The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-04-19

every week TO the reformation OF uruuh-
ards and the abolition of drunkenness
Well, are there any fewer drunkards ar
rested by the police, taken TO the staloh
houses, and arraigncd in the petty courtsf
Has the number OF liquor shops in the city
been lessened by one through his laDors
Ia the consumption of liquor any less In
April than 1t was In January Have we
witnessed such scenes rs followed Father
MATHEW crusade In Ireland thirty years
agoi These questions, We are sorry to say,
do not need TO be answered. Look at All
other poiut. The New York Observer
boasts that Ave instances are known Of
persons who, under Hippodrome infiu-
ences have made restitution OF unlawful
gains. Why, fue instahcesl II many
thousands Of siuners have been converted,
large proportion of whom were possess
ors of dishonest gains, Brother MOODY
ought to be able TO tell of so many OF
them making restitution as to excite the
attention of the whole community. The
bringing forth of those fruits meet for
repentance, which was JOHN the Baptists
test OF discipleship, ought to be "a oom-
mon ms conversion itself An editor who Is
not unfiiendly b Brother Mo oDY lately
said In his paper that revival whose
fruits mature so slowly ~ not to be visible
| In this world is, so far as this world 10 con-
cerned, q failure"
Whom Brother MOODY had ended his re-
| vival labors In Philadelphia. one OF the
| papers there, whose language We quoted nj
the time, declared that, during their CON
| tinuancc, those crimes and vices when
subject their pracusers to arrest had been
more rampant than they were for years
previously. We are happy to declare that
no such results have been visible in this
CITY but on the other hand, we are sorry
| 10 say that the three months revival In
| New York has had no euch effect ~ to lead
us to suppose that six months more OF II
would reduce the police by single man
or transform the wickcduess OF sinners
any appreciable proportion OF them, into
the Righteousness of saints.
Brother MooDY has not gone forth intC
heathendom at all he has not wrestlec
with the defiant deviltry Of the city
he has not raised the standard o
the prophets and apostles Us the,
did: he has not enforced the power o
practical righteousness as IL Is displayed
| In the scriptures. ne ms put pieaShe'
away, day after day, to crowds of respect
able church goers, familiar with the Ian
g,iage and thought and doctrine OF ever.
one of his sermons; and all he tells IL tina
some OF them have been turned into pro
fessors OF religion! There Is q story o
q clergyman who went TO preach anon
the negroes OF Louisiana. He was at mrs
delighted with their zeal. devotion, an
ecs alto demonstrations but he foun
that, Notwithstanding all their pious ell
thusiasm, they would steal and lie about
with perplexing indifference. He bega
TO give his sermons practical turn, beaI
ing down upon the sins TO which his fioo
were addicted. Such preaching chile
them, and after standing 1t twice or Thrice
they sent him n delegation, headed by
| white-wooled deacon, who plunged Mt one
into his subject by saying: Brothe
SMITH, we like you berry much, aud wal
TO make II comfble for you, but de fac
you see, We don't like dis prcachin' abor
= lyin' an stcalin'-we mus hab our Sunday
for 'ligion.'