The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-04-26

peace ful an end as the man who has taken 4
God &C His word" which is not true in all
cases; Strauss died in great peace, while
the Rev. John Todd's end was troubled.
Mr. Moody says that Christ bears even
now at the throne OF God those SCARS be
received here for our sakes;" but Paul
says that Christ's ascended body is glori-
Gus body, without spot or wrinkle or any {
such thing. And so we might quote
sbundantly. These quotations are AL OF
them from but a single sermon picked up
at random, snd show that Mr.. Moody
often spsaks at random, and mistakes the
truth. Mr. Moody's defiance OF the can
ons of Linolsy Murray is not nearly so
serious a matter as is his contempt for the
canons of-ssy, Westminster Abbey. The
disrespect Ia both cases is consequence
OF his lack of early educational facilities
and OF his procrastination In picking up y
common school education. Perhaps 1t is
unjust to suggest that MIR. Moody 80 me
times shows signs of being little 'Jver-
bearing and tyrsnnical. 1t Is the beeet-
ting sin of succe g. and doubtless + % is as
free from it as are other successf al men.
But it does seem that, to mention only one
instance, the important and deer Jly inter-
esting subject of woman's pla ce as a la
borer in the Christian vineya I'd was dig
posed of rather
TARTEY AND DISCOUNT EoUsLY
by the Gamsllel of the re- cent Christian
convention. Mr.. Moody is a man OF 50
| driving a persistence and so immaculate a
consistency that It is scarcely more posi-
bic that he should greatly change himself
than that-to use a biblical 6gure-a
leopard should change its spots. Indeed,
there is no prospect whatever that he will
ever conform either himself or his style to
the demands of propriety or to the re-
Quirements OF grammatical rules. Let US
1 L q a q uu
bye, that we are heartily glad that there is
none. Heis what he is because he is what
he is. We would not change him. Make
, him the best read preacher in the world
, and he would instantly lose half bis
3 power. Set him to initiating the elegant
! distractions Of Burntt and Barron, of
Tillotson aud Stillingfeet, and his style
would become not only stilted but tame.
. | Put him through course of traiEing in
systematic theology ana you fasten big
logs OF fuel TO the driving whee.s OF his
. engine. Give him a smsttering of logic,
. | and forthwith undue assumptions, beg
\ gings of the question, ignoratio elenchi
and ambiguous middles step forth and
! solicit the derison of his school bred
. hearers. Even lend him an English gram
3 mar, and we should never again be
I charmed by his naive provincial col
lcquialisms. he is just right for his work
r as ne is-orignsl, dashing, careless. He
D has net, it is true, one word of solace or OF
light for the honest cultured doubtar; but,
z on the other hand, the doubter knows too
much to expect, either of him or Of any
? human being, solution of eternal mys-
6 teries. Should MIR. Moody address him.
Q self to lifting the clouds from the skeptic's
soul. the greater part OF his audience
: would learn stheistic arguments, which
S would stay longer In their memories than
o would Mr.. Moody's attempted refutation
? of them, and the clouds themselves would
j, hang as thick and black as ever. The
b masses of men are not philosopbic dis
{ putants. They believe pretty much what
0 they are taught to believe. And the sc
? masses MIR. Moody reaches the more surely
4 and widely because he is one of them him
: self, and because he has not been made
: elegant and faultless by the trimming and
@ restraining processes of a liberal educa-
4 ton. His very solecisms sound sweetly
Il In their ears. His familiarity and conver-
4 sstionsl manner please them. They like
!. his directntss and his earnestness. He is
r driving a bargain with them, and be
d "talks sense" He is trying to comfort
them, when "from the worlds bitter wind
they are seeking SHELTER" and he fills theiI
souls with the assurance OF Fathers love
There
THEY SIT AND LISTEN
!, the poor, the distressed, the afflicted, the
y sorrowful-taking "their fill of deep and
8 liquid rest, forgetful of all ILL.," Life be-
b comes pleasanter to them. The future as
sumes a hopeful aspect. Mr.. Moody
!, touches more chords than their pastor or
!: Sunday does. He comes nearer home. H,
o nourishes them more. His society is more
p refreshing. They go away from the hippo
t drome frightened and strengthened. They
s like Mr.. Moody; and 50 does almost
| everybody. Hence we would not upor
n 1 mi hi oha hsF,4o
J. We enjoy his rude simplicity and his pell
t NELL earnestness, his downright indiViG
uality, and his uncalculating naturalness
b We think delicious his chad ought to have
/ done," and his "they come and ssid"; hi
d you was there" and his "Pilate, he was
: heathen;" his meracles" and his
,. "heaVuD;" his ia eye-rus's" daughter
g and his "Ca-eye-phss" the high priest. We
n come to desire his frequent "Ehank Gods,
IS and his oft-recurring "but thens;" his in.
u terlocutory calculations, and his boxing
d gesticulahons. We love to listen to the
q stories of his wonderful "little boy" and
If of his marvelously sharp witted negroes
+, We admire his chiidlike faith and his un
n questioning trust. We are delighted witt
s mis- quaintness which makes men smile
and his pathos which makes men cry. We
q feel for him the same sort OF very real al
, fection that we feel for Charles Lamb, who's,
Il oddity diverts and rests us when-'o us,
Vt his own words-'our spirits are sore-frette(
?, even to sickness of the jangliDes and non
, sense noises of the world !" or for Thomas
't Car yle, whose vigorous and dementeC
r style is sOmetimes-as he himself would
d express it-like "a tree flowing channe
70 dug and torn by noble force through ths
Il sour mud-swsmp of our existence" We
q are thankful to him for preaching HEAVIER
rather than hell; love rather than tor
q ments; work rather than church; the sal
" vation of sinners rather than the damna
e ton of saints. And we shall not soon for
', get his Incompatible irankness, his broad
D Observation-Disclosures, his sledge-hammel
70 ges ures, his profuse diction, w hich stops
neither for coIons nor for commas; his
trueness, which never becomes conven.
}. tional; his nsturalness, which never