The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-02-04
MOODY AND II
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| hnO Whs Selling MS ana Mr.. sankey's Pho
tographs in front of the building, that en-.
terprising individual was not long in hear
hog OF 1t. The voice with which he had
cried: "Eres your CORRECT pho to-
gr-a p his OF the great evsngelists, only f-i-y
Cen is" began to have a shade more of
sadness. he stood bis ground manfully,
however. and cried his wares until the last
worshiper had departed Then, as the
shades OF night were descending softly over
the great city, covering up its sin and wick
edness as with charitable MANTLE and as
the impecunious individuals were skfrmish-
ing around for materials for supper and
bed, he folded up his apparatus sadly and
started to steal away.
1t was then that Times reporter ap-
preached him.
How is business2"-for a starter
The picture vender looked up. He was a
young man OF p, or Whereabouts, and looked
as III his heart were laden with q mighty
sorIow-
Business? business, did you ssy2' asked
he d. jectedly. There's no such thing as
business in this here ungodly town. This
Is the worst place We ever struck in all our
travels. II this hele week OF prayer don't
give us start we're busted, and no mis-
take
lyon heard OF what Mr.. Moody said of you
| this afternoon?
Yes, / heard. It's hard on a business
that's nearly busted already, but / don't
blame the old man. He's been the means
of making sight of money for me, and /
! can't find 1t in my heart to reprosch him."
Did ii affect the sale of your pictures
Affect 'em? l should say. haven't hard
ly sold Photograph to-day. You see, he
said hadn't had photograph taken for 20
years. That's a fact; but it does not keep
my pictures from being good ones, all the
same, does it? Here is one of him and
Sankey both, see for yourself"
He produced two photographs, which
were really striking ILLNESSES Of the evan
gtlists as they appear to-day.
But. if Mr.. Moody had no photographs
taken for 20 years. how did you get that?'
"You see, had been selling q miserable
thing Tor his likeness, and so when he was in
Boston last, thought it was nothing but
the square thing to have a good one taken.
l hired one of the best draughtsmen in the
city, GEORGE f. Brooks who went into the
tabernacle and crayoned him. l tell you.
be got the old man down fine. See there
You could tell he's preaching. He's got his
head tucked down just like ne always
does"
Mr.. Moody said something about having
tried the law TO get rid of you. How was
that?'
well, got pretty rough deal, but this
is free country, and ifs man behaves him
self he's all right. The old man never did
anything personally beyond consulting
a lawyer who told him that he'd
have to stand. 1t. / don't see
how it's hurting him, and it's Twin to me.
He's liked. The Lord careth for His ser
wants. l amt got no such hacker. and
have to hustle or starve. But you wanted
10 know about the law 1t happened this
way: I was standing in front of the church
in Springfield holleriD' his photographs as
cheerful as you please, for | was sellin' 'em
faster than | could hol,er. Along comes a
r,Nlin hut fhot
You're disturbin' these here religious exer-
cIsss,' said he. l dom know, might have
told him to cheese il, or swallow his club, or
something OF that sort. Anyway, he run me
In. The next morning it ell came out The
executive committee had put up job on
me. But it wouldn't work. They all said
was disturbing religious service, but the
policeman who arrested me swore that
wasn't a disturbing nothing at all. The
mayor took my part and so did the chief
of-pollce. They turned me loose and l
haven't been bothered since"
"You must have had large experience
with Mr.. MoodyY'
That's about what it amounts to. When
L first knew him l was a boy, in Chicago.
He lived on the corner oil Indiana and
Dearborn streets then, and used to preach
in a little church on Illinois street. Every
Saturday night he used to go out to a vacant
lot on Ohio street and preach to anybody he
| COUlQ get TO near MIN. lnore WASN'T many
in them days, for we didn't think much of
him then. The boys used to think he was
little of, and would throw rotten potatoes
and onions, and all sorts of decayed garden
truck at him. | believe be was better ma
tared then than he is now. There's mighty
few of us who can stand prosperity. When
boy would hit him in the back with rot
ten potato he'd catch him and promise him
something nice to come to Sunday school.
They wouldn't give him class there, you
see, and so he went out and got all the boys
he could to come, and brought them In and
taught them
Don't you tell ME that mans shamm;ng.
don't plank very high on religion myself,
but If there ever Yves religion in this world
he's got it, You ought to have seen him
r work with those boys. As / said. he wasn't
much thought of then, but he worked all
the same. Then he got boost in some way,
and after while he went to Europe and
came back famous Chicago was proud oil
him then, and built him a tabernacle
Then the boom started and l started. Since
that time we have held services all over the
United States pretty much, and got up
some rousing services. All through the
East We stirred 'em up, and don't you
forget it. When we was in New York in
1875, / believe ii was-Pm not good or
dstes-we made the Gothamites stare and
converted powerful lot. But Boston
WIS Tic DOSc diluOubu .Ou NOuiun tuluk
it. While things were booming on the in
side, was booming on the outside. We
converted Yankees like sin. and every time
anybody is converted they buy picture.
made $50 net cash one day. thought l was
! goin' To be a millionaire, and / picked out
my coachman's livery. All up there in
them Yankee States we RACED the very Cain
, | coined money in spite of the little accident
which happened to me In Springield-but
don't bear the old man no malice for that
Then We struck it rich in Philadelphia
everywhere. in fact except in Baltimore
You see, Sankey wasn't with us, and | and
the old man wasn't much team without
him. Conversions were awful scarce, but
made over expenses. / never failed on thai
} yet until we struck this here God-forsakeu
town."
What has been the worst place ?'''
''Worst place? Worst place? Great jim
mi How can you ask me such a question!
Why, this here place? This here village Of
st. Louis. 1t is the worst given over tC
iniquIty than any small town that ever wal
. struck. haven't much more'n cleared ex-
penses We haven't converted scarcely aDy