, 1875-06-13
RELIGIOUS NEWS.
Robert Couyer's Explanation of
Moody's Power.
III. ID. Conway ON the Moody
Mythology.
The Last English Ballad on
the Subject.
Reply to the Rev. Or. Sulliyan's Ser
mon on Prayer.
The Rev. Mr. Millera's American
Sabbath" :" Challenger" and
DR.. Burgess.
Israel in America---The DID,
cese of Iowa.
Israel in America---The Do
cese of Iowa.
Notes and Personals at Home and
Abroad--.Church Services To-Day.

Abroad--- Church Services To-Day.
BROTHER Mo0O1's SECRET.
ROBERT GOLFERS EXPLANATION or IT.
We havo wondered good deal this winter aud
spring over the things We hare seen IN the pa
pers about Brother Moody. He slipped away
some time ago to soe what could be done in thu
way Of revival in the old City Of York, aud then
AZ + meteor comes out OF the dimness aud dmakes
\ track Of fire across the dark blue vault he has
travelled across Great Britain, arresting such At
tantion as WAS never won before By tho personal
presence and word Of au American evangoist in
the mother country, aud drawn such muititudes
to hear him as no man has drawn since White
field.
And the wonder has been greater to Us in Chi
caRo than it can be, l suppose, to any other
community, because we thought We had
taken the mans measure. and could
line him out like m old familiar hymn.
To the great majority OF US be NAE very
warm-hearted but rather muddle-hoaded man,
who did things for the poor Of such question
able quality that gentlemen who thought he vas
steadily taken in by those who would sing the
sougs OF Zion any day for winters keep. and
sare themselves from working for their broad,
had to protest ngainst his course in the old
Crosby Opera House, in huge mass-noetng
to form our present Aid and Relief Society, and
30 to divert the funds he had been collecting
into moro hcalthful channel He WAS also q
great man 1T organizing Young Mems Christian
Associations Of purely unsecta1lan claEac-
ter, except that you must be ''evangetical." :"
H. ala rk1aATp al ~
preach in reason aud out OF season in i fashion
90 remote from the mind OF our people generally
that tho kceuest-scented editors III the West after
anything that will sell their Monday paper hard
ly ever thought OF printing word he said any
more than their readers thou.lt OF going to hear
that word, OF Of feeling after the power ~hich is
working such wonders on the other side Of the
water. hzppanad in to haar him on the Sun-
day night before be went away. He had about
40U people present HoTkingmen, IS judged,
with thcir wives, children, aud sweetlcazis. bui
not ons, so far ~ remember, who would be
counted among the leaders in Eny direction OF
the thought and life OF our <1ty.
Brother Moody slips away and after while
nc no.ics that he is making those Englishnen
hear him. bnt He rather iook down on the En-
glshmen aud conclude they must be Of the
lower order. Then We hear OF Stanley and Glad
Stone Ruoug his hearers notice how he yokes
the London Times to his chariot aud makes it
draw " for him sets tho Spectator thinking
mean lie makes i1ds.er Punch ring his bell and
gird at nm. and is finally transfgured in the
eyes Of all England when he captures Royalty
2nd rea7eals it TO the zeTerent gazo Of the King
dom sitting apart in q box. Very wonderful
this must be to everybody; over here 1t is most
wonderful to US. We thought VIC knew our man.
and had taken his measure to line It can
not DO his eloquence, We say, for if
We should have found him out
No man could hnve escaped us OF power that
could melt cool-headed old wording like
Franklin into tears, and, what was stu more
wonderful, could get the last cent out Of hia
pocket after ho had made up his mind not to
give the first, aud compel Chesterfield to leap to
his feet in III intolerabe enhancement OF terror.
Neither can it be in the rare quality Of his
thought. as when Chalmers, in Glasgow, gnyo
his astronomical discourses At high 1oou, and
did something which would be about equal to
emr.ying any Chamber OF Commerce III sho thick
OF it's inteneeEt business to run and hear him.
Where, then, we say, does this power lie which
WAS par. and parcel Of our life but yesterday,
yet vas not felt +: all aa it is to-iay in London
and then We make our little theadbare joke that
\ moon in Chicago is equal to SUI IN Any other
armament, and that this great Babylon we have
bu1lded has right to sit ~ Queen among tho
nations.
Yet, in trying to touch the secret Of this mans
power, ono is compelled to agree with those who
say, "Well, nor, this il Chicago all oTer; no
other city could have turned out such man, -
and 30 on to the end OF the Eel-known chapter.
think We do find right here one element Of this
singular {orce Ii the mighty life he bca shared
all there years, in tho freedom wa give
every man to do his own work in his own way
without the slightest reference to tho traditions
aud methods OF our Erandfathers, because On
this lake shore We have no grandfathers, And
in the instinct wo have cherished above all
other cities that I Know OF for the widest
lberalty of Religions thought and worship.
Scanning our whole land, city By
city, / really know not: where to
would ripen man like Moody There is some
thing in our climate which hardons and tempc1s
. strong man to tho keen endurance Of Collins
Ak. It is a city of young men, too, and men i'll
their prime in which the outiooks for the future
have been SO peerless as to attract men OF tho
rn1est quality, who made their way, and then,
when things were getting easy enough to war
rant them in resting on their oars, We "ere al
pushed back By tho rire to about where ne start
ed, 10 that ne had to bend down to our work,
call out the last ounce Of latent power, and 90
ID again with all the OLD Vim. I think it would
be reproach to Any healthy man If be did not
gather life and power, aud quick, sure Way to
bis purpoBe IN such city. and Brother Moody
is 4 healthy nan. speak in pure Teverence for
al tho good there Is in his work when say that
them, ID = giren time, than any other man
on tho planet; and the secret lies, 80 far, IN
this, that he CAL give out mors power through
shorter chAnnels- and by moro original Ways. and,
humanity speaking, ho got that power through
living hero iu quck ana constant contact With
ing to convert it: and all the time finding out tho
secret of getting At it in tho shottest and sursbt
way We a1e stubborn and quick in our make,
4. be is bimeelf. We will have cur own way
aIso. and thnt may be one 1csaon Why re did not
20 down before him, as they are doing in En-
u1sr6 HEn L hnt1AA Of c1rda.