 verted. 
 
 Our students went to cottage meetings and hospi- 
 tals, police stations, prisons and private homes, with 
 new zeal; and souls were saved and the workers 
 blessed with what seemed to be a new and special 
 blessing. 
 
CHAPTER XV 
 
 THE SAFETY OF THE SHEEP 
 
 One of the most blessed things that the Bible 
 Institute stands for, is the unity of the Body of 
 Christ. People of different creeds and beliefs go 
 there, freighted with their theological baggage 
 trains, which they intend to run along their own 
 special road of thought, but in a little while they 
 meet some one else, equally determined, coming 
 along in an opposite direction. Of course the dan- 
 ger signal is waved, the pressure of steam is let 
 down, the brakes are shut, and explanations are 
 offered. To be sure, the explanations have a good 
 deal of warmth in them at first, for each train owner 
 has concluded that he and he alone is principal 
 owner and stockholder, and that the other is only a 
 presumptuous claimant and an interloper. Bnt the 
 Book settles it, and some scanning of the title deeds 
 causes a great deal of surprise, and after a time 
 each one commences to move a little to one side and 
 
 to modify his claims. 
 
 io6 
 
THK SAFETY UF THE SHEKl' I07 
 
 One Southern student expressed it tersely by say- 
 ing": "Before I came here I was always booming- my 
 own little business, but I see now that we are not the 
 only sure-enough good people, and that the other 
 churches are simply houses where our brothers and 
 sisters live." 
 
 It was amusing to see some ardent ultra-Calvinist 
 try to promulgate his "exclusive" views in the lec- 
 ture room, and find himself a few moments later 
 g^azing open-tnouthed at an open heaven, where 
 "whosoever will may come" is the prominent 
 inscription. Or it may be that some good ]\Iethodist 
 brother Avho has made so much of his "free will" 
 that he has lost sight of the great doctrine of the 
 sovereignty of God, awakes at one of the lectures 
 and gets the truth "the other man" has, without 
 losing any of his own. Or some enthusiastic Bap- 
 tist enters the Institute, looking askance at any one 
 who has not been immersed, but while his truth is 
 firmly upheld and recognized he is showm that after 
 all it may be that it not so important for the man to 
 be applied to water as it is for water to be applied 
 to the man. He meets many who were merely 
 sprinkled at their infancy and yet who have received 
 the Baptism of the Holy vSpirit. It is not that his 
 
THK SAFI/rV OF THK SHKKl' 109 
 
 belief is taken from him, but that more is added to 
 it, and that he learns more of the height and the 
 depth, tlie len^^th and the breadth, tlie beautv and 
 s3Mnmetry of the Gospel he loves. 
 
 "The Methodists hold i^reat truths that the Pres- 
 byterians woiild do well to have, and the Presbyter- 
 ians hold equally great ones that the Methodists can 
 ill afford to be without," said Mr. Torrey one day 
 in the lecture room. "And then," he added, "I am 
 o-lad that so many creeds are represented here, and 
 that we can discuss our difficulties and find the way 
 out of them together. No one cliurch holds all of 
 the truth, and a great deal of your usefulness will be 
 spoiled if you commence to think it does. The 
 holiest men and women I ever knew were the most 
 teachable ones. " 
 
 Tlie best of people are apt to be prejudiced and 
 dogmatic, but I have grave doubts if creed will be 
 much of a stumbling block to any Institute student. 
 He will remain as loyal to his faith and church as 
 ever, but it will be Christ for men rather than Christ 
 for an ism, and it will be the salvation of souls 
 rather than the mere building up of a denomination. 
 
 •i^ vr 7f vr TV- 
 
 "And I give unto tliem eternal life; and they 
 
no A kl I'OUIKR AT MOODY S 
 
 shall never perish and no one shall snatch them out 
 of my hand. " 
 
 Ah I many a stndent knows what comfort that 
 promise was on many an occasion. He had labored 
 and prayed and longed until he was sick with long-- 
 ing-, for some soul to be saved, and at last he heard 
 dull lips break into music and eyes darkened with 
 images of sin brighten in the glow of the eternal 
 springtime. And then ! Ah, what Christian worker 
 does not know the story? The octopus of darkness 
 seized the freed slave, and the light fades and the 
 music ceases. But the captive will never again sing 
 the songs his chains once rattled to. He is Ixick in 
 the old plantation, but bitterly he regrets the jour- 
 ne3^ Ah, he wants his new master, and his lips 
 will only sing the songs of Zion ever again. 
 
 Who says grace makes men flabby-chested and 
 weak morally? It is only the one who has known 
 grace that knows true repentance. It is only the 
 one Avho knows that his sins placed the Son of God 
 on the accursed tree that really understands how 
 black sin is, how deep hell is, and how high heaven 
 is, and that hates, with a hatred your legalist never 
 knows, the things that made him turn his back upon 
 his Father's house and drove him to swine-feedino-. 
 
THE SAFKTV OF THE SHEEP m 
 
 Thank God we do not need to keep either our- 
 selves or our converts. We have a mighty God who 
 can move an Eg-yptian king- to plead like a beggar 
 to one of a despised race, or send a persecuting 
 Pharisee, made blind and broken-hearted, to the very 
 ones he hated. Some one has truly said that St. 
 Paul was a wolf, and that God made a shepherd's 
 collie of him. 
 
 Now perhaps some one is saying what a student 
 said in the lecture room, to Mr. Torrey, one day: 
 
 "What does vSt. Peter mean when he says, 'For 
 if after tliey have escaped the defilements of the 
 world, through tlic knowledge of the Lord and 
 Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein 
 and overcome, the last state is becomxe worse with 
 them than the first ... It is happened unto them 
 according to the true proverb . . . the sow that 
 had washed is tiu'ned to wallowing in the mire'?" 
 (2 Peter 2 : 20-22.) 
 
 Mr. Torrey replies: "You have to read the entire 
 chapter to get the sense of it. A man is pictured 
 here who is in bondage himself (see verse 19), but 
 who has escaped the pollutions of the world through 
 
112 A RKIH)RTKR AT MOODV S 
 
 a superficial knowledge of Christ (one sees such 
 'conversions' often), but not having been regener- 
 ated, and not having received Christ he falls back. 
 A washed sow wallowing in the mire is not a sheep, 
 and (jod never calls His sheep any such name. 
 This is the explanation also of Hebrews 6 : 1-7, which 
 is such a stumbling block to many. Having 'tasted' 
 of the heavenly gift does not mean that they have 
 received it into their souls. A man may taste his 
 dinner and die of starvation because he did not cat 
 it. Being a partaker of the Holy Ghost does not 
 mean that one receives the baptism of the Holy 
 Ghost. One partakes of the Holy Ghost in a cer- 
 tain way in conviction of sin. St. Paul was not 
 speaking to truly regenerate men as is seen m the 
 context (verse 9): 'But, beloved, we are persuaded 
 better things of you, and things that accompany sa/- 
 vatioji.' The trouble with the man mentioned in St. 
 Matthew 12:43 i^ that his house was empty. The 
 unclean spirit returned and found his house empty, 
 swept and garnished. That man tried to reform 
 himself. He gave up his bad habits and accpiired 
 some good ones, but it could not be a permanent 
 garnishing without Christ. The trouble with 
 those who fall back is that they are empty. No 
 
IHK SAFKl'V OF TIIK SHI.KP II3 
 
 one shall ever pluck Christ's little lamljs out of His 
 hand. 
 
 How triad some of us were to carry tliat message 
 to the jail. Oli, what strength there is in Christ 
 Jesus, for the weak, the faint, the characterless. 
 Out of the thirty or more L^irls saved at the jail in a 
 few months, we know of only one who has fallen 
 back, but we do know of many bravely renouncini^' 
 their lives of sin, returning to their homes, going to 
 work, and some facing long sentences in Joliet 
 prison with praise upon their lips. Thank Cod for 
 a full and glorious Gospel that not only touches 
 one's emotions, but changes the whole nature and 
 makes for righteousness! The Institute does not 
 give doubts; it gives convictions. "I know whom 
 I have believed" is the vigorous protest to all weak- 
 kneed unbelief. 
 
CHAPTER XVI 
 
 TELLINC; INCIDENTS OF THE WORK 
 
 The practical-minded person who enters a large 
 weaving- factory where there is a great deal of 
 machinery, will ask, "What do you make here?" 
 He will conclude that there are some results from 
 all the energy, skill, and systematized labor put 
 forth, and if there are not, he will consider the 
 stockholders and employees to be wild dreamers. 
 Should any one show him a few pieces of old cloth 
 made at some other factory, but faintly polished 
 and poorly dyed here, he will say: "AVhy, I thought 
 they wove the cloth here," and then, after examin- 
 ing the partly rejuvenated old material he will 
 add: "This will not last a month!" 
 
 The readers of this book will naturally question 
 
 what is being done at the Bible Institute, and how 
 
 many regenerated souls are born again through the 
 
 power of the Hol}^ Spirit and the systematized and 
 
 consecrated efforts of its students. As incidents 
 
 114 
 
TELLINC; INCIDKNTS OF THE WORK II5 
 
 Speak for themselves, better than any amount of 
 moralizing, the following- are culled from a large 
 number and appended here. 
 
 A student who left the Institute to hold special 
 meetings in a town in Minnesota, wrote the letter 
 that follows: 
 
 "Dear Mr. Torrey: — Just a month ago I went 
 into the Y. M. C. A, and there I saw standing by 
 the stove a man who seemed nothing but rags and 
 dirt. He put me in mind of some of these we see 
 in the slums of Chicago. I took him into the parlor 
 of the building and began to talk with him, and 
 found out that his past life was one of the darkest. 
 He had been a tramp for twenty-five years, he had 
 been in prison a number of times, and at the time I 
 met him he was as low as it was possible for him to 
 get. He was a Roman Catholic. I asked him what 
 he had been doing all winter, and he said that he 
 had been in the woods cutting cord wood, and that 
 he had made $7.00 above his board and the first day 
 he came out he spent every cent of it for drink. I 
 showed him that his present condition was only the 
 natural outcome of a life of sin, and held before 
 him the fact that it was merely the wages the devil 
 paid to those who served him. Then I turned and 
 
Il6 A REPORTER AT .MOODY S 
 
 sliowed him what (iod would do for him if he would 
 only accept Mis vSon. After many questions back 
 and forth with respect to the Bible and the Christian 
 life, I saw that he was read}" for me to g-ive him 
 John 3: 16, John 1 : 12, and John 3: 36, with Romans 
 6: 23. 
 
 "After talking" on these portions of Scripture he 
 said that he was ready to accept Christ and serve 
 Him all the rest of his life. We knelt down; I 
 prayed for him and then asked him to pray for him- 
 self, which he did. While he was praying- I saw 
 that he was an educated man by the language he 
 used, and when he got off his knees his face was 
 shining because his sins were forgiven. Now it was 
 noon, and knowing that he had no money and 
 nowhere to go for anything to eat, I took him to the 
 hotel with me. While we were dining I asked him 
 about his educational advantages, and he told me 
 that he had been six years in college and two and a 
 half years in a theological seminary, preparing for 
 the priesthood. I spoke to him in Greek in order to 
 see whether he was really telling me the truth or 
 not, for indeed it was hard to believe it as I looked 
 at him. But it was all right. Since his conversion 
 he has spoken in nearly all tlie churches here and is 
 
Il8 A RKPORTKR AT MOODV's 
 
 a power for ^i^ood. He now has a position in the 
 Northern Pacific vShops aL this i)hice, so that he can 
 remain here and work for tlie Lord. But lie feels 
 that the Lord wants him to i^ive his life in work for 
 ITim, and I think it is cpiite likely tliat he will go to 
 Minneapolis and take up some kind of regular 
 Christian work. 
 
 "In our special meetings we had seventeen con- 
 versions, .nearly all grown people." 
 
 Miss G , who has worked principally in the 
 
 slums of Chicago during her stay at the Insti- 
 tute, has had many and varied experiences in the 
 neighborhood known as ''the Levee," as well as in 
 the city hospitals. In February, 1900, she found a 
 Norwegian family living in one of the wretched 
 tenement neighborhoods. It consisted of a woman 
 about 48 years old, and three children, aged 11, 9 
 and 4 years. In addition to these, there was a man 
 
 named NiclKjlas P , who said he lived upstairs 
 
 and occasionally came down to Icjok after the chil- 
 dren for their mother, wIkj worked at times in a 
 restaurant. 'I'he whole family livetl in one misera- 
 bly furnished room, so ])oorly heated that Miss 
 
■ri;i.LlN(i INCIDKNTS OV Till'. WOKK II9 
 
 G , almost shivered with the cold dn^in<^' her 
 
 first visit. She invited the children to the Little 
 One's meetino- and the mother to the Mother's 
 meetini^- at the Chicago A\enu e (Moody's) Church, 
 and they promised to attend. Finding that the 
 children had little or no clothes, she procured 
 suitable garments for them. After vainly seek- 
 ing to lead the mother to accept the atone, 
 ment of her Savior, she left her address and went 
 home. 
 
 A few nights later the oldest girl called for her 
 and announced that her mother was very ill. Miss 
 G immediately went to her and found her suffer- 
 ing so severely that she had to be removed at 
 once to the hospital. The missionary spent the 
 afternoon in finding places where the children 
 would be cared for temporarily. Before leaving 
 them for the night she burned their clothes, which 
 were filthy, and washed their little neglected bodies. 
 While doing this, she noticed that the oldest girl 
 was concealing a letter. After using every strate- 
 gem to get it from her, and failing, she prayed 
 about it and was led to search at the bottom of a 
 certain waste-basket. Here she found the letter 
 torn into small shreds. After CLireful piecing and 
 
I 20 A RKI'ORri'k AT MOODV S 
 
 piittiiii^- toi^ctlier she unraveled the mystery that 
 surrounded the family. 
 
 It seems that the woman had eloped with the ^Ir. 
 
 P , who pretended he lived upstairs, taking her 
 
 three ehildren. The sinful i^air had several hun- 
 dred dollars when they reached Chicago from the 
 Western mining t(nvn where they had formerly 
 lived, but after that was gone they commenced to 
 receive some of the wages of sin. The letter was 
 from the woman's sister to the little girl, telling her 
 to come home to her. The child had written to her 
 aunt without her mother's knowledge. She was so 
 afraid of her mother that it was with great difficulty 
 she was persuaded to tell the entire story, but when 
 
 she did. Miss G went tf) the hospital to see the 
 
 mother, and confronted her with it. At first she 
 denied the truth of it, with oaths and protestations, 
 but at last confessed her sin, and with tears of peni- 
 tence gave herself to her Savior. Miss G then 
 
 wrote to the husband, and told of the change God 
 had made in his wife, as well as the forgiveness of 
 Christ. It touched his heart, and he wrote saying 
 that he would receive her back, and that his heart 
 was lonely for his children. The poor little ones 
 were overjoyed, for they had been told by their 
 
TELLING INCIDENTS OF THE WORK 121 
 
 mother that their father had died in the mines at 
 Iron River, and that she had come to Chicago in 
 order tb find work and support them. Before leav- 
 ing; for liome she asked the children to forg^ive her 
 for lying; to them and for teacliing- them to lie, and 
 while she wept tears of penitence, the two little 
 girls knelt down and asked God to keep mamma 
 always good and to make them good too. The little 
 boy was too young to understand it all, but he cried 
 for papa, and crowed with glee when he was told 
 that he was going home to him. 
 
 A few days later Miss G received a letter 
 
 from the husband and father, saying that he, too, had 
 taken a stand as a Christian, and had gone with 
 his famih^ to church on the vSabbath for the first 
 time in many years. He blamed himself for not 
 having sought God sooner and for not having taught 
 his children about the Savior who sent His servant 
 to them under such sad circumstances. 
 
 Mr. P remained in Chicago, and Miss G 
 
 endeavored to make him see the error of his ways 
 and to lead him to repentance. Though seeing 
 clearly the gravity of his position, he said he could 
 not give up his life of sin and turn to God. 
 
 "I have a praying mother in vSweden," he said, 
 
122 A REPORTKR AT MOODV S 
 
 "and in every letter she reminds nie of the faet that 
 she consecrated me to God when I was a baby. " 
 He said that he v^^as only 28 years of age and was 
 now a slave to sin, that he had nothing- to look back 
 upon but a spoiled life, and nothing to look forward 
 to but the hopelessness of a soul ruled by a will that 
 was tributary to Satan. Surely it is true that what- 
 soever a man soweth that shall he also reap. 
 
 But the Institute work is not all slum work, nor 
 is all done among the degraded and outcast. One 
 of our girls went to a large factory one day at the 
 noon hour, and preached the simple Gospel -to a 
 large roomful of girls. Ten of them asked to 
 be prayed for, and one young man who was 
 attending to the machinery manifested a desire 
 to become a Christian. Many families are visited 
 and more than one mother who never attended 
 church of any kind, has been brought to see 
 her responsibility for the little ones God has 
 given her, and whose moral and spiritual welfare 
 she has entirely overlooked. Many women whose 
 poverty precluded such a thing, have medical 
 attendance provided, and in a number of cases food 
 
TKLLING IXCIDKNTS OF THF, WORK 123 
 
 and money are o;iven, where the need is real and 
 the person worth}'. 
 
 Miss E. L. Haines, who is now assoeiate superin- 
 tendent of the ]\Iadison Square Church House, New 
 York, has many interesting stories to tell of the 
 early days of the Institute. When Mr. vSchivera 
 and Mr. Merton Smith were conducting tent meet- 
 ings for Mr. Moody, Miss Haines was assisting in 
 the personal work. The tent was located on a lot 
 in the lower part of Wentworth Aven:ie. One night 
 a German woman called and asked Miss Haines 
 to return with her to her home as she was afraid to 
 go herself, her husband having beaten her severel^^ 
 Miss Haines prayed with her, calmed her, and then 
 went to make a little social call at her home. To 
 her surprise she found that the husband was a burly 
 colored man, whose fame as a wife-beater was only 
 exceeded by his ugliness. The policeman stationed 
 in the neighborhood characterized them all as "a 
 bad lot," and gave it as his opinion that nothing- 
 could be done for such degraded people, but Miss 
 Haines kept on working among them and soon the 
 wife was converted and became an earnest worker 
 
124 A ri;i'()R1i;r at .moody s 
 
 among- the women of her neiij^hborhood. A year 
 later the husband accepted Christ. When he died 
 not long- afterwards, the wife sold the house they 
 li\^ed in, and went to Germany to carry the message 
 of salvation to her relatives and friends. 
 
 At another tent meeting, Miss Haines dealt with 
 a tramp who professed to be an atheist. He was an 
 intelligent fellow, well versed in the doctrines of 
 atheism, which he preached glibly to the workers 
 whenever he got the chance. ^liss Haines quoted 
 several passages of Scripture to him, but seeing 
 that he was taking delight in arguing in defense of 
 his own position, she ceased speaking. The Word 
 of God was swifter and keener than any two-edged 
 sword, and it did its own work. Many months 
 afterwards she went to a mission meeting, and 
 found her tramp dressed in broadcloth and preach- 
 ing. He had l^een converted through the vScripture 
 texts she had used, and had become a student of a 
 theological seminary, with the intention of entering 
 the ministry. He said that on the night of his con- 
 version he had not slept in a bed for three months 
 and had been a professional tramp and outcast. He 
 was scarcely recognizable in his new garb, and 
 perhaps he felt as much out of place in it as did the 
 
TEI>LIN(; INCIDENTS OK THi: .WORK I 25 
 
 prodigal son in the new robe and gold ring, but like 
 that other, he knew that while he was "afar off," 
 his Father's "welcome home" had been given to 
 him, and swine-food had been replaced by heavenly 
 manna. 
 
 The Christian worker who accepts without cavil 
 the statement of our blessed Lord in John 10:28 
 ("I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never 
 perish; and no one shall snatch them out of my 
 hand" — Revised Version), will take fresh courage 
 in the following incident: A student, while making 
 family calls, was asked to call at a house where a 
 man was lying ill unto death. A few days before 
 he had had a stroke of paralysis, and though his 
 body was entirely lifeless, his mind was perfectly 
 clear. Forty-five years before, he had been led to 
 Christ b}' a favorite daughter, who was dying at the 
 time. He promised to remain true and to meet her 
 in heaven, and for some time he was an earnest 
 worker for his Master. But, after a w^hile, like 
 many another, he became cold and careless, and 
 apparently fell away from the faith, though there 
 was no I'apsing into sin. But the Son of God who 
 redeemed him had claimed him forever and ever, 
 and so, through the ministrations of the student he 
 
126 A KKPORTKR A 1" MOUDY's 
 
 accepted tlie rich grace of his vSavior ag-ain. He 
 knew, that he would lose some of the rewards he 
 might have had, ]:)ut he knew too that he would not 
 pass into the judgment of the unbeliever, that death 
 had been swallowed up in victory. 
 
 Let no one think that because salvation is free, 
 and grace is the gift of God, that the faithful soldier 
 of the cross will receive no more honor from the 
 Lord, than the sluggish, selfish incapable who lived 
 a sort of professional Christian life, and wanted the 
 joy of Christ's resurrection without the fellowship of 
 His sufferings. The Lord in His parables on the 
 unfaithful steward and the talents teaches us this 
 lesson. 
 
 A proper understanding of the parable of the 
 Sower and the superficiality of human nature, would 
 keep many a one from wondering why persons "fall 
 from grace." No one can say whether any one 
 else is rco;ciicratC(i or not, though any one can tell 
 when a person is converted. If the difference of 
 the terms was noted, there would not be so mucli 
 trouble in understanding why professing Christians 
 backslide. I know of a -woman who became con- 
 verted, that is, she turned away of herself from 
 Satan to God, and for three months went to church 
 
TKM.IX(; INCIDKNTS OF THR WORK 127 
 
 and served God as faithfully as she knew how. But 
 having- received no new life, not having- been born 
 again, she fell away. At length she was truly 
 regenerated, and her love for Christ and her hun- 
 gering for righteousness have never ceased, th(nigh 
 this is several years ago. 
 
 John defines sin as "lawlessness" (i John 3:5), 
 that is, the act of one who recognizes no law, and so 
 he says that whosoever commits sin hath not known 
 God. Judas is a type of the spiritually instructed 
 man, and the unregenerate Christian worker, (Ye 
 are clean, said Christ, but not all)\ Peter is a type 
 of the regenerate, bat tempted, Christian. The one 
 fell into sin in a moment of weakness, but repented 
 and gave his life for his Master; the other deliber- 
 ately planned sin, remained in it and died a 
 remorseful suicide. Were he a child of God, he 
 could not remain away from his Father, and he 
 would have asked for forgiveness and would have 
 received it. 
 
 "The child ot God can never fall awa}^ eventu- 
 ally," said ^Ir. Torrey, one day. "I do not believe 
 as much in the final perseverance of the saints, as I 
 do in the final perseverance of the Savior." 
 
CHAPTER XVIT 
 
 THE FAITH DKl.IXKRED Te) THE SAINTS 
 
 Before bringing- these sketches to a close we must 
 have another peep at the lecture room. When we 
 do we Avill see that Mr. Torrey is on the platform 
 again, and that he is giving proofs of the divinity of 
 Christ. A student asks a pertinent question, and 
 we listen to the answer with interest. 
 
 "Mahomet imagined he was the sent of God. 
 Could Christ not also have been deceived, Mr. Tor- 
 rey?" (Mahomet's special and convenient revela- 
 tions about prophets' wives make some of us 
 doubtful about his being self-deceived.) 
 
 The answer given is: "The resurrection of 
 Christ is the Gibraltar of Christian evidence, the 
 Waterloo of infidelity and rationalism. There is no 
 doubt about that being fully proven. Eleven men 
 do not have visions at the same time, much less five 
 hundred (r Cor. 15:6). Renan attempts to disprove 
 it ])y saying, 'The ])assion of a hallucinated woman 
 
 I 28 
 
I'HK I\I1H 1)1 I.I\ F.RI",I) TO nil-, SAINTS \ 21) 
 
 (Mary) gives to the world a resurrected God.' But 
 there was a Thomas and a Matthew in the apostolic 
 company to be convinced, and a Paul outside to be 
 converted. The characters of Christ and Mahomet 
 cannot, of course, be compared, any more than can 
 tlie results of their work." 
 
 "The Son of God," Mr. Torrey continues, "is 
 g'iven as a name to Christ forty times, and that this 
 is used as a distinctly divine name, appears from 
 John 5: 18, where it is said He was making- Himself 
 equal with God. The name 'only begotten son' 
 occurs five times. He is called the Fioly One (Acts 
 3: 14), and we know that in the Old Testament that 
 title is given to God. 'The Lord' is used of Jesus 
 several hundred times. The word translated 'Lord' 
 is used of men nine times, but not at all in the 
 way in which it is used of Christ. He is spoken of 
 as 'The Lord,' just as God is. In John 20:28, 
 Thomas calls Jesus 'my God,' and is gently rebuked 
 for not believing it before. Divine attributes are 
 ascribed to Christ: omnipotence, omniscience, and 
 omnipresence. He raised people from the dead. 
 He knew the past and the future and the" secret 
 thoughts of men. He saw Philip when he was 
 under the fig tree, though He was not there in the 
 
pR()F]-;ssoK \viij!i-;rt \vi;ijsticr white. 
 
THE FAITH DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS 131 
 
 flesh, and He promised to be in believ^ers (Jno. 
 14:20) and wherever two or three were gathered 
 together in His name. Very many statements 
 which in the Old Testament are made distinctly of 
 Jehovah, God, are taken in the New Testament to 
 refer to Jesus Christ, and the name of Jesus Christ 
 is coupled with that of God the Father in numerous 
 passages, in a way in which it would be impossible 
 to couple the name of any finite being with that of 
 the Deity. Divine worship was given to Jesus 
 (Matt. 28:9; Luke 24:52; Matt. 14:33, compare 
 Acts 10: 25, 26 and Rev. 22:8, 9). Jesus had creative 
 powers. He forgave sin and He promised eternal 
 life, and we know that w^e have that germ of eternal 
 life in tis to-day because we have believed with Peter 
 that He is the Christ, the Son of the Living God." 
 Ah, as we listen to the testimony of the Word of 
 God to the Sonship and power of our Savior, as we 
 look anew at the bleeding and broken body, our faith 
 tells us that truly "it is finished," and that one drop 
 of that priceless and precious Blood would be 
 sufficient to redeem worlds. We go to our work 
 with renewed hope, we lift the standard of the cross 
 on high, knowing that is the power of God unto 
 salvation. 
 
Ij:? A REPURTKR AT .MOODV's 
 
 '\Some people," says Mr. Torrey, *'are ashamed 
 of the cross of Christ," and as he says it we recol- 
 lect that we have met them. Ashamed of Jesus I 
 ashamed of walking in the light, ashamed of being 
 whiter than snow, ashamed of dwelling in the glory, 
 ashamed of being a prince and a king among men, 
 ashamed of wearing the righteousness of the King 
 of Kings and Lord of Lords, ashamed of being an 
 ambassador to the only Court worthy of the name, 
 ashamed of being a free being with all the freedom 
 of the Son of God crying "glory and majesty and 
 power" within, ashamed of being a follower of the 
 most royal-hearted man that ever walked this sin- 
 sown earth ! Ah, is it not this cowardly and abject 
 bowing of Christians to the Molochs of filth and sin 
 and mindless and soulless "public opinion" that 
 makes their fruitless work a byword and a shame? 
 D. L. Moody walked this earth conscious of the 
 greatness of the God in whom he lived, moved and 
 had his being, and all sorts and conditions of men, 
 from the cultured millionaire to the illiterate vag- 
 abond, looked at him, listened to him and fell down 
 before his teaching! 
 
 The practical work is the very basis of spiritual 
 
THE FAiril DKLIVKRF.D T(; THK SAINTS I33 
 
 life and gnnvth at the Institute. Class-room teach- 
 ing without going out after lost souls and giving 
 them that same teaching, only makes one dogmatic. 
 Praying makes one a dreamer and a visionary unless 
 its power is exercised for the good of others. 
 Asceticism is worse than rheumatism. It is the 
 man or woman who goes into the crowd and lends a 
 hand, that God can use. It is the heart that can be 
 touched with the feelings of infirmity, and the eye 
 that can weep, and the hand that can be strong in 
 lifting others, and in causing the survival of the 
 unfitted, by fitting them for surviving, that the 
 world needs. I know of nothing that will drive the 
 pools of stagnation in a soul into a dissolved vapor, 
 and draw down in their place the dews of the 
 Christ-sky, like saving a soul. Saving of souls, 
 prayer and study of the Word should go together. 
 The first cannot be done without the other two, and 
 the two last are useless without the first. There 
 are people who are "too busy to pray," and they 
 produce "converts" too busy to remain converted. 
 I have yet to meet the Christian who was able to 
 help me, who was not a Christian who studied the 
 Bible and prayed. Selfishness, conceit, fruitless- 
 ness, jealousies, mere organizing of forces, small- 
 
134 A RKPORTER AT MOODY S 
 
 ness, and powerlessness, mark the "Christian 
 worker" who fails to "search the Scriptures" or to 
 "watch and pray." 
 
 Miss Strong told us one night of a woman who 
 went into a great art gallery, and Avas shown the 
 trunk of a human form sculptured into perfect phys- 
 ical beauty. She wondered why the head was 
 missing, and asked the reason. 
 
 "Oh, that is a torso," replied the friend. 
 
 "Yes, but what made him torso?" was her second 
 question. 
 
 What makes many Christians torso? I think I 
 have given the answer. 
 
 I believe that Mr. Moody was guided by God 
 when he arranged that work, study, and prayer 
 should be the three graces that preside over the 
 Institute. To the sick our students went with 
 baskets of provisions and the sympathy of a friend; 
 to the homeless they went oftentimes with money 
 and aid of many kinds; to the soul-diseased they 
 went with "the glad tidings of great joy" ; and with 
 it all, the prayer "Lord, increase our faith and our 
 love" went up from our midst as we assembled 
 
THE FAITH DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS 1 35 
 
 together daily, all of one mind and heart to make 
 Jesus King-. 
 
 The sound, rugged teachings of the lecture room 
 and the faithful mirrorings of our soul-life in the 
 home devotions had much to do with the clean- 
 limbed faith that grew up within us, and looked out 
 with clear eyes upon the things of God. And this 
 reminds me of a mother who made the statement 
 that she did not believe in faith cure "by the laying 
 on of hands. " 
 
 "Well, I do," replied the other mother. I cured 
 my boy of the cigarette habit in that way. ' ' 
 
 Good, solid, honest "laying on of hands" is much 
 better for little boys, and big ones too, than pet- 
 ting, coddling, and coaxing. However much I am 
 an advocate of the truth, the truth given in sugar- 
 coated pills I like best. You can say hell without 
 spelling it h-e-1-1, and it is only when gentleness 
 and love fails that we should spell it in the good 
 old orthodox way that Jonathan Edwards loved. 
 
 Speaking of the holiness of God in the lecture 
 room, one day, Mr. Torrey said: "God does not 
 punish the sinner merely because the sinner's good 
 
136 A REPORTER AT MOODY's 
 
 makes it necessary. God is holy. God hates sin. 
 Any view of the punishment of sin that leaves out 
 the thought of its being an expression of God's holy 
 hatred of sin, is not only unBiblical, but shallow 
 and dishonoring to God. We get glimpses at times 
 of what God's hatred of sin must be in our own 
 burning indignation at some enormous iniquity, but 
 God is infinitely holy, and God's wrath at the small- 
 est sin is infinitely greater than ours at the greatest 
 enormity. God is love, it is true, but this love is 
 not of the sentimental sort that sends costly bou- 
 quets and tender missives to moral monsters in 
 prison (as some people do). God's love to sinners 
 will never be appreciated until seen in the light of 
 the blazing wrath of sin that accompanies it. For 
 God so loved the world that He gave His only 
 begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him 
 should not perish, but have everlasting life (Jno. 
 3:16). God ?s love. Love is a desire for and 
 delight in the welfare of the one loved. Love (the 
 love that gave His only begotten Son) is the very 
 essence of God's moral nature. Not merely God 
 loves, but God is love. That love manifests itself 
 in His being afflicted when His loved ones are 
 afflicted, even when that affliction comes from His 
 
THE fAITH DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS 137 
 
 own hand. 'Can a woman forget her sucking child, 
 that she should not have compassion on the son of 
 her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will not I 
 forget thee. Behold I have graven thee on the 
 pahiis of my hands; thy walls are continually 
 before me.' " 
 
 Of regeneration Mr. Torrey had this to say: 
 "Nothing will take the place of the new birch. 
 Education, morality, religion, orthodoxy, baptism, 
 reform — none of them, nor all of them, are suffi- 
 cient. Ye must be born again. 
 
 "The flesh is radicall}^ bad, and what one needs is 
 not to improve the old nature but to get a new one. 
 The proofs of a regenerated man are these : He 
 believes that Jesus is the Christ, he overcomes the 
 world, he is not doing sin; that is, he is not com- 
 mitting a conscious, intentional violation of the law 
 of God. (The literal translation of i Jno. 3: 9 would 
 be: "Everyone begotten out of God, sin is not 
 doing, because his seed in him is remaining; and 
 he cannot be sinning, because out of God he is 
 begotten.) The regenerated man is doing righteous- 
 ness, and he loves the brethren. John defines love 
 (i Jno. 3 : 16-18) not as a mere emotion or sentiment, 
 but that genuine desire for another's good that leads 
 
138 A REPORTER AT MOODV'S 
 
 to sacrifice for him — even the sacrifice of one's own 
 life if necessary. " 
 
 In closing- I will give a few quotations from ^Ir. 
 Torrey on Prayer. He is a man of prayer and faith, 
 and as these two qualities mark the founding and 
 maintenance of the Institute, as well as its spiritual 
 life it is fitting that the teachings the students 
 receive on this important subject should be given a 
 little place. 
 
 "If I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will 
 not hear me (Ps. 66: 18). Now the word translated 
 'regard' means primarily 'to see' or 'to look.' Then 
 it comes to mean 'look at with favor,' 'to respect,' 
 'approve,' 'regard.' God will not hear the man who 
 in his heart looks upon sin with any favor or allow- 
 ance. Many are saying, 'The promises of God are 
 not true, God does not hear my prayers.' Has God 
 ever promised to hear your prayers? God very 
 plainly describes the class whose prayers He hears. 
 Do you belong to that class? Whosoever stoppeth 
 his ears at the cry of the poor cannot pray so that 
 God will hear (Prov. 21:13). The world's maxim 
 is, 'The Lord helps those who help themselves.' 
 
THE FAITH DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS 139 
 
 TJic tnith is, tJic Lord Jielps those i^'/io help otiiers. 
 Those that keep God's commandments and do those 
 things which are pleasing- in His sight, can pray so 
 that God will hear. So can those who abide in 
 Christ and in whom His words abide. So can those 
 who dwell in the secret places of the Most High, and 
 who set their love upon God. Of course, they that 
 "believe on the name of the Son of God can pray so 
 that God will hear and answer, but when we find 
 promises with 'ye' and 'we' in them, we should 
 study the context and find out who the 'we's' and 
 *ye's' are, and whether we belong to that class. 
 Many promises are not for mere believers, but for 
 those who are fully surrendered to God." 
 
 Many Christians might safely examine their own 
 hearts and ask themselves if these reasons for unan- 
 swered prayer are not the very things that make 
 their prayers "torso." 
 
 Gcd is a rewarder of them that diligently seek 
 Him; He hears and answers the prayers of His 
 children; He is an ever-present help in time of 
 trouble. Never can I be thankful enough for what 
 the Bible Institute did for me in revealing to me 
 the glory of God, the greatness of being His own 
 child, and the special object of His care and love. 
 
I40 A REPORTER AT MOODY S 
 
 Blessed hallowed little room where I first com- 
 menced to ask God for things that were really great, 
 where I dared to lamich out in faith for faithless 
 ones, where I prayed for my converts and com- 
 inuned with God after a day of toil and weariness, 
 and where showers of blessings were poured upon 
 my head until it seemed as if the veil must part, 
 and the glory of God be manifested. 
 
 But for all that, these Institute days were very 
 human. We laughed through our dinner to avoid 
 dyspepsia, played practical jokes upon each other 
 that were apt to convulse us at the most inoppor- 
 tune moments, and when snowtime came around 
 enjoyed snowballing each other as ferociously as if 
 we were Zulus instead of respectable Christians. 
 Surely a merry heart doeth good like medicine, and 
 is much more palatable and less expensive. 
 
 "How can you laugh so much when souls are 
 going down to hell?" your long-faced Christian asks. 
 
 "Because so many are going up to heaven, and I 
 am helping them up," I reply. 
 
 I close this little book with thankfulness to God for 
 the subject of it, with my prayers that the blessing of 
 God may descend upon its readers, and with this in- 
 junction: "Rejoice evermore, pray without ceasing." 
 
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 FOUNDER 
 
 54. Absolute Surrender. Andrew Murray. 
 
 10. According to Promise. C. H. Spurgebn. 
 1. All of Grace. C. H. Spurgeon. 
 
 65. Alone in London. A story. Hesba Stretton. Illuctrated. 
 13. And Peter. J. Wilbur Chapman. 
 
 88. Atonement. A symposium planned by D. L. Moody. 
 
 11. Bible Characters. D. L.. Moody. 
 
 1135. Bible Stories for Children. Swedish only. Illustrated. 
 
 51. Castaway. F. B. Meyer. 
 
 69. Children of the Bible. Illustrated. 
 
 .57. Christie's Old Organ. A story. Mrs. O. P. Walton. Illustrated. 
 
 61. Crew of the Dolphin. A story. Hesba Stretton. Illustrated. 
 
 67. Drummond's Addresses. 
 
 56. Faith. Spurgeon. Finlayson, Aitken, MacLaren and Moody. 
 
 30. Good News. Robert Bovd. 
 
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 52. Heaven on Earth. A.C.Dixon. 
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 89. How to Pray. R. A. Torrey. 
 
 50. Jessica's First Prayer. A storv. Hesba Stretton. Illustrated. 
 
 80. John Ploughman's Pictures. C. H. Spurgeon. Illustrated. 
 
 62. .John Ploughman's Talk. C. H. Spurgeon. Illustrated. 
 40. Kadesh-Barnea. J. Wilbur Chapman. 
 
 83. Life, Shorter, of D. L. Moody. Vol. I. His Life. P. D. Moody. 
 
 «4. Life, Shorter, of D. L. Moody. Vol. II, His Work. P. D. Moody. 
 
 79. Life of David, for children. Illustrated. 
 
 4. Life, Warfare and Victory. D. W. Whittle. 
 
 15. Light on Life's Duties. F, B. Mever 
 
 90. Little King Davie. A story. Nellie Hellis. Illustrated. 
 .59. Lost Crown. J. Wilbur Chapman. 
 
 63. Meet for the Master's Use. F. B. Meyer. 
 71. Men of the Bible. D. L., Moody.' 
 
 68. Mirage of Life. W. Haig Miller. Illustrated. 
 
 87. Missionary Penny. A story. L C. W- Illustrated^ 
 
 66. Moody's Anecdotes. 
 
 86. Moody's L.ateit Sermons. 
 
 76. Moody's Stories, 
 
82. Mothers of the Bible, Chas. Leach. Illustrated. 
 
 58. Naaman the Syrian. A, B. Mackay. 
 
 2:i. Nobody Loves Me. A story. Mrs. O. F. Walton. Illustrated. 
 
 64. Our Bible. Chas. Leach and K. A. Torrey. Illustrated. \ 
 
 44. Overcoming Life. L). L. Moody. 
 
 38. Parables from Nature. Mrs. Alfred Gatty. 
 
 72. Peep Behind the Scenes. A story. Mrs. O. F. Walton. Illustrated. \ 
 
 3. Pleasure and Frotic in Bible Study. U. L. Moody. \ 
 
 16. Point and Purpose in Story and Saying. \ 
 .^5. Possibilities. J. G. K. McClure. \ 
 70. Power of Pentecost. Thos. Waugrh. ^ 
 
 * 6. Prevailing Prayer. D. L.. Moody. "i 
 
 28 Probable Sons. A story Amy Le Feuvre. Illustrated. ! 
 
 48 Prodigal. i?purgeon. Aitken. Moorehouse, Moody and others. «^ 
 
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 8.T Revival of a Dead Church. L. G. Broughton. 
 
 78 Robbers" Cave. A storv. A. L. O. E. Illustrated, ' j 
 
 46. Royal Exile. T. DeWitt Talmage. \ 
 
 73 School of Obedience. Andrew Murray. i 
 
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 Ryle, Geo. Muller, D. W. ;Whittle, Geo. C. Needham and C. H. 4 
 
 Spurgeon. i 
 
 32. Secret of Guidance. F.B.Meyer. ] 
 
 + 8. Secret Power. D. L.. Moody. 
 
 17. Selections from Spurgeon. C. H. Spurgeon. 
 
 53. Select Northheld Sermons. W. W. Moore, H. W. Webb-Peploe. 
 
 Murray. McKenzie, Gordon, Speer, Cuyler and others. ; 
 
 14. Select Poems. 
 
 *21- Select Sermons. D. L.. Moody. 
 
 91. Short Talks. D. L,. Moody. 
 
 20. Sovereign Grace. D. L. Moody. 
 
 26. Sowing and Reaping. t>. L.. Moody. 
 
 40. Spirit-Filled Life. John MacNeil. 
 
 36. Sundrv Talks to the Young. Josiah Mee. Illustrated. 1 
 
 75. Tales of Adventure from the Old Book. Thos. Champness. j 
 
 22. Temperance. 1 
 
 81. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour. D. L.. Moody. 
 
 9. To the Work. D. L. Moody. 
 
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