down to see me, and said he had never had such
a Sunday in his life. He had met with marvelous blessing. The next
time he drew the net there were forty, and when he came to see me
later, he said to me joyfully,

"Moody, I have had eight hundred conversions this last year! It is a
great mistake I did not begin earlier to pull in the net."

So, my friends, if you want to catch men, just pull in the net. If you
only catch one, it will be something. It may be a little child, but I
have known a little child to convert a whole family. You don't know
what is in that little dull-headed boy in the inquiry-room; he may
become a Martin Luther, a reformer that shall make the world
tremble--you cannot tell. God uses the weak things of this world to
confound the mighty. God's promise is as good as a bank note--"I
promise to pay So-and-So," and here is one of Christ's promissory
notes--"If you follow Me, I will make you fishers of men." Will you
not lay hold of the promise, and trust it, and follow Him now?

If a man preaches the Gospel, and preaches it faithfully, he ought to
expect results then and there. I believe it is the privilege of God's
children to reap the fruit of their labor three hundred and sixty five
days in the year.

"Well, but," say some, "is there not a sowing time as well as
harvest?"

Yes, it is true, there is; but then, you can sow with one hand, and
reap with the other. What would you think of a farmer who went on
sowing all the year round, and never thought of reaping? I repeat it,
we want to sow with one hand, and reap with the other; and if we look
for the fruit of our labors, we shall see it. "I, if I be lifted up,
will draw all men unto Me." We must lift Christ up, and then seek men
out, and bring them to Him.

You must use the right kind of bait. A good many don't do this, and
then they wonder they are not successful. You see them getting up all
kinds of entertainments with which to try and catch men. They go the
wrong way to work. This perishing world wants Christ, and Him
crucified. There's a void in every man's bosom that wants filling up,
and if we only approach him with the right kind of bait, we shall
catch him. This poor world needs a Savior; and if we are going to be
successful in catching men, we must preach Christ crucified--not His
life only but His death. And if we are only faithful in doing this, we
shall succeed. And why? Because there is His promise: "If you follow
Me, I will make yo