Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-23
Religipns department.
MIR. MOODY AT NEW BRUINS
WICK, n. j.

IL 10 ulOlC tlltAh a Nh~tNNNAO'
this city has been so stirred by reli-
gious influences as during the last
week. Elderly people remember
with much satisfaction the great re-
vival here years ago when the entire
community seemed to be pervaded by
the thought Of God and of their OBJ
legations to Him. Merchants closed
their stores, mechanics ceased to
carry on their work, vast numbers
filed the churches with prayers and
hymns, and multitudes were hope
fully converted. Since that remark
able time nothing in the kingdom of
Christ has equalled the interest, the
enthusiasm and intelligent work which
attended the Christian Convention
held during three days under the
auspices of Dwigh ut L.. Moody, the
deservedly distinguished evangelist.
Not less than eighteen hundred jam
med the Opera House-stage. aisles,
and every available standing-room-
while on the last day of the session
hundreds literally struggled to get in
but had to 90 away. Crowd from
the surrounding villages and country
pressed for an opportunity to hear,
and it is estimated that over twenty
thousand persons were present at the
services from first to last. 1t was
most significant and profoundly
impressive spectacle, showing that
men and women are conscious of an
unseen world, and naturally respon-
sive to its solemn realities. Under
the breath of the Holy Spirit, the
scepticism and indifferentism born Of
false theories and worldIiness are
swept away in a moment and the
startled sinner springs to a vivid and
painful sense of his relations to eter-
nifty, to the retributions of guilt and
to Jesus as the only but all-sufficlent
Redeemer. God is in man stronger
than the man himself, stronger in
deed than all the opposing agencies
of earth and hell to keep man from
feeling at all times instinctiyely and
irresistibly the presence and mighty
power of the invisible Beng who
created us and who will judge us.
1t is this only which can explain
Mr.. Moody's power. He is re-
vealer, for the hour, of spiritual ver-
tiles to his audience. His manner is
perfectly simple, his feeling genuine,
aud as deep as it is earnest. His
elocution is not excellent for articu-
lation or pronunciation or other
graces of the schools. His grammar
is often very bad, and sentences bro
ken; his tones are generally CONVEX
sational, with vivid outbursts here
and there OF voice and gesture; alto
gether he is unconventional, direct
pointed, intensely sympathetic, I'm.
conscious, disinterested, and natur.
ally capable of getting right down tc
fho of Il,c
his enthusiasm all. He has square
common sense and a shreWd knowl
edge of human nature-plenty of it
and, above all, he honors the Spirit
and the Word, and Christ, with al
his soul, explaining Biblical truths Il
way, and illustrating them by re
markabe incidents which have oc
cured in his own wide ministry, AM
appealing always with tremendou
feelng-feeling that seems laborin
under restraint, rather than for dis
play-to his hearers to surrende
their souls to the Savior without a
instant's delay. -.
After preaching awhile, he ask
his congregation to bow their head
in silent prayer, and while the
heads are thus bowed, he urges an
who desire salvation to rise for pray
er. Here his skill and grace shin
pre-eminently forth. By argument
compressed into sentences, by teal
full anecdotes, by solemn warnings
by loving and and tender entreatie
he persuades the sinner to thro
away the fear of man, and comm
himself, by an open act, to the Lor
Jesus as his only hope. At the fir.
meeting forty-five men rose for pra,
ers. At the meeting held for parent
the scene was singularly pathetic an
unforgettable. AS Mr.. Moody ma
IdtCd uON lltCiC ClllultH HdQ DeC
instrumental in leading stubborn an
often infidel parents to Jesus, IL
feelings of the audience deepene
and intensified, until there was hare
ly dry eye among eighteen hundre
people; while mothers and fathe
rose quickly in different parts of Il
house asking in sobbing accents f,
prayers for their children or 9th
relatives. At the last meeting fit
zen rose for prayers, while othe
audibly expressed their determin;
ton to live henceforth for God al
His cause. Ls 3t $3.50.
Verify, as Sojourner Truth one
cried out in an anti-slayery CONVEX
ton: Verify, God is not dead yet
although the materialists and scepti
have been trying to make us bell e.
He is.-ChriStidn at Work.
BURNING HIS INFIDEL Books
The most oppressive instance of Il
power of truth on the conscience.
my memory, is that Of an inteIlioe