<TITLE>19. Par 63-65</TITLE>L-63 Right here in Chicago, Dwight Moody, the great evangelist that did have a great revival here one time in Chicago... You know, he was an uneducated man. They didn't... hated him too. Why, sure, they did. He had no education at all.
And he went over to London, England, to speak to the cockneys whose... Oh, my. Everything has to be just so-and-so. And Mr. Moody, standing before thousands of them one night, started to read the Bible. And he'd practiced on a word to try to pronounce it right, and he mispronounced it. He rubbed his head and went again. He tried again, and mispronounced it again. Looked over there, and all them fellows, you know, was just about to burst out in a big laugh. He tried it again; he missed it again. Closed up the Bible, and looked up towards heaven, and said, "God, I don't know what it means, but You reveal it to me."
Brother, he got something, and he shook the whole country around, everywhere. Yes, sir. He might not have been able to pronounce the word, but God give him the power that the Word meant. I'd rather have that anyhow. Yeah. God gave him something that shook England. That's right. We need some of that tonight that he had then. He couldn't pronounce his words right, but he--he sure had... The--the--the God come on the scene that had said the Word, that had wrote the Word. Yes, sir.

L-64 Now, like old Buddy Robinson, many of you remember him? Why, he was--he was so concerned about the people. Why? He was convinced. I was reading of Uncle Buddy (We called him Uncle Buddy.), the old pillar of the Nazarene church. I was reading his book here not long ago.
He had an old mule, called him Ellie. And he practiced--wanted to practice sanctification. And he believed that we should abstain from sin. And he said he was plowing his corn, and he couldn't make Ellie walk the straight line. And he got mad at Ellie, 'cause she wouldn't walk the straight line. And he found out Buddy wasn't walking the straight line either.
So then, he come to find out she tramped his corn down. And he got so angry with the old mule he jerked her around and around a few times. And his temper got up, and he run out there and bit her on the ear just as hard as he could. The old mule ran off a piece and stopped. He went over, and set on a little pile of rocks.

L-65 He said he got setting there, and, "Am I not a sight, out here preaching sanctification with mule hair in my teeth from biting the mule's ear?" You know, Uncle Buddy had a sense of humor.
He said, "Ellie?" He said she reeled her big, brown eyes around. Said, "I'm sorry I done that. Forgive me."
Said, "Old Ellie looked at me as if to say, 'No, I won't forgive you, 'cause if you don't get more religion than you got now, you do me that way again.'" And so that's about the way it is. No need joining up with him. He might as well just stay away...?...
He couldn't talk very good. His speech was bad. But, brother, he was convinced that Jesus Christ was the Son of God. He was convinced that He suffered without the gates that He might sanctify the people with His own Blood. And he was concerned about the people in his day 'cause he was convinced. Yes, sir.
First, you have to be convinced before you can be concerned. Don't you believe that? Yes, sir.


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