seeking Christ three years and I cannot find Him." Said I; "Oh,
there is a great mistake about that." Says she, "'Do you think I am not
in earnest? Do you think, sir, I have not been seeking Christ?" Said I,
"I suppose you think you have, but Christ has been seeking you these
twenty years, and it would not take an anxious sinner and an anxious
Saviour three years to meet, and if you had been really seeking Him you
would have found Him long before this." "What would you do, then?" Said
I, "Do nothing, only believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be
saved." "Oh," said she, "I have heard that till my head swims. Everybody
says, believe! believe! believe! and I am none the wiser. I don't know
what you mean by it." "Very well," said I, "I will drop the word; but
just trust the Lord Jesus Christ to save." "If I say I trust Him, will
He save me?" "No, you may do a thousand things; but if you really trust
Him, He will save you." "Well," said she, "I trust Him, but I don't feel
any different." "Ah," said I, "I have found your difficulty. You have
been hunting for feeling all these three years. You have not been
looking for Christ." Says she, "Christians tell how much joy they have
got." "But," said I, "you want Christian experience before you get one.
Instead of trusting God, you are looking for Christian experience." Then
I said: "Right here in this pew, just commit yourself to the Lord Jesus
Christ, and trust Him, and you will be saved," and I held her right to
that word "trust," which is the same as the word "believe" in the Old
Testament. "You know what it is to trust a friend. Cannot you trust God
as a friend?" She looked at me for five minutes, it seemed, and then
said slowly: "Mr. Moody, I trust the Lord Jesus Christ this night to
save my soul." Turning to the pastor of the church she took him by the
hand and repeated the declaration. Turning to an elder in the church she
said again the solemn words, and near the door, meeting another officer
of the church, she repeated for the fourth time, "I am trusting Jesus,"
and went off home. The next night when I was preaching I saw her right
in front of me, "Eternity" written in her eyes, her face lighted up, and
when I asked inquirers to go into the other room she was the first to go
in. I wondered at it, for I could see by her face that she was in the
joy of the Lord. But when I got in I found her with her arms around a
young lady's neck, and I heard her say, "It is only j