Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-04-19
! PlTTsBURG POINTS.
The Moody and Sankey Mee,itgs and
Their Probable Results.
A Glance at the Eyangelists, Their
Methods and Manners.
The Annual Elliott Flower and Plant
Exhibition.
Emma Abbott's Ideas on Matters
Y and Things Musical.

Special Correspondence. Of tie Sunday Register.
PIrTsBURG, April lS.-The Moody and
Sankey meetings held here last week were
apparently of the most beneficial character.
Several hundred persons professed belief
in christianity and asked for that help that
k o sort of commodity among incipient
Christians. Mr.. Moody took the names of
ofer one thousand of those who had been
touched by his exhortations ascertained their
history, the faith of their mothers and
fathers, their places of residence and other
data. These data he furnished to the min.
isters in whose parishes the penitents reside
with the urgent request that they hereafter
attend to the recruits. Mr.. Moodys cheer
ftl manner Of snubbing ministers did not
impress itself very favorably upon many Of
the local preachers. The Evangelical min,
isters prior to the arrival of the Evangellsts
held several meetings and arranged to take
charge of the interior of the Fifth Avenue
Han during their stay in the city.
OIoody's Methods.
Mr.. MOODY with Massachusetts frigidity
ignored the local management at every
meeting and depended upon per patetic
preacher named Taggart. Tasgart had
taken no part in the preliminary arrange
ments, but had at one Of the Moody meetings
at New Castle, spoke in fatteriug terms Of
the Evangelist and this was his chrome.
This conduct on the part of Mr.. Moody
naturally incensed the ministers but they
said nothing and allowed him
to 60 without knowing how deep.
ly he had wounded them. Tnere
is great difference of opinion relative
To the Manners and Methods
OF the itinerants Some ministers and very
many people are profoundly impressed with
the means they employ aud also with the
fact that they have the ability to do much
good Others regard them in the light of
religious fakirs. Sankey is an exinsurance
agent. and among men who ktoy him well,
has the reputation OF being very slick.
Heis . large, well built man with Burnside
face furniture feminine voice, coven-
anter snivel, handsome features, sweet
voice an evasive eye, and an Uriah Heap
expression that prepossosses all, outside Of
the elect, against him at first glance. Moody
lis aiMassachusetts O. man, but marvellously
ihterate, his origin considered. He was in
some sort Of mercantile busi-
ness before his ''evocation' to
his present more profitable avocation. He
is a large, very corpulent, red faced man,
the very reverse of handsome, his face cov
cred with thick short, bushy, iron gray
-beaS His stomach and nose, to q MANI.
-uGstG Manfred viii him, give him the apai
pearance Of substantial German brewer
who has attended exclusively to his own col
lections among the saloons. However, Mr.,
Moody is a wonderful tslker He
Appeals TO the Under landing
in all of his exhortations. The is no image
ry, no rhetoric no polysylii5ic profusion7
for his education precludes it. hut he speaks
in a bluff business like manner which at
first is repulsive bat backed by his homely
reasoning soon becomes attractive and
finally even fascinating. With the dogmas
and dicta OF sects he does not deal; princi-
pally imagine because he is not conver.
SAINT with them ~ the theory and practice
of Christianity lie toiks vigorously and some
times eloquen,ly Incidents form large
portion OF his dlScOErses, while the hg res
and types of the Bible are brought into re-
QUESTION very frequently The Importance
Of salvation with background OF pyroteeh.
mics is really his stock in trade and his
every sermon, his every speech is founded
upon the Hadean theory with no inter1ne-
diate su1me- resort. 1t is evident to the
student of history that Mr.. Moody has in a
modified form an obscure idea of Gotten
Mather, Calvin and other fathers Of the
church and their methods He also has an
idea that Theological graduates hold him IN
contemp pt and he is rot mistaken.
The FIOwerShow.
The Flower Show, which has been going
on in LIBRARY Hall every day aud night
this week, has in its way been the largest
and most successful ever given on this SIDE
of the Atlantic. 1t was gotten up by Ar.
B. A. Elliott, the florist, partially as
means of.exhibitine his own resources, and |
also 10 give the Merchants library beDeit |
In its daal aspect it was success. The
flowers exhibited, OF course, have been in
hothouse all winteS, but for variety and ex-
tent of display beauty, culture and general
excellence the United States has never seen
its eoual. The exhibit Of roses alone COM
prehended over tour hundred varieties. The
display of JacGpeminots, Tea and Moss
roses was the most artistic. Carnations, IN
several scores cs varieties. pansies, violets.
dafoiils, palms, ferns and other flowers and
towering plsntswere numerous, rare and cost
ly. A magnificent collection Of orchids,
brought principally from the hothouses Off.
l.. zines, Boston, Erastus Corning, Albany,
and J. l.. Bush, New York, yasRpe OF the
most attractive and curious features o. the
exhibition. Noticed quite number OF
Wheeling people among the visitOrs.
Emma.Abbott.
Emma Abbott has been hsre- this, week
giving Pissburg people a line OF English
operas. She is guae fayerite here and
and has Aad good audiences. In company
with 8 kaend called on hr at her hotel
yesterday. Sending up a card she sent
down something ike this:
Ny BEAR SIR:-Ram all us1rsssed aSdjust get
ting igto the bath tub. l anaTtRiSprry that am
not ir q CUnditiOn 90. see you Jusf IT, "a ~, ~
wait few MINUTES shall se down sssrs, OF Il you
cannet wait come behind the 0e, To night between
the second and tasrd act OF Somiransde, IN WnlShl
sing this evening. E>4sA AHboIE'
Presently ihe csntAsFice finished her ab-
lution and came down to the parlor. The
6rst thing that attracted my attention vas
the enormous size to which she had attained
since lat saw hes. Face. head and ieet
had grown out Of all sroportiens to the
little fragile, frseke faee fairy that was
wont to delight western audiences half
decade ago. She has, However, lost none
of hsr effusiyessss and gush. She gave
nv hand grasp that brought yiVidiy to my