Moody's Anecdotes And Illustrations

By Dwight L. Moody

Table of Contents

Title Page
Preface
Revised Edition
Revised Edition 1896
     Dwight Lyman Moody
     Ira David Sankey
     D. W. Whittle
     Philip Paul Bliss
A A Blind Man Preaches to 3,000,000 People

A Boy's Mistake--A Sad Reconciliation

A Business Man Confessing Christ

A Child at Its Mother's Grave

A Child Looking for its Lost Mother

A Child's Prayer Answered

A Child Visits Abraham Lincoln and Saves the Life of a Condemned Soldier

A Commercial Traveler

A Day of Decision

A Defaulter's Confession

A Distiller Interrogates Moody

A Dream

A Dying Infidel's Confession

A Father's Love for his Boy

A Father's Love Trampled under Foot

A Father's Mistake

Affection

Affliction

A Good Excuse

A Heavy Draw on Alexander the Great

A Little Boy Converts his Mother

A Little Boy's Experience

A Little Child Converts an Infidel

All Right or All Wrong

A London Doctor Saved after Fifty Years of Prayer

A Long Ladder Tumbles to the Ground

Always Happy

A Man Drinks up a Farm

A Man who Would not Speak to his Wife

A Mother Dies that her Boy May Live

A Mother's Mistake

An Emperor Sets Forty Million Slaves Free

Angry at First--Saved at Last

An Infidel who would not Talk Infidelity before his Daughter

An Irishman Leaps into the Life-boat

A Remarkable Case

A Rich Father Visits his Dying Prodigal Son in a Garret and Forgives him

Arthur P. Oxley! Your Mother Wishes to See You

A Rumseller's Son Blows his Brains Out

A Sad and Singular Story

Assurance

A Story Moody Never Will Forget

A Voice from the Tomb

A Wife's Faith

A Zealous Young Lady

B Believe

Bible Study

Black-Balled by Man--Saved by Christ

Blind

Broken Hearts

By the Wayside

C Calling the Roll of Heaven

Cast Out but Rescued

Child Stories

Christian Work

Christian Zeal

Christ Saves

Condemned to be Shot

Confessing Christ

Conversion

D Decision

Deliverance

"Deluged With Blood"

Dr. Arnott's Dog "Rover"

E "Emma. This is Papa's Friend"

Engaging Rooms Ahead

Excused at Last

Excuses

F Faith

Faith More Powerful than Gunpowder

"Father, Father, Come This Way"

Five Million Dollars

Forgiveness

Forty-one Little Sermons

Four-score and Five

"Free"

G George H. Stewart Visits a Doomed Criminal

Get the Key to Job

Gold (Appears in many pages)

Governor Pollock and the Condemned Criminal

Grace

H Heaven

"He Will Not Rest"

"Hold the Fort, for I am Coming"

How a Citizen Became a Soldier

How a Little Study Upset the Plans of a few Prominent Infidels

How a Young Irishman Opened Moody's Eyes

How Christ Expounded It

"How Funny You Talk"

How Moody's Faith Saved an Infidel

How Moody's Mother Forgave her Prodigal Son

How Moody Treated the Committees

How Moody was Blessed--Mark your Bible

How Moody was Encouraged

How Three Sunday-School Children Met their Fate

I I Am not All Right

I Am not One of the Elect

I Am Trusting Jesus--A Young Lady's Trust.

I Can't Feel

"I Don't Know"

"If I Knew"

I Have Intellectual Difficulties

"I Know"

Infidel Books

Infidelity

Intemperance

It's Better Higher Up

"It Will Kill Her"

J Jesus "Wants them All to Come"

Johnny, Cling Close to the Rock

Jumping into Father's Arms

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L Lady Ann Erkskine and Rowland Hill

"Let the Lower Lights be Burning"

Liberty

Liberty Now and Forever

Little Folks

Little Jimmy

Little Moody

Love

Love, not the Rattan, Conquers Little Moody

Love's Triumph in John Wannamaker's Sunday-School

M Madness and Death

Money Blind

Moody and his Little Willie

Moody and the Dying Soldier

Moody and the Infidel

Moody and the Judge

Moody Asks a Few Questions

Moody a Young Convert

Moody in a Billiard Hall--A Remarkable Story

Moody in a California Sunday-School

Moody in Prison

Moody on Duty--How he Loves his Mother

Moody Puts a Man in his Prophets Room

Moody Visits Prang's Chromo Establishment

Moody with Gen. Grant's Army In Richmond

Moody's Declaration

Moody's First Impulse in Converting Souls

Moody's First Sermon on Grace

Moody's Little Emma

Moody's Mistake

Mothers Are Looking down from Heaven

"More to Follow"

Mr. Morehouse's Illustration

Mrs. Moody Teaching her Child

N Napoleon and the Conscript

Napoleon and the Private

Never to see its Mother

Note What Jesus Says

O Obedience

O, Edward

Old Sambo and his Massa

One Book at a Time

One Word

Out of Libby Prison

P Parental

Peter's Confession

Praise

Prayer

Prayer Answered

Pull for the Shore

"Pull for the Shore, Sailor"

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R Rational Belief

Reaping

Reaping the Whirlwind

Removing the Difficulties

Reuben Johnson Pardoned

S Sad Ending of a Life that Might Have Been Otherwise

Sad Lack of Zeal

Safe In the Ark

Sambo and the Infidel Judge

Satan's Match

Saved

"Saved"

Saved and Saving

Snapping the Chains

Song Stories

Sowing the Tares

Spurgeon and the Little Orphan

Spurgeon's Parable

Stubborn Little Sammy

Sudden Conversion (See Conversion)

T Taking the Prince at his Word

Ten Years in a Sick Bed--yet Praising God

Terribly in Earnest

That is the Price of my Soul

"That is Your Fault"

The Arrows of Conviction

The Artist and the Beggar

The Bible

The Blind Beggar

The Blood

The Cross and Crown

The Cruel Mother--Hypothetical

The Czar and the Soldier

The Demoniac

The Drunken Father and his Praying Child

The Dying Boy

The Dying Child

The Eleventh Commandment

The Faithful Aged Woman

The Faithful London Lady

The Faithful Missionary

The Family that Hooted at Moody

The Fettered Bird Freed

The Finest Looking Little Boy Mr. Moody Ever Saw

The Horse that was Established

The "I am's," "I will's," Etc.

The Invitation

The King's Pardon

The Little Child and the Big Book

The Little Tow-headed Norwegian

The Loving Father

The Missing Stone

The Moody and Sankey Humbug

The Most Hopeless Man in New York now a Sunday-school Superintendent

The Orphan's Prayer

The Place of Safety

The Praying Cripple

The Praying Mother

The Prodigal Son

The Repentent Father

The Reporter's Story

The Rich Man Poor

The Scotch "Draw the Bible" on False Doctrine

The Scotch Lassie

The Scotch Lassie and Dr. Chalmers

The Sinner's Prayer Heard

The Skeptical Lady?

The Sleep of Death

The Stolen Boy--A Mother's Love

The Two Fathers

The Way of the Transgressor is Hard

The Young Convert

The Young French Nobleman and the Doctor

Those Hypocrites

"Three Cheers"

True Love

Trust

Two Young Men

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V Very Hard, yet Very Easy

Very Orthodox

W "We Will Never Surrender"

What a Woman Did

What Moody saw in a Chamber of Horror

Wisdom

Word Pictures

Why Did he not Take his Wife along?

"Won by a Smile"

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Y "You Know me, Moody"

Young Moody, Penniless in Boston, is Warned by his Sister to "Beware of Pick-pockets"

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