, 1877-04-01


lun,bus was indebted TO tue Fr:nciscuns in u'l-
dcrtak;ng his voyage, aud that his only object
was to ;"';:i't multitude o. sons for the CATH
Ollie Cls rn. The Archbishop also reminds the
Pope tl. he issthc cais fontif who before his
accession had landed iI the New World,
FREE THINKING AT THE HUB
THE BOSTON RADICAL CLUE on MOODY AND
REvIyALs.
Srecidl Correspondence Of the Worid.
Boston, March Notwithstanding Pits
elegy was sung SO long ago, the original Radical
Club still lives. Nobody seems to take kindly
to its new namc,-Chcstnut Street C1ub,-so the
old one still clings to it, In spite Of the exist
euce Of Radical Club No. .. The latter, more
democratic aud less aesthetic than its ueighbor,
meets to discuss such practical and knotty ques-
tions as labor reform. while the genuine Radical
Club still gathers once month in Mrs. John 1.
Sargcnt's grand old parlors, where every PIECE
OF stately furniture Is rich in historic associa-
tions There, around the great blazing wood
fires, handful of thinkers talk about literature,
dip into science, or wander of into bouudless
depths Of theology. We listeners-and most OF
us arc women, with sprinkling OF divinity STU
deuts-always enjoy the meetings. or think We
do. and it We cannot soar into space with our
learned pastors and masters: or folio" them
through nll the winding niazcs OF evolution, We
BostoniaDs.
To-day there Was q very lively conversation In
Chestnut street about the revival movement
Dr.. Bartol, that eccentric genius whose white
hair floats like halo round his gentle lace,
read the essay. Hesaid reviyals usually sprung
up in famines: that Boston had been inactive
owing to the stacnation in business. and the re-
yival had come to tillthc gap. Reyivalism had
been business since the time Of Whttelled, aud
Moody is considered safe to engineer it,-as
ETnis ehn for
le knew so well the ropes in WHICH hc Is now
entangled. He thought the crowd which ILLS
the Tabernacle was drawn there bY the large,
attractive rooms; people went to save their
own light aud fuel, or to hear concert gratis.
But great things never began in crowds, though
machue-ula1e Christian was better than none.
'sMoody 81 had better let us infde!s alone, /"
cried the little Doctor; " his remedy for
sxcpticism is al unlimited quantity Of Bible; let
him take his own medicine. and he will no
longer say that chastity and sancfity have moth
ing to 10 with salyation!"
And he ended by declaring tha. Moody had
failed to take sensible Boston: praised Murray
for putting his needle into the bubble; and said
the duty Of the hour was to convert orthodox
Saul into liberal Paul.
The Rev. j. L. Dudley, who for. a long time
held somewhat tile same position in Milwaukee
that Murray held in Boston, and who is now
preaching ut Parker Memorial Hall, expressed
surprise that somebody didn't tell Moody not to
come to Boston. His preaching was effective in
other cities: but wheil State street is idle Bos-
ton has resort,-shc can think. There was no
need of importing Moody.
Miss Elizabeth Peabody, the Kindergarten
Mother,'' quoted 4 poem by Emerson, called
Love and Thought She feared thought had
lost love little in Boston; surely the revival
sprang from love.
The Rev. DR.. Warren, Of Boston University,
said the most rctued FERNS Of faltli were power
less to more the working and worldly ciasses,
and be welcomed any social movement that
made it easier Tor them to turn over d new
leaf
Here DR.. Bartol gocd-naturedly compared
himself to the "oiT ux," aud said lie must hold
UP his side OF the yoke.
Mrs: Cheney declared that :twhat was not
good for us was not good for oters;;" that the
only got stones when they sled for bread. The
negroes Al the South confessed that they needed
another form Of religion.
Mr.. e. Merriam, formerly editor Of the Chris
fidu Cuou, did not believe Moody power was to
be explained away by attractive rooms and the
illeness in Il community. He vas man Of the
people aud talked to them in their own lan-
guage, aud God was real to him. Matthew Ar
MOLD complained that people talked Of Col as
Of the ,lan round the corner, but it was some
thing to have God as real as the man round the
coricr-
Miss Peabody declared earnestly that Moody
did the best he knew how; lie had moved the
people Let the Liberals take hold and TO the
Tie Rev. Mr.. Savage pine0 for sound tie
ology; Moody led men into error, aud. In his
opinion, did more harm than good.
Miss Peabody cried enthusiastically. ''He de-
serves to be taught; lcrus do what he tlon't!''
Mr. Wasson compared Moouy's method of
conversion 10 Rarey's way OF tanning horses.
Mr.. Samuel Longfellow gently deplored the
harmful excitement Of rerlvals and Moody's
way Of talking to children, Miss Peabody cry
ing. Horrible: horrib1e!;' by way OF assent.
But Mr.. Dudley pronounced the Rev. Mr..
Cook, the great reyivalist, the man for Boston,
and said he was doing more to rationalize aud
Parkerizc Boston, more to undermine the mis-
tori: Church, than any man engaged in tina.
work, wt.iie The very temple that was totterlng
applauled him.
Mrs. Cheney spoke OF one result OF Mr.. Cooks
lectures; her orthodox nclghbor borrowed the
t.Life OF Theodore Parker
Miss Peabody, still burning with benevolent
but vague desires to do good to somebody, eug-
gcsted that Cook needed more watching than
Moody, being IN old Ca!rinist at bottom, and
that the Liberals ought to educate and convert
lin.
This was the climax. and with general smile
and aod OF approval, the meeting dispersed.
PROF. SWING.
HIS COMMENTS on DIR. PATTEasoS'5 LETTER.
The alliance. Narca 81.
The widely-known R, W. Patterson, D. D., has
recently written an autograph letter to an East
ern paper, which perhaps In the end will tnjure