The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-01-11

Sd. LOUISIANA, TU.
MOODY AND SANKEY.
A THOUGHTFUL REVIEW OF THE RE-
vIvALIsTs AND THEIR WORK.
Charles Nordhof furnishes the most
judicious review Of Moody and Sankey
yet written, in the New York Herald,
just on the eve Of theirdeparture for
new6eld, and gives them a sympathetic
approval. He observes that, although
Mr.. Moody profoundly stirs has aud
fences, there are no noisy manifesto
tions Of religious feeling, such as usually
accompany revivals. The meetings
where tickets are required for admit
tance have been as crowded as any.
They are held at inconvenient hours for
men, yet at the tabernacle, forenoon
and afternoon, at least third of those
present have been men. The rink
evening meetings have been followed
by meetings in the Tallmage TabernaI
Gle, beginning at nine, and this he has
seen crowded. Moreover, the "over-
flow meetings, to accommodate those
who can't get into the main meetings,
whereat some other preacher and singer
serve, always draw in full houses,
whereas says Mr.. Nordhoff, /" if
any considerable part of the crowds
were composed of the merely curious,
these meetings could not exist" Mr..
Nordhoff is impressed with Mr..
Moody's business faculty. He is
prompt to the minute in opening; not
a moment is lost by delay. He opens
a meeting as though his audience were
the stockholders Of bank to whom he
was about to make a report. He has
the air Of a business man to whom time
is extremely valuable, and slow and
tedious people are evidently trial to
him." The clergy show badly in com.
parison with Mr.. Moody, especially in
prayer, where, says Mr.. Nordhoff, then
"formal and thread-bare phrase
ology" jars painfully on the feelings
of people. Moody is in one respect 8
fanatic; his enthusiasm is that of 6
general in battle, who has his plans
not to be disarranged by minor issues
He always commands his audience
He wants to reach the non-church go
ling population, but concerns himself
also about the churches, which, he says
scarcely require anything more Of {
member now than that he should pay
his debts and keep out sf jail. HI
appreciates the sermon-worried people
to whom he speaks, and at an evening
meeting told the young men, bluntly
/" You don't need that / should preacl
to you. There is too much preaching
!. Its preach, preach, preach all the time
and you, young men, have heard ser
mons enough here in Brooklyn to con
vert everv one of you. Whatyou neet
is work among yourselves" Mr.. Nord
hof gives Moody due credit for hi
dramatic power and his close study o
} the Bible, remarking that it enable
him often to give a newell view o
things, as when speaking of Jacob, b
) said that "hs life was a failure
, pointed out that Jacob himself ha'
: complained Of it, and enumerated hi
tribulations. which followed his mil
! deeds. He enforced upon the aud
2 ence the necessity Of reading the Bibl
biographies, not as though they wer
, the lives of saints, but tn truthful
4 written lives Of mortal men, in whic
, their bad as well as their good deed
!; were set forth for our instruction
: Nordhof notes, also, Moody's Yanke
power of epigrammatic statement, b
' illustrative choice Of language, b
t power over people and his utter lack {
i those frantic and passionate appea
: that were the stock Of such revivalis
J, as Cartwright, Knapp and the ik
d Mr.. Nordhoff takes little note
q Sankey; Moody is the main figure, an
b he considers the tendency Of his labo
g certainly valuable.
Revival Fruits.
el A recent Daily Graphic say
dI Mr.. Moody has disappointed 9th
peoples expectations, and probably b
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