The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-08-26
MOODY AND sAyKEY.
How the EVANGELIST Has Refused Chances
20 Become Rich-His Care 10 Prevent the
Hymn-write from Making Money Ont of
Their Meetings.
from The Chicago Tribunc.I

4 ~.
Rev. DR.. NJ. NJ. Parkhurs. Yesterday In n
post-prandial chat on the piazza OF the
Lake Bluff House. "that Moody and San
key are rich. But there never was a great
or mistake. | know all about them and
tneir work, especially in its financial
| phases, and j think / am justified In say
ing that they are two as poor men as you
VIII ind in days march. Sankey was
never as unselfish in the work as Moody,
but Moody has managed so that neither he
nor Sankey Is worth anything"
"What were their financial plans when
they started out?"
"Well, rll tell you,' said the Doctor.
taking new hitch on his chair. ain
1873, just before they left this country,
Sankey was member OF Grace church I'm
Chicago, and / was his pastor. He was
very anxious TO open music-store in one
OF the upper rooms OF the Methodist
Church Block, and l was going to help
| him to get the room. But one day he came
to me and said Moody wanted him TO 90 TO
Scotland with him on an evangelizing
tour. and asked me what ! advised him to
| do. He said Moody had offered to pay
him 1926 a month and bis expenses, and
! that though Moody didn't then have dol
that he would do as he said. / advised
him to embark in whichever business he
meant to make n life-work OF, and acting
on that principle he decided to 20 with
Moody. When il was about time TO start
Moody instructed him TO 20 to Lancaster,
Pa. and visit with his relatives. as he was
very poor, and promised 70 telegraph him
soon 10 meet him and set sail. Sankey
thought then that Moody had some money
TO 90 with, but Moody didn't have a cent.
Meanwhile John V. Farwel heard that
! Moody was about TO 90 abroad, and went 10
see him and bid him farewell. Moody talked
about his journey and his work abroad as
il he was sure TO 90, and when Mr.. Far
well rose TO 20 he gave Moody n check
for $500, for fear, as he said, he didn't
have sufficient means and would run short
after he got to Scotland. Moody accepted
it without telling his condition, and used
it TO carry himself and Sankey to Europe.
That is the first chapter in their financial
history, and Moody resolved before he
went that he would come back to Amer
lea as poor as he left it. That resolution
he faithfully kept.
GLOW long did Moody pay sankey a
salary Z"
salary was paid until the year was up. Az
ter that Moody refused TO work with Sankey
unless Sankey would abandon the salary
and 1--we by faith, as he did. That wasn't
all, either; Sankey used in his meetings
Smith cabinet organ. and used to take Or
ders for these instruments and receive
commission. Moody did not know this for
a long time, but the newspapers got hold OF
| 70 i,,a no I,-
and Sankey meetings were an organ specu-
lation in disguise. This rolled Moody, and
he compelled Sankey to go out OF the organ
business at once"
"Was much money offered Moody
abroad?"
"Any quantity OF it. The first three
months of his work were a perfect failure.
but after that nothing was too good for
him. / was travelling in Norway about
that time, and joined him Just as he was
leaving Glasgow for Ayr. At Ayr | learn
| ed from an eyewitness OF his refusing
| GOO in one lump in Edinburgh. 1t was
! collected by the brethren without his
knowing it, and he was invited into a
private room by the committee and pre-
scented with it. He positively refused to
touch ii, saying that he had no use for
L
| The entreaties OF the committee were
utterly unayailing, and when they
pleaded that it would be impossi-
| BILE to return it to the thousands
OF the people who contributed il he agreed
to direct whom they should give it to. He
told them about Major Whttle, who, he
said. had got in debt by trying TO aid in a
religious enterprise, and would become an
evangelist rs soon as he had paid that debt.
Moody asked the committee to take the
goo and pay Whttle's debt with it. This
they readily consented TO do, and the con-
sequence was that Whittle gave up his
business and became an evangelist. After
that Moody was offered money constantly,
| bat he steadiastly refused everything eX-
cept his expenses. He wouldn't even ac-
cept a suit OF clothes until he was in need
OF it,"
"What about The profits from the sale Of
| the hymn-boOk Z"
81 think | know all about that. The
book sold in Great Britain for only pen
nv. and yet the profits amounted to $780,
600. i suppose that, taking America into
! the account, the first, second. third, and
fourth parts have earned 100000 or $780,
coo up TO tins time. Sankey, OF course,
was anxious that this money should be ap-
propriated by himself and Moody. But
| Moody put his foot down again, and insist
ed that they must not take a penny OF it,
and, although the book was Sankey's work,
Moody, by threatening TO withdraw from
Sankey, compelled him TO agree to an ar
rangement for dcvoting it all to beneyo-
! lent purposes. Accordingly, they empow-
cred three men John V. Farwell OF Chi
cago, William +. Dodge Of New York, and
George IL. Stuart Of Philadelphia) to col
lect these funds from the publishers and
to apply them to any charitable purpose
they pleased"
"What did these gentlemen do with the
money!"
"Well, they devoted about $4,000 to
clearing off the debt Of the Chicago-Ave-
nue. church. They gave about 800, 900 TO
the Chicago Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation, and large amounts TO the Young
Mems Christian Associations OF all the
large cities in the country, aud / guess
they have got a good deal left vet"
"And Moody and Sankey haven't got
any Of itl"
"Not cent. AT one time the trustees
got ND great scheme 10 invest a large
amount OF it for the benefit OF Moody's
wife and children; but Moody got wind
OF it, and never let up until he forced them
TO abandon it,"
GLOW did Moody manage to get that fine
house and farm at Mortified, Mass.!"
"Fine house and farm q my! that il
rich. Plltell you how he did it. Moody's
mother has a little farm at Mortified worth
perhaps $4,000 or $4,000, and Moody and
his family used to go and stay there. Their,
really wasn't room for them in the house
and his friends thought it was almost ar
imposition on the old lady. So, one tim,
when he was at work here they went t.
Mortified, fenced oil about five acres OF thii
farm and built $4,000 house on it. Wher
Moody returned they undertook to driv,
him TO this new house. That was thu
Gr,t hn Ennu of IL and he declared II,