Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-10

at such and such a church and have Mr..
Sankey fail to respond, leaving only
Moody TO appear. That is the only reason
| why we are not at present together. We
have had no disagreement as regards
| financial matters, or in fact about any
thing else. MIR. Sankey took lunch with
| me only few days ago at the Park
| Avenue hotel. For the last five years
the report has spread over the country
that we had quarrelIed aud fallen out.
| We haven It, and what's more, we're
! not likely to. -
Mr.. Moody'S manner was perfectly
| calm and unruffled. There was naught
in his bearing or speech that did not in
dictate complete confirmation OF his
| story. Had the two evangelists been the
! bitterest of enemies you never could have
| discovered the fact by anything that Mr..
Moody said or did. The newspaper man
| did not dwell upon the subject of pos
sible hitch in Moody and Sankey's here
| tofore amicable arrangements. Mr..
| Sankey was not in the immediate vicinity
| of New York. 1t wasn't at all neces-
sary to have his confederation, for such
it surely would be, of Moody's explana-
| ton. The latter is the executive officer
Of the duo. He has always done all the
talking. Mr.. Sankey has enjoyed no
sinecure as the vocalist of the pair. His
work has been hard and he feels the III
effects Of it now, as witness his voice,
which grows husky and throaty even
after couple of services of song. Mr..
Moody himself says this is so.
It was a significant fact that while
MIR. Moody was demonstrating that
Sankey and himself were still the very
best of friends, he carefully refrained
from promising in any way that they
would be associated together in the
future. The intimaton was plainly
given that Sankey had lost his magnifi-
cent voice, and, therefore, much of his
old-time effectiveness as q revivalist.
When Mr.. Moody was questioned as
to the sales of "Gospel Hymns he
quickly replied: ''I was about to say
that 1 know no more about it than your
self 1 really couldn t tell you. for the
entire business is IN the hands of a COM
mittee of dozen or fifteen gentlemen,
who are trustees of the two institutions
in Massachusetts, at Mortified and
Mount Hermon. Those gentlemen
act as an auditing committee, over
see all disbursements and examine care
fully into all the receipts. You must
understand that, practically, all the
profits received from the sale of this
hymn book are applied by the trustees
to the funds of the two institutions l
have mentioned. We have been pub
fishing that book since 1873, when Mr..
Sankey and | first visited England to-
gether. IT'S hard to tell whether Cos
pei Hymns circulates more extensively in
the old country or America. They pub
lish one edition of the book in England
With a certain number of selected hymns
without the music, for q penny copy,
l 200 900 copies at time. We haven {
been in England since 1884. We made
four trips in all across the water, and
when we were in England our book of
course. would have great deal better
sale in consequence of increased interest |
felt in our work by our presence in the |
foreigners midst. And again, it must !
be borne in mind there have been French |
and German TRANSACTIONS of Gospel |
Hymns with very extensive sales follow !
ing their publication. There are as |
many as five series of the hymn book |
published in the United States and they |
range in price from fifty cents to So a |
hundred copies. ALI depends upon the |
style and quality of the binding. OF !
course there has been a steady and very |
handsome income from the vast sales. |
It's seventeen years of existence as q |
standard hymn book on the shelves of |
music stores in so many different cOun-
tries has naturally developed traffic OF
such dimensions that [ cannot, nor will |
attempt to, give you any figures showing
the financial prosperity of the publica-
ton. -
''And how is it with your own works
of ecclesiastical literature, Mr.. Moody?'
''I only know that they have reached
such and such a thousand as ind icated in
the catalogue of the publisher, Mr.. Re-
veil. That is all judge by. do know
this, that pjratical publishers have stolen
my sermons and printed them withou TINY
knowledge and consent. But not many
thousands have circulated in this way,
believe.
The first meeting between Moody and
Sankey was in 1871 at an International
convention of the Young Men 8 Christian
association, at indianapolis. They were |
delegates. In the devotional exercises
Moody was strongly attracted by
Sankey's voice, and after q service OF
song, he inquired, "Where do you
live?'
Sin Newcastle, Pa. ," replied San
key.
81 want you, :" Moody then remarked
bluntly.
what for?' questioned Sankey.
'FTo help me in my work in Chicago. -
L NuuhOL ACt4f . my Dh5AhOSSs pEO-
tested Sankey.
"'You must. I have been looking for
you for the last eight years. You must
give up your business and come to Chi
cago with me. -
81 will think of it. I will pray over
it. will talk it over with my wife,
Several weeks later the firm of Moody
and Sankey was formed in earnest.
DESTROYS of obtaining figures regarding
the sale OF Moody and Sankey's book, a
call was made on a member of the firm
of Biglow s. Main. He held that it was
none of the public's business what
Moody and Sankey made out Of Gospel
Hymns, - but he said that no religious
song book ever enjoyed the popularity of
"Gospel Hymns He quoted the name
of religious publication which, he re-
marked, had a sale of l 200, 900 copies.
''If you were to credit these figures to
Gospel Hymns you would be much
below the true circulation. and yet, If
the figures were quoted at Is 900 900
copies you would be equally extravagaut
in your estimate. - From the publishers
remark it was easy to strike a happy
medi UNI on his statements as TO the esti-