New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-10-25
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A REVIVAL BEGUN.

! REMARK ABLE DEMONSTRATIONS YESTERDAY.
THE FyANGEIIsTs, MOODY AND sANKEY, AT TIE
BROOKLYN RINK-0vER FIVE THOUSAND PER-
SONS PREsRNT-THREE THOUSAND TURNED AWAY
STRONG EVIDENCES or A REVIVAL SPIRIT
STIRRING EFFECT OF MR.. SANKEY'S SONGS.
The opening services of the revival movement IN
der the evangelists, Moody and Saukey. were held
yesterday morning az the Brooklyn Rink, beginning
at sly o'clock The attendance was very large everv
available portion Of the immense binding, which
will seat 5000 persons being occupied, while fully
$500 people who me half hour before the SET
vices began were unable to gain admission. The
religious exercises consisted Of prayer singing and
an Introductory address by Mr. Moody on The
Probabilities Of Suceess and the Dficultics To be
Encountered in the Revival Work in America"
Similar exercises were held AT the place in the
afternoon at 4 o'clock. The attendance was again
very large. Evidences Of the revival spirit were
numerous and significant, and were display .d during
the early part of the services
ENTHUSIASTIC CROWDS IN ATTENDANCE.
Tin BUILDING INCAPABLE or ACCOMMODATING ALL
WHO cAME-FIvE HUNDRED PERSONS on Tux
PLATFo1sM
Al very early hour yesterday morning the streets
Of Brooklyn alive with people OF all ages both
sexes and various religious denominations, vending
their way To the building in which great revival
effort was to be begun. All available means were
employed to reach the place where the
to be held Street railroad companies had extended
their lines 10 the doors of the building. and
had increased the number of ears, and still the travel
ing accommodations were insufficient, many persons
coming long distances on foot. Even at half
past o'clock many were at the Rink and the
arrivals rapidly increased until at a quarter past
o'clock the porch at the main entrance crowded.
NIL no Ha0 he ire oft he
ing was occupied by men, women and children. Half
An hour later the sidewalks the entire block from
Wloughby to Myrte-aves were throngel with an
eager asscmblage waiting for the opening of the
doors. Meanwhile at the rear entrance. on the Van
derblt-ave. side of the building. ministers ushers,
singers, and representatives of the local press and
correspondents of various religious ard secular news
papers III other cities, were quietly passing n show
ing their tickets and taking their places The stage
the reporters chairs, and few adjacent seats tins
became occupied, while the auditorium and galleries
entirely vacant, except for the presence OF
about 80 ushers, who were standing at different
points along the aisles and in the galleries, awaiting
the opening of the doors.
At "a o'clock the usher in charge, A. f. Cross, an
nOunccd from the platform that every usher should
take his post and bell would signal for the opening
of the doors When the signal came the great crowd
the vcstibule into two columns. and moved down
the aises into the galleries For - minutes the
throng continued pouring into the building, rapidly
filing the seats at the expiration If that time
orders came to close the doors. Another immense
assemblage estimated 10 include 5000 people, soon
formed outside, like water in a stream suddenly
damned up. The entire working of the system for
seating the people was admirable From the time
the doors were opened until they closed there was
not an interruption OF blunder noticeable Az there
was mating in the aiSles little noise made, and
the whole work of filing the vast binding with
over 1000 people was done with military precision
and order
The stage was occupied on the right by the choir
Of $50 voices and the left by $50 persons mostly
clergymen, some OF whom were accompanied by
their wives and daughters Other gentlemen pres
ent on the stage were leading Christian workers in
churches and Sunday and persons who have
interested themselves in revival work. Among
those on the platform were the following The Rev.
Drs William Ives Burlington, Joseph +. Dnryea,
James L. Hodge, Albert ). Hunt, f.. +. Ingersoll, I.
Dewitt Talmage, Theodore L. Cuyler, Alexander Il.
Thompson, Albert G. Lyman; the Rev. Messrs. J..
w. Bancroft, Wesley X. Davis j. Halstead Carroll,
A. c. Francis Emory j. Haynes A. q. Lawson, John
Parker, W. G. Steele, Henry White; Mayor Hunter
and ex-Mayor Lambert of Brooklyn; the Rev. Al
fred Taylor of New-York; the Rev. j. Sabine
Knight of England, member Of the London board
of managers of the revivals there, who is now on
his way to the South To work among the freedmen;
Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe, j. l.. Bailey Thomas
X. Cree, George H. Stewart, l.. p. Rowland and
Alexander Widen of the Philadelphia Revival
Committee; the Rev. DR.. huntington the Rev. b.
A. Adams and Messrs Rulifison and Underwood,
besides a large number of clergymen and laymen
from adjacent and distant towns.