Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-03-25
7HE RUTLAND HERALD.
RELIGIOUS REVEALS.

RELIGIOUS REVEALS.
Every foreign mail brings glowing
descriptions of the religious revivals
now in progress in Great Britain.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey, of this coun-
try, have been laboring there for several
months and with remarkable success.
They have drawn together crowded as
semblies in the principal towns of Scot
land, Ireland and the North of England.
They are now in London and are meet
ing with still greater success in the me-
tropolis of the world. The great Agri-
cultural Hall at Islington is thronged
with immense crowds, over sixteen
thousand persons of both sexes and all
classes being closely packed together in
the huge edifice. Mr.. Moody does the
preaching and Mr.. Sankey the singing.
A correspondent of the Boston Post,
writing from London, says that there is
no question of the ability of these rev.
erend gentlemen from America to rouse
all those emotions which are believed to
insure permanent and thorough religious
regeneration. When they can excite
the British multitude as they do-the
stolid peasant and the practical and
hard-headed mechanic of the Black
Country-none will be found to question
their revivalizing capacity. You hear
of them everywhere. Now they are
preaching and singing in the big Free
Trade Hall, at Birmingham, to a fearful
and remorseful mass of people; now
they are holding forth in Liverpool
anon they are in the midst of the oper-
atives of Yorkshire and the miners of
Durham. According to one of the pa
pers, wherever they go ''Vast public edi
fees are filled TO the skylights and cor
ners to hear them, the theatres are de-
serted, the gin shops emptied, the streets
depopulated and the very natures and
habits of work-a-day world seized and
transformed by them into something" |
Their mechanical aids are few and |
simple-a plain desk, a bible, a hymn |
book, here an organ and there melo-
deon. In the great hall in London in
scriptions were displayed upon amer
cts, warning the ungodly and encour-
aging the saints. But usually we hear |
of but little more than the ordinary ma
chinery of religious meetings. There is
something wonderful in the way these
vast assemblies are moved. The excite
ment spreads like an epidemic, and an
immense influence, for the time at least,
is exerted upon the people. What the
permanent effect of this excitement will
be, 1t is not possible to tell 1t is COM
mon to say that the people who are con-
Verted in these revivals will lapse into
their old condition when the excitement
passes way. But there are always some
who hold to their newly found faith and
are saved.
While these American Evangelists are
drawing such crowds to hear them in
London, an English Evangelist, Mr..
Henry Marley of London, is preach
Ing to great audiences in the city of
New York, Mr.. Marley has been for the
last six months preaching in Canada and
the United States, He is Baptist, and
since 1854 has given up business, and
been pastor of large Baptist chapel at
Noting Hill, London. He Is described
as splendid specimen of John Bull
very tall, with commanding appear
sue, a good voice that be eajetiaes,y
-6rd in all parts of Barnum's Hippo
drome, an immense building capable of
seating fifteen thousand people. Mr.
Bsrnum gives the free use of this build
Ing Sunday evenings for those meetings.
His methods are similar to these of the
Americans in London. The preaching
Of all these remarkable men is plain and
simple, and very direct. 1t consists for
he most part in appeals to the hopes and
fears, to the passions and affections of
heir hearers. Whatever else may be said
Of these religious revivals, they show
hat the masses of our men have not yet
ost their sensibility to the Supernatural,
1ut are still immensely influenced by
of the unseen world. ]