, 1875-09-19
Exact Status of the Guibord
Cilse---Swing on Moody.
interpretations in the New Testament
bishop McCloskey's Church.
Notes; and Personals at Home
and Abroad.


Church Services To-Day.
M00DY's suNDAY-scHooL WORK.
HOW He - SAVED" BOY.
Mr. J. B. F. Ma1sh contributes to tho Ssndo,e
sc'1ool Times ting following sketch Of some Of
Mr. Moody's esrly experience in Sunday-school
work in Chicago:
It is nearly twenty years since Mr. Moody started tna
Mission Sundayscnool In Chicago tha, wss 10 ha ta
him in turn training school for great work Is an
evangelist He was then salean12u in a Wholesale
boot aud shoe house. On week days his stsau-euainf
energy found full plsy in the effort to sell ore sooda
than any other man In the establishment On sun
dsys he worked just hard. He rented four
pews 10 Plymouth Church, Of which he = member
and stteetcnrners for young to Ill them- In thu
afternoon he plunged into Sunday schooi work Ke-
up, IN turn. over dozen different schools, II hi
found one altar another that seemed need ha help
Re stepped over denouninadoaal 4nes A eaaily IN
those days ~ now 1t matte1ed little tc him whethax
school Wa under Methodist, Congregational NJ
PEesoyterlan manage1nent 20 be he got tho sanaia
Of the street under 8unday-schoot tnduences.
His trouble in this was TINT the younaster1
who needed Snnday instruction the most could
not be persuaded to to the ordinary schooI-oi
could not be Kept thete II onca they wars cuaxed in
They we're too untaued-too III II case among wall
dressed and well behaved chldrsn. 30, catch
schools tlan for any other b. decided 70 star
school of his own on the Sands. This vaa the
on ~ N
Hiring unfurnished room that had been Last used
3oT u1oon, be started out to drum up scholars to fiji
nlied hia pockets with maple susni and judtctoualy
distributing 1t among those who would promise ta
come. the room soon overdowed, and he xsa Obliged
the North Market from which the school took ths
BY which 1t known tor several yaa1s~ To gt7t
ldeA ef the net8hbo1hood in which tho school
planted, it Is said that Moody speaking fo th4
steps Of tho hi. entrances could make Ii. 7otee heard
gathered school that within year lad IN average
attendance Of $50 scholars, and up to 1o0.
Vt Their ~aa psob.bl! never .nothsr school tast
IN the room, and for eome time mona Of the
"sundAy school regulates Of the sadverttsenentsna
was i've school: 70 thoroughly ~1de~a~a1e that 5:
n1st the teachers considered it satafactnry d2ya
md keep The % t9r6uIeot @ menber.hip I ~ ueen, aas
to hear little talftng; It WI cardinal doctrtns
TT. tRst hs - eo5 wa ne = ofs e, ~
such confession of failure as tho expulsion of
scholar was not 70 be thought Of. Great was The
ingenuity 5a % I'D patience REQUIRED to manage Soma
young rough who seemed to defy su tho enort. to
time him. There wss danger that hi. rtotou. be:
sad prayed the atter al the week, Moody
to school one Sunday persuaded th.tthe.s waa but
good thraahing. Coming up behind 10 young zowdy.
ho casPed his arms around him. lifted him from hs
feet and showed him through the open dooz Of tta
aess- Ths culprit was we'll endowed With muscle.
But 60 was Moody: Tho excitement tn The school
APPEARED @ ed ,tter - sonevhas pFo1onsed @ ~ nd nos1
''inte1v1ew In the ante-rnom Both wero evidently
well warmed up, but tho rsault manifest In tho
work. remarked Moody. but guess We hare saved
him" And thoy bad! More than that. this exhibit
admiration Of tho school, and Moody will kw
among them thereafter: He had demonstrated hts
err 6raft ri, Inc fhA u{@
espied E.w recruit sitting With ata cap on. snatch
ing off, he nit tho offender blow TIA. s4nt hi.n u
to wear your cap this school," was the seneentoas
explanation he passed on 70 bis seat with tho
air Of oue who WAS ready to do his duty.
It not easy to ind suitabia teachers for tho
hard-btted classes which made up such school And
there in other schools it not lws5s to get
that worked to charm No teacher could do such
children good unless lie could interest than. 50
efe rue under md es1n sinf ss 9nx IN H.
caAs when be chose and going into another one Tho
result that the 8uPer1ntendent vas relieved from
the unpleasant task Of taking dull seachers elias
away from him: for the class, one BY one, quickly
took itself away. And thus there came about saK-
vivat Of the teet eachess that would hAVe delight
I'd Darwin hi1nself.
Moody out vast amount Of work into tho school
His evenings and Sundays were spent u skirnt.htng
Ing up new ones. He never believed that thero was
anything thai any sinner needed much - he needed
Rreat ea Of relief for tho nick the unemployed and
he unfortunate He the almoner not only Of his
avn char:y but df the gifts Of ua4uy friends who be
cnme rested In hts work His old employer saws
that he ha4 many - twenty children come Into
he store It once to b. tilted with ahoes ga
tuisously.
When he finally gave up business altogether. that ho
might devote Ill bis uue to missionary Labor, he
bought pony to facilitate hiz work. Mounting 1t Gu
Sunday he would go sk11nshng through ths streets
and alleys the search for scholars. Coming back
at the hour for school the patient pony would
times be loaded, from s ears to iss launches, with
ragged urchins, xhile the Later recruits hung ON bJ
the sttrEups or tail!