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Title: Secret Power
or the Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work

Author: Dwight L. Moody

Release Date: August 3, 2010 [EBook #33341]

Language: English

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SECRET POWER

OR THE

SECRET OF SUCCESS IN CHRISTIAN

LIFE AND WORK.

By D. L. MOODY

FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY

NEW YORK : : CHICAGO : : TORONTO

_Publishers of Evangelical Literature_

Copyrighted 1881, by FLEMING H. REVELL.

PREFACE.

One man may have "zeal without knowledge," while another may have
knowledge without zeal. If I could have only the one, I believe I
should choose the first; but, with an open Bible, no one need be
without knowledge of God's will and purpose; and the object of this
book is to help others to know the source of true power, that both
their zeal and their knowledge may be of increased service in the
Master's work.

Paul says, "all Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is
profitable;" but I believe one portion, and that the subject of this
book, has been too much overlooked, as though it were not practical,
and the result is lack of power in testimony and work. If we would
work, "not as one that beateth the air," but to some definite purpose,
we must have this power from on high. Without this power, our work
will be drudgery. With it, it becomes a joyful task, a refreshing
service.

May God make this book a blessing to many. This is my prayer.

D. L. MOODY.

NORTHFIELD, MASS., May 1st, 1881.

CHAPTER I.

POWER--ITS SOURCE

In vain do the inhabitants of London go to their conduits for supply
unless the man who has the master-key turns the water on; and in vain
do we think to quench our thirst at ordinances, unless God
communicates the living water of His Spirit.--_Anon_.

It was the custom of the Roman emperors, at their triumphal entrance,
to cast new coins among the multitudes; so doth Christ, in His
triumphal ascension into heaven, throw the greatest gifts for the good
of men that were ever given.-