Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-10-30

! Moody. at the mor8lng meetiag Thurs
( day few moments o. silent prayer were
eiHed by The gentle singing OF the hymn,
! Even me-"
SOFTLY.
| MT. Moody urged the congre- "a Ion 20 sing
! very softly. and stOOt with arm uprai>al
/ molunlng To any singer whose emotion
/ hrew too much strength into his voice.
/ THAT was not quarter soft enough. Now
! stauZs. aud when thar was sung ne said
/ Now, this one. not half so loud: this hK-r,,-
i a PRAYER, and AS you sing you pray ant
] wonderfully gentle was the response, though
! II came rom SO many fhrOatS. II was "A som
grooming, almost too indistinct 70 be inter
/ preted:
Pass ne not Thy lost one bringing.
Bind my heart. % Lpr,i. 10 Thee:
/ While the streams Of life are Springing
! Blessing others. Oh. bless me.
Even me. Even me.
/ Blessing Others, oh, bless me.
While the influence Of the music was Sfill
upon the people, Mr.. Moody asked that
any one having great burden 10 present
/ il then and there" aud father rose 10 ask
I prayers for his son and grandson; a man for
thirteen Roman Catholics, and for one
/ especially who came out soothing from the
Rlnk last night and who"
stop, brother, there, said Mr. Moody,
| We do not care for that"
And then the fathers ana mothers and
WIDOWS continued to raise and ask for
/ prayers for their children. An old woman
/ In deep black cried ont between her sobs
/ from under her long veil, Pray, pray for
Later an opportunity was given for those
| to rise who were troubled for their owA SINS.
and about ninety stood up, among WHO "A
! were many men.
WORD FOR THE CATHOLICS.
AT the close OF the services Mr.. Moody
| went to the reporters and expressed his re-
gret that any one had been so ill-advised
| and sectarian as TO use the name OF Roman
! Catholic as IL had been used by one or two
| men asking for prayers for friends OF that
religion. They used the word as though IL
/ nhEan
| spirited in doing so. Why, there are as
many Roman Catholics who are Christians
as there are of other denominations, and
those men mad no business TO lump the term
| in the way they did
At the night meeting Moody delivered a
| powerful sermon, from which We make this
extract
TELLING STORY.
"In my own family, when / was boy Of
only four years, my father died, and tnen,
because misfOrtunes never come singly, my
mother grew sick, and a little later her el lest
son ran away from home That was a blow
that almost killed his mother, but i'm time
She grew strong and well, though there was
hungry look in her eyes that was never
satisfied. She used 10 talk with her chill
dTen for hours about their father, but when
| she spoke of her boy She wept. She feared
that he was in sickness or in danger, and
would have been glad TO know that he was
dead. Not day that she did not pray for
him; not child that was left 10 her so dear
| as the one that was lost; not feast day in
| the year that vacant chair was not placed
| for him at the table, and not a day that her
| dim eyes did not look anxiously down the
road. Yet she saw nothing. At last, one
summer afternoon, after her hair had been
| gray tor years, she was sitting on the eastern
| porch, when great bearded man came
StrOlllng through the orchard toward her.
| In him she did not recognize her son until he
| ST. Oh close 10 her, with tears sirea miug from
bis eyes over his beard. Then with a cry she
was on his breast, with her witherel arms
about his neck, and she sobbed, My son, my
soB, are you home again?' Not home,
mother he replied, until you say that YOU
sG}fssVe me- ;o DO you suppose There was nag
mothers heart could grow cold again? No!
And now your Father wants you, He is
Him, and il will gladden. His whole heart TO
have you come humbiy and with confess
siOn.'
The speaker had gained a victory His
own voice was choked with tears. It was as
though only under strong restraint ne was
able To speak, aid those VINO heard him, less
strong in self-control, wept over the tender
story. Between each stanZa Of the hymn
''Just as ! am without one plea" which was
then sung, he exhorted the weeping throng
To pray with their whole spirit while they
sang, and then dismissed them with bene-
diction. By the subtle sympathy that ex-
lists between speaker and hearers, he knew
that they were in his power, and all sinners,
converts, and Christians recognize that the
awakening bad indeed come.
The singers, through the impulse OF a bat
tie gained, sang without bidding
The music is wild. triumphant, aud ex-
ultant. 1t filled the air, dro wning the sound
Of shutting retiring feet and OF moving
chairs. The singers-the Christians-were
brilliant and aggressive. and the conquered
sinners joined In the pse an, bat with heais
bowed and with wet cheeks. StanZa after
stanZa and chorus after chorus was rolled
out, each one louder than before, as the
throng poured through the doors. Then
other hymns were sung.
Earlier in the evening Moody had twice
SIsnN- Il 10 sh~f-eN las
man with lungs larger and stronger than
Sankey's cried out, GLORY be to God" and
the preacher, TO the surprise OF the startled
house said earnestly. Il thank you. my
friend, for that cry. II came from your heart.
But you can better serve the Lord, add me,
his servant, If you will wait and say Amen
when ask You TO.
STARTLING SCENE.
Again mau only few feet from the
speake tainted. and his friends, affrighted,
gathered about him. and hundreds OF persons
spIang Ia their feet. "You are dismayed,
are YOU" cried the speaker, almost taunt.
ingly To- the crowd. You are thrown into
confusion and are routed by the faiuting Of
a mainly trance that " III resemble death
for few months only, What IL that man
bad been struck deal dead with his sins upon
him-dead without repentance or confession?
Then you might stand CHASTITY and terrified.
And how many OF you, IL death should come
as suddenly a. did that fainting 1t, could re-
ioice over the call?''
The bold move OF the speaker gave him the
carried out quietly, but all eyes were riveted
upon the preacher, not upon the helpless
burden. During the evening six Others tainted
in less conspicuous positions, and were borne
out without the slightest disturbance being
created-so quietly that only the police rec
ord told the number.
SILENT PRAYER
Mr.. Moody on Wednesday evening intro
duced a new feature into the Brooklyn rink
ministrations of himself and fellow revival.
list. Ii was that of silent prayer. During the
several minutes that he remained on his
knees, with head reclined, the immense
crowd was most impressively still; not a
sound was heard. When the silence was
broken IL was by a few words in gentle tones
from the preacher, which seemed 10 render
The general stiffness more apparent Mr..
Sankey then partly sang aud partly recited
the hymn Almost Persu aded," giving a
wild ring and a trace OF fear 20 the usual
words, 'Almost-but losti- The silence was
then broken by means and sobs.
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