Eloquently, the Apostle Paul puts...
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Eloquently, the Apostle Paul puts forth a glorious roster of the things our Lord Christ does for us and of the many meanings he has for our human life. To this, many will bear witness.
When Dwight L. Moody was at the apex of his pulpit power, he was once preaching at a West Coast city when a rather notorious visitor came to one of his services. This man was a smooth and clever atheist, popular on the lectune circuit, his record and reputation well known to Mr. Moody. After the service that day, he challenged Moody to a debate, the event to occur one week hence. Moody agreed; but he then went on in a genial sort of way to put forth a proposition of his own. The atheist listened to Moody's proposal, and then abruptly left the premises and abandoned the idea of a debate with him.
What was Moody's proposal? Simply this: that in order to assure a good attendance, each man bring to the debate a number of persons who would have a very special interest in it. Moody offered to bring 100 ex-thieves, ex-drunkards, ex-derelicts whom Christ had saved and whose lives he had restored for each five such persons the atheist would bring, who would testify that they had been delivered by the power of atheism. There's no great question as to why that debate never came off!
-- Mann
When Dwight L. Moody was at the apex of his pulpit power, he was once preaching at a West Coast city when a rather notorious visitor came to one of his services. This man was a smooth and clever atheist, popular on the lectune circuit, his record and reputation well known to Mr. Moody. After the service that day, he challenged Moody to a debate, the event to occur one week hence. Moody agreed; but he then went on in a genial sort of way to put forth a proposition of his own. The atheist listened to Moody's proposal, and then abruptly left the premises and abandoned the idea of a debate with him.
What was Moody's proposal? Simply this: that in order to assure a good attendance, each man bring to the debate a number of persons who would have a very special interest in it. Moody offered to bring 100 ex-thieves, ex-drunkards, ex-derelicts whom Christ had saved and whose lives he had restored for each five such persons the atheist would bring, who would testify that they had been delivered by the power of atheism. There's no great question as to why that debate never came off!
-- Mann
