The Hawaiian gazette., 1875-05-26
HAWAIIAN GAZETTE
AN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL,
DEVOTED TO HAWAIIAN PROGRESS.
Moody And Sankey's Remarkable
Work
History Of the Great Religious Meetings Con.
Quoted by Them In the chief cities OF Great


britain.
The cable kilograms declare that from
10000 to Is, 600 persons daily attend the
religious meetings conducted by Messrs.
Moody and Sankey in London. Areview
Of the meetings conducted by these Ameri-
can evangelists in Great Britain during the
past year may be of interest. They have
brought about one of the greatest religious
movements ever known in Scotland or Ire
land, and their recent appearance in Eng
land has attracted degree of attention
in that country seldom given to a religious
revival of this kind. The meetings at
Manchester, Liverpool and London have
been OF such a character and magnitude as
to command from the newspapers columns
of descriptive and editorial articles. In
America, the progress of Moody and SAM
key has been watched from the first, in re-
ligious circles, with profound interest
Mr.. Moody was born in Massachusetts,
in 1887. lie expressed faith in Christian
ity when Il years of age, and soon after
his conversion he went to Chicago, where
he engaged in Sunday School work. In
this he was so successful that he gave up
his business and devoted all his time to it.
During the war he acted as missionary
among the soldiers. At the close of the
rebellion, he returned to his work in Chi
cago. During the great fire his church
was burned. a large church is now built
in its place, at a cost of 100000. Most
of this amount was contributed by Sunday
School children, and was obtained in small
sums in various places. In the summer of
1873, in response to an invitation, Mr.
Moody went to England, accompanied by
Mr.. Sankey, whom he had met in Penn
sylvania few years before and had en-
gagged as q singer to assist him, Sankey
having an excellent voice.
The two men held their first meetings in
York, England, where they had only slight
success, not obtaining the cooperation of
the clergy, who seemed somewhat suspi-
cious of their visitors. In other towns of
the North of Fnglaud-especially in New
castle-they made a deeper impression,
and met with such success that news of
the revival spread to Scotland, and they
were invited to visit Edinburg. They ar
rived in that city in November, 1873, and
were at once taken into the favor and con-
fdence of clergy and laity. The first
week, congregations numbering 2,OOOper-
sons attended the services every night,
and the people were greatly moved by
Mr.. Moody's fervent celebrations and Mr.,
Sankey's songs. Noon prayer meetings
were also held, these being attended by
about zoo persons daily. In the second
week it was found necessary to open sew
eral churches to accommodate the con-
stantly increasing number of persons wish
ing to attend the exercises. Ministers of
the different Protestant denominations en-
tered heartily into active cooperation with |
the evangelists, the number of converts
rapidly increased, and larger places of |
assembly were required. The Corn Elk
change building was used every Sunday, /
and was filed with 5000 persons while
halls and churches were crowded as
never before. Mr.. Moody preached sew
eral times on Sunday, December 28th. to
audiences amounting to $4,000 persons.
In January, 1874, the evangelists left Edin-
burg, and visited Dundee and Glasgow.
In the latter city they spent over two
months, their singing and preaching from
the first producing wonderful results.
Here, as in Edinburg, the churches were
too small to admit all who desired to at
tend, and even the Crystal Palace, which
is capable of holding over seven thousand
persons, was not large enough to accom-
modate all who came, and hundreds were
turned away. In some instances meet
ings were held both In and outside the pal
ace at the same time, the entrance space
between the palace and the gate of the
Botanic Gardens being occupied by. the
sssemblage. The number ofpeople who at
tended these services was estimated at from
$4,000 to 10000. In the same place a
Christian Convention was held which, DR..
Cairns said, was unparalleled in the histo-
ry of Scotch Christianity. 1t is reported
that 1000 ministers and other church of
fcials, some of whom were from England,
were present on this occasion. Meetings
were held in ship-building yards, and
were attended by thousands of persons.
1t was stated that there were 10000 con-
versions during Moody's stay in that city.
In May he returned to Edinburg, and af-
ter a short period of successful work there
visited Aberdeen, Dundee and many other
places, remaining in Scotland until Sep
TENDER. He then crossed the sea to Ire
land, and, beginning in Belfast, stimulated
by his preaching great revivals in that
place, and in Londonderry, Dublin and
other cities. At Dublin the public inter