John Bancroft Devins, of “The New York Observer,” whose valuable assistance has greatly facilitated the early completion of the work. Moody as an inquirer — New York — A strong committee — A remarkable Sunday morning service — The great evening throngs — A vivid portrayal — Estimates of the work — Thurlow Weed — Where are the converts today.
SECOND EXTENDED MISSION IN GREAT BRITAIN
THE BIBLE INSTITUTE FOR HOME AND FOREIGN MISSIONS — Application entered for grandchildren — “Gap-men” training school
The Gospel in print — Convention reports — Bible notes — Printed sermons — Ingersoll and Moody — Dearth of religious literature in small cities — Country districts worse — A heroic plan — The Colportage Library — Far-reaching effects — The Gospel in the prisons — Definite results. The “after-meeting” — The use of the stereopticon — “Would you advise one to go into the ministry?” — Elocution — Too many churches — How to reach strangers — Unconverted church members — How to reach young men — How to overcome nervousness — Aiming at the heart.
LATER EXPERIENCES WITH THE YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS — Continued loyalty to the organization —
Moody’s church membership — A statement of the church’s position — Methods of work — Independent but devoted — Abnegation of self — The paramount object. The last plea — The homeward journey — Messages by the way — Back in Northfield — Days of anxiety — “Ready for either” — Last messages — “Within the portals of Heaven” — Death is not hard — No valley here — Thinking of others to the last — Conscious to the end — An abundant entrance — His own testimony.
EARLY LIFE
They cherish a natural pride in the fact that, from the date of the original grant from the British Crown, no deed of transfer of the old. Moody’s brother aided her, and at this time, too, the old minister of the Unitarian Church, the Rev.
LEAVING HOME
It seems to me that must have been the feeling of the Son of God when He was down here. One day in his absence young Moody, with a sharp knife, made a clean slit in the leather seat of the cobbler’s box.
CONVERSION
Bread cast upon the waters returns again, and the Bible-class teacher received a blessing in his own household, 17 years later, in the conversion of his own son. After his conversion young Moody was no less energetic and ambitious in the interests of the Kingdom of God than he had been in business.
IN BUSINESS IN CHICAGO
He was the same in early days as later, and every one of the circle remained fond of him to the very end, no matter how much he differed from him in opinion.”. The letter was one of his efforts to pluck me out of the burning in which I suppose he considered me a brand.”.
FIRST ATTEMPTS AT CHRISTIAN WORK
Such a place was secured in the North Market Hall, a public hall over one of the large city markets of Chicago. An account of this experience appeared in one of the religious papers at the time.
GIVING UP BUSINESS
I never spoke to the young men about their souls; that was the work of the elders, I thought. We went to the house of one of the girls, called for her, and the teacher talked to her about her soul.
CITY MISSIONARY WORK
It was during his last summer, as we were talking of the death of Norman Williams, whose funeral he had recently attended, that we spoke of those early days when he had first known Mr. It was just at this time that he won the heart of the one who two years later became his wife.
THE CIVIL WAR AND THE CHRISTIAN COMMISSION
The Young Men’s Christian Association had a chapel for the use of the men where frequent meetings were held. I am Moody, the president of the Young Men’s Christian Association,’ he explained to the soldier. As he was leaving the house, one of the sisters, only a child at the time,.
That was in the early days of the Young Men’s Christian Association, and he was looked upon as one of the most active promoters of that Association.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION WORK
The organization of the Illinois State Sunday School Association, however, gave him his great opportunity. Moody was made a member of the State Sunday School Executive Committee, which devised a plan for canvassing all the counties and securing their local organization. I was invited to go down into a little town in the state of Michigan,” he relates of the beginning of a certain revival.
Moody belonged to the Executive Committee of the State Sunday School Association he would often turn a county convention into a prayer meeting or a revival meeting.
EARLY EVANGELISTIC EFFORTS
Some of the happiest nights I ever had were in these children’s prayer meetings,” he used to say. Moody was standing near the door of the inquiry room, urging the people to come in. Friends,’ he said, ‘before beginning tonight I want to confess that I yielded just now to my temper, out in the hall, and have done wrong.
We went to what would now be called the ‘slums.’ Soon a crowd of street gamins, boys and girls of all ages, were following us with loud shouts of ‘Oh, here’s Moody.
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION WORK
It had been planned by some of the subscribers to the Association building fund that it should be named after Mr. When the costly hall of the Young Men’s Christian Association took fire in 1867,” wrote the Rev. Moody, the secretary of the Association referred to, and a man whose name is a household word in connection with missionary work.
In every city in which he worked, on both sides of the ocean, his work and words summoned to the Association a group of.
YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION CONVENTIONS
Moody in his work in the Illinois Street Church and also in that of the Young Men’s Christian Association. In 1879,at the International Convention of the Young Men’s Christian Association held in Baltimore, Mr. I think one of the greatest needs of our country is that the laboring men should own their own homes.”.
When the schools were started he invited me to become one of the trustees, which position I have held ever since.
FIRST VISIT TO GREAT BRITAIN
They are starting them in different parts of the city, and I am in hopes great good will come from it. Mackenzie dated his earnest desire for a spiritual life from that occasion, he had not yet fully realized it, and it was not till the anniversary of the day on which he had been impressed by Mr. It seems to have greatly cheered the heart of the young soldier, who was just putting on the armor for service in the foreign field, to receive words of counsel and blessing from one who some years before had been the instrument in God’s hands of leading him to more earnest thought concerning the verities of the unseen and eternal.”.
In after years when I am far away in the western prairies of America, and when May comes, I shall think that in 1867 ‘I was there’, and as the years roll on, if it shall be my privilege to meet in yonder City any that are here this morning, we may there sit down by the banks of the beautiful river of the water of life that flows from the throne of God and talk of this morning.
INFLUENCE OF HENRY MOOREHOUSE
He has preached two sermons from that verse of John, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life”, and I think you will like him, although he preaches a little differently from you.’. They brought their Bibles, and Moorehouse began, ‘Beloved friends, if you will turn to the third chapter of John, and the sixteenth verse, you will find my text’, and again he showed on another line, from Genesis to Revelation, that God loved us. Tuesday night came, and we thought he had surely exhausted that text and that he would take another, but he said: ‘If you will turn to the third chapter of John and the sixteenth verse, you will find my text’, and he preached again from that wonderful text, and this night he seemed to strike a higher chord still.
I remember the end of that sermon: ‘My friends’, he said, ‘for a whole week I have been trying to tell you how much God loves you, but I cannot do it with this poor stammering tongue.
He must have heard of the sermons He had preached; he must have heard of the doctrine He taught; he must have heard of the wonderful parables that He. Ever since that night of the great fire I have determined as long as God spares my life to make more of Christ than in the past. The ludicrous side of the situation at once appealed to him, notwithstanding the terror of that awful night.
This portrait now hangs on the walls of the Northfield home, a reminder of that night of fiery ordeal.
FIRST EXTENDED MISSION IN GREAT BRITAIN
Sankey in Chicago to continue the work in the mission church and in the Association. The first public report of the meetings in York appeared in “The Christian” for July 10th, in a letter from Mr. During the past week the Lord has greatly blessed us in the ingathering of souls.
The chapel in which the services were held soon became too small for the audience, finally necessitating the use of one of the largest halls in the North of England.
BIRTH OF THE “MOODY AND SANKEY HYMN-BOOK”
On the occasion of the visit to London, preparatory to their great meetings held there, Mr. At the present time all royalties are paid directly to the trustees of the schools of Northfield and Mount Hermon. He was greatly interested in the form of the trust, though he had but little sympathy with the religious work.
Moody preach was at the church in Northfield in September, 1899, the first Sabbath after the opening of the seminary.
THE AWAKENING IN EDINBURGH
The utter absence of jealousy, the cordial cooperation of the clergy of all denominations in the work, has been extremely striking. The hall of the Tolbooth Parish Church and the Free High Church are nightly attended by anxious inquirers. We, the undersigned pastors of the city of Chicago, learning that the Christian character of D.
Soon after eleven o’clock Bible study ceased, and the remainder of the session was given to prayer.
IN GLASGOW AND THE SCOTTISH TOWNS
Professor Fairburn, of the Free College, spoke upon the great doctrines which had been emphasized during the meetings. Standing on the coachman’s box of the carriage in which he was driven, he asked the members of the choir to sing. Some ten thousand people were around the platform long before the hour of the meeting, and when Mr.
Moody gave great attention to the Young Men’s Christian Associations, and at the height of the movement secured very large subscriptions for their foundation or expansion.
IRISH AND ENGLISH CITIES
Not the least gratifying feature of the Belfast meetings was the bringing together of all evangelical denominations. At the close of the Edinburgh mission it was said that fourteen hundred people had professed conversion. Marrable, of the Church of Ireland, presided at the first service, supported by Presbyterians, Wesleyans, and others.
At the close of the mission a convention was held, where the rousing addresses of Dr.
THE LONDON CAMPAIGN
Referring to the men, weak in the estimation of the world, whom the Lord had used. His mission appears to be to degrade religion to the level of the ‘penny gaff.’”. One of the first to attend the meetings was Lord Cairns, then Lord Chancellor in Mr.
The London papers had asserted that Moody and Sankey were financially interested in the sale of the cheap photographs sold on the streets,.
