Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-01-12
Mr.. MnndA,s Tnmnernncc Mcclinn.

Each Friday, Mr.. Moody gives ono service
to temperance is to special prayer for
the incorporate, based upon the requests
which may have reached tho committee dur
ing the week \ correspondent Of the Con-
grcgaii0na'ia thus Describes a late meeting
"The meeting to-day was-awful the
huge assemblagc filling all the spaces of the
usual praycrmscting, aud forcing up the big
canvas curtain Of the middle section, that
the crowds might hear the roll Of requests
so many, so plaintive Let US all bow in
silent prayer while they are read, cries Mr..
Moody. Three thousand and more are bowed
in whispered prayer, while, ia slow plaintiye
tone, DIR. Newton reads Seventy mothers
ask prayer for sons Incorporate &c.
wives for drunken husbands; : (the number
I did not hear, but did, with pang, CATCH
thirty sisters for brothers going to the
drunkard's diath.' Then fathers for sons,
and sons for fathers, brothers, friends for
dear ones sinking in these fiery pillows of
strong drink. Twas a long, terrible roll of
anguished hearts pleading with the prayer
full to beseech Gods mercy for them. After
a little, the reading sounded in my bowed
ear like the wall of mufled drums and fune-
raj horns, the tones seeming to be the very
groans OF broken hearts. But the most dis
tressing cries came in the latter part-tor.
and from, iromen--yictims Of the liquor APP
petite. Oh, what page Of pangs was that
The requests told of wives, mothers and
daughters, fastening to shameless death by
strong drink. One note told Of a wife in
home Of wealth, of high social and religious
position the slave Of stimulants, 'wheae
husband would gladly give all his wealth d
the restoration Of his partner aud Their
home. Another came directly from the
victim herself; high in condition and re-
sponsibiity Pray that this lion of hell
may not destroy me; but that the Lion Of
the tribe Of Judah may rescue me-a tro-
ply Of grace A mother for an only daugl-
er given to intoxicaton, closed the appalling
record. In the silence Of that bowed throng,
what bleeding and searching OF heart We
eemad to b. looking down into pit Of
burning wol. Drmkqm romen Such
numbers, and in such home, Mr. Moody
then read Matthew iy y. Jesus healing
MI manner OF sickness and al manner OF dis
ease among the people ctt. With great
force he set forth Jesus able to cure the aw-
iul appetite for drink. II folud drinking
men, when awakened to repent more likely
to coma to Christ than others. They saw
their awful danger Som' of The eases
he used almost blazel tn truth. Rescue
the parishing,' IN Mr. Sankey's waling,
thrilling strains, fllol many an eye with
tears. never went TO such temperance
meeting. Few eyes coad keep dry. Mine
did not. The sympathy became almost an
agony. Some pleas aud prayers were made for
the rumsellers. They seem to me to be the
masterpieces class in American society. Shut
up from sunshine and the common walks of
men, they hide behind the grouudglass Of
blinded windows; skul1s from the face of
human virtue; self-banued, self-immers,d
as in symbol Of the isolation ia infamy got
ten by their work OF silent murder What
good impulse can reach a rumseller? Mr.
Moody finds scores Of drunkards in his
meetings; hardly ever liluor-seller He
is found in no place where any good thing
for man is done no church, society or meet
ing hut that Of liquor dealers. His blinded
leu shuts him away from al good there he
turks to bite like serpent and sting like