Twelve select sermons 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: GOOD NEWS. "the Gospel." -- i Cor. xv. I. I Do not think there is a word in the English language so little understood as the word "gospel." We hear it ... more »every day, and we have heard it from our earliest childhood, yet there are many people, and even many Christians, who do not really know what it. means. I believe I was a child of God along time before I really knew. The word "gospel"' means "God's spell," or good spell, or, in other words, " good news." The gospel is good tidings of great joy. No better news ever came out of heaven than the gospel- No better news ever fell upon the ears of the family of man than the gospel. When the angels came down to proclaim the tidings, what did they say to those shepherds on the plains of Bethlehem ? " Behold, I bring you sad tidings ? " No ! " Behold, I bring you bad news ? " No! " Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy. which shall be to all people; for unto you is born this day, in th« less