Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-18

| to nearly 5000, 900 persons. After his re- turn his head trobled him so that he did not attend meetings or do much mental work for over a month. I noticed towards the close of the convention that he looked wearied and tired at times. Many of his friends fear that he cannot work as he has much longer. He goss to New Orleans in the fall to begin his evangelistic work for the year.
 As have already stated, the visitors have been entertained in the building of the Young Ladies' seminary. There are two of these buildings which are used as dormito- ries and furnished with spring beds and the ordinary comforts of good hotel. The third building is the recitation hall and con- tains large chapel seating 1,500 and num- Der of small class rooms. The ladies or gen tlemen with their wives were given the rooms in the dormitories, while those of us who did not bring our wives were put into
 hard cots in rooms accommodating from four to six. We have not complained. If some
 H ell do it as others. but it
 is trying when the man in the next cot to
 you begins to snore the moment he goes to
 sleep and keeps it up through the whole
 right. You lie and think of those five to
 seven meetiu gs of the next day and wonder
 to the snoring (don't print it snorer). The
 cot next to one of these good brothers
 was occupied one night by young American
 student from Williams college. It was, l
 believe, his first experience of this sort and
 he went fairly wild. He would get up,
 light the gas, look sadly at the sleeper, walk
 about and then retire again. After time,
 the snoring continuing, he would get up
 again and once, in the small hours of
 the morning he was seen to wiring his hands
 grooming stWJhat shall dos What shall I
 do?" lie left the convention the next day.
 Another episode not conduce to sleep was an
 an all night prayer meeting by some of the
 brethren in the chapel directly over the
 heads of the sleepers. It was
 not silent prayer meeting. I understand that the guardian of the big
 tent refused to allow them to spend the night
 in that. If some of us had only known
 about it in time we would have hired the tent week for them, even if we had to sell our books to get the money But such incl dents as these only served to show the good nature and real Christian character of the visitors. Little annoyances were laughed at and forgotten.
 I thought I might keep record of some of the good things of the convention, but soon saw that this wss an impossibility un less you were willing to give me large share of your paper each day. The convention was feast of good things. If a speaker was not good and, in fact, if he did not sparkle with bright sayings, MT. Moody found way to cut him off and make way for good speaker. At the farewell meeting last night resolution was adopted call ing upon Christians everywhere to pray for an outpouring of the holy spirit and suggesting that a great assembly of Christians of all denominations be called to meet in London or New York for the pur- pose of devising ways of more vigorously prosecuting the work of God. After passing this resolution MT. Moody said few words of farewell and the convention closed with the singing of the doxology. J. c. c.