Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-02-02

before seen in Wilmington. II was the
best sermon without words that has been
preached here for many a day. And the
advantage of it was that all the people saw
it.
As at all the other meetings, so Tuesday
night too enthusiasm seemed to thoroughly
arouse only when some one of the we'll
known old tunes was sung AT the
Cross" took the crowd in manner that
no new-fangled hymn could. Two thous-
and voices sent it booming from one end
of the big building to the other, and the
choir was out of sight.
Prayer was offered by the Rev. S. NJ.
Morgan of Mt. Salem, and then Mfr.
Sankey sang the fayorite solo 1.-THE Ninety
and Nine"
He made the listeners shlIdder with cold
at his graphic vocal picturing of the one
sheep out on the bleak hillside lost and
alone while the 'nnety and nine" were
costly penned mp safe in the warm fold
There is M doubt Mr.. Sankey is an artist
who has cultivated his voice endowment
~ peculiar way and that is in its descrip-
tive inc with uneSamped success.
NJ. Moody took his text from Luke
Mn, 10. For the Son of Man is come
to seek and to save that which was LOST
u is one OF the everyday qnestionsin Will
mngton how II is that Mr.. Moody can
hold such immense gatherings with such
also denies to him any degree of detinable
oratorical power. Those who heard the
evangelist last night are ready now to deny
all this. lie proved himself in last nights
address to be the pnssessor OF the most
valuable of oratorical qualtics--that Of
descriptive power and to degree, ii is not
too much to say, never before equalled in
a Wilmington pulpit. Graphic delinea-
ton. tender sympathy, whitening denun-
citation of pretense, the most apt illustra-
ton, at one moment telling of Christ's
love for all and the next he fixed the re-
spnnsibility Of refusal with sternness
that left no opportunity of evasion.
AS he gave out the text he remarked that
il is one of his favorite ones There is
hardly text in the Bible he likes so much.
Christ here says himself what he came
here Tor, All through Christs ministry
the divine light of Himself seeking out to
save is shown.
Men have false idpn of Christ. ] don't
believe, the speaker continued, there IS
man here IN this room put if he believed
this text would ctne right to God. Christ
did not come to Stay or put down but to
raise men up
| like the thought that Christ came TO
seek out men, not that men seek him. In
Eden God sought ont Adam. lie has
always beer the seeker III the parable Of
the lost sheep the shepherd went out and
sought it.
|, Tie woman who had lost tie piece of
silver did not ait down and cry over the
money she had lost No, she snatchel M
her broom and swept the house clean in
vigorous search. She threw over chairs
and furniture, and then when she had
found 1t she lDudly called in her friends
and neighburs asking them to rejoice with
her. She had sought for the money.
There are those in this hall who would
like tod to seek them. they say God
never did That his voice never seeks
them. Did you ever go into a church and
hear sermon which seemed directed
exactly to yourself? That was God seek
ing you out Did a mothers letter ever
touch you, touch your heaFt2 That was
the son of God seeking you out When
cOnvalcscent, in the long hours of the
night, as you listened TO the old clock in
the hallway ticking the weary hours, has
not the still small voice come To YOU p
that is the Son of God seeking for YOU
let no man say that Christ has never
sought for him.
Mr.. Moody then told the thrilling tale of
u rUne who, as he returned tn his bedroom
at nights was annoyed by the eyes in his
mothers photograph which hing upon
the wall, and which always appeared
speaking to him. The eyes followed him.
He got on chair aud turned the picture
to the wall, What he did was to turn
God eyes to the wall,
"Sun of Man is the lowest of Christs
names. Some one went to the trouble of
counting the number of titles of God in
the Bible. Il was 1856. Christ delights in
the title. lie calls himself it 81 times.
Mr. Moody closed his address in de-
scription in his own style of the story of
blind Rartlmens receiving his sight.
At the close Of the meeting the inquiry
room was filled
A large congregation attended the over.
flow meeting in theevening. Dr.Ellis spoke
entertainingly on "He Must be Born
Again" and Mr.. Sankey sang.