THE WAY PAUL DID IT by Moody

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 14, 1877

THE WAY PAUL DID IT.

By Moody

Ah! my friends, I never read that life of St. Paul but I am ashamed of myself and of the Christianity of the nineteenth century. He didn’t have any committee to build him a building like this. Look at him going down to Corinth. He had his bundle under his arm, his tools, I suppose, to make tents with. He went down there and found cheap lodgings on some side street, and then he began to preach, and then the Jews began to put him down; they didn’t want him—they cast him out. After he had been preaching about eight months, they had a committee, but it was more a vigilance committee than one of help, and they took him out of the city and gave him thirty-nine stripes. If a man should get one stripe now-a-days, what a martyr he would be!

He went to another place, and they stoned him, and left him for dead, and I don’t know but he was and God raised him. “What are you going to do now, Paul?” they said. “I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling,” he said. The devil got his match when he got Paul. On he went, and they couldn’t stop him. “Five times I received of the Jews forty stripes save one.” But he leaped into the field again and went on preaching the gospel as before. That’s what America wants—men who will preach the gospel in season and out of season.—Moody.