the Bible. I cannot tell how this helped me. I told it to another
man, and he asked me if I ever thought how he got his property back and
his sheep back. He gave Job double what he had and gave him ten children
besides, so that he should have ten in heaven besides his ten on earth.

[Illustration: Jesus Blessing Children; GUSTAVE DORE. Mark, x, 13-16]

One Book at a time.

I have found it a good plan to take up one book at a time. It is a good
deal better to study one book at a time than to run through the Bible.
If we study one book and get its key, it will, perhaps, open up others.
Take up the book of Genesis, and you will find eight beginnings; or, in
other words, you pick up the key of several books. The gospel was
written that man might believe on Jesus Christ, and every chapter speaks
of Him. Now, take the book of Genesis; it says it is the book of
beginnings. That is the key; then the book of Exodus--it is the book of
redemption; that is the key word of the whole. Take up the book of
Leviticus, and we find that it is the book of sacrifices. And so on
through all the different books; you will find each one with a key.
Another thing: We must study it unbiased. A great many people believe
certain things. They believe in certain creeds and doctrines, and they
run through the book to get Scripture in accordance with them. If a man
is a Calvinistic man he wants to find something in accordance with his
doctrine. But if we go to seek truth the Spirit of God will come. Don't
seek it in the blue light of Presbyterianism, in the red light of
Methodism; or in the light of Episcopalianism, but study it in the light
of Calvary.

Note what Jesus Says.

Some people say to me, "Moody, you don't believe in the flood. All the
scientific men tell us it is absurd." Let them tell us. Jesus tells us
of it, and I would rather take the word of Jesus than that of any other
one. I haven't got much respect for those men who dig down for stones
with shovels, in order to take away the word of God. Men don't believe
in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, but we have it sealed in the New
Testament. "As, it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah." They don't
believe in Lot's wife, but He says, "Remember Lot's wife." So there is
not a thing that men to-day cavil at but the Son of God indorses. They
don't believe, in the swallowing of Jonah. They say it is impossible
that a whale could swallow Jonah--its throat is too small. They forg