t. He came out with the
napkin in his hand. My friend said to him: "I have got very bad news to
tell you. Your little Jimmy has got run over by the cars." The poor man
turned deathly pale and rushed into the room crying out, "Dead, dead."
The mother sprang to her feet and came out of the sitting-room where the
teachers were. When she heard the sad story she fainted dead away at
their feet. "Moody," said my friend, "I wouldn't be the messenger of
such tidings again if you would give me the whole of Chicago. I never
suffered so much." I have got a son dearer to me than my life, and yet I
would rather have a train a mile long run over him than that he should
die without God and without hope. What is the loss of a child to the
loss of a soul?

Stubborn Little Sammy.

At one time my sister had trouble with her little boy, and the father
said, "'Why, Sammy, you must go now and ask your mothers forgiveness."
The little fellow said he wouldn't. The father says, "You must. If you
don't go and ask your mothers forgiveness I shall have to undress you
and put you to bed." He was a bright, nervous little fellow, never still
a moment, and the father thought he would have such a dread of being
undressed and put to bed. But the little fellow wouldn't, so they
undressed him and put him to bed. The father went to his business, and
when he came home at noon he said to his wife: "Has Sammy asked your
forgiveness?" "No," she said, "he hasn't." So the father went to him and
said, "Why, Sammy, why don't you ask your mother's forgiveness?" The
little fellow shook his head, "Won't do it." "But, Sammy, you have got
to." "Couldn't." The father went down to his office, and stayed all the
afternoon, and when he came home he asked his wife, "Has Sammy asked
your forgiveness?" "No, I took something up to him and tried to have him
eat, but he wouldn't." So the father went up to see him, and said, "Now,
Sammy, just ask your mother's forgiveness, and you may be dressed and
come down to supper with us." "Couldn't do it," The father coaxed, but
the little fellow "couldn't do it." That was all they could get out of
him. You know very well he could, but he didn't want to. Now, the
hardest thing a man has to do is to become a Christian, and it is the
easiest. That may seem a contradiction, but it isn't. The hard point is
because he don't want to.

The hardest thing for a man to do is to give up his will. That night
they retired, and they thought surel