1) In the winter of 1871-72, D.L. Moody had a profound spiritual experience in New York where God revealed himself to Moody and filled him with his love and spirit. 2) After this experience, Moody's preaching was not different but hundreds were converted through his sermons, and he would not want to go back to who he was before. 3) Moody believed the church had made a mistake in thinking Pentecost was a one-time miracle and not something to be repeated, and that believers needed fresh baptisms of the Holy Spirit to remain full and powerful for service.

1. Great Cloud
of Witnesses
Session 8

3. Moody’s Dramatic Moment
Winter 1871-72
“My heart was not in the work of begging. I could not
appeal [for donations]. I was crying all the time that
God would fill me with His Spirit. Well, one day, in the
city of New York—oh, what a day!—I cannot describe
it, I seldom refer to it; it is almost too sacred an
experience to name…. I can only say that God revealed
Himself to me, and I had such an experience of His
love that I had to ask Him to stay His hand.
“I went to preaching again. The sermons were not
different; I did not present any new truths, and yet
hundreds were converted. I would not now be placed
back where I was before that blessed experience if you
should give me all the world.”

4. D. L.
Moody
(in later
years)

5. D. L. Moody
at New
York’s
Hippodrome
(1876)

6. D. L. Moody
“God has got a good many children who have just
barely got life, but no power for service…. The Holy
Ghost coming upon them with power is distinct and
separate from conversion. If the Scripture doesn’t
teach it, I am ready to correct it.… I believe we
should accomplish more in one week than we
should in years if we had only this fresh baptism….
“A great many think because they have been
filled once, they are going to be full for all time
after; but O, my friends, we are leaky vessels, and
have to be kept right under the fountain all the time
in order to keep full…. Let us keep near Him.”

7. At a British YMCA
“At length a delegation of young men from the
YMCA of Sunderland waited upon the evangelists at
their lodgings, and one of them [Robert Boyd] tells
the story of their reception in the following fashion:
‘ … On the following Sunday night, when I got to
the rooms of the Young Men’s Christian
Association, I found the meeting on fire. The young
men were speaking with tongues, prophesying.
What on earth did it all mean? Only that Moody had
been addressing them that afternoon.’”

8. Agricultural Hall, London

9. One of Moody’s Last
Sermons
“I believe Pentecost was but a specimen
day. I think the church has made this
woeful mistake that Pentecost was a
miracle not to be repeated.”

10. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
(1834 – 1892)

11. Spurgeon in London’s
Crystal Palace

12. “Ships Without Wind”
“Without the Spirit of God we can do
nothing. We are as ships without wind or
chariots without steeds. Like branches
without sap, we are withered. Like coals
without fire, we are useless.”
—Charles Spurgeon

13. “Take the Sacred Tide”
“True prayer is ‘praying in the Holy Ghost’ (Jude
1:20). The Spirit makes an atmosphere around every
living prayer; within that circle, prayer lives and
prevails; outside of it, prayer is a dead formality.”
“Put out to sea in holy enterprise when the heavenly
wind is with you. Take the sacred tide at its flood.
Meetings should be increased when you feel the Spirit
of God is blessing them. The truth should be pressed
home more earnestly than ever when the Lord is
opening ears and hearts to accept it. You will soon
know when there is dew about; prize the gracious
visitation.”

14. A. J.
Gordon
(1836 –
1895)

15. Samuel Chadwick
(1860 – 1932)
“The work of God is not by might of
men or by the power of men but by
his Spirit. It is by him the truth
convicts and converts, sanctifies
and saves. The philosophies of men
fail, but the Word of God in the
demonstration of the Spirit prevails.
Our wants are many, and our faults
innumerable, but they are all
comprehended in our lack of the
Holy Ghost. We want nothing but
the fire.”

16. John
MacNeil
(1854 –
1896)

17. John MacNeil
“Let us get back to Pentecostal methods.
The trouble is that the churches have lost
their way to that ‘upper room.’ Let a church
only find her way back there and obtain her
Pentecost; let pulpit and pew be baptized
with the Holy Ghost and with fire, and the
people will come running in to see the
burning.”

18. R. A. Torrey
(1856 – 1928)
“The baptism with the Holy
Spirit is a definite
experience of which one
may and ought to know
whether he has received it
or not.” (Here he cites Luke
24:49; Acts 1:4; 8:15-16;
19:2.)