New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-02-10
PRAYER AND PRAISE AT NOON.

uyMORIFs OF IHR BROOKLYN MEETINGS MR.
MOODY SPEAKS Of GOD'5 BoCNDIEss POWER
"NoTm>G TOO HARD FOR FIN '-ANswEis TO
PRAYER-THE MERtLY CURIOUS NOi DESIRED
AT THE NOON MEETINGS..
The noon-day PRAYER meetings aud the inquiry
Iabors will harvest the fruit coming from the seed
sowp in the evening meetings when Mr.. Moody
makes bis appeals. Requests for prayers will form
leading and interesting feature of the noon-day
services Mr. Moody advises people mot tosend III
renuests unless their hearts burdcned and they
wish relief" He is especially opposed TO requests
being made for a town village, saying the desire
ALWAYS is for individual cases. Among the requests
read by the Rev. ID. Stuart Dodge at the meeting
Yesterday were the following: For two annts ana
uncles and a group of cousins;' for an afflicted
family. recently bereft Of three OF its members;
"fora Young married couple III great Distress IA
vonng wife for husband who is just beginning to
drink"
Several incidents occurred to revive memories OF
the Brooklyn meetings. One gentleman III mlddle
life. of a professional career, who was converted
from long conrse of drunkenness, eagerly raspcd
tho hand of Mr. Moody. who laughed heartily and
expressed the hope God vas still blessing him.
Another gentleman, younger in years, vino was
constant attendant al those meetings, was standing
OH the platform after the meeting, and, though he
had not met Mr. Moody before since he returned to
New-York the revvalist abruptly called to him:
Z" | ool here You amt well. You look pale. You
ought 10 90 10 Florida" And shaking the mans
hand. he hurried about the stage, here aud :here
meeting ladies and gentlemen. some OF whom he had
known in Brooklyn, others being strangers TO INN.
Henry Daley, an active member OF the MUSIC Com-
mttee at the Rink, was near Mr.. sankey' ana con-
yersed with members of the choir. q. \. Crane, the
Weedsport Tevvalist, who Travelled over 3oo miles
70 reach BROOKLYN in time for the first meeting was
present with fnger-worn hymn-book and Bible III
his hand dressed IN the same farmers SUIT Whlch
he wore i'll Brooklyn. He said he had been III lhlia-
dcphia five or six weeks, and had now come TO
New-YOrk for further aid.
Among the 100 clergymen who occupied the plat
form were the following: Bishop James, the Rev.
Drs. Anderson, Hastings, Hepworth, Booth King
Foster Holdick. Taylor, Tying, Rogers, and Warner
and the Rev. Messrs Thomas Lloyd, Vim. Harris, d.
Stuart Dodge, and J. S. Kennard. After prayer by
the Rev. Dr. Stephen Ii. Tying, Mr. Moody read from
the 32d chapter OF jeremiah beginning at the
18th verse, "Oh, Lord God behold, Thou hast
made the heaven and the earth by Thy great power
and stretched-out arm, and there ia nothing too bard
for Thee and he said he had taken that chapter to
every place where he had been. He had tried to
find a substitute but never succeeded. He then
said
It's Just what We want 10 give the keynote to our meet
ings Many OF look about and see 80 many "recied
and wicked people that We become dishearttned bnt
Its easy God TO every drnkard and iIlel Ia
NewYork it is for Him to turn His hand over Think
OF this earth that God las made with n MOUNTAINS ana
rivers Some has said II Ia only bill thrown NON
the hand OF God and another that the stars ana the moon
great things thInf you hs cant save drnnLardsi II e
could speak worlds into existence can't ne save desd