, 1875-08-01
RELIGIOUS NEWS.
Review Of Eloody's Career
by the London
IS Times.''
4 Suburban Correspondent on
Calling a Pastor.
Hebrew Congregational Union.-'
Trouble in the English
Church.
Materia1ized Christianity---A
Reply to "Hudibras."
Notes and Personals at Home and
Abroad.
Materia1ized Christianity---A A
Reply to "Hudibras."
Notes and Personals at Home and
Abroad.


Church Services To-Day.
THE REASON OF MooDY's SUCCESS.
REVIEW OF HIS ENGLISH CAREER
The London Times OF July l6 devotes cons'd-
erab]e epace to an editorial review OF Mr.
Moody's English SUCCESS, and points out with
considerable fairness the strong and weak points
in his method OF religious work. 6ollowing Is
the article:
Some time ago we directed attention to the admitted
" extraordinary success" achieved by these men
that ts their undoubtsd success not merely N
feat Of having attracted the same large masses o.
people again and again. Taken on this grouna none
tho reviyaists and their mission aemahu Y'ds ds
missal On the ground that can't and "sehsatoaAi,
ism " have once moro carried the day. 1naseAa ..
Of thought We prefer inquire wherein the power to
attract these large Of people les and whether
on the whole that power Ia healthy. we're neeaess
United Kingdom can consider himself above such an
inquiry however much he may disapproVe rey1yalo
ana dislike reviyaista. The complaint Is 9eeeta 'ua&
our churches and chapels, savo In eKceptaonnl III
sances are not crowded. aud least Of I'll by WORKING
men. "sunday tourists, ~sund.y 1ambe1s La1s.
ious teschers Of ali denominations. Many good man
and many "indiferent man among tnoee teaeueto
has long teen In despair as to the future o.
Every sect has had its restyals Tho Roman Catholics
hare theirs under the name Of "ret1eas" and otaer-
wise, IS = systematic part Of religious mc; Inc
machinery never before known among lrotes:ants tn
England. Lastly. the "EVangelistsa have had
theirs with the attraction OF converted
not what. some people, in view OF what they cali
the stagnation Of religious life, have reconmendea
greater ,sre IN ana hee
high-mass music aud gorgeous ceremonial, Whlle
the Methodiss have chung to their old congregational
chslscterist1c words IN which the highest OF
all themes often conveyed IN phrases AKIN 10 nose
in which sentiments Of Affection are expressed oe-
tween men and women in tbs frat flush and afdor o!
youth and impulse. Other people have recommended
shorter services; othcrs, more systemanc tsn
ing Of preachers, 80 that the word pseacoanE a.
msy no longer al they say, be misnoneE- the
I'D argument that though he is nota good preachor
he Is singuary good has been by tac't consent
voted out Of the discussion People. ~nateYe1 u'e.f
gument resting the fact 'that. though poof car
peuter or politician, he Is sfngularly good man. "
would 60 dead against the politician OF c"rpene 80
must like argument go against the good man Wno,
assuming the duties OF preache5 cannot preaea Az
other claas Of preachers have devised SUNDAY iec-
each ease attract people to some mental OF moral
exercses or recreation. The attraction Is at tmea
far frou unexceptionable+ No one. Tor instance.
can deny that the walls Ct London are regularly
1lscarded with terua as the themes Of lectures
more extravsgant and "sensatoual' than any used
BY tlsss roxsasts Religious services are frequently
announced under such headings - Tho nag tnat .
braved thousand years the battle ana Inc o1eeAe.
One piies the man. Whatever his position OF bis SECT
who nds himself falling oaen % sasn ot Sas es
t. be named show that nen engaged IN acu'e 1eu8lou
work are at their Wits cud to discover some means &c
fill their respective places OF ~orhh1p or tneaf
balls.
Meanwhile, these two men come On " mission =.
which turns out to have been etnguary well
Nr$cN VIM
1hcm and say that they are impudent or 1ntrasase Il
INV seuee OF the word The who breaches stands
IN halfapoloeetc mannar, and sa1e5 siga n1n II
be becomes excited with his OWL thoughts. ane
even then the gesculaion only lasts for minute o.
The wD sgs hns Tn Ths preao
indeed. speaks AZ one who ho'as son,on nass,'r i
speak for soma great potentate His "deaT preshfea
eldest brother Of the family: In speaking Of Naaman
| tho Syrian, directed. past the ROYAL Palace, tn
Prophets humble home. and then Of Elisha sending
.n nnont the leper it vas impossible to mistake tn
fact that Mr. Moody known - how to abound as We
how to abase" The tone OF voice %nen & 1e a eala
with ElishB Let him come to mo and ne shall Hno'
that there i prophet in Israel he Kng 1ncanwhil
powerless), and Naaman's There is no God On a
to er es was 1o % prse D. n5et e
sermon was one continued dcnunciation Of pride, =
The sin by which angels fell blind man listening
Mr. Moody would be lke15 to deem him e1traordina
rIy conscious Of pover-proud. not Of himself, but c
h;s commisaton to preach but even blind mn
would not deem him personally offensive, while
another and deeper vein than pride. Then It il quit
certain that Mr., Moody is not an e1-pr1ze an
We have no 70 believe that Mr sankev Is an 81
pubhcan In fact, the biography Of the former tells
singular history of the struggles Of we'-condustoe
reeolute, untaught young man, to do someth1n
ve e to ba bis had s*' besa a1 qotsd au1
When he sought for .'church fellowship" \
advised BY the minister saa otaefS g W.T. Tss ns
admitted to the Chapel Guild he attended apraye
meeting, and venturing 70 speak was taken as1de an
Kindly satonshed not to nafe any sneh attempt again
be was quite - missing his vocation This Was !
| Boston. when the now reviva1st was about J
years Of age. Discouraged here. the voud.be pssssl
but aiwsy1 with the result He w. people sail
Christian, and his friends said remarkably goo
Christian but W.. ageed On III elaes s11t M ~ .,
hsm.aif sneaker. We mention these facts ev
dence, not Of Nj: Mooays en- Christianity, !t.snn, .,
Of viii which havo led materially TO his ever
tual success. In despair he removed to chicag
and worked Us before in Boeton) a. clerk IN sno
Evee1 c1.1s in certain Sunday -schoo to which be q
pued be ms told md ,ts teacher but be was welcoH
10 classroom II he could "hunt up elas8Te sease @
be hunted up eighteen lads, And had as ciass-
need not further follow his story. He made = scho
+ 1ssa ss as 1ses
y refusing salA1y. going away to railway stations
preaching tours without money to psy his iare trn.
inc that railway fare aud food aike would come som
how preaching soldiers during The var .od doat
al manner Of work for their good; and - 20 {
| through trials and adventure IN some caSes o1
artsbe kind His genia!'ty lons Of lg ths nam eau.
iudeed from the fact that when he had congEegat*
hundred. Of people b. rssi1ea sss'y on:
| h.npy New Year.; and he never lost sight Of any
dock. He hid IN interest IN his psop,s aaa m th
| IL not this a fact worth noting the man M
fr1ends BY being every ones fFiend. These faets
tsfe from publiAhed biography which see1ns far =
| reaeouable. And now NJ to the CAUSE Of the BET
ast's success under many disadvantsges, IN the
islands:
We tako it for granted that, right or wrong In !
viexp, he il thoroughly in earnest according to
slight and that he has enormous capacity
xorf. secondly, hin coming to England VIE well 4
| 1ertised by means Of the pulpsts ot churches =
Evangelical Thirdly h. prsasns' xh;s ,hs.,s, sss 'h,
cn.rsc1e1ized b5 that dogmate ee.t,inty eapti1
tre to many 1ninds. He ns1eS has any doubt On :
k II