Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-06-27

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war, MOODY prayed and prayed. Dom
elson came and Chicago rejoiced. Bull
Run and Pittsburgh Landing gave
war enthusiasm a cold chill. Chicago
was raising the Fifty-first Illinois, or
the Chicago Legion. a happy thought
struck Major RAYMOND why not
have MOODY raise Young Mems
Christian Association Company? Who
so proper to lead them as brother
MOODY? Did he not pray for the army
with the greatest fervency? Had he
not after Shiloh rushed to the front
with fruits, wines and other deiicacies
for the sick and wounded? Had he
not zealously exhorted the patriotism
of the survivors? Had he not risked
malaria on the Cumberland and Ten
nessee rivers with Sanitary and Chris
tian Committees with we'll filled lar
ders for the sick and wounded and
the Committee? After all these cogi-
tations, a committee was sent to inter-
view him. At the close of noon
prayer meeting, where the petitions
for the army and navy had been unu-
sually fervent, the interview took
place. The committee tersely stated
the object, and brother MOODY COM
muned with himself, apparently in
prayer. At last his face frightened.
Turning to the spokesman, who was
to assist him in recruiting, he said:
Brother -, are you a follower of
Christ?n On being informed that the
brother did not belong to any church,
he replied with a pitying glance, ~
could not go into such solemn under
taking except with followers Christ"
The interview ended. MOODY still
took his rations at AMBROSE & JACK
SONS Restaurant, instead of hard tack
on the tented field. "After the bat
tlen he was always the head and front
of Sanitary and Christian Committees.
+" Before the battleo he never headed
any sorties Oh the rebel works, but he
has captured more redoubts and in
trenchments from Satan than irreli-
gious GRANT and SHERMAN ever
dreamed of. By mechanical drill
and religious discipline he gathered
large crowd into his chapel on Sunday
and compressed many frantic prayers
into the noon-hour prayer meeting.
The children sang, listened to the or
gan, said their verses and worshipped
MOODY, by the tap of the bell. Their
elders at the noon prayer meetings
fervently supplicated the throne OF
grace, but while thoughts went
Heavenward the eye watched
the little bell. JOHN V. FAR
WELL had erected magnifi-
cent hall devoted to religious objects,
which was u monument to MoODY's
earnestness and FARwELL's liberality.
The merchant prince purchased MOODY
a fine residence, his efforts erected for
MOODY mission church, but at last
the fire came and FARwELL Hall,
FARWELL's store, the mission church
and MoODYs house were swept away.
Sodom and Gomorrah was repeated,
and the righteous were involved with
the wicked. Thousands were home
less, sick, naked and hungry, and
MooDY preached on the ruins his the
ology, but it did not satisfy the
scorched inhabitants, who wanted
earthly shelter, bodily health, clothes
for their backs and bread for their
stomachs. Preaching then was USE
less and supplies were more needed.
This world was all they could see, hell
was seething around them, ,and heaven
to them meant food, clothes and shell
ter. So MOODY failed. He is now in
Europe, not among the English work.
ingmen, but the guest of Lords and
Dukes. We do not hear of him among
the meek and lowly, but under the
patronage of Gladstone, D'Israeli and
others of the gentry and nobility.
The meek and lowly Savior preached
to fishermen, magdalens and publi-
cans, in the vineyards and on the
The sleek and ponderous
MOODY breaches in gilded temples,
smiled on by royalty and nobility.
We hope he may do good but fear the
result. If it is mere desire for relig-
ious display it may be pardonable, but
if he is engaged in selling musical in
struments of a peculiar make, it is an
outrage on religion. We trust there
is no truth in the published cable dis
patch from Moody to a musical in
strument maker: "Great success.
Saved six souls and sold forty Or
gans.n