Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-10-29
Moody. the Evangelist.

lWenty-fO years ago Moody was q
smart young Chicago salesman, who
engaged in Sunday school work because
of the aggressive spirit of Christian
prosely tism in him which had to have
a vent. Not being able to get class,
he picked III. eighteen bareheaded and
bare.footed, ragged and dirty urchins,
and marched them into the North Wells
street Sabbath-school. Not satisfied
even then, he kept going out into the
streets and getting more, turning them
over to new teachers as he brought
them in, Then he organized mission
school OF his own, renting saloon IN
one of the vilest quarters of the city to
hold it in. Out Of this has grown the
great Chicago avenue Mission. or Mr..
Moodys Church" as it is called now,
which is. one OF the most. attractive
points Of interest III the city to stran-
gers. Whep the North Market Mission
building, AZ it was then known, was
swept away in the great fire, Mr..
Moody built the present extensive ed
itice, Tie money 80 s>pi!2 ii AID 70
buy the ground, amounting to nearly
| 500 600, was contributed by the schol-
ars of various Sunday schools through
out the country in small contributions,
aided ky few of Mr.. Moody's personal
friends, some OF tha money coming
from as far away as China. For nearly
twenty years this mission was the scene
of MIR. Moody's noblest Christian efforts,
the object of his tenderest solicitude.
Through heat and rain, in storm and
ice and sweltering weather, he tramped
through the most forsaken districts of
the city, forming the acquaintance of
the poorest class of children and their
parents, and bringing into play every
device his tact and experience could
suggest to get them to go to church
and sunday school. In his sermons he
let's drop some stray bits of personal
history bearing upon his trials anu re-
buifI at this period; as. for instance,
where he tells OF boys throwing old
boots and shoes after him and occasion
ally smashing the windows of his meet
ing house; but it is only here in Chica-
go, and by accidental encounters with
those familiar with the circumstances
that one can form an ade quate idea OF
the diff .alties and even perils that Mr..
Moody braved in these early days OF
his missionary ministry. There are
many persons.noW living on the north
SIDE who toll of thrilling escapes which
Mr.. Moody had from personal violence
in his efforts to bring the refining pnd
elevating influences Of Christianity to
the doors of the very refuse OF the city $
foreign population. ut time too,
! when the law and order were not as
generally prevalent ~ now
The United States Consul at Ilrich,
Switzerland, has informed the State
Department that the government OF
Switzerland has offered him IA memento
IF William Tell, stone from the
chapel erected on the spot from which
rcli is said to have made his escape
from the tyrant Gessler. The Consul
wrote to ask ii the stone would be ac.
cepted, and be placed in the Washing
ton monument. Colonel Casey, in
charge of the monument, has written
to the Secretary of State, accepting the
offer, and the stone will have suitable
inscription cut on it and be sent to
Washington.
And now telephones have paper.
1t is called Tie Te!epho"e Ercha@ge Re
porter, and, like the average office hold-
er, it comes from Ohio. Hamilton is
where it halls from, and 1t appears
monthly. All the papers will greet the
new conner with cordial " Hello =