Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-01-01
LETTER FROM ILLINOIS.
CHICAGO. Dec,

Of power, increasing in interest to the
very last 1t is a new thing in Chicago
to see 5000 people come out on a stor-
my week night, when mercury marks 20
degrees below Zero, to listen to a simple,
plain, gospel sermon ; it is new thing
to see 700 business men, professional
men, women with household cares-all
classes. turn aside in the rushing, driv-
ing, eager city of Chicago, to attend a
monday prayer meeting; and yet, this
has actually occurred.
Mr.. Moody is the commanding gener-
al, and all cheerfully serve at his COM
mand. Doctors of Divinity, college pro-
fessors, men with spectacles and those
without, all file into place, Bible lin
hand, to work when, where, and as MIR.
Moody directs. Presbyterians can kneel,
or Methodists stand-they know no diff
ference. This is the first fruit of the
Weetlngs-general unity and harmony
In Chicago, the work of Mr.. Moody
has developed new characteristic the
special and very successful work among
drunkards. In Scotland, the ln6del club
was broken up, the leader and most of
the members converted. Here Mr..
Moody has marched upon the rum power,
and drunkards have been converted by
the hundred. They are quite as often
reached by one of Mr.. Sankey's songs
as by the appeals of Mr.. Moody. A gen.
tleman, who for sixteen years had been
hopeless slave to strong drink, day
and night under It's influence, and ex-
pecting only drunkard's grave, entered
the Tabernacle out of curiosity one
evening, as he was passing. He stood
away up In one of the galleries, leaning
against pillar. Nothing moved him
until Mr.. Sankey sang, What shall the
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Sowing the seed of a lingering pain,
Sowing the seed of maddened brain,
Sowing the seed of furnished name,
Sowing the seed of eternal shame.
o! What shall the harvest be p
cut him to the heart. He went out to
drown the thought in saloon, but it
still rung in his ears; it haunted him
all night. On the walls of his room
seemed to be written, What shall the
harvest be-" Every person he met
seemed to say, What shall the harvest
be p At last he went to the inquiry
room and there received Christ, and
found his cure.
Of this feature of the work, a Chicago
Daily Gays editorially:
But the most remarkable feature o.
all in this recent religious movement il
Chicago has been its effect among mel
who were either confirmed drunkards. o.
; else we're fast nearing the perilous edge
AS near as we can learn. there have beef
as many as a thousand drinking mel
who have been first converted" ant
thereby saved. to all appearance. iron
their enslavement to affection and vice
The Friday noon meetings for the inter
perate have been, whatever the explain
atoms given, simply wonderful. If tn
/ witnesses who have. with entire accord
given their testimony, can be believed
. and their testimony would be accepts
8 in any court of justice in the land-the
have found out the sovereign remed
: for drunkenness and pointed out a ne'
e path for the temperance reform"
e This remedy for intemperance is nc
: a new one in Chicago, but has, wit
great success, been used by the "Chri
: tan Woman's Temperance Union" fc
d nearly three years.
f? Mr.. Moody gains much by his cath,
b licity; Methodists. Presbyterians, Coz
n gregationalists, Baptists. Reformed Epi
e copahans, work with him with equ
m freedom. Only Catholics, Episcopalial
}; and Unitarian OF Universalists join Il
a party in opposition. DOctrinally, Mr.. Mo
D. dy is claimed by the Calvinistic school
but as his sermons are plain proclaim
IN ton of free grace to "whosoever will
a the Methodists are satisfied.
" If any one is curious to know wh
D. the inquiry meeting is, let him visit
d, Methodist camp meeting next summt
r. and when the seekers are invited forwa
-. to the anxious seat" 60 with the
sy and as they sing and pray. while t
e. faithful point the sinful soul to t
nd Lamb of God which taketh away t
N sin of the world" he will find hims
in an inquiry meeting.
to Mr.. Moody's theology is all contain
no in four texts, made prominent in I
ell Tabernacle. The first is thrown out
'On gas jets in letters of light, Just over I
Oh platform God is love The secO
be is painted upon the wall 10 bold lette
Tho just back of where Mr.. Moody stands
'ns behold nOao is the accepted time" I
third is upon the left front of the G
one lery-"The blood of Jesus Christ.
oes Son. cleanseth us from all sin. and
ont fourth at the right hand-"He that
ag- lieveth on the Son hath everlasting LII
not This great evangelistis simple, q
ole. nonsense, WAOle-sOuled man, full Of