HE COULD HAVE KILLED HIM BUT HE DIDN'T

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Dwight L. Moody was one of the world’s greatest evangelists but he couldn’t carry a tune two inches without it crashing to earth in flames.

Then he met Ira D. Sankey, a man with a golden voice and a golden faith. It was a match made in evangelistic heaven and for years this team spread the word of the Lord across the land.

But it almost didn’t happen. The story behind the story is as follows:

One Christmas Eve, a few years after the Civil War, Ira D. Sankey was traveling by steamboat up the Delaware River. Knowing who he was, the other travelers asked him to sing.

When he had finished singing “The Shepherd’s Song” a man with a rough and rugged face came up to Mr. Sankey and asked “Did you ever serve in the Union Army?”

“Yes, I did,” came back the reply.

“Can you remember if you were doing picket duty on a bright moonlit night in 1862?”

“Yes,” answered Mr. Sankey, very much surprised.

“So was I,” said the stranger, “but I was serving in the Confederate Army. When I saw you standing across the river, I raised my musket, took careful aim and was prepared to shoot you dead.

I was standing in the shadows and you in the full light of the moon. It wasn’t very far. I couldn't have missed, but as my finger began to tighten on the trigger you lifted your head to the heavens and softly began to sing.

Immediately I recognized the song. It was one my God-fearing mother had sung to me many times. The song you sang then was the song you just sang now. ‘We are thine, do thou befriend us, Be the guardian of our way.” When you finished your song I knew I could not kill you. My arm of its own accord dropped limp at my side.

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