MR MOODY AND THE INFIDEL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4611, 31 December 1875, Page 3

MR MOODY AND THE INFIDEL.

The following story is going the round of many papers;— Mr. Moody, in his first address in America, told the following incident of his labors in Edinburgh :—“ While in Edinburgh, a man was pointed out to me by a friend, who said: ‘Moody, that man is chairman of the Edinburgh Infidel Club.’ So I went and sat down beside him, and said ; ‘Well, my friend, I am glad to see you at this meeting. Are you not concerned about your welfare V He said he didn’t believe in a hereafter. I said, ‘ Will you not get down on your knees and let me pray for you T ‘ I don’t believe in prayer.’ Well, X tried unsuccessfully to get the man down on his knees, and finally knelt down beside the infidel and prayed for him. Well, he made a good deal of sport over it, and I met him again many times in Edinburgh after that. Well, a year ago last month, while in the north of Scotland, I met the man again. Placing my hand on his shoulder, I asked, ‘ Hasn’t God answered the prayer V He replied, ‘ There is no God. I am just the same as I always have been. If you believe in a God,and answers to prayer, do as I told you ; try your hand on me.’ ‘Well,’ I said, ‘God’s time will come. There are a great many praying for you, and I have faith that you are going to bo blessed. ’ Six months ago I was

iu Liverpool, and there I got a letter from the leading banister of Edinburgh, telling me that my friend the infidel had come to Christ, and that of his club of thirty men seventeen had followed his example. How it had happened he could not say, but whereas ho was once blind now he could see. God had answered the prayer. I did not know how it was to be answered, but I believed it would be, and it was done.”