The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-08-17


"a great many people think" said the
Rev. DR.. NJ. NJ. Parkhurst yesterday in q
postprandial chat on the piszz4 OF the Lake
Bluff House, shat Moody and sankey are
rich. But there never was greater mis-.
take. l know all about them and their
work, especially in its financial phases, and
l think am justified in saying that they
are two as poor men as you will find in d
days march,. Sankey was never as unset.
fish in the work as Moody, but Moody has
managed so that neither lie nor SanEey is
worth anything"
"What was their financial plans when
they started out?"
"Well, I'll tell you," said the Doctor,
taking new hitch on the chair, "In 1873,
just before they left this country, Saukey
WIS member OF Grace church in Chicago,
and l was his pastor. He was very anx.
ious to open music stort in one OF the up.
per rooms OF the Methodist church block,
and was going to help him to get the
room. But one day he came to me and
said Moody wanted him to go to Scotland
with him on an evangelizing tour, and ask.
ed me what advised him 10 do. He said
Moody had offered to pay him SIPS month
and his expenses, and that though Moody
didn't then Lave q dollar he had faith
enough in him to believe that he would do
az he said. l advised him to embark in
whichever business he meant to make q
life work OF, and acting on that principle
be decided to 90 with Moody. When it
was about time 10 start Moody INSTRUCTED
him 10 go TO Lancaster, Pa, and visit
with his relatives, as he was very
poor, and promised to telegraph him soon
to meet him and Get sail Sankey thought
then that Moody had some money 10 90
with, but Moody didn't haYe cont
Meanwhile John V. Farwell heard that
Moody was about to go abroad, and went
to Zee him to bid him farewell. Moody
talked about his journey aud his work
abroad as Il be was sure to go, and when
Alr. Farwell rose to go he+gave Moody q
check for $500, for fear s he said, he didn't
have sufficient means and would run shors
after he got to Scotland. Moody accepted
it without telling his condition, and used it
10 carry himseli and Sankey to Europe.
j hat Is the first chapter in their financial
history; and Moody resolved before he
went that he would come back to America
as poor as lie left it. That resolution he
faithfully kept.l
"How long did Moody pay sankey a
salary?"
"lne contract was for one year, and the
salary was paid until the year was up.
After that Moody refused to work with
'ankey unless sAnkey would abandon the
salary and live by faith, % ne did. That
wasn't all, either; sankey used in his meet.
ings Smith cabinet organ, and used to
take orders for these instruments and re.
ceiye a commission. Moody did not know
this for long time, but the newspapers got
hold OF it and began to insinuate that the
Moody and Sankey meetings were an or.
gan speculation in disguise. This riled
Moody, and he compelled Saukey to 20 out
Of the organ business at ouGe,p
"Was much money offered Moody
abroad?"
quantity oft. The arst three months
OF his work were = perfect failure, but after
that nothing was too good for him. was
travelling in Norway about that time, and J
joined him just as he was leaving Glasgow
for Ayr. At Ayr ! learned from an eye
witness Of his refusing Zoo in one lump ir
Edenburg. 1t was collected by the breth
rem without his knowing it, aud he was in
vited into private room by the COMMITTEES
and presented with it. He positively re
fused to touch it, saying thpt be had nj
use for II and didn't know where to put It
The entEeaties Of the committee weri
utterly unayailinR, and when they
pleaded that it would be impossiblt
10 return it 10 the thousands o
people who contributed It be agreed 10 di
rect whom they should give 1t TO. He told
them about Mai. White, who, he said
had got in debt by trying toad religious
enterprise, and would BECOME an evangel
1t IS soon ~ be had paid that debt
Moody asked the committee to take the
200 and pay Whites debt with it
This they readily consented to do, and tbs
cops auence was White gavenp his bust
n Is and becaas an evangelist. After tina
Moody was offered money CONSTANTLY, By
he steadiastly refused everything excep
his expenses. He wouldn't even accept {
suit OF clothes until he was in need OF It.
HWbat about the profits from the sale O
the hVmn.ho0kW
4 think know all aboutttak The hool
sod In Great Britain for onlya penny, ant
yet the profits amounted to $4,000. sup
pose that, taking America into the account
Inc fist, second, third and fourth part
have earned $500 coo or $4,000 up to THU
time. Sankey, Of course, was anxious tina
this money should be appropriated by him
self and Moody. But Moody put his foo
down again, and insisted that they mus
not take penny OF 1t; and, although thI
book was Sankey's work, Moody, by threat
ening to withdraw from sankey, compsllel
him 10 agree to an arrangement for dsvot
ing It all to benevolent purposes. Accord
ingly they smpowe ed three men, John v
FarErll, OF Chicago, William E. Dodge, o
New York, and George II. Stuart, Of Phila
delphiA, TO collect these funds from thu
publishers, and TO apply them to any char
table purpose they pleased"
What did these gentlemen do with thu
money!"
"Well, they devoted about $4,000 L
clearing otfthe dehtotthe Chicago Avenue
Church; they gave aboutr 500 1000 to thu
Chicago Young Mems Christian Associa
ton, and large amounts 10 the Younl
Mems Christian Associations Of all tn
large cities in the country, and / CUES
they have got q good deal left yet"
"And Moody and Sankey haven't 60
any ofit?"
:Not a cent. At one time the trustee
got up great scheme to invest q larg
amount Of It for the benttit Of Moody
wife and children. But Moody gos win
Of II, and never let up until be force,
them IN abandon
SHOW did Moody manage to get tbs
fine house and farm at E0rtI field, Mass.Y
"Fine house and farm omy that
J rich. I'lltell you how he did 1t. Moody
mother has little farm st Mortified