When Jesus came into the coasts of Cæsarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God....Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. —Matthew 16:13–16, 24 …
“Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sounds throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.” —Leviticus 25:9–10
We know that Jesus did not come to dwell among men until four thousand years of human history had been …
The Moody Church News, May 1925, Volume 10, Number 5 By: Prof. F.R. Watson of the University of Illinois
The acoustics of churches is much of a mystery to most people. Sound is supposed to act in a curious way that no one can predict. If good acoustics are obtained in an auditorium, it is considered to be a matter of good luck. If a room is faulty, an immediate suggestion is made that wires or a sounding board be installed to correct the difficulty. These areas are almost entirely wrong, because sound proceeds in a very orderly fashion and …
The Moody Church News, April 1925, Volume 10, Number 4
By: Gustave Orth (of the Staff of Fugard and Knapp)
The Moody Church is ideally situated, facing Lincoln Park on the one side and LaSalle Avenue on the other. Transportation is of the best. Clark Street carries the greatest volume of north-and-south street car traffic, North Avenue is convenient for the east-and-west, while LaSalle Avenue is on our boulevard system.
The ground entrance is from Clark Street, and is midway between the church and the Sunday School building. To the right, in the church buttress, is the cornerstone, inscribed in …