Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-11-03
THE WAR ON BROOKLYN SIN

:, THE VAR ON BROOKLYN SIN
MOODY AND SANKEY'S VIGOROUS USE oI
PRAYER AND PRAIsE-THE GREAT
re- RINK PACKED WITH ATTENTIVE LIST
ENERs-rIRsT FRUITS OF THE CRUSADE
y "A SCORE OF REPENTANT SINNERS.
From the New York Sun, October goth.
The difference between halfpast
II eight in the morning and eight o'clock
is only half an hour, but II is q half
hour that lcgtbens day almost as
a conspicuously as an inch on the end
of a mans nose does the nose. So yes
tcrday morning, at o'clock, there was
not in DR.. Talmage's Tabernacle enough
of the mass that had packed the Rink
, at half past eight o'clock on Sunday
morning to more than fill the body of
! the church and to distribute one or two
B rows of persons in the gallery. Mr..
Moody, who is the guest of Mr.. McWil-
liams, was promptly in his seat in the
pulpit, but the cottage organ that has
been placed on the platform in the
, place where Arbucklc usually stands
with his cornet was closed, and Mr.
Sankcy, who is staying with Alderman
French, was not in sight. George A.
Bell, cx-Deacon of Plymouth Church,
carried note TO Mr.. Moody, who was
on the platform, and people feared it
might be bad news concerning Mr..
J Sankey, and when Mr.. Moody arose
and stepped to the front of the pulpit
there was moments pause, but be
merely announced hymn, and re-
qucsted some brother to start it. Then
newspapers were put away, and the
services were begun, Before the hymn
was finished Mr.. Sankey arrived, and
hundreds of tardy worshippers poured
in, filling the gallery and the aisles
The Rev. Drs. Scudder, lnglis, Cuyler,
Hodge, Fulton, and Steele were there,
and the Rev. Mr.. Greenbury, Of Leeds,
England, the Rev. Mr. Patt and Mr..
Stuart, of Philadelphia. In the front
row of seats, close under Mr.. Moody,
sat the same old man whose striking
appearance in commanding position
on the Kinks stage Sunday night at
tractcd so much attention. He is the
Rev. Harvey Camp, and is over eighty
years Of age. lie has preached Meth
odism sixty years. One of his nephews
is Chorister Camp, ofPlymouth Church,
and the old man himself enters as
strongly as his feeble voice permits in
to the choruses Of Sankey's songs. The
card that Mr.. Bell handed 10 Mr..
Moody was request tor the prayers
of the congregation for sick man ap.
parently near his end, and there was
another request made by some one else
for a father and mother desiring con-
version. To these persons the Rev.
DR.. Inglis referred in his prayer, and
then he prayed to God to redeem all
good impressions, to draw sinners to
the Savior to quicken all His children,
to bless these special services, to make
the word spoken on Sunday to be seed
sown in good ground, and to gather
many into His fold
SINGING A FAMILIAR HYMN.
The congregation looked like church
members, or at least like constant
church attendants, highly intelligent
and deeply interested Two-thirds of
them were women, and all joined with (
fervidness in rendering the "Rock of i
Ages" the first really familiar hymn {
sung by the revivalists. The big, {
strong lungs of Sankey could not pour j
out a volume Of sound sufficient TO be 1
distinguished over and above the song !
OF the three thousand throats that
strained to sing the household hymn. '
Next Mr.. Moody read portion of !
tne 3zd chapter OF Jeremiah, making 4
g. .o1'0.1 "a ,ho :" onI,, III "" :,ran ,hat ha
,nnaohoa ToL;4, 10 wnrds af ,ho
7,h ,h'ru norso aoh orJ I Cod tbere wy ~ ]
no,h;n' 9 ,oo rj forThao No branaLod i I
nu, ,I ~ H. onarae,;c oil swav;nn ~,
nctnons monncy cnforcing Iis 5wordo I J.
pp;,h p, VIDA hnt ;,nnrcssiye Gesture 'u nnJ
at t;mos tcrderness u M h;a
tones hat b;s sneol;ng in tho PM Ii
gaye no token Of " L
aTbosc wordsa said be ubava hoon a
the kev.noietbat has nitcbed tho u rain v
undor which Mr. Sankey and I have t,
done our work for the past two years v