drunkards who are trampling the ten commandments under
their feet, they who have never given any respect to God's Word or to
His instructions--do you think they will be swept into the kingdom of
heaven, against their will? Do you think those antedeluvians who were so
sinful that God could not let them live on the earth would be swept into
Paradise and Noah left to wade through the deluge? Do you think that
these people, too corrupt for earth, would go there? As I have said
before, an unregenerated man in heaven would make a hell of it. An
unregenerated man couldn't stay there. Why, some of you cannot wait an
hour here to listen to the Word of God. Before the hour expires you want
to go out. Some of you just wish it was over so that you could go and
get a drink in some of those saloons. I tell you, from the very depths
of my heart, I believe heaven would be a hell to an unregenerated man.
"I don't want to be here," he would say. My friends, heaven is a
prepared place for prepared people, and no one will ever see the kingdom
of God without being born of God.

The Drunken Father and his Praying Child.

I remember when out in Kansas, while holding a meeting, I saw a little
boy who came up to the window crying. I went to him and said: "My little
boy, what is your trouble?" "Why, Mr. Moody, my mother's dead, and my
father drinks, and they don't love me, and the Lord won't have anything
to do with me because I am a poor drunkard's boy." "You have got a wrong
idea, my boy, Jesus will love you and save you and your father too," and
I told him a story of a little boy in an Eastern city. The boy said his
father would never allow the canting hypocrites of Christians to come
into his house, and would never allow his child to go to Sunday-school.
A kind-hearted man got his little boy and brought him to Christ. When
Christ gets into a man's heart he cannot help but pray. This father had
been drinking one day and coming home he heard that boy praying. He went
to him and said: "I don't want you to pray any more. You've been along
with some of those Christians. If I catch you praying again I'll flog
you." But the boy was filled with God and he couldn't help praying. The
door of communication was opened between him and Christ, and his father
caught him praying again. He went to him. "Didn't I tell you never to
pray again? If I catch you at it once more you leave my house." He
thought he would stop him. One day the old tempter came upon