The Way to God and How to Find It   By: Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899)

AND HOW TO FIND IT

By D. L. MOODY

Fleming H. Revell Company

Chicago New York Toronto

Publishers of Evangelical Literature

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1884,

By F. H. REVELL,

In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

TO THE READER

In this small volume I have endeavored to point out the Way to God.

I have embodied in the little book a considerable part of several addresses which have been delivered in different cities, both of Great Britain and my own country. God has graciously owned them when spoken from the pulpit, and I trust will none the less add his blessing now they have been put into the printed page with additional matter.

I have called attention first to the Love of God, the source of all Gifts of Grace; have then endeavored to present truths to meet the special needs of representative classes, answering the question, "How man can be just with God," hoping thereby to lead souls to Him who is "the Way, the Truth and the Life."

The last chapter is specially addressed to Backsliders a class, alas, far too numerous amongst us.

With the earnest prayer and hope that by the blessing of God on these pages the reader may be strengthened, established and settled in the faith of Christ,

I am, yours in His service,

D. L. Moody

CONTENTS.

Chapter I. "Love that passeth Knowledge"

Chapter II. The Gateway into the Kingdom

Chapter III. The Two Classes

Chapter IV. Words of Counsel

Chapter V. A Divine Saviour

Chapter VI. Repentance and Restitution

Chapter VII. Assurance of Salvation

Chapter VIII. Christ All and in All

Chapter IX. Backsliding

THE WAY TO GOD.

CHAPTER I.

" LOVE THAT PASSETH KNOWLEDGE ."

"To know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge."

(Ephesians iii. 19.)

If I could only make men understand the real meaning of the words of the apostle John "God is love," I would take that single text, and would go up and down the world proclaiming this glorious truth. If you can convince a man that you love him you have won his heart. If we really make people believe that God loves them, how we should find them crowding into the kingdom of heaven! The trouble is that men think God hates them; and so they are all the time running away from Him.

We built a church in Chicago some years ago; and were very anxious to teach the people the love of God. We thought if we could not preach it into their hearts we would try and burn it in; so we put right over the pulpit in gas jets these words God is Love. A man going along the streets one night glanced through the door, and saw the text. He was a poor prodigal. As he passed on he thought to himself, "God is Love! No! He does not love me; for I am a poor miserable sinner." He tried to get rid of the text; but it seemed to stand out right before him in letters of fire. He went on a little further; then turned round, went back, and went into the meeting. He did not hear the sermon; but the words of that short text had got deeply lodged in his heart, and that was enough. It is of little account what men say if the Word of God only gets an entrance into the sinner's heart. He staid after the first meeting was over; and I found him there weeping like a child. As I unfolded the Scriptures and told him how God had loved him all the time, although he had wandered so far away, and how God was waiting to receive him and forgive him, the light of the Gospel broke into his mind, and he went away rejoicing.

There is nothing in this world that men prize so much us they do Love. Show me a person who has no one to care for or love him, and I will show you one of the most wretched beings on the face of the earth. Why do people commit suicide? Very often it is because this thought steals in upon them that no one loves them; and they would rather die than live.