Item - Take Us Inside

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Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 31 no. 23 — page 3
Subject / Tag:	Poem
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXXI, no. 23, April 24, 1876 (Issue)
Author:	Kidder, M. A. (Mary Ann), 1820-1905
Date:	April 24, 1876
Edition Description:	A friend of mine in Paris. Rev. Mr. Monod, told me that during the war in France, they went out from the city at night with ambulances to bring in the wounded. They were afraid to strike any lights for fear of bullets from the enemy. Just before they would start back for inside the gates, thinking they had all the living, they would shout to know was there any one yet that wanted to be carried inside the city, and many replies would come: "We are still living. We want help Take us inside." Why, my friends, I want to tell you there is One mighty to save. Do you want help. Then let the cry go up to-day, and the Great Shepherd that saved my soul from death and hell will do it for you. That is the Gospel. Some of you may go away saying: "Why that is the old story I have heard told by Dr. Budington for fifty years, and that Dr. Talmage has been all this time telling us" Well, my friends, that old story is as sweet to my soul to-night as twenty years ago when I first heard it. When I get tired of preaching the Gospel, I shall surely go to farming, or something else, for I don't care for anything now in this world. I don't know anything that can be compared to this blessed work of preaching to a perishing world. Men make mistakes- God makes no mistakes. He offers salvation. and that is what the world needs, what the sinners of Brooklyn need. Oh! take Him, accept Him, and go down to your houses justified-- Mr. Moody's Brooklyn Sermon