d. How true are
the words of the old Book: "They that be wise shall shine as the
brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness
as the stars forever and ever."

Let us go on turning as many as we can to righteousness. Let us be
dead to the world, to its lies, its pleasures, and its ambitions. Let
us live for God, continually going forth to win souls for Him.

Let me quote a few words by Dr. Chalmers: "Thousands of men breathe,
move and live, pass off the stage of life, and are heard no more--Why?
They do not partake of good in the world, and none were blessed by
them; none could point to them as the means of their redemption; not a
line they wrote, not a word they spoke could be recalled; and so they
perished; their light went out in darkness, and they were not
remembered more than insects of yesterday. Will you thus live and die,
O man immortal? Live for something. Do good, and leave behind you a
monument of virtue that the storms of time can never destroy. Write
your name in kindness, love and mercy, on the hearts of the thousands
you come in contact with year by year; you will never be forgotten.
No, your name, your deeds will be as legible on the hearts you leave
behind as the stars on the brow of evening. Good deeds will shine as
the stars of heaven."

"COME THOU AND ALL THY HOUSE INTO THE ARK."

I want to call your attention to a text that you will find in the
seventh chapter of Genesis, first verse. When God speaks, you and I
can afford to listen. It is not man speaking now, but it is God. "The
Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark."

Perhaps some sceptic is reading this, and perhaps some church member
will join with him and say,

"I hope Mr. Moody is not going to preach about the ark. I thought that
was given up by all intelligent people."

But I want to say that I haven't given it up. When I do, I am going to
give up the whole Bible. There is hardly any portion of the Old
Testament Scripture but that the Son of God set His seal to it when He
was down here in the world.

Men say, "I don't believe in the story of the flood."

Christ connected His own return to this world with that flood: "And as
it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son
of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given
in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the
flood came, and destroyed them all."

I believe the