Item - "Jesus Wants You"

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Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 31 no. 28 — page 6
Subject / Tag:	Poem
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXXI, no. 28, May 29, 1876 (Issue)
Author:	Kidder, M. A. (Mary Ann), 1820-1905
Date:	May 29, 1876
Edition Description:	"Then there is another class-fathers and mothers. You that have children in this city of London ought to have sympathy with a movement of this kind. We ought to have your prayers, we ought to have your counsel, we ought to have your heartfelt sympathy. We have come here, just to try in the name of our Master to win your children to God and to Heaven, to win them to a pure life to save them from the haunts of vice, from going down to a drunkard's grave. When I was in Liverpool the other day a mother came to me and brought a photograph of a beautiful boy, seventeen years old. He is nineteen now. She said: 'That boy has been gone two years, and I do not know where he is. He had trouble and he fled from home, and my heart is just breaking. I do not know but that he is in London, and I give you this paragraph; if you see him in the audience there I want you just to try and win him to the Lord, that he may come back and cheer my heart,' and the great tears rolled down that mother's cheek. There is many a boy in London like that. We have come here after them just in hopes that God will win them to Christ, and that they will go back to be a blessing to their parents nd to the Church of God. If that young man is here to-night, I bring you good news. Your mother still loves you, and wants you to return. Her hearts is just breaking for you. And let me say to every man and woman here to-night that is out of Christ. God wants you; Jesus wants you There is room in Heaven for you; and the Lord has sent us just to invite you to the Gospel feast."- Mr. Moody's London Sermon