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up to Christ. “In Christ” all struggle is past. By faith rest and sanctification come. What a lesson these verses have for all those who are tempted .to think that while they are justified by faith, they are yet sanctified by conflict and struggle. Jesus Christ is Himself our sanctification just as He is our justification. This is the argu ment of chapters six and seven. Chapter eight will let us into the secret of the sanc tified life. “What do V°u want to get in for ?” ■ said the man. Paul answered, “Sam Jones told me to liear Moody preach if I ever got a chance, and now here is the chance and I can’t get in.” The man said, “You take hold of my coat-tail, and I’ll get you in.” So Paul took hold of the big man’s coat tail and went into the meeting where thou sands were, and straight up on the big platform. O, how bashful Paul felt before that big crowd. Well, what do you think—the man on whose coat-tail Paul had been hanging, was the man who got up to preach—it was Mr. Moody, himself! How surprised Paul was! He had really been hanging on to Mr. Moody’s coat-tail! Of course Mr. Moody did not think much of it, because I expect he had taken other boys in this way too. Mr. Moody little dreamed what would happen twenty-three years after. Well, what did happen twenty-three years afterwards? Paul had become a big man and one day in New York City, found him self to be a big sinner and found Jesus Christ to be a great Saviour. His life now is a new life, just like every one’s is when they take Christ to be a Saviour. Paul was called to be the pastor of the church Mr. Moody founded, and that boy, Paul Rader, now pastor of the Moody church in Chicago, preaches to such big crowds that I expect some day some boy will want to get hold of his coat-tail and get into meeting.
And so at last, when at the end of all his efforts, “slain by the law he had dili gently sought to keep, enslaved by the sin he had fought so desperately to overcome, betrayed by the flesh in which he had so determinedly trusted, the- apostle at last turns to and catches a glimpse of a new power, a new Master, and this glimpse arouses hope and enables him to enter into another realm.” Outside help is what he clearly needs, and so the struggle is given T ' HERE are few better stories told con- cerning noted men, than, that told by Rev. W. Leon Tucker, formerly of Los Angeles but now a traveling Bible lecturer, concerning a famous preacher of Chicago. He tells it as a story for children, in “The Wonderful Word:” Once’ there was a boy whose name was Paul. His father was a preacher—a Methodist preacher, in Colorado. Of course Paul spent his boyhood days in a Methodist “parsonage.” .Paul was not a very good boy. In. fact Mr. M. of Dienyer showed me a church in which years ago he told Paul that he would have to get out if he did not behave. Paul knew all the great preachers as they came to his father’s house. One day Sam Jones, the great evangelist, told Paul that if he ever got a chance to hear Moody preach,, he must do it. So Paul heard that Mr. Moody was going to preach in Denver, where Paul lived. Paul determined to get in if possible. He did his best to get a ticket, but when he reached the building where Mr. Moody was to preach, he found it was filled and they would not let him in. There was no way to climb over, or under or in, so not knowing what to do, Paul went around to the back of the building. While he was standing there, a strong and solid looking man came up and said, “Boy, do you want to go to meeting?” “Yes,” said Paul, “but I can’t get in.”
HOW HE GOT IN Remarkable Career of a Mari Who Hung onto Mr. Moody’s Coat Tail, Little Expecting Ever to Stand in His Shoes
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