The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-11-12
MOODY AND S1NEEI IN Paris.

PARIS, Nov, 1.-Onc hesitatos to refer TO
these gentlemen rs one hosiates to speak Of
'pinafore, or that recent event in Philadelphia
which concentrated the anniversary of our
republic: but when one meets them anew in
Paris. conducting their importunato services
undcr the shadow OF tho Louvre. they borrow
fresh interest from their homogeneous sur
roundings. 1t is not that the Gospel has not
been heard before in the light-heartod capital
or that ii had not been urged upon the people
from time to time at the point of the bayonet as
well Us by tho no less instantaneous methods OF
these Jealous workers: but when a stranger.
sauntcring from the gardens of the Iuxem-
bourg comes upon n beYy of his cOuNrymcn
iuboflhS IN Conversion. the contrast strikes
For, the past two weeks English meetings
chapels, and reunions FRANCHISES Il loratoirc.
rue Saint Honore and as usual in America
these meetings hnve been crowded not only by
Dir. Moody in Paris Is identica! with Mr.. Moody
in Chicago. He addresses his audience with
the simple tcrvor of old. telling the same
stories. He bias the audience in tho asles
cone forward, with the same familiar and
sermon his s' ,nSes T rs with ibo ems mos
tioLs of 'I3; while Mr.. .Sankey reaches
y bravcly rs ever for the high noes in The
Hippodromc in 10. where thousands Of troubled
faces were turned toward the distant and hazy
speaker, and tho front rows We're ranged three
doep with women in black hold ing ear trumpets
under their mourning weeds. the feryor of
these assemblies has waned though their num-
beers are fairly maintained. There are now no
inuuiry rooms and not many are presenting
turn up. There are no means few tears and
the general burden Of sin. even here in Paris.
seems more easily borne
pulpit occupied by Mr.. Moody on Sunday last
seemed the only closet in the city whence in
tercessionS Were sent above The chimney pots
and the Column Nendome. and the only closet
wherein an anxious soul wrssted in serious
lighted in the middle Of the afternoon in the
American chapcl. and daring the hour Of the
sta li Winio%s in igh,ng F the ' sombre
interior whore a few hundred Americans
Joined in prolongng the faith If their fathers.
Outside the shops were all open. the hpulcNards
thr1ngcd. innumerahlC wheels trundlei the r
ruilled freight IN the Bots de 3ouoEne, and the
too happy irenclmcn fresh from the gardens,
sang on the tops Of tho omnlbnses. Here and
there 10 the city a cathedral was open. and de-
these points n good dea Of the business and
more than the pleasure Of the week went on.
The cafes were fu'l and out on the sidewalks
drinking their wine and looking with tho com
mon beatltudc at the monuments which Paris
has everywhere erected to her glory. And
while Mr.. Moody preached one could hear the
workmen engaged in tearing down largo
passors by to beware Of the falling bricks
The assembly at he oratoire IN the evening ir
oldest PROTESTANT churches in the city and the
pulpit. which is on one side Is nearly on z level
with its galleries. The audience was French
and OF various social grades. from the ladies
and gentlemen ia the centre to the lahorerS in
ovcrals and shirts who scowlcd with folded
arms near the entrance. and seemed uncertain
whether they Were called in To- build UP or de-
moish citadel. The hymns Mr.. Sankey ac-
companicd upon the cabinet organ We're frans-
lated into French and scattered in slips among
the congregation, while the sermon, which wns
in English. was translated then and there, sen
tence by sentence. by = 81 -rgyman who shared
tho pulpit with Nj. Moody, and scattered h is
uttcrances revercntly among the people. 1t
made the services long and somewhat dis
jointed. but nevertheless, under this system
bers near the shades Of the Tulcries as they
were on their native soil