friend said, "I am going to stay here. I engaged a room ahead. I sent a
telegram on." My friends, that is just what the Christians are
doing--sending their names in ahead. They are sending a message up
saying: "Lord Jesus, I want one of those mansions You are preparing; I
want to be there." That's what they are doing.

Every man and woman who wants one, if you have not already got one, had
better make up your mind. Send your names up now. I would rather a
thousand times have my name written in the Lamb's Book than have all the
wealth of the world rolling at my feet.

"He Will Not Rest."

Suppose a man is going to Cincinnati, and he gets on the cars, but he
feels uneasy lest, the train will take him to St. Louis instead of his
destination. He will not rest till he knows he is on the right road, and
the idea that we are on the road to eternity as fast as time can take
us, and do not know our destination, is contrary to Scripture. If we
want peace we must know it, and we can know it; it is the Word of God.
Look What Peter says: "We know we have an incorruptible dwelling." Then
in Paul's epistle to the Colossians, i., 12, "Giving thanks unto the
Father which hath made us meet"--hath made us, not going to--"to be
partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. Who hath delivered
us"--not going to deliver us, but He hath delivered us: this is an
assurance--"from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the
kingdom of His dear Son."

"Very Orthodox."

A person came to me some time ago and said: "Mr. Moody, I wish you would
give me a book that preaches assurance, and that tells the children of
God it is their privilege to know they are accepted." I said, "Here is a
book; it is very orthodox. It was written by John, the most intimate
friend of Jesus while He was on earth. The man who laid his head upon
His bosom." Turn to John and see what he says in the 5th chapter, "For
in them ye think ye have eternal life."

"I Don't Know."

There is no doubt about assurance in the Word of God. A person said to
me some time ago: "I think it is great presumption for a person to say
she is saved." I asked her if she was saved. "I belong to a church," she
sobbed. "But are you saved?" "I believe it would be presumption in me to
say that I was saved." "Well I think it is a greater presumption for
anyone to say: 'I don't know if I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ
because it is written, He that believeth on me ha