, 1874-10-18
Account Of Brother Moody's Preaching
and It's Results.
Notes and Personals at Homo and
Abroad.
Church Services To-Day.

QARD FRDM ROBERT COLLYEH.
II The Editor Of Tie Chicago Tribune:
s1n: Permit me, please, to say word amen
note find among your editorials this morning
never said or thought my people did not tor
me. and, il had thought 40. l should not haTt
said 80, because when minister begins to tall
like that it is q SIGN he has forfeited hi
right to bo respected even by those he serves
and love without respect is something have
heard Of but do not understand. Furthermore
think d. man is something Of fool who car
oermit himself to banker after words and tokens
of 1oye from those who attend Ills minssrations
or belong to his church. Such words and tokens
afo generally ont OF all proportion to his merits
ANYHOW. and out of tune. as q general ruie, with
his best Hork. The simple truth, once for all
ss this: Some men arc fountains Which
never run dry. no matter what the drain may be !;
others arc tau1s that run dry ~ t~o, i've ton, or
fifteen years. and need to go to new place, aod
eutcr into new relations, before they can till
again and work to any purpose In the Old OF
der of things, it WAS no great matter whether tue
tank K=s full or had run to "emptins.' The
man vas settia4 for life, parishes had not come
ia consider the Sunday discourse the Alpha and
Omega Of the Christian ministry They Tere OF
the good old Doacon's mind who said one Sun
dav morning to Dr.. Bancroft: '.Docfor, I al-
rays did like that sermon anyhow" And things
went en- in IN easy jog-trot fashion. Il Is not
20 now; and especially it is not so IN this Curl
GUS. wida-aTake city OF ours, which, like old
Athens, is so eager to hear and tell
some new thing. The consequence is that
cur ministers soon wear out think that IN the
fifteen years OF my ministry lero the churches
hare had on an average three MINISTERS eaeh,
taking one With another so Us to make the odds
even OF this, again, do not complain ut oil, be-
causo take it to be one Of the conditions OF the
life We arc living We shall do better when
things clarity and settle down. Yet this was
what made me listen, SO far as have listened. to
this call to go to New York. HereI am the oldest
minister save one in point OF settlement in our
Protestant English-speaking churcnes. Reasons
external and internal ! need not name have grad
ually led me to feel that the tank was running
tore the thing went much further. Il vas not
he or.l a'k Of Of al 51S' this Ss hsys Lad bad
ia rich an endowment rs any man could wish for.
MY thought WIS that another man could take up
my work here. carry it on to q better purpose, |
Ind let me go where should not have to say to
myseH when am writing . sermon, wonder
how many times have said that to the same peo
pie before. Well, it seems as if the folks in
10 new saplng. Whether it is the wiseat thing,
doubt that it is gracious and good as . piece |
nf heaven do not doubt at all; and it is cntite-
b probable tha. shall stay, and fall back as |
room as possible into the quiet ways Of my min |
lstry, Whete intery1ewers never come,-though |
The question cannot be surely settled for few |
dnys yet, as there is one contingency not very
likely to strike me in NhicI, should find it al |
most impossible to 60 back on the friends in !
NeF York. This have not mentioned, and can
not, and need only say further that it would be
full proof Of my unftness to stay here. if the
wealth OF good will I have received all these
years from my fe1loW-citizens did not compel me
10 prefer Chicago for myself aud family to any
otier city on the planet. Yours, indeed,
CH1CAGo, Oct. II, 1874. ROBERT CoLL1ER.