The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-03-31
Excitement ReyiyaIs.

The New York World, speaking Of the
wonderful excitement created through
out Great irita by Moody and Sankcy,
says.
simultaneously with the appearance Of
the American revivalists in London, Mr..
Yarlcy, an English preacher Of the same
class, has begun n series Of meetings In
this city. The ingenius Mr.. Barnum has
given him The free use Of the hippodrOme
on Sunday evenings, and the crowds that
flock to hear him exhort almost rival In
numbers those attracted 10 Agricultural
and Exeter Halls in London.
The burden Of the revival preaching
Of which such as DR.. Talmage, Mr.. Ham
mond and MesrS. Moody and Sankey are
the opponents, Is an appeal to mems ter
rors. BY wildly depicting and continu-
Ously dwelling upon the prospective
writhing in he'll Of the souls Of those who
do not walk up to the anxious seat, II ia
not difficult to create panic In an audi
ence composed Of average men and women
who are accustomed TO do little or no
thinking for themselves. Under the In
auence Of terror there may be . vast
number Of what Is called conversions.
But these are not In the great majority Of
instances evidences Of u conviction Of sin
and determination to lead better life,
as the sequel proves. Those WHO get re.
ligion through the senses instead Of the
reason can be divided, as regards the ulti-
mate effect, into three CLASSES first, those
who being awakened by excitement 10 a
realization Of their condition are led by
subsequent reflection 10 abandon theefrOr
Of their ways second, those whose weak
minds are unable TO stand the strain, and
who thus become ianAlical, maniacal, or
imbecile and third, those who when the
panic subsidies forget their alarm and
their conversion and return To their nor.
NAL condition Of Indifference. BY the
largest class Of so.called converts Ia the
last. II seems, then, that In this ptolig.
Gus expenditure Of time by revival
preachers aud their hearers, compare.
lively few are made better. IL II moi pos.
sible to devise a plan whereby the harvest
will be larger2
A protest will be made by all right.
minded persons against the style Of fevi.
valism which prevails in San Francisco
under The leadership Of the Rev. Mr..
Hammond. Concerning little children,
and playing upon their iettofs by telling
them Of the yawhing hell al their feet
ready TO swallow them II they do nolex.
perience a change Of heart issimply tlia.
bolical. Children are confding creatures
and believe implicitly what Is told to
them, and the suffering that those who
fall into Mr., Hammond's hands expert.
ence Is painful to contemplate. Wehaye
before iis a report Of one o. these chill.
dteh's revival meetings, and are free to
say that II Il calculated 10 rouse in the
breast Of the reader not altogether lost
to decency the desire to duck Mr.. Ham.
mond in a hotso.pond. When babes Of
Eve and elk years Of age are frightened
into spasms BY threats Of the coming Of
the devil, breathing flames from his
mouth and noslfils, because they are TN.
able 10 recolleet whatsins they have com.
mitled and confess Repentance therefor, Il
Il time to ask whether the secular press
has not been at fault IN declining to dis
euss the character and tendencies Of tevi-
vAlism.