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 THE Uf E OF 
 
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 DWIGHT L MOODY, 
 
 THE MAN AND HIS *OBK. 
 
 BY 
 
 REV. J. N. HALLOCK, D. D., 
 
 AND OTHERS. 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 BY REV. CHARLES C. CREEGAN, D.D. 
 
 [In the death of Mr. Moody the most power- 
 Christian force in America during our gener- 
 
 ion — if not the century — ^has passed away. 
 
 [illions of people throughout Christendom, 
 ;ho have either been led to Christ or brought 
 
 ito closer relations to their Lord by the life 
 md teaching of this great preacher, will mourn 
 his departure as if it were a personal friend. 
 [AYith the possible exception of Spurgeon, no 
 man during the last half century has wielded 
 the world-wide influence, touching all classes 
 and conditions of men, as this American Luther 
 who has gone to his rest and reward. 
 
 I first met Mr. Moody during the great re- 
 vival of the winter of 77, in Chicago. He had 
 just returned from that wonderful campaign, 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 which, in company with !^[r. Sankcy, he had 
 made in Great Britain. His audiences nirni- 
 bcred about eight thousand, many going, as I 
 did, two or three hmidred miles to spend a few 
 days listening to the old Gospel from the lijis <>f 
 one whoso soul w\ns on fire with the love of 
 God. Mv. Moody, at this time, was in his early 
 prinio — not as stout as in recent years, but ot 
 t^talwart frame and commanding presence, and 
 with a A'oice that reached to every corner of tlie 
 great auditorium. I heard him aftenvard at 
 Denver, Cleveland, Boston, Xew York and else- 
 where, but never Avas I more impressed by the 
 wonderful power of the man— a power that was 
 manifestly more than human— than I was when 
 ho retumod from abroad, chastened rather than 
 exalted by the thrilling experiences of those 
 nieetings in the great cities of England and 
 Scotland, whore ho d.nibtless preached to more 
 People in the same period of time than any man 
 in the history otf the Christian Church. It is 
 probable that more men were led to Christ 
 by this plam, consecrated lay preacher than by 
 
SNAP SHOT OF MR. MOODY. 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 any other maa who 1ms ever lived. But the 
 record is kept above, and Mr. Moody never 
 stopped in his busy life to try to number the 
 saints. 
 
 AVhat was the secret of the marvTlous success 
 of this man, who never had the advantage of 
 culture, and who, to the end of his life, was not 
 a scholar, in fact never mastered his own lan- 
 guage? It was not duo to wealth, or the influ- 
 ence of position or friends. Ho was bom poor, 
 the son of a widow who had several other child- 
 ren. At sixteen he faced the world like a hero, to 
 make his own way and help support his mother 
 and younger brothers and sisters. It was while he 
 was a clerk in a shoe store in Boston that he. was 
 brought under the preaching of Rev. Dr. Kirk, 
 of the lit. Vernon Congregational Church, and 
 into the Sunday school class of Mr. Edward 
 Kmiball and into close relations with that 
 spmtual man, Laugdou S. AVnrd, and it was 
 \ '; '^''''- '^'''' ^--^ that he was led to Christ 
 -brought into the Church. At tho meeting 
 the American Board at Madison, Wis., four 
 
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INTRODUCTION. 
 
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 years ago, at the close of a powerful sermon, 
 Mr. Moody, said, " I see here a man who was 
 largely instrumental in leading me to Christ, 
 and I want to hear that man pray once more. 
 Ilis prayers used to move me wonderfully when 
 I was a hoy in Boston." He then turned to Mr. 
 "Ward, who at that time was treasurer of the 
 American Board, and aoked him to pray. 
 
 I am of the opinion that God gave to Mr. 
 Moody just the training he needed for the special 
 work — interdenominational and international — 
 which he called him to do. It is not improbable 
 that he would have been less effective as a 
 Christian force if he had gone through one of 
 our great universities, and it is well nigh certain 
 that he would never have been more than an 
 ordinary preacher if his training had been in one 
 of our theological seminaries. It is a singular fact 
 that when God wants a man of phenomenal 
 power to lead a nation or the Church in some 
 great emergency, he cannot trust the schools, 
 but must train him in his own way. "Washing- 
 ton and Lincoln never spent a day in college — 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 the one was called to found a nation, and tlic 
 other to save it Spurgeon and Moody wore 
 alike free from the stamp which colleges fre- 
 quently give to men, and tlius were the more 
 ready to sit at the feet of the same Master who 
 taught Peter, James and John how to be fishers 
 of men. 
 
 In a word, I would say the secret of Moody's 
 power was (1) in his consecration to the service 
 of the Master. His life motto, like that of St. 
 Paul, was, " This one thing I do." (2) His un- 
 wavering confidence in the Bible as the Word 
 of God. He was unmoved by the unbelief of 
 the times, but preached the Word with power, 
 because he believed it with all his soul. (3) In 
 his unusual conmion sense or practical msdom. 
 He seemed to see the fit thing to do as quick as 
 lightning, by a sort off intuition, and his judg- 
 ment of men and measures was rarely at fault. 
 W Much of Mr. Moody's power I am persuaded 
 waB m his executive ability. He was a wonder, 
 ful organizer. H. was a master of assemblies. 
 He controlled vast audiences as a general con- 
 
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 trols his troops. If he had gone into the army 
 as a private rather than in connection with the 
 Christian Commission, ho would have come out 
 a general, for he was a born leader. 
 
 It is not possible to trace all the influences for 
 good which have come from this one great man, 
 but we may mention a few. In addition to the 
 thousands who have been blessed by his rermons 
 as they have fallen from his lips, perhaps a hun- 
 dred times as many have also received a blessing 
 as the printed page has carried these simple 
 Gospel messages to every home in the land — ^yes, 
 in divers tongues and many lands. Those Gos- 
 pel hymns, which have been sung by millions 
 in America and throughout the world, would 
 not have been written but for the inspiring lead- 
 ership of this man. It was due to him that the 
 world has come to treasure the sweet songs of 
 men like Bliss, Sankey, Stebbins, and the in- 
 spiring hjrmns of Fanny Crosby. How much 
 the world would miss if all these Gospel songs 
 were taken away from us! Then, too, we must 
 not forget what Mr. Moody has done for the 
 
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14 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Y. M. 0. A. Can anybody tell how many of tlio 
 splendid Y. M. C. A. buildin«;fl in our great 
 cities were due to the inspiration of this one 
 
 man 
 
 ? 
 
 But no account of Mr. Moody would be com- 
 plete without mention of his crowning work — 
 his great church at Chicago, which has been 
 such a powerful force in that city, and especially 
 his schools in Xorthiield. Feeling his own lack 
 of culture, and knowing how nearly impossible 
 it is for a poor boy, at the present time, to attend 
 one of our Eastern colleges, he conceived the 
 idea of founding two great schools, the one for 
 boys and the other for girls, within easy reach of 
 each other, and where, suiTounded by the best re- 
 ligious influences, any worthy and plucky young 
 person might re.oivo an education. These schools, 
 with their excellent cori^s of teachers and splen- 
 did buildings, have already sent forth hundreds 
 of noble men and women, who, inspired by this 
 great man, are now doing what they can-some 
 of them as missionaries in foreign lands-to 
 build up the Kingdom of God. May men and 
 
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INTRODUCTION. 
 
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 women of wealth who knew and loved Mr. 
 Moody be found to endow these schools, now 
 that the master hand has been removed ! What 
 better monument to his memory could the Chris- 
 tian people of England and America build than 
 by placing these institutions upon a firm found- 
 ation, that they may train an army of Christian 
 workers in the coming years who shall go forth 
 to bless the world! 
 
 How great a loss to the world is the death of 
 this heroic preacher of righteousness! "Who can 
 be found to take his place? When I first heard 
 that he had gone to his rest I said: " If the en- 
 tire faculty of two of our great colleges should 
 be taken away to-day, it would not bo so diffi- 
 cult to fill their places as it will be to fill the 
 place of this one man." Earth is indeed poorer, 
 but heaven is richer, because he has srone to his 
 reward. Let us recall what he said in one of his 
 last sermons: "My brethren, when you hear 
 some one say, by and by, Dwight L. Moody is 
 dead, don't you believe it, for the Christian can- 
 not die; he is immortal." 
 
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 PART I. 
 
 HIS EARLY LIFE. 
 
 The old farm house in which Mr. Moody first 
 saw the light is yet standing in Northfield, Mass., 
 and it is still occupied by Mr. Moody's older 
 brother, George, whose son, Abner G. Moody, 
 is the general manager of Mr. Moody's work at 
 yortllfield. In the old Family Bible, still well 
 preserved, may be found among the "Birtha" 
 the following interesting information in regard 
 to Mr. Moody's parents: 
 
 " Edwin Moodv was born November 1, 1800." 
 
 " Betsy Holton was bom February 5, 1805." 
 
 And among the " Marriages " : 
 
 " Edwin Moody and Betsy Holton were mar- 
 ried January 3, 1828.'' 
 
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 " The Plantation of Northfield " was bounded 
 and staked out by a committee of the General 
 Court of Massachusetts, over two hundred years 
 ago, having been bought from the Indians in 
 1677. William Hoi ton was a member of this 
 committee, and from him Betsy, the mother of 
 Dwight, was a lineal descendant, being five gen- 
 erations later. The Holtons were, therefore, 
 among the oldest, if not tlie very oldest, settlers 
 at Northfield, and the Moodys were also among 
 the well known old families of that ancient 
 town. 
 
 Dwight Lyman was bom February 6, 1837, 
 being the sixth of a large family of nine child- 
 ren. Four years later his father, who was a 
 workingman, — la mason — died while upon his 
 knees in prayer at his bedside, and so suddenly 
 that even his wife was unaware that he was in 
 other than his usual robust health. He came 
 home from his work in the morning with a 
 slight pain in his side, and passed away soon 
 after noon of the same day. A month later a 
 boy and a girl were bom, and the widow was 
 
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 left with this family of nine, the oldest being 
 only thirteen, and ^vith nothing: for her support 
 hut the old farm house and a couple of acres of 
 land. What to do she scarcely knew. Neigh- 
 bors told her to bind out her children, all but the 
 twins, but she said no. She determined to 
 struggle on and do the best she could till some 
 of the children could help her, and this she did, 
 and was at last rewarded by all the help she 
 needed, and from those whom she had watched 
 over so tenderly and anxiously all through her 
 poverty and toilsome life. 
 
 Mrs. Moody was a devout Christian, and took 
 no end of pains to teach her children the truths 
 of the Bible as she understood them. Her pas- 
 tor Was the Rev. Oliver Everett, a Unitarian, 
 but a faithful, conscientious man, and his con- 
 troversies with his orthodox brethren were not 
 as radical and iwecping in their effects as we 
 find some of them nowadays. Pastor Everett 
 believed in the Bible as the inspired Word of 
 God, and in Jesus as the Saviour of sinners, and 
 in fact if he had known of th© "Apostles' Creed" 
 
THE MAN AND HIS WORK. 
 
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 as we have it nowadays, lie would not liavei 
 found much fault with it, although some of the 
 dogmas of our present day orthodox belief might 
 have bothered him quite as much as they do 
 many other good people. On the whole, as Mr. 
 Moody used to say, Pastor Everett was "not 
 enough of a Unitarian to do much harm," and 
 quite different from his successor, who was a 
 rationalist of the most pronounced type. At 
 one time he took young Dwight into his family 
 to " do errands " for him and " go to school," all 
 of which was a mere work of charity upon the 
 good man's part, for he foresaw that Mrs. Moody 
 would have more on her hands than she could 
 well take care of. At school young Dwight 
 distinguished himself, but not in the line of 
 book lore. The very last thing that he wished 
 to do was to study, and he never did it except 
 at the urgent request of his mother, and then 
 only pro tempore. He was of a generous nature, 
 and though not vicious he was wilful and un- 
 governable, and the leading spirit in all manner 
 of mischief and fun. More than once the tnis- 
 
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 DWIQHT L. MOODY. 
 
 tees threatened to turn liim out of school, and 
 hig teacher, in despair, Avent to his mother and 
 tokl her she knew not how to manaji:e him. His 
 mother was greatly troubled, and immediately 
 took him in hand. She told him how hard she 
 worked that he might become a good, useful 
 boy, and how much she had loved him, and that 
 it would grieve her beyond endurance to have 
 her boy turned out of school because he could 
 not or would not behave. There was notliing 
 in the world that Dwight would not do for his 
 mother. She had at tliat age an influence ovei 
 him that no one else possessed. He broke 
 down, and promised that ho would go the next 
 day and ask the teacher's forgiveness, and try 
 hard to bo a good boy, that he might not bring 
 his mother into disgrace. And he was as good 
 as his word. What passed between his teacher 
 and himself the next day is never told, but he 
 immediately relinquished his leadership in mis- 
 chief and applied himself faithfully to study, 
 lie worked hard, but it was his last tenn at 
 school, and he was seventeen years of age, and 
 
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 DWiailT L. MOODY. 
 
 it was too late for him to receive the advantages 
 of such an education as he mi^ht easily have 
 acquired if he had made this resolve earlier. 
 The time had come when he must leave school 
 and go to work to help support the family. 
 
 MR. MOODY'S BOSTON EXPERIENCE. 
 
 He first went to a brother, who held a clerk- 
 ship in a store at Clinton, but meotini^ mth no 
 success here, he went on to Boston, where he 
 had an imcle, Samuel Ilolton, in the boot and 
 shoe business. His uncle had heard of him as 
 the ringleader of all the mischief at Korthfield, 
 and did not offer to take him into his store. 
 The green farmer boy was not appreciated in 
 Boston, and he soon found out that it was one 
 thing to be a leader among the boys at North- 
 field, and quite another to have any influence 
 in a great city like Boston. At the end of a 
 week he was thoroughly discouraged and tired 
 out looking for a place. But his pride, although 
 hurt, was by no means entirely broken, and he 
 made up his mind that he would walk to New 
 
THE MAlf ATfD HIS WORK. 27 
 
 York and see if he could not succeed better. 
 His younger brother Lemuel, who also lived in 
 Boston, at whoso house he had been staying, 
 asked if he had tried to get a situation at his 
 uncle's — roforring to« Uncle Samuel. " No," 
 said the wilful boy. " Uncle knows I am hero 
 looking for a situation, and he may help me or 
 not, as ho likes." Lemuel gave him some greatly 
 needed sound advice. He told him in no very 
 flattering terms that modesty was sometimes as 
 necessary as courage, and gained his consent to 
 state the case frankly to his Uncle Samuel, who, 
 by the way, was a good hearted sort of a man, 
 and rather disposed to help as soon as he saw a 
 chance and became convinced that he oould 
 safely do so. The result was that young Dvvight 
 was asked to call and his uncle gave him a clerk- 
 ship in his store upon two conditions. First, he 
 must board where his uncle chose to have him, 
 and not to go out nights into the streets or to 
 any places of amusement without first securing 
 his uncle's consent; and secondly, he must go 
 every Sunday to the Mount Vernon Church and 
 
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 DWIGHT L. MOODY. 
 
 regularly attend the Sunday school. This was a 
 wise precaution. Mr. Ilolton had himself come 
 to Boston when about the same age as his 
 nephew now was, and he knew the temptations 
 and allurements such a city would offer to a 
 young man of the, temperament and habits of 
 young Dwight. Ho was bound to act conseiwa- 
 tively, and tlierefore imposed one more condi- 
 tion, to wit, his nephew was to be governed by 
 his uncle's judgment rather than by his own 
 while in his employ, which was a hint that 
 young Dwight imderstood, that duty and obed- 
 ience to his superiors would bo insisted on, and 
 compelled if necessary. 
 
 Dwight was Ul fitted for city life, but he was 
 a keen obsciwer of human nature, and he soon 
 sold more boots and shoes than any other clerk 
 in the establishment. But his ungovernable 
 temper and liLs habit of " pitching in " and fight- 
 ing his way out sometimes brought dov/n the 
 whole establishment in an uproar, and his uncle 
 had great difficulty in managing his best sales- 
 man. Gradually he became more tractable, and 
 
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 by and by he applied for admission to the Mount 
 Vernon Church, where he was kept for six 
 months on probation before he was allowed to 
 enter. This came out in a characteristic way 
 when, years afterwards, as Kev. Dr. Savage, of 
 Chicago, informs us, an incident occurred dur- 
 ing Mr. Moody's second visit to England, at 
 which time he took good natured revenge upon 
 one of the deacons who had thus kept him so 
 long from joining the Church. It was at one 
 of his great meetings in Exeter Hall, and he es- 
 pied his old friend sitting in a comer away back 
 under the gallery. The good man, traveling for 
 his health, had seen the notice of the meeting, 
 and, partly out of curiosity to see what the man 
 could do, he attended the service, taking a seat 
 where he thought Mr. Moody would not see 
 him. But just before closing the meeting, to his 
 surprise Mr. Moody exclaimed: 
 
 " I see in the house an eminent Christian 
 gentleman from Boston. Deacon Palmer, come 
 right forward to the platform; the people want 
 to hear from youl" 
 
THE MAN AND HIS WORK. 31 
 
 The deacon shook his head, but Moody was 
 inexorable; so there was nothing for it but to 
 accept the situation and face the audience. He 
 commenced by saying that he had known Mr. 
 Moody in Boston in early life; had been, in fact, 
 a member of the same church with him, and 
 was very glad of his great success in the service 
 of the Lord; when Moody suddenly burst out 
 with the remark, 
 
 " Yes, deacon, and you kept me out of the 
 church for six months because you thought I 
 did not know enough to join it." 
 
 The effect of such a speech under such cir^ 
 curnstances can be better imagined than de- 
 scribed. But the deacon was too old a speaker 
 to be silenced by such a retort, although he 
 found it difficult to be heard on account of the 
 laughter which followed it. The audience, he 
 said, must agree with him that it was a great 
 privilege to receive Mr. Moody into their church 
 at all, even though with great misgivings and 
 after so long delay I 
 
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 DWIGHT L. MOODY. 
 HIS EARLY LIFE m CHICAGO. 
 
 In 1856 Mr. Moody «oved irora Boston to 
 
 man ,n the boot and shoe store of a Mr Wis 
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 class on Sundays. In this work the well known 
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 hiin. The place swarmed with youth of the 
 vilest habits, so far as drinking and gambling 
 were concerned, and there were more than two 
 hundred such dens of vice in the immediate 
 neighborhood. 
 
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 of pupils that young D wight wanted, for ho 
 longed, like his Master, to save tliose wlio were 
 lost. His success in this venture was phenom- 
 enal, and it was not long before the great pres- 
 sure of pupils demanded more room, and by 
 permission otf the Mayor his school was moved 
 to the great hall over the Old North Market. 
 
 In October, 1871, Chicago was visited by a. 
 terrible calamity. The great fire laid in ruins 
 an area four miles long and a mile wide. Mr. 
 Moody's home, Farwell Hall, and his church, 
 all went down in the flames. He at once went 
 to work to raise funds for a new place to hold 
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MR. Moody's Chicago church, 
 
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 MOODY AND SANKEY. 
 
 Mr. Moody's acquaintance witli Ira D. San- 
 key commenced in this wise. Mr. Moody was 
 loading the rcli^ous exercises at a Young Men's 
 Christian Association at Indianapolis at a prayer 
 meeting appointed for seven o'clock in the morn- 
 ing. The meeting was too slow and dragged, 
 and not to Mr. Moody's liking, especially the 
 singing. Everything was sung in a long meter 
 and slow time, and dragged along even worse 
 than the rest of the service. It happened just 
 at that time that Mr. Sankey entered the room, 
 and one of the elders who knew his gift in that 
 direction invited him to lead the singing. The 
 result was that the entire tenor of the meeting 
 was changed, and what promised to be a failure 
 turned out to be a great success. At the close 
 
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 of the meotkig Mr. Moody at once approached 
 him, and his first inquiry was : 
 
 "Where do you reside?" 
 
 " In ^N^ewcastle, Pennsylvania," said Mr. San- 
 key. 
 
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 « What for?" 
 
 " To help me at Chicago and elsewhere at my 
 work." Mr. Moody spoke as one who would take 
 no denial. 
 
 " But," said Mr. Sankey, " I do not see how 
 I can leave my business." 
 
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 for during the last eight years," said Mr. Moody, 
 " and you must come. Give up your business, 
 and go back to Chicago and work _with me." 
 
 The result was, after consulting his wife and 
 those with whom he was interested in business, 
 he gave up his business and cast in his lot with 
 Mr. Moody. They held other meetings in In- 
 dianapolis, at which Mr. Moody prcach.ed and 
 Mr. Sankey sang, and the more they worked to- 
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 good results seemed to indicate that it was just 
 such a union as was needed to accomplish the 
 most good. For an entire week they worked to- 
 gether in prayer meetings, in Sunday schools, 
 in saloons, and drinking dens, speaking and sing- 
 ing as occasion served; and in all these various 
 labors they were themselves refreshed and much 
 good was accomplished. This was about six 
 months before the Great Fire, which occurred in 
 October, 1871. The great calamity which over- 
 whehned that portion of the city where Mr. 
 Moody's mission had been located so deranged 
 his plans that he went for a tour to the Atlantic 
 coast, and Mr. Sankcy returned for a time to his 
 family in Pennsylvania. But no sooner was the 
 new tabernacle erected in the midst of the ruins 
 than these two brethren returned and com- 
 menced their work again together, taking up 
 their lodgings in ante-rooms off the great rough 
 building, and giving themselves day and night 
 to comforting the bodies and trying to save the 
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 During a whole year Mr. Moody and Mr. San- 
 key were busy visiting various localities, preach- 
 ing and singing and leading souls to Christ. Mr. 
 Sankey's solo singing was not wholly an inno- 
 vation. That " great singer," Philip Phillips, 
 of K'ew York, so well known afterward, before 
 his sudden tragic death, as the author of many 
 beautiful hymns and tunes, had introduced this 
 method some years before Mr. Sankey began to 
 sing with Mr. Moody and accompany the preach- 
 ing with his beautiful voice. Many were de- 
 lighted and some were shocked, but the results 
 were evidently acceptable to the Lord in the 
 bringing in of souls to the kingdom, and so all 
 opposition was hushed and Mr. Sankey was 
 known and appreciated wherever Mr. Moody 
 preached. He afterward accompanied this great 
 evangelist to Europe, of which I will speak fully 
 hereafter. 
 
 MOODY AND SANKEY, 
 
 First, however, here are one or two interest- 
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 wliich are related to me by Mr. E. W. Hawley. 
 Mr. Hawley was the secretary of the Young 
 Men's Christian Association while Mr. Moody 
 was its president, and as such a constant com- 
 panion and worker with Mr. Moody for fifteen 
 years, and from him I have received much per- 
 sonal information in regard to Mr. Moody. He 
 relates numerous interesting incidents, among 
 which I have room for but two. 
 
 It will be remembered that during Mr. 
 Moody's early labors in Chicago he was called 
 upon to speak in Sunday school conventiona, 
 chiefly on account of his experience in ways of 
 reaching the masses of neglected children in 
 great cities. He knew how to do this thing bet- 
 ter than any other man in the West, and, in his 
 blunt way, he could talk greatly to the instruc- 
 tion and sometimes not a little to the amuse- 
 ment of his audience. For several years he filled 
 up little niches in the program — willing to do 
 anything, however small, to help on the cause of 
 his Master. But in the spring of 1861 he was 
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 and too late to go to bed, and so, shivering with 
 cold and trembling tinder the load of responsi- 
 bility thus suddenly laid upon them, they took 
 a room, not for sleep, but for prayer. During 
 the rest of the night they asked God for power 
 and guidance, and in the morning he says " both 
 of us felt the smile of heaven warming and glad- 
 dening our souls." 
 
 The morning session passed oif in humdrum 
 style, with fussy debate on trifling questions, all 
 of which caused Mr. Moody and Mr. Ilawley to 
 realize the importance of giving a more spiritual 
 turn if possible to the work of the afternoon. 
 And so, trembling, but earnestly asking for 
 Uivine help, they reluctantly started; for the 
 large church, which they reached in due time, 
 and where they were to try and fill the places 
 of the " distinguished brethren from Chicago." 
 Close to the church was a public school room, 
 which Mr. Moody engaged for the afternoon. 
 
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 get througli," was Mr. Moody's reply. 
 
 Mr. Moody requested that Mr. Ilawley speak 
 first while he prayed for him; they were then to 
 change places, and Moody was to speak while 
 ITawlcy prayed; and so the meeting began. A 
 great congregation had come to hear the " distin- 
 guished speakers," but the two young men 
 trusted in God and went ahead. 
 
 After Mr. Ilawley had spoken for about 
 twenty or twenty-five minutes to an attentive 
 and appreciative audience, then came Mr. 
 Moody's turn. Soon ho had the entire audience 
 in tears. lie seemed like one inspired, and pic- 
 tured to them their need of Christ to help them, 
 lie i)ointed out to them the awful sin of doing 
 their work as Sunday school teachers in a care- 
 less and worldly way, and after an address of 
 tliree-quarters of an hour, which seemed almost 
 like a wild mountain torrent, he called for those 
 who wanted to find Christ now to meet him at 
 once in the school room next door. Great num- 
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 This was the beginning of a widespread re^ 
 vival in Bureau County; for all the delegates 
 carried the spirit of that wonderful meeting 
 homo wjitli them, and gave their hearts and 
 hands anew to their work. It was also the be- 
 ginning of a new life for Mr. Moody. He luid 
 found and taken hold of a hitherto unknown 
 spiritual power, and from thatl day he went 
 everywhere rejoicing and confident in the 
 strength of God. With perfect abandon he 
 threw himself upon Christ and into his subject; 
 and, carried forward irresistibly on the tides ol 
 heavenly love and sympathy, he swept along 
 triumphantly, persuading multitudes of penitent 
 sinners to go along with him, and offering them 
 in prayer to the Saviour as trophies of his divine 
 grace and power. This way of acting and speak- 
 ing by special inspiration led him sometimes to 
 do seemingly strange things, though afterward 
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 At another time Mr. Ilawlcy relates tliat upon 
 one of his rounds of meetinp;s in the State of In- 
 diana, he was riding in the wagon of a quiet 
 Christian brother, who was taking him to his 
 next appointment, when they passed a little 
 school house which was closed for the day. Ask- 
 ing his friend to stop at the dwelling nearest to 
 it, he stood up in the wagon and hailed the 
 house. A woman came to the door, and Mr. 
 Moody asked if there were any religious meet- 
 ings held in that scliool house. 
 
 " Ko, indeed," answered the woman, " we 
 haven^t any meetings anywhere about here." 
 
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 bors that there will be prayer meetings in that 
 school house every night next week." 
 
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 the school, to whom ho gave the same announce- 
 ment, and asked her to send the notice by all 
 her (Scholars, which ^she, seemed well pleased 
 to do. 
 
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 that this strange man had a long list of appoint- 
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 tend those meetings he was giving out. At 
 length he said, 
 
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 that there are going to be prayer meetings in 
 that school house every night next week. Who 
 is going to conduct them?" 
 
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 " I?" said the man, in astonishment, " I never 
 did such a thing in my life." 
 
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 have made the appointment and you will have 
 to keep it." 
 
 Thrust out into the work in this strange man- 
 ner, the good brother actually went and con- 
 ducted the meetings. They filled the little 
 school house to overflowing, and resulted in a 
 great revival of religion throughout all that 
 neglected country. 
 
 In 1872, Mr. Moody, with his family and Mr. 
 Sankev, left for Great Britain. At first he was 
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 that Mr. Moody may be said to have commenced 
 with the determination of setting himself right 
 and conquering the prejudices against him upon 
 the Continent, being continually hindered and 
 hampered during his first visit and all along up 
 to the present time in bringing the message of 
 the Gospel before the people by a want of con- 
 fidence, especially among the ministers. In fact, 
 he himself, admitted that they had not done 
 much in York and Sunderland " because the 
 ministers opposed us." But he declared they 
 were going to " stay right here in K^ewcastle- 
 upon-Tyne " until they had succeeded in living 
 down not only the prejudices of the clergy, but 
 of all good people who did not seem to under- 
 stand them. 
 
 He was assisted in this respect greatly by the 
 pastor of the John Knox Presbyterian Church, 
 Rev. Dr. Lowe, who had heard Mr. Moody in 
 Sunderland, and other places, and who was very 
 favorably impressed with him. lie happened at 
 one time to come into the meeting at the very 
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 quirers into a separate room for personal confer- 
 ence. Mr. Moody always remeonbcred a face, 
 and lie instantly called out to his friend the 
 Presbyterian pastor, " Here, Brother Lowe, go 
 in and talk to all those inquirers. There are a 
 good many of them and you will have to talk to 
 thesm as you would to a little congregation of 
 your own." This introduction was especially 
 fortunate both for Dr. Lowe and also for Mr. 
 Moody, and as soon as he had finished his work 
 in Sunderland, Dr. Lowe arranged that Mr. 
 Moody should commence his labors at NeW' 
 castle-upon-Tyne. 
 
 In accordance with this arrangement five of 
 the principal chapels of the old town were im^ 
 mediately placed at Mr. Moody's disposal, and 
 meetings were held in all of them during the 
 fir^t week, sometimes in one and at other times 
 in two or three at the same time, but the 
 audiences were not large until Mr. Moody fin- 
 ally secured the Rye Hill Baptist Chapel, which 
 is immense, although the attendance there at 
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 land, and awakened the greatest possible inter- 
 est, especially at Edinburgh, which, as is well 
 known, is the centre of Scottish religious life. 
 Mr. Moody received from some of the clergy an 
 invitation to come and hold meetings in that 
 great city — the capital of Scotland. He said to 
 himself, " What good can such a man as I am 
 do among those great doctors of divinity and 
 noted divines?" But he weait right forward, and 
 after holding services in several of the churches, 
 the great Assembly Hall was thrown open to 
 him, and one of the most wonderful series of 
 meetings were held there that Mr. Moody has 
 ever been privileged to hold anywhere. The 
 whole populace were soon talking about Mr. 
 Moody's preaching and Mr. Sankey's singing; 
 and by the way, the latter was quite as much 
 of an innovation among those old Scotch wor- 
 shippers as the former. In some quarters at first 
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 psalms were sung, and sonio of Mr. Sankey's 
 singing was in a stylo which reminded one of 
 other and less religious places than the churches 
 and customary places of worship. But worse 
 than all was that abominable and sinful " Kist 
 fu* o' whistles " with which Mr. Sankey accom- 
 panied his voice, and which had been voted down 
 and out of all the churches for hundreds of 
 years. This was an innovation which it was at 
 first exceedingly hard to tolerate, and more than 
 one gray haired elder, when they sang the well 
 known words, 
 
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 tal accompaniment, and felt like the good Scot- 
 tish brother whose chorister attempted to intro- 
 duce a violin in his service without permission, 
 and who even ventured to modestly suggest 
 that if Watts and David had only been up t 
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 "Oh, may my heart be tuned within, 
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 Instantly tlio aforesaid pjood old brother quietly 
 suggested this further amendment as being more 
 "up to date," and hence more appropriate: 
 
 "Oh, may my heart go diddle, diddle, 
 Like Uncle David's old red fiddle." 
 
 But even a Scotchman is after all merely a 
 creature of habit, and it is wonderful how soon 
 the most prejudiced yielded and came to like the 
 " new stylo " of singing at these evangelistic 
 meetinpi-s of ]\Ioody and Sankey. In spite of all 
 their prejudices they were convinced that tho 
 good work was genuine, and so they prayed, 
 " God bless Scotland and mako these evange- 
 lists from America helpful in awakening a re- 
 vival of true religion." The same glorious vic^ 
 tory Mr. Moody had achieved in i^ewcastlc' 
 upon-Tyne was destined to be experienced liera 
 in Edinburgh, and the great gatherings of As- 
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 day and increased in numbers and in spiritual 
 power. 
 
 At Glasgow tlie great Kibble Crystal Palace 
 in the Botanio Gardens was utilized for Mr. 
 Moody's meetings, and although it will comfort- 
 ably seat six thousand, it was not only constant- 
 ly filled to overflov/ing, but the platform was 
 often full of Scotland's most eminent men from 
 among the clergy and evangelists from every 
 direction and all denominations. The last meet- 
 ing was one of the most memorable that ever 
 took place upon the Continent. The Palace 
 could not begin to contain the crowd that came, 
 and when Mr. Moody arrived the vast throng 
 was estimated at fully fifty thousand people. 
 Mr. Moody, always quick in an emergency, de- 
 termined not to alight from his carriage, but was 
 driven to as near the centre of the crowd as pos- 
 sible and stood in his carriage while he preached 
 to the multitudes. Even at this disadvantage 
 Mr. Sankey's clear voice was heard by nearly all 
 as he sang that beautiful hymn commencing 
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 Moody's sermon he asked all earnest inquirers 
 after the better life to meet them in the Palace, 
 and the great building was completely filled with 
 those who wished for prayers and spiritual con- 
 versation and advice. 
 
 It was during Mr. Moody's work at Chicago 
 that the Civil War occurred, and one of the 
 greatest marvels of those days was a genuine 
 revival of religion among the Rebel prisoners — 
 about ten thousand of whom had been taken at 
 Fort Donelson and brought to Camp Douglas, 
 which was transformed from a camp of instruc- 
 tion into a prison. Mr. Moody was impressed 
 with the thought that these poor men needed the 
 means of grace fully as much as the Union sol- 
 diers; but to ffain access to them was a matter of 
 extreme difficulty. One day he succeded ifi ob- 
 taining a permit to visit them as a clergyman, 
 which he gave to the secretary of the Young 
 Men's Christian Association, his friend Mr. 
 Hawley, and asi it was toward evening took 
 along a can of kerosene oil " to light up with," 
 hoping that in the capacity of a servant he might 
 
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 be allowed to pass the guard along with his more 
 clerical looking friend. But the guard would 
 not let him in, and it was of no use, though Mr. 
 Moody exhibited his can of oil, and declared 
 that he was going with the other gentleman 
 simply " to help along the meeting." He would 
 not take a refusal, although at the point of the 
 bayonet, and at length the earnest discussion was 
 overheard by an officer, who come up to see what 
 was the matter, and recognizing Mr. Moody, 
 took him to headquarters, vouched for his being 
 " all right," and obtained a pass for him to go 
 in and hold meetings with the prisoners as often 
 as he liked. Soon, to Mr. Hawley's great joy, 
 he rejoined his friend " the clergyman " in the 
 prison. They announced the purpose of their 
 visit, and the men, being both surprised and 
 pleased, crowded around them, while they read 
 the Scriptures, exhorted and prayed. 
 
 We have not room here to- speak of Mr. 
 Moody's great work in Ireland, but at Belfnst, 
 Londonderry and at Dublin the scenes we have 
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 At Dublin the large Exhibition Hall was not 
 large enough to contain those who wished to 
 hear him, while the great mass meetings in the 
 open air will be long remembered by those who 
 attended them. His motto was " All Ireland 
 for Christ," and it seemed as if all Ireland was 
 stirred from center to circumference by the won- 
 derful power that accompanied Mr. Moody's 
 preaching. 
 
 In March, 1875, Mr. Moody commenced his 
 great work in London. In the north quarter of 
 London, the single point of Islington contained 
 at that time about three or four hundred thou- 
 sand souls. The largest structure there is the 
 great Agricultural Hall, and under its immense 
 roof of iron and glass Mr. Moody found just 
 such a spacious inclosure as he wanted. His 
 congregations there were limited only by the 
 possibility of hearing the preaching and the sing- 
 ing, and every available seat near the platform 
 v/as occupied long before the services com- 
 menced. The great Haymarket too was filled, 
 and immense meetings we; conducted there. 
 
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 The Royal Opera House in the Haymarket, 
 and Camberwell Hall, were among the last of 
 the largest places in London where Mr, Moody 
 held evangelical services. The great hall was 
 in South London, and was an immense building, 
 having seating accommodation for fully eight 
 thousand people. Tliis hall was erected expressly 
 for Moody and his work. It was almost al- 
 ways filled to its utmost capacity, and during 
 the last days of his \asit, such immense crowds 
 came rushing together, that it was with diffi- 
 culty that they were accommodated or even re- 
 strained within the bounds of safety. At one 
 time the doors were actually burst open by the 
 pressure outside after the building had become 
 full, and such was the force exerted by the 
 
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 crowd to push their way into the hall, that fears 
 were entertained for the structure, substantial as 
 it was. Quite a panic seemed imminent for a 
 moment, but Mr. Moody, as usual, was fully 
 equal to the occasion. He soon restored quiet 
 and then calmly proceeded with the meeting as 
 if nothing unusual had happened. 
 
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 The Royal Opera House was also transformed 
 for the time being into a sanctuary. The place 
 had for a long time been in disuse by reason of 
 some financial and legal difficulties, and it was 
 secured with some trouble at first, but for the 
 purpose to which Mr. Moody put it not a voice 
 was raised in opposition, and the long rows of 
 galleries — tier above tier — were constantly 
 crowded to their utmost to hear him. The first 
 or grand tier by time-honored custom had al- 
 ways been reserved for the nobility, and it was 
 noticed that this was usually quite as full as the 
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 hear Mr. Moody, as did also the Duchess of 
 Sutherland, the Duchess o£ Teck, Princess May, 
 and many of tlie rest of the nobility. Since his 
 great meetings at K^ewoastle-upon-Tyne there 
 seemed to be no prejudice against him, eithei 
 among the clergy or the educated laity and no- 
 bility. Mr. Moody himself observed no differ- 
 ence in the matter of his sermons and exhorta- 
 tions, whether to the rich or to the poor. The 
 only difference was in an almost unconscious 
 adaptation of style and gesture and the ichoice of 
 words to carry the same meaning to audiences 
 of widely different culture. Although in his ad- 
 dresses he made no pretensions to oratory, few 
 speakers were more varied or impressive in their 
 manner of delivery. Some of his friends were 
 greatly exercised and disturbed lest his preach^ 
 ing might not have the same effect among the 
 scions of wealth and fashion when ho came to 
 address audiences like that in the Koyal Opera 
 House and elsewhere among the educated and 
 refined. But Mr. Moody never shared their 
 anxieties and perplexities upon this head. He 
 
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 knew tliat tlie same Gospel was adapted to all 
 classes, whether among the nobility or among 
 the common people, and the precise manner of 
 presenting it was to him a secondary considera- 
 tion and one which would adapt itself to the oc- 
 casion and the audience. To him it mattered 
 little whether his hearers rode in their own car- 
 riages , emblazoned with their coats of arms and 
 insignia of station, or were from those among 
 the lowly classes. His complete forgetfulness of 
 self and his genuine sincerity and earnestness in 
 preaching the Gospel of his Master to all alike 
 won for him the respect and confidence of all. 
 Among the cultivated and educated classes of 
 noblemen and ladies he stood forth conspicously 
 as a lover of mankind and a Christian, and the 
 fact that he was not a profound 'jcholar was for- 
 gotten or overlooked in their admiration for 
 genuine excellence of character, combined with 
 real genius and sincere piety. All London, in- 
 cluding members of the royal household, went 
 frequently to hear the Bible readings and ex- 
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 dresses illustrating the love of the Saviour of 
 mankind to sinners. Mr. Sankey, too, came in 
 for a share of the great awakening, and his sweet 
 hymns and songs soon became familiar and in- 
 creased the interest in the revival or religious 
 fervor throughout the British isles. Many of 
 the wealthy aided materially in carrying on the 
 work, and it is stated upon what is considered 
 good authority that fully one hundred and fifty 
 thousand dollars were spent in this way. At 
 the same time these meetings were being held 
 in the Ilaymarket, at the West End, large 
 gatherings were also liolding meetings at the 
 Bow Road Hall in the eastern portions of the 
 city. Mr. ]\foody used to attend botli of the 
 great meetings the same day, and the moment 
 he had finished his address at the great Opera 
 House, the fastest conveyances took him over 
 to the hall at tlie east portion. While his ad- 
 dresses always converged to the same result — 
 that of bringing men to the Saviour — there was 
 an instinctive effort to choose his language to 
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 that before the West End audiences of highly 
 cultivated and rcfiued people, the few graces of 
 manner and diction which he possessed were 
 here brought out to the best advantage; but on 
 the way to t le East End, where the people were 
 comparatively uncultivated and more primitive 
 ij. their manners and ways, his old abandon and 
 careless, li(3arty manner Vv'as sure to reassert it- 
 pc-if and adapt his addresses to the style of his 
 hearers' every d,'y converse. This wonderful 
 adaption and accommodation of his manner and 
 methods seemed intuitive to him. 
 
 For instance, if the audience was one com- 
 posed mostly of women, many of whom were 
 manifesting a tenderness and reverential sorrow 
 and grief for wa,"^ ward children or unconverted 
 husbands and fathers and brothers, he would be 
 all sympathy, and mingle his sorrow and grief 
 in such a genuine manner with theirs that there 
 was no mistaking it. He would ask Mr. San- 
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 of Jesus," " Ninety and Nine," or some other 
 comforting selection, while perhaps the very 
 next hour, when the men came rushing in pell 
 mell, and crowding each other in their effort to 
 find comfortable seats, he would instantly seem 
 like one transformmed, as he really was, and suit 
 himself to the occasion both in the style of his 
 address and in the selection of the words and 
 music. Frequently at such times he would elec- 
 trify his audience by calling for " Hold the 
 fort," "Ring the Bells of Heaven," and such 
 M^'rring words and music, and the moment the 
 music ceased he would throw himself almost 
 bodily into his intense desire to lead his hearers 
 to the Saviour. So intense was the feeling to 
 see and hear these evangelists, and to spread the 
 glad tidings of the Gospel they preached, that 
 it seemed as if all London was talking about their 
 methods and their wonderful success. The pa- 
 pers were full of it, many writers wondering 
 how it was possible for euch unlenmed and com- 
 mon men to accomplish so great a work, and 
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 spiritual power manifested, and thanked God 
 that these men had been raised up and sent forth 
 as laborers in the world's great harvest. An al- 
 most ludicrous incident happened in regard to 
 the Bishop of Canterbury, who felt moved to 
 explain that from v/hat he had heard of Mr. 
 Moody and his work he had no doubt that much 
 good was being accomplished ; in which, of 
 course, all Christians must rejoice; but he did 
 not feel that it was at all in accordance with his 
 sense of the high dignity of his sacred office to 
 sanction with his official recognition and appro- 
 val such very irregular proceedings, or to ad- 
 vise his clergy to co-operate witii Mr. Moody in 
 caiTying them out. The fitting reply came from 
 an unexpected quarter and from another emi- 
 nent official of the Church in these words: 
 
 "I think it rather presumptous for our Arch- 
 bishop to talk abovit sanctioning the work oif Mr. 
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 those which had so captivated and disarmed the 
 prejudices of the clergy at Newcastle-upon- 
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 METHODS. 
 
 One of the bi ethren who attended the regular 
 meetings for prayer both before and after ]\Ir. 
 Moody came, remarked that nothing was so re- 
 markable as the complete change that had come 
 over the manner of conducting these meetings 
 since the arrival of the evangelists. "Formerly," 
 to use his words, " there would enter the solemn 
 minister and solemn people, scattered — six — 
 eight — ten — over a great area. A long slow 
 hymn. Long portion of the Word, Two eld- 
 ers pray two long prayers, in which they go 
 from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyri- 
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 together. The singing is lively, new songs, new 
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 keynote. Prayers are short. A few texts from 
 the Word of God are frequently interspersed. 
 Brief exhortations. . , All this comes from 
 our brethren from America. Why have we not 
 found out how to conduct a prayer meeting be- 
 fore ? We in this country have been bound hand 
 and foot by traditions. In the far West of 
 America, at Chicago, for instance, there were no 
 traditions. The only people that had traditions 
 there were the Indians. These brethren seemed 
 to have tlioroughly solved this question of prayer 
 meetings for us, and we thank them." 
 
 Mr. Sankey traveled throughout Great Brit- 
 ain with Mr. Moody, visiting every large city. 
 As we have shown elsewhere, they made their 
 first tour of England in 1873. The largest meet- 
 ings they ever held in Great Britain were those 
 in Agricultural Hall, Islington, where during 
 the first week the congregations averaged about 
 eighteen thousand persons, and in the Eoyal 
 Opera House, London. The largest meeting 
 they ever held in this country was probably that 
 in Philadelphia in John Wanamaker's old build- 
 
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 ing, where the audience was estimated at from 
 twelve to fifteen thousand. • 
 
 MR. MOODY'S WORK AT NORTHFIELD. 
 
 Mr. Moody came back from Europe and threw 
 himself into the Gospel work in his native coun- 
 try. Ilis great work at Chicago and elsewhere is 
 well known. lie wished to work in regular line 
 with the churches and not outside of them. 
 That was made evident most emphatically a few 
 years ago when it was proposed to raise a so- 
 called " Xorthficld Emergency Fund," designed 
 to send out student volunteers as foreign mis- 
 sionaries, when the regular denominational 
 board could not send them for lack of funds. 
 People who have known him for many years 
 and heard him speak frequently said that they 
 had never heard him throw more earnestness 
 into his address than when he was combatting 
 this idea. lie said he would not receive money 
 for this purpose, nor would he liave anything to 
 do with independent missionary work apart from 
 the regular authorized channels. Said he: "You 
 
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 cannot find a better set of men on this conti- 
 nent than those in the American Board. You 
 cannot find a better set of men than those in the 
 Presbyterian Board. Where can you find a bet- 
 ter man than Robert Speer? "Where will you 
 find a man that is doinfi; better work than Bishop 
 Thobum in India? Any man that is working 
 as he is in India we will help. Dr. Clough 
 is also doing a magnificent work there. We are 
 in hearty sympathy with these regular boards." 
 And he went on to state that it was a mistake to 
 send money for missionary purposes outside the 
 regular authorized channels. In this connec- 
 tion he gave some sound advice about pledging 
 one's self to become a missionary. He affirmed 
 that God does not want everybody to go to 
 China or India. 'No man is fit to go to India if 
 he can go anywhere else. "When he feels "Woe 
 is me if I do not preach the Gospel in India," 
 then it is time for him to go. People come to 
 a missionary meeting and get stirred up and 
 pledge themselves to go to a foreign field under 
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 and do God's work where they were better fitted 
 to do it. He did not want his son, or any other 
 man's son, to get all stirred up and then say, 
 " I am going to India or Africa." He wanted 
 God to call him and not a convention. " When 
 he gets further along in his studies and sees what 
 he can do," said Mr. Moody, " if the Lord calls 
 him to India or China or Africa, or anywhere 
 else, I will say with all my heart ^ Go, and God. 
 bless jouV " 
 
 In 1879 Mr. Moody made it known that he 
 had for some time been impressed with the idea 
 of founding a school for those in the humbler 
 walks in life. This resulted in establishing the 
 NorlMeld Seminary for Girls, and was the be- 
 ginning of an educational work which has de- 
 veloped with wonderful rapidity. In 1881 he 
 founded the Mount- Hermon school for young 
 men and boys. Then his unflagging energy 
 caused him to turn his attention toward the need 
 for similar institutions in the West, and in Chic- 
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 ous buildings at Northfield, would almost make 
 up a town of themselves. Of late years his sum- 
 mer schools — in wliich many a minister and lay 
 evangelist has gained a new inspiration for his 
 work — have gained for him the gratitude of all 
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 MR. MOODY'S DEATH. 
 
 The Rev. A. T. Pierson, D.D., called on Mrs. 
 Moody the next morning after the funeral of 
 the evangelist, and from her own lips heard the 
 full and unique narrative of her husband's dy- 
 ing hours. Dr. Pierson writes: I have seldom 
 heard such a story of Christian triumph. To- 
 ward the very end, he seems to have passed 
 into a sort of trance, when the breath seemed to 
 have stopped, and from which he awoke, to tell 
 his dear ones that he had "been within the 
 gates," and seen the beloved ones who had gone 
 before. He said, " This is not death, this is 
 bliss; there is no valley. Don't call me back!" 
 Three short phrases may well be engraven as on 
 marble: 
 
 "Earth is receding; Heaven is opening; God 
 is calling." 
 
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 And he left earth's scenes for ever. 
 
 A unique feature of these dying moments was 
 
 MR. Moody's will. 
 
 He said: "I have always been very ambitious, 
 not to lay up wealth for you, my children, but 
 to bequeath to you a work to do. Will, I leave 
 to you Mount Hermon ; Percy (Mr. Fitt, his son- 
 in-law), to you the Institute (Chicago); and to 
 you, Paul, in a few years, the Seminary." The 
 question was asked: "But how about mother?" 
 " Dear mamma," he responded^ " she is like Eve 
 — the mother of us all." Everything was as 
 calm and peaceful and natural as though he 
 were going off on a journey, and were mean- 
 while committing matters to the care of others. 
 There was no struggle: straightway after his 
 last words were spoken he passed away, at noon, 
 into his Lord's presence; and the most marked 
 religious personality America has kno^vn in this 
 century has thus passed away. 
 
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 It is not strange that every word spoken at 
 his funeral was attuned to 
 
 THE KEYNOTE OF VICTORY. 
 
 The family were all as calm and composed as if 
 no unusual event were occurring;. They were 
 upheld in the Everlasting Arms, and it was 
 beautiful to see what God could do for them in 
 this terrible and sudden bereavement. I have 
 often before seen grace triumph, but never more 
 conspicuously. Heaven came down to meet 
 and kiss earth. As Mr. Moody's body lay in its 
 casket in the church, a beam of sunshine stole 
 in at the window and curiously rested on his 
 face and nowhere else — and, by some still more 
 curious effect, possibly of the framework of the 
 window or some intervening obstacle, the light 
 as it fell on him showed the form of a cross dis- 
 tinctly '.'isible from the platform. It was a 
 
 THOROUGHLY CHRISTIAN BURIAL. 
 
 Not a note of sadness or despondency, but trium- 
 phant throughout. Dr. Schofield, pastor of the 
 Congregational Church, made the main ad- 
 
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 dress, from two phrases in II. Cor. v.: "We 
 know" — "We are always confident." Then 
 hrief addresses followed by Dr. Weston (Presi- 
 dent of Baptist Tlieolopjical School), Bishop 
 Mallalef/n ( M.E. Church), Dr. J. W^ilbur Chap- 
 man, William R. Moody, Rev. Dr. R. A. Tor- 
 rey, John Wanamaker, and myself. A large 
 bier had been made, and the body was bome to 
 " Round Top," where so many " sunset " meet- 
 ings have been held, and from which point tl:e 
 Mount Ilermon buildings and Seminary build- 
 ings, Mr. Moody's birthplace, schoolhouse, and 
 home, can all be seen. On the highest point of 
 this hemispherical hill the body was laid to rest. 
 
PART V. 
 
 AN APPRECIATION. 
 
 GEMS OF THOUGHT. , 
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 To write of D. L. Moody and his work one 
 would better be content to do it in a paragraph, 
 unless he were permitted the limits of a book. 1 
 am not to write of his work — that is known and 
 read of all men the whole wide world over; but a 
 little of the man himself as I have more or less 
 intimately known him for the past twenty years, 
 and that little I am writinpj here in Northfield, 
 where the spell of his great personality is still 
 upon me — for we cannot yet realize that we 
 shall see his face and hear his voice no more. 
 Had he lived in the early days of IsraeVs 
 trials in the land the Lord God gave them 
 he would have " judged Israel " and de- 
 livered them out of the hand of their ene- 
 mies. He was a man of the stamp and charac- 
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 only to God; who, when called and chosen, knew 
 only to believe, to obey, to dare, and to do. lie 
 was judge, prophet and preacher to the people 
 of God during the later third of the closing cen- 
 tury. By him and his crude and sometimes rude, 
 but always eloquent, speech, God in our day 
 wakened up a sleeping Church as truly as he did 
 in the days of Luther and Wesley; Moody's 
 name will go down bracketed with theirs in all 
 coming time. 
 
 Mr. Moody was one of the most widely and 
 best known men of his generation. The world, 
 and even the Church, nay, many of those who 
 counted themselves his intimate friends and were 
 closest to him in his work, only knew the outside 
 of the man, or at least only that which lay a 
 little below the surface of his personality. For, 
 in spite of all his brusque, hearty and frank 
 ways, Mr. Moody was the most reticent man I 
 ever knew. Not Cromwell himself more per- 
 fectly concealed himself from those about him 
 than did Mr. Moody. It was here in Northfield, 
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 earth, in the seclusion of his own home that 
 he was best known, and only so far by those 
 whom he admitted to the privacy of his 
 home life. To them he would talk of the 
 beauties of this place, of his plans for fu- 
 ture work ; with them he would read and 
 study the Bible; talk of other men and workers, 
 but of himself, never. To his fellow townsmen, 
 with whom from a boy he was brought up — be- 
 ing but the son of a poor, struggling widow—^ 
 he was ever the kind and thoughtful friend, but 
 never the familiar companion. In early life he 
 was to them "Dwight Moody;" for 25 years 
 past he has been Mr. Moody, only and always. 
 For 25 years past few, if one of them, have ever 
 familiarlv laid hand upon his shoulder. 
 
 One of the marked characteristics of the man 
 was his strong practical common sense, and, in 
 the main, fine and quick knowledge of men. He 
 would instantly detect a "crank," though he 
 sometimes failed to discern a fine, helpful man 
 or woman unde^ a modest exterior. He lived 
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 or of having people, men or women, fasten them- 
 selves upon him with axes to grind. Once, in 
 the Boston tabernacle, sitting in his private 
 room, just before going on to the platform, an 
 usher came in and said, " There is a man without 
 who wishes to see you." " Well," said Moody, 
 " I have no time to see him now." " But," re- 
 plied the usher, " he says he must see you on 
 very important business." "What kind of a 
 man is he?" "Oh, he is a tall, thin man with 
 long hair." "That settles it," said Moody; "I 
 don't want to see any long-haired men or short- 
 haired women." He rarely made a misfake in 
 selecting his lieutenants, though he often 
 dropped them for no apparent reason, and al- 
 ways without explanation. Ha simply ceased to 
 call upon them for service. In the management 
 of meetings he was without a peer. He almost 
 instantly knew whom to shut off, and, with a 
 shrewd remark or pointed story, how to tide the 
 course of an open meeting over shoal places 
 without disturbing the harmonies. In the or- 
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 was a past master. K^othin^f escaped him; and 
 he knew how to hold his lieutenants responsible 
 for attention to details upon the carrying out of 
 which much of his success depended. 
 ^ In action — i.e., in the thick of a ^eat religi- 
 ous campaign, he was something of a martinet. 
 I remember a little scene between him and the 
 able secretary and manager of his London com- 
 mittee, Mr. Robert Paton. It was 11 o'clock on 
 a Saturday morning. Mr. Moody had suddenly 
 changed the plan of campaign for the following 
 week, and he wanted fresh tickets ready in time 
 to distribute to his five thousand workers who 
 would assemble early the next (Sunday) morn- 
 ing at the 7 o'clock workers' meeting. " Paton," 
 said he, informing him of his change of plan, 
 "I want 50,000 tickets (handing him copy) 
 ready for the workers' meeting to-morrow morn- 
 ing." ^ "Impossible!" said Paton. "Why im- 
 possible?" asked Moody. "Why," replied Paton, 
 "this is Saturday and 11 o'clock. All the printing 
 establishments close down work at noon to-day, 
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 be prepared in a lialf a day." They argued the 
 point a few minutes, and then Moody turned 
 upon his heel with the remark, " Paton, it must 
 be done." Mr. Paton looked blankly for a mo- 
 ment at the huge retreating figure, and then 
 went out of the room like a shot; and in two 
 minutes he was in a cab tearing down to the 
 printing establishment. I do not know how it 
 was managed, but the 50,000 tickets were dis- 
 tributed the next morning to his 5,000 workers. 
 Thus it ever was with Moody. Once in a 
 critical time, during the early building opera- 
 tions up here, Mr. Marshall, his general super- 
 intendent, said that it was absolutely necessary 
 before the end of the week that a large sum of 
 money be had. That afternoon Mr. Moody took 
 train for New York. He came back the next 
 day with the money. He did not borrow it I 
 Moody, of all men I ever knew, could do things, 
 and he did them. As I heard one of his close 
 friends only yesterday say, " He always got 
 there!'' "And Abraham went forth to go into 
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 he came." That was characteristic of Mr. Moody. 
 "What -he went forth to accomplish, that he ac- 
 complished. 
 
 Mr. Moody's reverence for all things sacred 
 or divine was almost extreme. I never heard 
 him so much as make a play upon Bible words 
 or phrases, nor would he tolerate such use of 
 God's word in his presence. A Bible conundrum 
 or application of Scripture to point a jest or joke 
 was absolutely tabooed with him. He once 
 rather sharply rebuked me for naming Peter as 
 the "shortest" man in the Bible because he 
 confessed that "silver and gold have I none." 
 He was a Puritan of the Puritans in respect of 
 the " Sabbath." He would not ride on a street 
 or steam car, even to go to a meeting at 
 which he was to speak. Large, and unused and 
 disinclined as he was to walk, I have known him 
 to walk miles, at great cost of strength, rather 
 than even to be driven in a private carriage. 
 And yet he would send his "gospel wagon" 
 scouring all over the Northfield hills on a Sun- 
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 Children to church. In this he did not impose his 
 own conscientious scruples upon others. It goes 
 without saying that he had no sympathy with 
 or even toleration for the " higher criticism." 
 To George Adam Smith, two summers ago, 
 when that distinguished scholar was his guest up 
 here at his Northfield convention, he said, 
 " Smith, what is the use of talking about two 
 Isaiahs when not half of the people have dis- 
 covered that there is so much as one?" That 
 was a shrewd and practical remark, and illus- 
 trated his point of view. " I believe in the old 
 Bible as it is — from back to back," was a com- 
 mon saying of his. 
 
 In the hours of his relaxation, and especially 
 in his vacation time, he was as jolly and'genial 
 as any man I ever knew. He had a strong vein 
 of humor in his composition. This appeared in 
 his public speech, and often served him well; but 
 in the quite and retirement of home and in the 
 social circle it came out strongly. Intensely 
 fond of a good story — provided it was clean and 
 sweet — I have seen him laugh until the tears 
 
THE MAN AND HIS WORK. 
 
 113 
 
 would run down his cheeks and his sides ache 
 with pain; and he would have his favorite 
 stories told again and again for his own and his 
 friends' delight. He was fond of play and 
 sport, especially with young people, and as far 
 as his rather unwieldly bulk would allow he 
 would join in with them. He never wearied, 
 and spared no expense to provide all his young 
 people — the boys and girls of his schools — with 
 all forms of healthy play and amusement. He 
 even liked a practical joke, provided it was not 
 played at his expense. He drew the line there. 
 I have already spoken of his tender-hearted- 
 ness and unbounded personal kindness to those 
 in sorrow or need. He mourned and sorrowed 
 like a father for his children when up here at 
 different Jmes two or three boys and some girls 
 were drowned while in swimming or killed in a 
 carriage accident. All the passion and kindness 
 of a strong and tender nature went out to the 
 poor find for those for "whom nothing was pro- 
 vided." For men, and especially boys and girls, 
 who had not what he thought " a fair chance " 
 
114 
 
 DWIGHT L. MOODY. 
 
 to get on in the world, lie had a passionate long- 
 ing — ^perhaps born of his own aarly experiences. 
 It was this compassion and his intense apprecia- 
 tion of the advantages of an education which 
 inspired and led to. the foundation of the North- 
 field schools, which will forever remain his best 
 and greatest visible monument. 
 
 Mr. Moody was a man of the simplest habits 
 and tastes. He spent money lavishly upon others 
 and in his work, but little upon himself. He 
 was not a lover of money, and only coveted it 
 for the good it might be made to do in his work, 
 and, latterly, especially, in connection with his 
 schools. He might easily and rightfully have 
 been a fairly rich man, but like Samuel and 
 Paul, he " coveted no man's silver or gold." Of 
 all the vast royalties that the hymn books have 
 yielded, and of which he might rightly have 
 possessed himself, I have every reason to believe 
 he has never touched a penny for his own per- 
 sonal use. On the subject of money for him- 
 self I have never heard him speak, nor would he 
 allow the subject digcusscd in his presence. 
 
THE MAN AND HIS WORK. 
 
 115 
 
 Hjs power over men and women was most 
 remarkable. Not himself a man of culture or 
 skilled in drawing room manners or etiquette, 
 he drew and attached to himself men and women 
 of the highest social position, of largest wealth, 
 and of great intellectual ability and acquire- 
 ments. Men like G. A. Smith and Henry 
 Drummond were his greatest admirers. In the 
 old country he was ever the honored guest of 
 the highest in the land, and the same was true 
 in his own country. The proverb concerning 
 " a prophet " beings " without honor in his own 
 country " did not apply to him. 
 
 I shall close this brief and hastily written 
 sketch of " Dear Old Moody " by a reference to 
 him as the world's greatest evangelist, a place 
 which he easily held. I think it cannot be con- 
 troverted that he has influenced more people, 
 turned more men and women from sin to God, 
 set more Christians to work for their Master, 
 and stirred the whole Christian Church more 
 deeply than any man in modem times. In say- 
 ing this I do not forget Wesley and Whitfield, 
 
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116 DWIGHT L. MOODY. 
 
 Edwards or Finney. He founded no sect — ^tliat 
 was ever farthest from his thought — for he lived 
 and labored for the whole Church and sought 
 the spiritual welfare of " all that in every place 
 call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, 
 both theirs and ours." He was not a theologian, 
 but easily the greatest preacher since the days 
 of Luther. Had he been a theologian he would 
 not have given himself up so entirely, as in his 
 later years, to the " Keswick movement." His 
 gosped was the simple one of 1 Cor. 15:1-4. 
 His method was not that of the logician, much 
 less that of the rhetorician; but that of passion- 
 ate appeal to the hearts and consciences of 
 men. He was not a great reader of books, ex- 
 cept the Bible, I may say hardly a reader of 
 them at all. He was too impatient of long sen- 
 tences and logical processes to read. He read 
 men; and when he found a full man he would 
 suck or pump him dry. An anecdote or inci- 
 dent was more useful to him than an argument. 
 His ability to re-mint other people's gold was 
 phenomenal. He would get an anecdote or il- 
 
THE MAN AND HIS WORK. 117 
 
 lustration from another man and use it with 
 an aptnes3 and power that the originator never 
 dreamed of. A story or illustration that would 
 nalt in the tellin/jj by another man would fly 
 from Moody's lips like an ea^le or a dove and 
 biu*n from his telling like red hot iron, or go 
 Btraipfht to the mark like a rifle shot lie would 
 condense a lonpj argument or statement gathered 
 from his living library of men into an epigram 
 that would make its solid and pointed way to 
 the heart or the conscience of his hearers. He 
 was equally ready to seize a sling and stone from 
 the hand of David, an ox-goad from Shamgar, 
 a lamp, pitcher and trumpet from Gideon, or a 
 sword from the fallen Goliath, and able to use 
 either or all of them, as occasion required or 
 opportunity offered, with the skill of the origi- 
 nal possessors of the weapons, and always with 
 the impression left on his hearers that he was 
 the original fashioner of them all. 
 
 Of his work it must be truly said that it was 
 the greatest of its kind ever wrought by man 
 since the gospel began to be preached. It was 
 
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118 DWIQHT L. MOODY. 
 
 good, with as little possible bad in it as can 
 be imagined. It will last — not as an or- 
 ganized residuum, as Methodism has lasted, 
 but as good blood infused into the life and 
 body of the whole Church of God, through- 
 out the world. All Protestant bodies have 
 felt the stimulus of it, and so has the Epis- 
 copal Church in both England and Amer- 
 ica. Even the Eoman Catholic Church has felt 
 the power of it. I even go so far as to say that 
 Mr. Moody is the reel father of the Salvation 
 Army, though the rearing and training of that 
 religious prodigy were taken in hand by others 
 and directed in a way that Mr. Moody would 
 not have suggested. 
 
 The question has been asked : " Who will be 
 Moody's successor?" The answer is: "He has 
 not, and never will have a successor." We might 
 as well ask who was Moses' successor, or Isa- 
 iah's, or Jeremiah's, or Paul's. God will raise 
 up other men to do His work, but no man will 
 be Moody's successor. Mr. Moody's son is un- 
 derstood to be his father's chosen agent for the 
 
THE MAN AND HIS WORK. 
 
 119 
 
 general management of the TTorthfield schools, 
 but his successor ho can never be. 
 
 Peace to the ashes of the ^eat man; rest to 
 his great soul! We shall neve^ on this earth 
 see his like again. 
 
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 11 
 
GEMS OF THOUGHT. 
 
 The peculiar aptness and power of some of 
 Mr. Moody's runninp^ comments on texts of 
 Scripture will appear in the following selec- 
 tions: — 
 
 Poor drunkard! Come to Christ; Christ is 
 stronger than strong drink! 
 
 Judas got near enough to Christ to kiss him, 
 and yet went down to damnation. 
 
 We have three great enemies: the world, the 
 flesh, and the devil. But we have also three 
 great friends: the Father, the Son, and the Holy 
 Ghost. 
 
 You should be in earnest about seeking God. 
 He was in earnest when he gave His Son to die 
 for sinners. Christ was in earnest when He 
 hung upon the cross. 
 
THE MAN AND HIS WORK. 121 
 
 A good many people are complaining all the 
 time about themselves, and crying out: — "My 
 leanness I my leanness 1" when they ought rather 
 to say, "My laziness! my laziness!" 
 
 A man once wanted to sell mo a "Book of 
 "Wonders." I took it and looked it over, and 
 could not find anything in it about Calvary. 
 What a mistake! A book of wonders — and the 
 greatest wonder of all left out! 
 
 "What shall I then do with Jesua which is 
 called Christ?" Pilate has Christ on his hands, 
 and now he wants to know how to get rid of 
 Him. So it is with every convicted soul who is 
 not ready to be saved now. Poor Pilate! Poor 
 Ilerod! Poor Agrippa! How near they got to 
 the kingdom of Heaven, and yet never got in. 
 
 Do you think it was an awful thing for those 
 Jews to choose Barabbas instead of Jesus? All 
 you who are refusing to become Christians this 
 afternoon are worse than they; for instead of 
 Christ you choose Satan himself. 
 
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 DWIGHT L. MOODY. 
 
 
 ^^ 
 
 There are some who say, " "We don't have any 
 sympathy with these special efforts; " and I 
 sympathize with that objection. I believe it is 
 the privilege of the child of God to make con- 
 tinuous efforts for the salvation of others, every 
 day throughout the year. 
 
 Many of the Bible characters fell iust in the 
 things in which they were thought to be the 
 strongest. Moses failed in his humility, Abra- 
 ham in his faith, Elijah in his courage, for one 
 woman scared him away to that juniper tree; 
 and Peter, whose strong point was boldness, was 
 so frightened by a maid, as to deny his Lord. 
 
 Let no time be spent in arguments. I believe 
 that is a work of the devil, to take off attention 
 and cause delay. If a man comes to argue, we 
 should go on our knees, pray with him, and then 
 let him go. Job never fell until he got into 
 an argument with, his friends; he could stand 
 his boils, and all his other afflictions, better than 
 an argument. 
 
 It is said of David's mighty men that they 
 
THE MAN AND HIS WORK. 123 
 
 were right and left-handed. They were 
 wholly consecrated ; they could use their left or 
 their right hands for the king. That is what we 
 want in London. Men who are right-handed 
 and left-handed for the King of Glory. Men 
 who can use their eyes, and tongues, and ears, 
 and everything for the Lord Jesus. 
 
 Paul said he was the "chief of sinners; " and 
 if the chief has gone up on high, there is hope 
 for everybody else. The devil makes us believe 
 that we are good enough without salvation, if he 
 can; and if he cannot make us believe that, Ee 
 says, " You are so bad that the Lord won^t have 
 you; " and so he tries to make people believe 
 they are either too good or too bad to be con- 
 verted. 
 
 One reason why we don't have more answers 
 to our prayers is because we are not thankful 
 enough. The divine injunction is, "Be care- 
 ful for nothing; but in everything by prayer 
 and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your 
 requests be made known imto God." Some one 
 
124 DWIGHT L. MOODY. 
 
 has well said there are three thingjs in this v^rse: 
 careful for nothing — prayerful for everything — 
 thankful for anything. 
 
 Naaman left only one thing in Samaria, and 
 that was his sin — ^his leprosy: and thepnly thing 
 God wishes you to leave is your sin. And yet it 
 is the only thing you seem not to care about 
 giving up. " Oh," you say, " I love leprosy; it 
 is so delightful, I can't give it up. I know God 
 wants it, that He may make me clean. But I 
 can't give it up." Why, what downright mad- 
 ness it is to love leprosy I 
 
 " Now is the accepted time." The last night 
 I preached in Farwell Hall, in Chicago, I made 
 the greatest mistake of my life. I told the peo- 
 ple to take that text home with them and pray 
 over it. But as we went out the fire-bells were 
 ringing, and I never saw that audience again. 
 The fire had come. The city was in ashes; and 
 perhaps some of those very people were burned 
 up in it. There is no other time to be saved 
 but now. 
 
THE MAN AND HIS WOBK. 126 
 
 "And now abideth faith, hope, charity — 
 these three; but the neatest of these is charity," 
 Love is the greatest of God's gifts, and of all 
 the Christian virtues. I don't think we shall 
 require faith when we get to heaven. Before 
 the throne of God we shall walk By sight, and 
 not by faith. Nor shall we need hope there, 
 as we shall have attained to the full measure of 
 possession. Faith and hope will be past, but 
 love will still reign. Therefore love is called 
 the greatest. 
 
 « 
 
 There are but few now that say, " Here am I, 
 Lord; send me;" the cry now is, "SenH some 
 one else. Send the minister, send the church 
 officers, the church wardens, the elders; but not 
 me. I have not got the ability, the gifts, or the 
 talents." Ah! honestly say you have not got 
 the heart; for if the heart is loyal, God can use 
 you. It is really all a matter of heart. It does 
 not take God a great while to qualify a man for 
 his work, if he only has the heart for it. 
 
 The most powerful sermon Christ ever 
 
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126 
 
 DWIGHT L. MOODY. 
 
 preached was His discourse to Nicodemus. 1 
 believe there have been more souls bom 
 again by reading the third chapter of St. John's 
 Gospel than by reading any other chapter in the 
 Bible. And that beautiful and wonderful ser- 
 mon was preached to one man only! If we 
 Christians have the same mind that Christ had, 
 not despising the day of small things, but each 
 of us doing what we can to bring some one to 
 the Saviour, we shall see a great work accom- 
 plished. 
 
 Our Lord said on one occasion, " There is no 
 man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, 
 or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or 
 lands, for my sake and the Gospel's but he shall 
 receive a hundredfold more in this present 
 world, and in the world to come life everlast- 
 ing.' But Peter answering said, " Lo, we have 
 left all, and followed Thee." So it always is. 
 We make much of our sacrifices. What had 
 the disciples left? A few old broken nets, and 
 some boats. What did they get in exchange? 
 The kingdom of God! 
 
THE MAN AND HIS WORK. 
 
 127 
 
 I wish people would use their dictionaries 
 more and study th^e meaning of some of these 
 Bible words. There is that word " repentance." 
 Some people are saying, "Why don't Mr. Moody 
 tell us more about repentance?" Well, what is 
 repentance? Some one says it is a "godly sor- 
 row for sin." But I tell you a man can't have 
 a godly sorrow, or a godly anything-else till 
 after he repents. Repentance means right-about 
 face ! Some one says, " Man is born with his 
 back towards God, and repentance is turning 
 square round." 
 
 When men going up in a balloon have as- 
 cended a little height, things down here begin 
 to look very small indeed. AVhat had seemed 
 very grand and imposing, now seems as mere 
 nothings; and the higher they rise the smaller 
 everything on earth appears; — it gets fainter 
 and fainter as they rise, till the railway train, 
 dashing along at fifty miles an hour, seems like 
 a thread, and scarcely appears to be moving at 
 all, and the grand piles of buildings seem now 
 
128 
 
 DWIGHT L. MOODY. 
 
 like mere dots. So it is when we pjet nearer 
 heaven; earth^s treasurers, earth's cares, look 
 very small. 
 
 Did any of you ever go down into a coalpit, 
 fifteen hundred or two thousand feet, right 
 down into the bowels of the earth? If you have, 
 don't you know that it would he sheer madness 
 to try to climb on the steep sides of that shaft 
 and so get out of the pit? Of course, you couldn't 
 leap out of it; in fact, you couldn't get out of it 
 at all by yourself. But I'll tell you this, — you 
 could get out of a coal pit fifteen hundred feet 
 deep a good deal quicker than you can get out 
 of the pit that Adam took you into. When 
 Adam went down into it, he took the whole 
 human family with him. But the Lord can 
 take us out. 
 
 A friend of mine was walking along the 
 streets one dark night, when he saw a man com- 
 ing along with a lantern. As he came up close 
 to him, he noticed by the bright light that the 
 man had no eyes. He went past him; but the 
 
THE MAN AND HIS WORK. 129 
 
 thought struck him, "Surely that man is blind!" 
 He turned round and said, " My friend, are you 
 not blind?" "Yes," was the answer. "Then 
 what have you got the lantern for?" "I carry 
 the lantern," said the blind man, " that people 
 may not stumble over me." Let us take a les- 
 son from that blind man, and hold up our light, 
 burning with the clear radiance of heaven, that 
 men may not stumble over us. 
 
 I once heard of two men who, under the in- 
 fluence of liquor, come down one night to where 
 the boat was tied; tHey wanted to return home, 
 so they got in and began to row. They pulled 
 away hard all night, wondering why they never 
 got to the other side of the bay. When the 
 gray dawn of morning broke, behold, they had 
 never loosed the mooring line or raised the an- 
 chor! And that's just the way with many who 
 are striving to enter the kingdom of heaven. 
 They cannot believe, because they are tied to 
 this world. Cut the cord! cut the cord! Set 
 yourselves free from the clogging weight of 
 
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 130 
 
 DWiaHT L. MOODY. 
 
 eartbly things, and you will soon go on towards 
 heaven. 
 
 Read the 103rd Psalm, and mark how the 
 Psalmist bids us, " forget not all His benefits." 
 Some one has said we cannot remember them 
 all, but we must not forget them all — they are 
 too numerous to keep them all in mind, but let 
 us keep some of them in mind. Observe five 
 things in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th verses of this 
 psalm: — (1) "He forgiveth all thine iniqui 
 ties." (2) " He healeth all thy diseases." (3) 
 " He redeemeth thy life from destruction." (4) 
 "He crowneth thee with loving-kindness and 
 tender mercies." But there are very many 
 crowned heads that are still not satisfied. God, 
 therefore, does more, — (5) " He satisfieth thy 
 soul." What more can we have than that? 
 
 "When Jesus, along with His little band of 
 disciples, came to the grave wherein Lazarus was 
 laid, they found it covered by a stone. Jesus 
 could have removed the stone Himself ; but, 
 notice. He bade His followers to remove the 
 
THE MAN AND HIS WORK. 131 
 
 stone. And we find that after the Master had 
 restored the dead man to life, He also said to 
 them : " Loose him and let him go." The Mas- 
 ter could have loosed him; but He said to His 
 <iisciples: "You loose Him." "What lesson 
 does the Master mean to teach us by this? He 
 means to teach His followers that, whilst He 
 alone can speak the word of life to dead souls, 
 He wants us to remove the stone, and to loose 
 the poor souls and let them go. He would have 
 us to be co-workers with Him. 
 
 Some people tell us it does not make any dif- 
 ference what a man believes if he is only sin- 
 cere. One Church is just as pjood as another if 
 you are only sincere. I do not believe any 
 greater delusion ever came out of the pit of hell 
 than that. It is ruining more souls at the pres- 
 ent than anything else. I never read of any 
 men more sincere or more earnest than those 
 men at Mount Carmel — those false prophets. 
 They were terribly in earnest. You do not read 
 of men getting so in earnest now that they take 
 
132 DWIGHT L. MOODY. 
 
 knives and cut themselves. Look at them leap- 
 ing upon their altars ; hear their cry — "Oh Baal ! 
 oh Baal!" We never heard that kind of prayer 
 on this platform. They acted like madmen. 
 They were ten-ibly in earnest: yet did not God 
 hear their cry? They were all slain. 
 
 You have all sinned and come short of tlie 
 glory of God, but God comes and says, " I will 
 pardon you. Come now, and let us reason to- 
 gether." " ^Now " is one of the words of the 
 Bible the devil is afraid of. He says, " Do not 
 be in a hurry; there is plenty of time: do not 
 be good now." He knows the influence of that 
 word " now." "To-morrow " is the devil's word. 
 The Lord's word is " now." God says, " Come 
 now, and let Ud reason together. Though your 
 sin? are as scarlet, they shall br white as snow. 
 Though they bt red as crimpx)n, I will make 
 them as wool." Starlet and crimson are two 
 fast colors; you would noo get the color out 
 without destroying the garment. God says, 
 " Though your sins are as scarlet and crimson, 
 
THE MAN AND IIIS WORK. 133 
 
 I Avill make them as wool and snow. I will do 
 it now." 
 
 I have an idea tliat there are thousands of 
 crownless saints in heaven. They just barely 
 get in at the doors. They have, indeed, been 
 redeemed by the blood of the Lamb; but there 
 is no reward for them. They have sought their 
 own ease in this world; they have not sought to 
 work for Christ here below; therefore, though 
 admitted to heaven, they enjoy no distinguished 
 reward. " They that be wise shall shine as the 
 brightness of the firmament; and they that turn 
 many to righteousness as the stars for ever and 
 ever." But none of those that have lost heart, 
 and have given up working for the Master here, 
 will shine as the stars, or receive the great re- 
 ward hereafter. For those careless ones there 
 is no bright glory, no place near the throne; 
 they have just ggt in at the gates — that's all. 
 
/' 
 
 STORIES, ANECDOTES AND 
 ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 MR. MOODY'S CREED. 
 
 When Mr. Moody was asked to conduct his 
 first mission in London in 1874, he met a com- 
 mittee of ministers to explain his methods. A 
 minister asked Mr. Moody for his .creed. He 
 replied that his creed was already in print. A 
 mimber of the clergymen seized pencil and pa- 
 per, asking where it could be found. "In the 
 fifty-third chapter of Isaiah," said Mr. Moody. 
 
 A TRIBUTE TO MOODY 
 
 The following tribute to Mr. Moody is paid 
 by Bishop John R. Vincent: "I knew Mr. 
 Moody fir^t in 1857, I k»ew Mm i» Chicago, 
 
THE MAN AND HIS WORK. 
 
 135 
 
 in California, in London, in Dublin. I knew 
 hini in the Sunday school work, in the Y. M. C. 
 A., in tho Christian Comniisdion, and slightly in 
 actual evanpfelistic service. I knew him on the 
 street, on tho railroad, in tho parlor, on the pub- 
 lic platform, in the sacred silence and service of 
 prayer and Christian fellowship. He was al- 
 ways and everywhere the same straipjht forward, 
 positive, simple hearted, loyal and enthusiastic 
 follower of Christ; courageous, spiritually mind- 
 ed, guileless, consecrated and indefatigable. I 
 don't wonder that when ^ earth receded,' heaven 
 ^ opened,' or that at the last he heard ' God call- 
 ing ' him. Ho heard God ' call " long, long ago ; 
 and ho loved to obey and follow. Rest, noble 
 servant of the Most High, rest in the eternal 
 life of communion with thy God!" 
 
 HOW TO REPAY A GOOD DEED. 
 
 After tbe big Chicago fire I came to !N'ew York 
 for money, and I heard there was a rich man 
 in Fall River who was very liberal. So I went 
 to him. He gave me a check for a large amount, 
 
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 136 
 
 DWIGHT L. MOODY. 
 
 and then got into his carriage and drove witli 
 me to the houses of other rich men in the city, 
 and they all gave me checks. When he left mo 
 at the train I grasped his hand and said: 
 
 " If you ever come to Chicago, call on me, and 
 I will return your favor." 
 
 He said: " Mr. Moody, don't wait for me; do 
 it to the first man that comea along." 
 
 I never forget that remark; it had the ring 
 of the true good Samaritan. 
 
 HE WAS INSmCEEE. 
 
 Some years ago I w^ent into a man's house, 
 and when I commencod to talk about religion 
 ho turned to his daughter and said: 
 
 " You had better leave the room. I want to 
 say a few words to Mr. Moody." 
 
 When she had gone, he opened a perfect tor- 
 rent of infidelity upon me, 
 
 " Why did you send your daughter out of the 
 room before you said this?" I asked. 
 
 " Well," he replied, " I did not think it would 
 do her any good to hear what I said." 
 
THE MAN AND HIS WORK. 137 
 
 Is his rock as our Rock? AVoiild he have sent 
 his daughter out if he really believed what he 
 said? 
 
 HE TOOK THE PEINCE AT HIS WORD. 
 
 It is recorded in history that some years ago 
 a man was condemned to be put to death. When 
 he came to lay his head on the block, the prince 
 who had charge of the execution asked him if 
 there was any one petition that he could grant 
 him. All that the condemned man asked for 
 was a glass of water. They went and got him a 
 tumbler of watc but his hand trembled so that 
 he could not get it to his mouth. 
 
 The prince said to him, "vYour life is safe 
 imtil you drink that water." 
 
 He took the prince at his word, and dashed 
 the water to the ground. They could not gather 
 it up, and so he saved his life. My friend, you 
 can be saved now by taking God at His Word. 
 The water of life is offered to "whosoever will." 
 Take it now, and live. 
 
THE MAN AND HIS WORK, 
 
 138 
 
 ON THE BRIDGE. 
 
 A broker, crossing one of the city bridges of 
 Chicago, was met by a stranger, an evangelist, 
 who pleasantly greeted bim, and they stopped 
 to talk. 
 
 "Are you a Christian?" said the stranger. 
 
 "No, sir," cried he, and rushed on to the 
 Board of Brokers. There he excitedly told what 
 had taken place. "A man stopped me on the 
 bridge and asked me if I was a Christian. None 
 of his business! I was never more insulted in 
 my life!" exclaimed he. A gentleman present, 
 who knew the evangelist's remarkable success in 
 preaching, and was his friend, mentioned to him 
 what the broker related. 
 
 " I am sorry," said he. " I did not intend to 
 be rude, and am willing to make amends. ' ' 
 
 A few days after, meeting the same man, he 
 addressed him pleasantly, adding, 
 
 " If I spoke roughly to you that morning on 
 the bridge, I am ready — " 
 
 The broker interrupted, and laying his hand 
 on the preacher's shoulder, said with warmth, 
 
THE MAN AND HIS WORK. 
 
 139 
 
 "Do not apologize to me, sir! I trust I have 
 become a Christiau — thanks for that word on 
 the bridge!" 
 
 The evangelist was Mr. Moody. 
 
 NOT AT ALL ABSURD. 
 
 A man said to me some time ago, "Moody, 
 the doctrine you preach is most absurd: you 
 preach that men have only to believe to change 
 the whole course of their life. A man will not 
 change his course by simply believing." 
 
 I said — " I think I can make you believe that 
 in less than two minutes." 
 
 "No, you can't," he said; " I'll never believe 
 it." 
 
 I said, " Let us make sure that we understand 
 each other. You say a man is not affected by 
 what be believes, that it will not change the 
 course of his actions?" 
 
 " I do." 
 
 " Supposing," I said, " a man should put his 
 head in that door and say the house was on fire, 
 what woiild you do? You would get out by the 
 
140 
 
 DWIGHT L. MOODY. 
 
 •window if you believed it, wouldn't you?" 
 " Oh," he replied, " I didn't think of that!" 
 " No," I said, " I guess you didn't." 
 Belief is the foundation of all society, of com- 
 merce, and of everything else. 
 
 WE ALL NEED CHRIST. 
 
 I read of a minister traveling in the South 
 who obtained pennission to preach in the local 
 jail. A son of his host went with him. On the 
 way back the young man, who was not a Chris- 
 tian, said to the minister: 
 
 " I hope some of the convicts were impressed. 
 Such a sennon as that ought to do them good." 
 
 "Did it do you good?" the minister asked. 
 
 "Oh, vou were preaching to the convicts!" 
 tho young man answered. 
 
 The minister shook his head, and said : "I 
 preached Christ, and you need Him' as much 
 aa they." 
 
 THE HYIVIN SHEETS. 
 
 At one of the meetings during Mr. Moody's 
 services in Kansas City hymn sheets were dis- 
 
THE MAN AND HIS WORK. 
 
 141 
 
 tributed by the ushers just previous to his ad- 
 dress. He was feeling very tired, and speak- 
 ing was a great exertion, so, fearing the noise 
 that would residt should the audience rustle 
 them, he resolved to get rid of them. He called 
 out, " Will everybody who has a hymn sheet 
 hold it up?" The sheets were held up all over 
 the hall. Mr. bloody shouted, " Xow shake 
 them!" Twelve thousand flimsy sheets of paper 
 were shaken vigorously. They made an indea- 
 cribable musical sound. There is nothing to 
 compare it with. One can only say it was a vast 
 rustle. " That will do," called Mr. Moody at 
 the top of his A^oice. The sound ceased. " All 
 right," said Mr. Moody. ''Now sit on those 
 hymn sheets!" The audience sat on them. Hav- 
 ing taken this precaution against inteiTuption, 
 Mr. Moody began his sennon. 
 
 IT SEEMED A SMALL THING. 
 
 I remember hearing of a man at sea who was 
 very sea-sick. If there is a time when a man feels 
 that he cannot do any work for the Lord it is 
 
 iij 
 
■! 
 
 142 DWIGHT L. MOODY. 
 
 then— in my opinion. While thia man was sick 
 he heard that a man had fallen overboard. He 
 was wondering if he could do anything to help 
 save him. He laid hold of a light, and held it 
 up to the port-hole. 
 
 The drowning man was saved. When this 
 man got over his attack of sickness he was up on 
 deck one day, and was talking to the man who 
 was rescued. The saved man gave this testi- 
 mony. He said he had gone down the second 
 time, and was just going down again for the 
 last time, when he put out his hand. Just then, 
 he said, some one held a light at the port-hole, 
 and the light fell on his hand. A man caught 
 him by the hand and pulled him into the life- 
 boat. 
 
 It seemed a small thing to do to hold up the 
 light; yet it saved the man's life. If you can- 
 not do some great thing you can hold the light 
 for some poor, perishing drunkard, who may be 
 won to Christ and delivered from destruction. 
 Let us take the torch of salvation and go into 
 these dark homes, and hold up Christ to the 
 people as the Savior of the world. 
 
THE MAN AND HIS WORK. 
 
 143 
 
 THEY KNEW IT. 
 
 Let me tell you how I had ray eyes opened 
 about the theatre question. I had an assistant 
 superintendent of a Sabbath school, a very pro- 
 mising young man, who seemed to be ver^? 
 happy in the work. A star actor came to the 
 city, and he went to see him. I knew nothing 
 of it, but the next Sunday when he came into 
 the Sunday school all over the building the boys 
 cried out: 
 
 "Hvnocrite! Hypocrite!" 
 
 The perspiration started out of every pore of 
 my body; I thought they were looking at me. 
 I said to the little newsboys: 
 
 "Who are you calling a hypocrite?" 
 
 They mentioned the assistant's name. I asked 
 the reason, and they said: 
 
 " We saw him going into the theatre." 
 
 I had never said anything about the theatre 
 to those children, but they saw that man going 
 in, and called him a hypocrite. They seemed 
 to know it was no place for a Christian to go. 
 
144 DWIGHT L. MOODY. 
 
 He lost his influence entirely, withdrew from 
 the school, and after a while fijave up Christian 
 work altogether. lie was just swept along with 
 the tide in Chicago and his influence was lost. 
 
 NOT WANTED. 
 
 A man said to me some time ago: "Mr. 
 Moody, now that I am converted, have I to 
 give up the world?" 
 
 "No," said I, "you haven't to give up the 
 world. If you give a good ringing testimony 
 for the Son of God, the world will give you 
 up pretty quick; they won't want you." 
 
 MR MOODY AND MR GLADSTONE. 
 
 Mr. Moody was gifted with an exceedingly 
 alert and resourceful mind, and an aptness for 
 repartee which stood him in good stead on many 
 occasions. When Mr. Moody first met Mr. Glad- 
 stone, the great statesman, after a moment's sur- 
 vey of the sturdy form of the evangelist, said: 
 " I wish, Mr. Moody, that I had your shoulders." 
 Quick as a flash the American responded, "And 
 I wish I had your head." 
 
"BALDOON" 
 
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The Mistakes of Moses 
 
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 1. THE MISTAKES OF MOSES. 
 
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 6. JONAH. 
 
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MISTAKES OF MOSES— (CONTINUED). 
 
 A FEW PRESS NOTICES. 
 
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 -MoTitreal Herald, 
 
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SHORT HISTORY 
 
 OF 
 
 ^be Ipresb^terfan Cburcb, 
 
 IN THE DOMINION OF CANADA. 
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 TROUBLED HEARTS 
 
 BY 
 
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