Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-11-03
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
Private DaIzeII for =. vice. :.

Private DaIzeII for - Vice
EDITORS APPEAL-In looking about
for a popular candidate for the Nice-Presi-
Dental nomination in the National RepuOn
can convention, none seems to stand falreT
show than Hon. James NJ. Dalzell, better
known a. Private Dalzell.' To the soldiers,
north and south, he is a very acceptable can
didate, because he mas labored increasingly to
procure our pensions and bounties for ten
years past, and with great success called
convention OF COniederates aud federals at
Caldwell, Ohio, in September last, in the in
terests OF peace and reconciliation. He is
college graduate, good speaker, was a pr
vRte soldier for three years, is thlTty-seNtn
years OF age and q member OF the coming
Ohio legislature, elected this month. VIII
you publish this brief note, to call out
the sentiment OF our brethren north and
south, and determine how acceptable the sug-
gestion above made is to them? :. ,,,rr,o,-
CAMBRIDGE, OHIO, October 20.
Answer to the Appeal.
EDITORS APPEAL think you more
severe on me in your Sundays editorial than
the occasion required. n we wish the "glOri-
ous' work OF reconstruction to be lasting, we
must rel ect all Gnsound material sucn as at
tackled in nay communication. Whatever
hate there is in my composition is at present
much better occupied with the moral lepers at
home than with the northern people, who
certainly are not so stupid but that they can
distinguish between an attack on themselves
and an attack on the army-fOllowing carbon
crows that used nightly to tnfest "buzzard's
rooSi." / don't think the Radical party Will
feel very highly cOmplimented by your try
ing to 4t the capI intended for the lllustriOus
four to the whole party, 1 have neither the
time nor the inclination TO Prolong the dis
cuSsion, for l have yet TO md the man OF
many words man of many deeds. wished
merely to define what should be the future So
cial status of the parties In question, and
others ike them; having done this, wished
to say no more. AS TO your policy OF charity,
1t offers a wide field Tor argument. In my
opinion, too much charity In connection
with political charlatanry Is greatly injur1ng
f,r1,r pfp Ri 10 a n
always justice TO the upright. A line OF DIS
unction should be drawn between the good
and the bad, lest the bad should learn to
think themselves as good as anybody, and
- '''N- A.C.L LAKE.
Moody and Sankey and the Appeal.
EDITORS APPEAL-In Sundays pa
per you say "we," meaning everybody,
and Sankey, lust now engaged in the evan
gelization OF New York" If I'VE must" we
must, OF course, hut trust You will first al
good work." done by these same ecclesiastical
i BSt Before y going ing into the @tstsF,
pray explain how 1t is the preacher (Mr.
Moody, ike Mr.. WHITLEY "has no extran eous
helps-and for musical relief (whateyer that
may Elean) relies solely upon sacred songs
which Sankey and Bliss interpret so beauti
fully; while you afterward add that 1.-The
power OF music was never better eXempllfied
than by Bliss and Sankey. Readers OF the AP-
:
any OF the ballad-singers who have visited
Memphis the past twenty years, so or
f Eeg'ef of remg 0id F6sEs SS0n at Home
will. be able to appreciate the power of these
gospel hymns. Song thus delivered becomes
the most moving OF all causes, but gospel
songs especially so " 1t occurs to me to Won
der how ii is you do not allow more credit in
the good, great work" TO this little " extra
neouS help" this musical relief? 1t is
to be ned that your readers will suppose
you to be advocating reform, which, howev-
er desirable, seems quite 1mpracucable as
ballad singing is now conducted IN our thea
tiers. You probably do not mean to say that
every good ballad singer might go into the
business Of " evangelizing New York - and
other cities, If he only attracted TO his COM
pany some man who knew how to 'use plain,
vigorous, homely language" who, for eX-
ample, could tell a dishonest milkman who
waters his milk, " to cling to Christ" or say to
a grocer who sands his sugar, "only cling 10
the cross and you are free from the law. OF
course, this:would be plain, vigorous, nome
christian. 1t might be satisfactory to a care
less fellOw-it might be sensational-but II
suits worth wishing for This last after all
the blow and puhery, is the main matter.
What is called the wind work" OF projected
railway amounts to nothing If it should hap
pen that road should not be built-f tGere
should be no result corresponding TO the
wind" "rhe evangelization OF the city OF
New York" is certainly serious undertaking.
Is ii likely to be accomplished by these gentle
men? Nobody knows, but some of us are
guessing. not at ranuOm, UuG Win T6dSOn.
What did these persons, in similar effort, do
for London? They have done London, and
now it is fair to ask after results. Let sensi-
BILE London editor, in paper now before me,
answer He had heard and seen it all. "Not
only did we fail to recognize in Mr..
Moody the gifts with which he has been so
literally credited, but we could not perceive
the possibility of any person who heard him
really think him more than preacher of the
most ordinary type, and we could only at
tribute The unanimity with which he was
praised to ,thes strange fear. which every one
seemed to have of speaking his mind. The
glamour which the Moody and Sapkey move
ment seemed to have cast over the press was
one OF the straDgest phenOmens that have
occurred in the history OF English Journalism.
Another curious thing that struck us was the
comparatively small portion of the twenty
thousand persons liz the hall ever was SO full,
who, to judge from our own experience, would
be able TO hear Mr.. Moody to any
represented as bowling the heart of the
vast multitude as one man. To our appre-
hension there was a marked absence in the
first plan of persons unaccustomed 10 attend
places of public Worship and, in the next
place, OF anything like emotion on the pant
of the audience. People who were the warm
est partisans of MOodyism have, in some way
or other, found courage TO say what is in their
minds. The first who Ventured on an honest
criticism was Mr.. Thain Davidson, dissent
ing minister, who, being addicted to preach
ing at the same ball, must be recognized as
competent witness to the physlognomy of the
Moody and Senkey gatherings, and he de-
clared that the classes YnCsc presence was
most desired namely, IhGSe who were lead
ing an unreligious life, frmed no apprecia-
BILE part of them. asst week, however, much
more important evidence was given. A large
and enthusiastic meeting of the open air mis-
sion was held ct Providence chapel, Hackney
road, to discuss the question:, What the re-
vival had left behind it?' Mr.. T. B.
q member of the London school board, pre-
sided, and MI. Cuff, the minister of the chapel,
undertook TO furnish an answer TO the prob
lem. We are told that his address was fire.
QGently interrupted by rounds of applause,
him. 1t may, therefors, De assumed that he
expressed the views OF a large assembly of eX-
perts The only question was one OF Tact-was
there any marvellous power in Mr.. Moodys
sermons that needed explanation? On this
point hear Nj. Cdf. THE masses were left
to-day just whers they were tietore the evan
there disappointment at the failure to reach
those masses but where were the conversions
they hsd expected and talked about? His
church was situated about midway between
Agricultural hall and the Bow-r0ad hail,
and il expect d large Increase OF M mbers,
but ii had only five applications for admis-
sion, and three out of the five regularly at
tended his own services in Shole ditch Town
hall. So far as he could gather from the
Agricultural hail, instead OF TheIe being an
incress e there would be an actual decrease IN
the membership since the services in that
quarter" at, then" the Times goes on to say,
1--WE may believe Mr.. Cuff and his friends,
the result of Mr. Moody's preaching has been
not to convert the masses, but to diminish the
the secret of MIR. Moody's wonderful success
but In what that success has consisted. 1t is
disappointing to lind that eight and twenty
thousand pounds of good money should have
been thrown away and should rather have
made matters worse Than better, even
IN the opinion OF s1ch as most favored the
operations upon which it has bet n spent. But
Il has not been altogether spent in vain, for
il has shown that the only mode in which IL
is possible 10 do any good is the old. fashioned
one of cutting up the town into manageable
RESPECT
able staff to work 1t, The notion of gust
preaching at large and expecting the seed
thus sown % bring forth fruit worth having,
would be chimeFlcal even If the seed had been
good and Mr.. Moody had possessed The
power which attributed 10 him" 1t
would seem that the eVangeliZ alton of Lon
don isn't lone yet. 1t may be there will be
some work left for others, when these gentle
men shall have gotten through with New
York. q. {. H.
Law REPORTS.