Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-07
Messrs. Moody and Sankey in Oxford
 England.


 From ".The Christian an English Journal.l
 As the very embodiment of modern cul- ture and worldly wisdom, Oxford is one of the most unlikely places in the land for the reception of message that addresses itself not so much to the head as to the heart Yet it is no exaggeration to say that nowhere throughout the length and breadth of the land has the evangelistic mission of Messrs.
 Moody and Sankey met with more remarka- ble vindication and success than in this proud seat of human learning.
 On Monday evening the ''undergrads
 were invited to meet in the assembly rooms
 of the Clarendon Hotel. A considerable
 number responded, and it soon became evi- dent that the youthful etferyescenc ce and
 boisterous behavior that appear to be indi- genous to university soil were to manifest themselves. What happened may be de- scribed in the words of a local chron1cler. tfOn Monday evening there was large at
 tendance of local clergy and MT. Sankey sang several of his hymns. MT. Moody se- lected chapter from the book of Ezekiel and began reading it. Some of the audience
 commenced stamping and shouting In very impious manner. Mrl Moody immediately
 closed his Bible and in scathing tones of re- buke said he would rather play with forked liphtning or meddle with the most deadly ] diseases than to trifle with the word of God. He then asked those gentlemen who wished
 him to continue to rise, and the whole as-
 sembly, with the exception of very few, l instantly did so. On Tuesday evening the assembly room was again crowded. Previ- ous to the arrival of Mir. Moody the princi- pal of Wycliffe Hall gave some details of the life and work of MT. Moody. He knew, he said, it was anything but pleasant for them last night to feel that there was a little ripple ..s.. I were there who were present the previous evening not quite in sympathy with what was l said and done, they must feel on mature re- | hection that MT. Moody was in the right, and those opposed to him in the wrong. The next evening there was no falling of in the l attendance, but many undergraduates ap- peared to have come with the express object l of making fun of the proceedings. MT. ! Moody preached from Galatians, 6, 7, Be | not deceived. God is not mocked, for what soever 8 man soweth that shall he also reap. l He had not proceeded far before it was evil dent from the adverse criticisms indulged in, 1 in an undertones that there were many pres ent who were not inclined to give the speak 1 er a fair hearing. Soon there was open l laughter, but MT. Moody said it was very easy to laugh at these things, but they were fixed and eternal. They would live long
 enough to see that what he said was true,
 and that man had to reap what he sowed. | Let them sow good seed and not tareS, and I by and by they would have an abundant har- 1 vest On this third evening came the turn
 of the tide Having set in motion the ma
 ohinery of the after meeting, MT. Moody l found himself in the midst of group of l young students, most of whom had been among the disturbers on the previous ocea-
 sions With that intrepidity and readiness
 which had so often stood him in good stead.
 he seized the opportunity and proceeded in l the plainest though most courteous terms,
 to tell these young friends what he thought of them and their reprehensible conduct. | Addressing them simply as those who, like
 himself, would lay claim to the title of gen | tIemen, he said they owed him an apology for the treatment he had received at their I hands He had been invited by some of I their fellow students to come and speak to
 them, and the least they could have done
 would be to give him respectful hearing Pursuing this vein of candid remark, MT.
 Moody soon succeeded in convincing his lis
 teners that they had placed themselves in the
 wrong, and the only honest course open to
 them was 8 full confession. They assented to all he said and readily rendered verbal ! apology. Mir. Moody accepted this Gnae1de
 h0n0TGbS as far as he WAS concerned, but 1 said he considered they ought to make far