The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1877-04-26
CORRESPONDENTS.

Mr.. Editor:
In your edition Of the Journal, for
April fifth, noticed Boston letter to
the Springfield Republican, entitled
" The Revival Services ia Boston,"
which is such gross misreprcsenta.
ton OF the truth that / hasten to refute
some of the statements therein made.
II says: There has been no revival
yet, 10 the technical sense Of the word.
| cannot better answer that assertion
than TO quote from the address Of Rev.
Henry Morgan, very recently given,
+" On Moody in Boston" Is the re-
yival failure? with reference to the
latter part Of the subject, he said /:
" The revival is not failure Boston
is stirred as she never was stirred be.
fore. Her great heart is awakened,
she is filed with holy enthusiasm. Her
wealth and her culture, her proud and
her poor, her saints and her sinners
alike catch the spirit Of the hour
Moved by that spirit they bow at one
common altar Churches have become
united, sectarianism gives up its big.
otry, Meyer before was SO much scrip
ture read in the street, in the car. in
the family, in the church, and published
10 the newspapers Churches are
open at midday and thousands gather
for worship. Yet some pronounce the
work failure When | see bust
ness men, heretofore frozen to stocks
aud bonds, welded to the almighty
dollar leave the shop, the mart, the
counting room for the prayer meeting,
when ! see them hasten with eager
foot steps to the house Of praise at the
stroke of noon = the many calls to
prayer-this don't look like failure.
When / see ministers, by the hundreds
on their knees burdened for souls, 60
ing from house to house assailing vice
in its stronghold This is not a sign of
failure.
When l see lost men. covered with
the leprosy Of sin, llocking TO the
sanctuary, as doves to the window, re.
deemed, cared OF their appetites clean
sed Of their siLs, rejoicing in the hope
of a Savior-that is not failure Prob
ably there is not another city in this
whole country where Mr. Moody would
have met with such bitter opposition
and been the subject Of such malignant
hatred as in this city. The writer Of
that Boston letter certainly could not
have been irequeuter Of the noon day
prayer meetings lor business men at
fremont Temple or Of any Of the nu-
merous gatherings for prayer, held
daily; he certainly could never have
attended the Tabernacle meetings Tor
the Incorporate aud fallen on Friday Of
each week since Moody and Sankey
have been in Boston he certainly
could not have known that the CONVEX.
sions in Boston and vicinity. within the
past few weeks are numbered by thous-
ands. claiming alike the rich aud the
poor the high and the low, aud in the
face OF all these facts say there had
been no revival as yet The Christian
element Of Boston and. / might add, Of
all New England does not look to Mr..
Murrcy or DR.. Bartol. aud their like. as
expounders OF all that is right il
Christina sentiment and doctrine
neither does it think any better Of their
class Tor their opposition to the work
now going on here in BOSTON 10 connec-
ton with the Tabernacle meetings.
Had tha! writer possessed any of the
spirit Of charity and good viii toward
men, seeking like Moody aad Sankey
and their co.workers the glory Of Christ
and tie salvation Of men, rather than
proclaiming the labors Of thebc men 8
failure, ] am quite sure, that letter
would never have found its say into
the Springfield Republican. aud then
I iuto your paper. II there is reader
I Of the JoUHNAL who Is inclined 70 be.
lieve that letter earnestly invite him
10 Gene 10 Boston and zee sor himself
whether or not the assertions therein
made are true. That writer, and ail
who are 10 sympathy with him, forget
that We owe oaf eHistanre a. i civilized