Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1877 — Moody’s Forcible Saxon. [ARTICLE]

Moody’s Forcible Saxon.

Mr. Moody’s success as a preacher Is due in part to his command of the Saxon elements of the language. He uses the simple, homespun English of the middle classes. His text-book is the Bible, and his speech is saturated with Saxon idioms and diction. The simplicity and directness of his style are well illustrated in this passage from his sermon of Tuesday evening in Boston: “ A little child dying said to its mother, 1 What mountains do I see yonder ?’ ‘ There are no mountains in front of the house, my child.’ ‘ Yes. there are, mother; don’t you see them ? Won’t you take me over in your arms?’ And the mother got down and prayed, and told her boy that Jesus would be with him. And then the child’s eyes brightened, and he said, ‘Mother, don’t you hear them?’ ‘ Hear who, my child?’ ‘ Hear the angels, mother ? They are just on the other side of the mountains. Carry me over the mountains, mother.’ * I can’t do that, niy child; the Savior will take you over. Jesus will be with you. Look at Him.’ And then he breathed a prayer, and said, ‘Good-by, mother; Jesus has come to cany me over the mountain.’ And then the little sufferer was gone. Oh, sinner! Christ has come to carry you over the mountain. He will fold you to His bosom and carry you into His kingdom.”—A. Y. Tribune.