Glad Tidings - 1876 Author:Dwight Lyman Moody Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LOVE AND SYMPATHY. I Want to follow up the subject we have had during the past week in the noon prayer meeting. We have had for our subject " Prayer," an... more »d in these meetings, a good many of you will remember, we have had the subject " Work." Now we want to put the two together, " Pray and Work." That is really about all there is to it. It is to pray and to work. I am in hopes we will be ready next Sabbath to go to work with individuals. I am in hopes there will be thousands of Christians that will just be trying to lead some soul to Christ. Now there are two qualifications which we need in order to be successful fishermen of men, in order to be successful in winning souls to Christ. Some of you will remember I have taken the subjects, "Courage and Enthusiasm." I want to take two others, " Love and Sympathy." I want to call your attention to the I3th chapter of Corinthians, where it says that if "I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal;" and if we even give our bodies to be burned and yet if we haven't real love in our hearts, our work will go for naught. I want to call your attention to a passage in Titus, in the 2d chapter of Titus, two verses: " But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine ; that the aged men may be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity and in patience." If love don't prompt all work, all work is for naught. If a man in the church ain't sound in his faith, we draw our ecclesiastical sword and cut his head right off ; but he may not be sound in love, yet we do nothing in his case. The great want in our churches is the want of love in them. If we had more love we would do better, for love begets love, and then, too, hate begets hate. You often hear a man...« less