Item - Is My Name Written There?

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Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 31 no. 33 — page 7
Subject / Tag:	Poem
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXXI, no. 33, July 3, 1876 (Issue)
Author:	Kidder, M. A. (Mary Ann), 1820-1905
Date:	July 3, 1876
Edition Description:	[Two years ago a friend of mine that was in London, was going back to America. She went to Liverpool with a party of American friends, and they were talking about what hotel they would stop at, and decided to go the North-Western. The hotel was full, and as they were starting to find another, they said to my friend, "Are not you going with us?" My friend said, "No; I am going to stay here." "How is it?" "I have got a room." "Where did you get it?" "Why I sent my name on ahead." She had telegraphed a few days before and secured a room. And that is just what the children of God are doing now; they are sending their names on ahead and getting them down in the Book of Life. They are not waiting for the dying minute. My friend, send your name on ahead to-night, and if you really want it there God will put it there. Yes, every one whose names are written in the Book of Life shall not perish but shall be saved. Turn to Philippians iv. 3: "And I entreat thee also, true yokefellow; help those women which labored with me in the Gospel, which Clement also, and with other of my fellow-laborers, whose names are in the Book of Life." There is Paul writing to those "whose names are in the Book of Life." Now, suppose I should ask every one in this audience to rise, that have reason to believe that their names are in the Book of Life, would you rise? Suppose a letter should come to you addressed in the way Paul addressed this letter, to those women whose names are in the Book of Life, could you say that was for you? Oh, it is the privilege of every child of God to have his name there, and to know that it is there" - Mr. Moody's Sermon