try to remember that what is done
merely from a sense of duty is not acceptable to God.

Moody with Gen. Grant's Army in Richmond.

It was my privilege to go to Richmond with Gen. Grant's army. Now just
let us picture a scene. There are a thousand poor captives, and they are
lawful captives, prisoners in Libby Prison. Talk to some of them that
have been there for months and hear them tell their story. I have wept
for hours to hear them tell how they suffered, how they could not hear
from their homes and their loved ones for long intervals, and how
sometimes they would get messages that their loved ones were dying and
they could not get home to be with them in their dying hours. Let us,
for illustration, picture a scene. One beautiful day in the Spring they
are there in the prison. All news has been kept from them. They have not
heard what has been going on around Richmond, and I can imagine one says
one day, "Ah, boys, listen! I hear a band of music, and it sounds as if
they were playing the old battle cry of the Republic. It sounds as if
they were playing "The star spangled banner! long may it wave o'er the
land of the free and the home of the brave!" And the hearts of the poor
fellows begin to leap for joy. "I believe Richmond is taken. I believe
they are coming to deliver us," and every man in that prison, is full of
joy, and by and by the sound comes nearer and they see it is so. It is
the Union army! Next the doors of the prison are unlocked; they fly wide
open, and those thousand men are set free. Wasn't that good news to
them? Could there have been any better news? They are out of prison, out
of bondage, delivered. Christ came to proclaim liberty to the captive.

Condemned to be Shot.

There was a man came from Europe to this country a year or two ago, and
he became dissatisfied and went to Cuba in 1867 when they had that great
civil war there. Finally he was arrested for a spy, court-martialed, and
condemned to be shot. He sent for the American Consul and the English
Consul, and went on to prove to them that he was no spy. These two men
were thoroughly convinced that the man was no spy, and they went to one
of the Spanish officers and said, "This man you have condemned to be
shot is an innocent man." "Well," the Spanish officer says, "the man has
been legally tried by our laws and condemned, and the law must take its
course and the man must die." And the next morning the man was led out;
the grave wa