The New York herald., 1875-10-26
EVENING AT THE RINK.

occupied. There was, however, no rush
at any time The appearance OF the vast |
congregation was that Of ordinary church going
people in Sunday attire little modified If the sinners
were present they were Of the respectable and moral
sort And yet Mr.. Moody's sermon wholly directed
TO Sinners so that there must have been some, at
least of that ungodly class present few minutes
before the opening Mr. Sankey took his place the
meodeon, and, with the choir sung the hymns No 25
"Revive us again. No 2, "'Tis the promise of God
full salvation gven a new song but full of sweet
ness and power; No. A. "safe in the OF jesus"
No. g. ~ need Thee every hour" These old ana IA
miliar hymns, and were sung grandly and with power
Mr.. Moody having forward, he asked Mr.. Sankey
to sing the solo No. 16 Free from the law, oh happy
condition !" in the chorus OF which the congregation
and choir heartily joined The words and music of this
song likely to become very popular before the
evangelists leave Brooklyn. Dr. Scudder then offered
prayer 1--WE believe " he said that all things made
for Thy pleasure God, and Thou art before all things
and we Thy servants have the right pray Thee We
would consecrate bodies souls and spirits Thee
who hast brought of darkness into Thy marvel
lous light and we believe Thou wilt bring home
glory And now God, what we here to night for,
but to receive the promise of Thy Son. the baptism Of
the Holy Ghost usY Give us the Holy Ghost, with
out which do nothing Lord, bless Thv
want who shall speak the word of life to tb'o
out conservation TO Thee here tonight
they give themselves TO Thee here2 isiv~
US blessing before we go out of this bu mere to-
night And this is the prayer of all our hearts, that
there may be revival of religion here that shall take
away all selnshness out OF our hearts, and that shall fit
for heaven And we ask 1t in the of Jesus
who loved US and redeemed US; ask it for His sake.
Amen"
Mr. Moody then read part Of Romans ill., e-31
which describes pretty plainly the
CHARACTER UNGoDLY MAN
In the sight of God and his inability to exricate
himself, and his consequent need of the help OF the
Lord Jesus Christ to do this thing for him. He read
also three verses (2-5) of the eighth chapter
OF Romans which explicitly declares that the
into the world to do for them After Mr.. Moody had
read these portions of Scripture he requested Mr. SAN
key to sing alone the eighth hymn, Jesus OF Nazareth
passeth by" There little feeling put into
any of the six long of that hymn until he
to the closing lines of the last which
presses the cry OF the negecter ofsalvation:-
Too late too late will be the cry,
Jesus of Nazareth has passed by.
Mr.. Sankey put a good deal of emphasis the final
words; but his singngwas not very brilliant, nor in
deed, very correct at times. Now and again he would
change notes, whether intentionally carelessy OF
course could not be known He has a habit also of
| abruptly chopping of the final syabes in lines and
stanzas and almost suddenly dropping his voice If
TO give pathos to the air But the effect upon
musical is not very fine, whatever may be on a
large audience. He, however that his songs
shall be too and hence last night he requested
the ushers TO keep perfectly still while and whenever
he sung solos Having finished this song and the
dience having quieted, Mr. Moody in a rapid rafting
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MR.. nooDy's SERMON
His text was taken from the chapter read CRomans
viiil part Of the twenty-second verse'There is
difference" "Now, said he, IF | commenced early
this morning to look for text could have found
better one than this. know 1t is not what Of
you Will like very well, but often the medicine We don't
lives great many will say don't believe there is
no difference even if Paul has said it, Now don't
what you believe said Mr. Moody; 'that won't
alter And if you 10 have quarrel over II
you must quarrel with God and not with me come
here to give you the message | find it here You
would not, of course compare yourselves with the
grossly wicked but does that make you better before
God He has concluded all in unbelef and sin. Now,
If am hanging to chain and one link breaks, fall
and lost, just certainly if all the links
OF the chain had broken And so, too if any man
keep the whole law and yet offend in one point he is
guilty Of all Hence Adam by sin lost just as
surely as If he had broken every command. Now If
you 10 know what is 20 to Romans fiji and
il you want to know what God is 60 John Is there
man IN Brooklyn who would have photograph Of his
your dearest friend, your wife. 10 see every
thing that is IN that heart When have pictures
taken if they natter at all say, Eyes, yes that
Is good likeness; Ill take that, and we pass it
around among our friends But if II does 1atter US
don't want IL You ask me- is It just the for
q man 70 be dishonest as TO be honesty No 1t isn't
Is 1t Just well to be drunkard to be temperate?
No IL isn't. But hero
WE DON'T TOUCH THE QUESTION or SALVATION.
at all Now, you have two apple trees in
your orchard, one bearing sweet fruit and the
bitter sweety Is there difference between them?
You may try to graft and patch the bitter tree you
can't make II wholly sweet There must be a
creation there In like manner you may try patch
up TO make them good bat you can't succeed
God does not patch, DC creates When measure
themselves by themselves they all right; they come
up TO standard If they measure themselves by
their neighbors they are generally couple OF inches
boy who dressed to go riding day. getting him
self dirty while waiting for his father. Mr. Moody
could not persuade the child that he was soiled until he
lifted him up before mirror, when the little saw
his condition and consented to be washed.
But. said Mr. Moody applying the incident
| took him to the You ask me
what is the law good fory tell you. Paul tells you
By the law the knowledge Of sin II the mirror
in which you see your condition. but after you have
seen yourselves you must go to Christ to be washed
and no man will rcaze his need of the Saviour until he
realizes that he Is lost sinner You may have many
divisions in your churches and in your armies God
has only one-the saved on one side and the unsavcd
on the other. Many man has got his eyes open and
God has brought him out from under the OF
the law. like that hymn Mr.. sankey sung tonight
"Free from the law, oh happy condition"
Isn't il happy condition for a man who has been
brought out from under the of the law and is
clothed with Christs righteousness IL is hard be-
there preaching sodom and telling them that there
is difference and that If they don't repent the wrath
Of God in flaming fire will fall upon them. But not
their unbelef alter the factS There may be any
here tonight who believe what say you but IL is
rHAr VENERABLE PATRIARCH, NOAH.
preaching to the antcdiluvians about Good that
come on the earth destroy them all they did not
repent They did not believe IT, but did that change
the fact at ali The food came and took them all
away. All have snned and come short of the glory OF
God Every man, from Adam down, left to himself has
proved miserable failure See him in Eden. He
was failure there. don't believe Satan was there
nfeen minutes before lie had Adam stripped OF every
thing God made his covenant with Noah ana with
Abraham, but what was man under the Covenant
failure too. God took 10 Sinai and gave him
laws, and man said eyes, they right and good, aud
Will obey them. y But In day or two after they
falling down before golden calf And how mapy
men are there IN Brooklyn tonight who arc
DownB down TO golden calves There under
the prophets was a failure Look through this
clty anu how many young you walking the
sreets complete failures You may learn this lesson,
that man without God Is failure no matter where you
put him Why did God give us a law that we could not
keepr perfect God could give nothing but perfect
htahuatu now is there man the face Of the earth
VINO ever walked upright but Jesus CHRISTI challenge
any man TO hnd another to lind blot on His spot
less garment In England in olden times when men