ve heard Newman Hall say that he knew no
reason why Christ might not come before he got through with his sermon.
But in certain wealthy and fashionable churches, where they have the
form of godliness, but deny the power thereof,--just the state of things
which Paul declares shall be in the last days,--this doctrine is not
preached or believed. They do not want sinners to cry out in their
meeting, "What must I do to be saved?" They want intellectual preachers
who will cultivate their taste, brilliant preachers who will rouse their
imagination, but they do not want the preaching that has in it the power
of the Holy Ghost. We live in the day of shams in religion. The church
is cold and formal; may God wake us up! And I know of no better way to
do it than to get the church to looking for the return of our Lord.

Some people say, "Oh, you will discourage the young converts if you
preach that doctrine." Well, my friends, that has not been my
experience. I have felt like working three times as hard ever since I
came to understand that my Lord was coming back again. I look on this
world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a life-boat, and said to me,
"Moody, save all you can." God will come in judgment and burn up this
world, but the children of God do not belong to this world; they are in
it, but not of it, like a ship in the water. This world is getting
darker and darker; its ruin is coming nearer and nearer; if you have any
friends on this wreck unsaved, you had better lose no time in getting
them off.

But some will say: "Do you then make the grace of God a failure?" No,
grace is not a failure but man is. The antediluvian world was a failure;
the Jewish work was a failure; man has been a failure everywhere, when
he has had his own way and been left to himself.

CHRIST WILL SAVE HIS CHURCH.

But he will save them finally by taking them out of the world. Now, do
not take my word for it; look this doctrine up in your Bible, and if you
find it there, bow down to it and receive it as the word of God. Take
Matthew 24:48,50: "But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart,
my Lord delayeth his coming ... the Lord of that servant shall come in a
day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
and shall cut him asunder and appoint him his portion with the
hypocrites; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." Take 2 Peter
3:4,5: "There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their