. Echoes from the pulpit and platform : or, Living truths for head and heart ; illustrated by upwards of five hundred thrilling anecdotes and incidents, personal experiences, touching home scenes, and stories of tender pathos drawn from the bright and shady sides of life. heart, and he secured a ])lace in his uncles storeupon three conditions : He was to board at a place selected byhis uncle ; he was not to go out nights ; he was regularly to at-tend the Mount Xernon Church and Sundav-school. lie accepted the inevitable (as he always did) and phmgedin. The strenuous discipline of regular labor
. Echoes from the pulpit and platform : or, Living truths for head and heart ; illustrated by upwards of five hundred thrilling anecdotes and incidents, personal experiences, touching home scenes, and stories of tender pathos drawn from the bright and shady sides of life. heart, and he secured a ])lace in his uncles storeupon three conditions : He was to board at a place selected byhis uncle ; he was not to go out nights ; he was regularly to at-tend the Mount Xernon Church and Sundav-school. lie accepted the inevitable (as he always did) and phmgedin. The strenuous discipline of regular labor told services of the church in wliich the famous Doctor Kirkwas pastor did not at first imj)ress hun nuicli ; but at length, aSunday-school teacher whose heart was full of genuine love (acertain Air. Kimball) placed his hand upon his shoulder andasked liini if lu would mil give his heart to Christ. Thisact made one >f those indelible impressi(jns upon him whichany appeal to his heart or soul alwaxs left. Tie is perhajis tobe taken literally when he says 1 can fiel the toucli of thathand upon my shoulder yet. ihe (piestion aroused a dor-mant spiritual nature. ^ Incident related by Mr. M<j<)ily age 402. LIFIC OF DWKiHT L. MOODS 37. It is doubtful if he in any way comprehended the emotionswhich began to boil up from his deep young heart; but theywere unmistakably religious,and he sought to join thechurch. lie was, however, sorough, uncouth, and ignorantthat the old deacons shooktheir heads and put him on probation. Many yearsafterward, with that eagle eyeof his, he spied one of thesevery men in one of his greatmeetings in England, calledhim to the platform, and intro-duced him as one of the dea-cons who did not think he wasfit to come into the church ! It was one of the innumera-ble dramatic incidents of hislife, and was paralleled by an-other, when, years later, hehad the privilege of leading the son of his former Sunday-school teacher to undertake the Chris
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