The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-11-24


MOODY AND SANKEY IN PHILADELPHIA
In another column our readers will see the an
nouncement of the meetings of Messrs. Moody
and Sankey, the evangelist and singer, who
began in Philadelphia last Sunday. Some
weeks ago it was decided to invite Messrs
Moody and Sankey to Philadelphia, and a
committee of fifteen ministers, representing
the evangelical determinations of the city, was
appointed to arrange for their coming. This
committee organized by electing Rev. Richard
Newton, d. d., Of the Episcopal Church,
Chairman, and Rev. G. p. Masden, of the Re-
formed Church, as Secretary. The Ministers
Committee then appointed a committee of
thirteen prominent and well known business
gentlemen of the various denominations to
conduct the business arrangements for the
meeting. This committee elected Mr. George
H. Stuart Chairman, Mr.. John r. Whitney
Treasurer, and Mr.. Thomas X. Cree Secre-
tary This committee at once proceeded to
business. They secured the old freight depot
Of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., Thirteenth
and Market Streets, which extends from
Market Street back to an alley, 373 feet, and
from Thirteenth to Juniper Street, $50 feet.
About a hundred workmen were at once set to
work making the necessary changes, and by
the middle of the past week the building was
ready for occupancy. The main audience
room viii seat comfortably ten thousand peo-
Pile. At the back end Is the speakers plat
form, rising in tiers, seating thousand peo-
pie, and two-thirds way forward the floor
gradually rises to the front of the hall, giving
every one in the audience the opportunity to
see and hear the speaker. Although very
large audience hall its acoustic properties are
such that the speaker can be readily heard in
any part of it. In addition to the main au-
dience hall there are three large inquiry rooms.
and vestibule twenty feet wide running a.
round three sides of the building, from whence
there is egress by ten large doors opening up
on three streets. The building will be-
thoroughly heated by steam and lighted by,
about a thousand gas burners in rehectors,
rings and parallel jets. Daylight is admitted,
and abundant facilities for ventilation is OBJ
tanned by a series of skylights in the roof.
Eleven thousand chairs in the building, and
a corps CT three hundred Christian men has
volunteered and have been trained for ush-
ers to seat the public. A choir of six hun
dred voices has also been trained and the
service of song will be led by it under the
leadership of Mr.. Sankey. A class of three
hundred Christian workers. selected by the
ministers from all the churches of the city for
service in the inquiry rooms has been trained
by the Rev. Richard Newton, ID. d., of the
Episcopal church, r. M. Hatfield, d. D., of
the Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. w. p.
Breed, d. d., of the Presbyterian church,
and Rev. J. Wheaton Smith, u. D., of the
Baptist church. The ministers and Christian
people of the city of all denominations are
heartily in sympathy with the work and have
rendered every assistance in preparing for it,
The cost of all the immense preparations is
about ($20, O00) twenty thousand dollars, and
it is expected from present indications that no
call for contributions will have to le made
but that the money will be the spontaneous
gift Of those in sympathy with the movement.
The meetings which will continue for several
weeks, will begin on Sundays at A. NJ, and
p. M, and on week days at 8 A. MI and 7.30
P. NJ, with an additional service probably at
Ar. NJ. The service will be open to all, ex-
cept on occasion of special service, when tick
cts of admission will be distributed free to the
classes for whom the services are specially in
tended.
The great work of these gentlemen a.
broad has excited unusual interest, and the
extent or Importance of it cannot be overesti-
mated. At a meeting held in Glasgow week
ago to celebrate the anniversary of their visit
to that city, on most gloomy day, the Crystal
Palace, seating six thousand people, was
crowded all day and second meeting was Or
ganized, and thousands were turned away un-
able to get into either meeting. Rev. DIR.
Wallace, of the United Presbyterian church,
in public address said, a year after their
visit, as a result of it seven thousand have
been added to the churches, and that in the
Evangelists' room were recorded the names of
three thousand families in Waifdom Ia ne
elected section of the city, asking that mis-
sonary be sent to visit ana have religious
conversations with them. At a similar ami
versary meeting in Liverpool it was also sta
ted in public address that, emitting all aged
people, children and women, three thousand
active young men had been added to the work.
ers in the various churches. Like reports
come from Edinburgh, London, and other
points. The meetings in Brooklyn have at
tracted immense audiences upon all occasions,
the Rink has been crowded, and two and three
overflow meetings have been conducted to ac-
commodate those unable to gain admission to
IT. The movement is one IN which large num-
bers of our readers are deeply interested, and
its progress will be watched with special at
tention.