The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-11-05
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
THE GREAT REvIyAL-POLITICs ~ NEW
YORK AND BROOKLYN-DEATH AND
THE DEMI MoSDE-BUsINESs
THE RETTGIoI-x 1royF,TFTT

The revival movement in Brooklyn |
has been inaugurated by Moody and
Sankey, and it gives every indication of
a great success. The series of meetings
commenced Sunday morning last, in the
great Skating Rink, in Brooklyn, which |
has been fitted up for the purpose. 1t
wss a sight TO see the crowd that came
that Sunday morning. The ferries from
New York were crowded, the street cars
were loaded, and every possible public
and private conveyance was charged to
irs utmost capacity. The meeting at the
Rink was advertised at A NJ, and the
building " Juld seat 1000. AT in the
morning-think of the our.-there
were not less than 20, 900 anxious people
awaiting the opening of the building.
They came in street cars, in carriages, III
wagons on horseback, in and on every
thing that would carry, and OF foot, and
they waited and waited two long hours.
Finally, the doors opened and the first
1000 found seats, 2, 600 more stood in
the aisles, and the crowd outside, aug
mentiDg every minute, stood on their
feet, waiting and waiting, as though they
expected the roof would fly off, or that
in some miraculous way they would be
enabled TO see and hear Moody and
S Inkey. Finally, of course, they dis
persed.
What did those who got seats inside
hear and see? Simply two earnest, hon
est men, each with gift, pleading to
their fellow-men to be better men.
Dwight J.. Moody, a robust, strong.
earnest man, who believes that Jesus of
Nazareth came into the world to save
sinners-a plain, uneducated man-beg-
ging and eEtreating his fellows to put
their trust in Him as he has doDe-a man
without grace, without polish, without
even good grammar-but a man whose
soul is permeated and filled with the one
idea that without Jesus man must be
lost, and who loves bis fellow-men TO the
degree that he is willing to forego all the
ambitions of life so that he can rescue
them-that is Moody. His co-laborer is
just like him in purpose. though differ
ent in method. Ia ID. Sankey is a
handsome man, with a soul full of love
for his fellows. and a voice like an angel.
What Moody does in speech he does in
song. He sings only such songs as hold
up to their gaze Christ on the cross dy-
ing for sinners-he sings only of that
love deep enough to take in the vilest
and broad enough for world of trans
gressors. This is their only theme-this
all they say or sing. 1t is the old story,
the beauty and sweetness of which even
the infidel never could make head
against-of He who so loved the world
that He gave His own life to save it.
This Moody talks and this Sankey sings.
1t is love, love, love. Moody holds his
audiences by telling the story of Jesus,
IL So -.
Sankey, with his wondrons voice, sings
of that Saviour who, leaving the ninety
and nine, went out through the night
and storm, through the tangled brake
for the one! And the effect they pro-
duce is wonderful. They say and sing
nothing new-but they are in dead earn
est themselves, and though their story
be old, they impress everybody.
They inject into their hearers their
own earnestness-they compel them to
receive it, because they believe it. And
that they are in earnest, there can be no
doubt. They might have made thous-
ands in England-in fact, they were Of
fered thousands-bnt they took nothing
but the bread they ate, the beds they
slept in, and the clothes they wore. And
here they refuse to take anything else.
Neither of them have a dollar in the
world, and they work more hours than
any day laborer on the streets.
Starting with these two workers, the
churches have commenced movement
along the whole line. The crowd that
could not getinto the Rink, last Sunday,
surged into the churches in the neighbor-
hood, filling them to overfiowing. Not
witlistsnding the crowd in the Rink the
churches of Brooklyn were never so full
and never was so much interest mani
tested. There is revival in the air, and
advantage will be taken of it. All the
churches are arranging for revivals, and
there will be such al awakening in this
city, this winter, as was never heard of.
One word or two about the audiences
that Moody and SankeY have. They
are the best people in the two cities.
Wealthy men, the best merchants and
bankers in the city, came forward with
the money to remodel the Rink, and to
provide for the cost of the meetings,
without solicitation. l should like to
give the names Of some of them, but as
they did it just as Moody and Sankey
labor, without hope or expectation of
reward, l will allow them the luxury of
doing good action in secret.
Revivals commence in all the churches
next week All denominations will en-
gage in them, from the most orthodox
Presbyterian to the most liberal Unitari-
an. The best people have united to ele-
vate the standard Of morality and to do
something toward lifting the great city
out of the selfish, making, MON
ey getting spirit that has so long crowd
ed out everything else. 1t is time.
The meetings at the Rink have been
crowded the same way every day si.ce
Sunday. end here is no signs OF abate-
ness. From 10, 600 TO 20, ,00j people are
unable TO obtain sd;nitJaLce, and go
away from each meeting. The churches
iu the neighborhood take the overflow.
and the two evangelists go to them for a
brief period each day. 1t is a wonder
fui work they are doing, and they are
doing it in wonderful way.
Politics
Were never so mixed as in New York
aud Brooklyn at this time. 1t is the
people VS. the Ring. and a very vigorous
fight is being waged. In New York the
Democracy are split into two factions,
Tammany and anti Tammany, and the
Republicans of the city are acting with
the anti Tammany wing. john Morris
sey has reconsidered his determination
not TO take part in the fight, and is in it
with bis coat off. as a candidate for Sen
ator. Ii is Illuminating for a decent man
to be compelled to vote for such man |
as Morrissey, but that is what the Re
publicans of that district are going to |
do. As bad as he is he is a better man |
than Fox, his opponent. Fox is the
sworn henchman of Kelly, the head of |
Tammany, and Tammany owns and |
controls every thief, political and other
wise, in New York Tammany is the
name of everything that is bad and vile
in politics, Tammany is the shibboleth
of the plunderers and thieves who have
ridden New York for so many years, and
the decent men of the city are willing to
back any man or thing that can help to
break its power. MorriSsey is gambler
and adventurer. but he is opposed to