Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-05

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. Mr.. 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 quarrelled and fallen out.
We haven't, 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 q 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 i'll
effects of it now, as witness his voice,
which grows husky and throaty even
after a couple of services of song. Mr..
Moody himself says this is so.
It was a significant fact that while
Mr.. 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 intimation was plainly
given that Sankey had lost his magnifi-
cent voice, and therefore, much of his
old-time effectiveness as a revivalist.
When MIR. Moody was questioned as
to the sales of ''GospeI Hymns he
quickly replied: 81 was about to say
that l 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 a 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 I 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 q certain number of selected hymns |
without the music. for penny copy,
900 900 copies at time. We haven { !
in Nm Ia
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. All 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 a
standard hymn book on the shelves of
music stores in so many different coun-
such dimensions that cannot, nor will
attempt to. give you any figures showing
the financial prosperity of the publica-
ton -
land how is it with your own works
of ecclesiastical literature, Mr.. Moody"
al 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 piratical publishers have stolen
my sermons and printed them withou tiny
knowledge and consent. But not many
thousands have circulated in this way,
L believe. -
The first meeting between Moody and
Sankey was in 1871 at an International |
convention of the Young Mems Christian
association, at Indianapolis. They were
delegates. In the devotional exercises
Moody was strongly attracted by
Sankey's voice, and after a service of
song, he inquired, ''Where do you
live?''
''In Newcastle, Pa. - replied San
key.
''I want you, - Moody then remarked
What for?' questioned Sankey.
''To help me in my work in Chicago. "
''I cannot leave my business pro-
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. -
''I will think of it. 1 will pray over
it. 1 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 a religious publication which, he re-
had a sale of 200 200 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 extravagant
in your estimate. - From the publishers
remark it was easy to strike q haDDY |