Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-05
PEOPLES PET SINS
Mr.. Moody Tells Why Herod Came
to Dislike His Preacher.
JOHN BECAME ENTIRELY TOO PERSONAL
He Began to Talk About Herod's
Sin Instead of Others Sins.
COMP ROMISE WITH GOD

lCOMP ROMISE WITH GOD
1t was, perhaps more distinctively an au-
dience of men that filled Convention Hall
last evening to hear Mr.. Moody than has
| been the case with any Of the meetings of
the entire series. There have been meetings
announced exclusively for men, but women
| have been present in greater or less num-
| bers. Last evening, however, the gentler
sex was vigorously excluded. and in that
great audience not single woman could
be seen. 1t was indeed great audience.
The men filled the seats and crowded the
galleries and thronged the standing places
at the rear of the hall and the sides of the
stage. AS Mr.. Moody's eye glanced over
| that array of faces, he could that his
audience was composed of all ages; the boy
| of ten or twelve was there, as well as the
| man whose hair was whitened with adj
vancing years All the intermediate ages
| between these two extremes were repre-
scented.
| There were, of course, women in the
choir, and a number of women seated on
the platform, which was filled to overflow
ing. 1t was, perhaps, the most distinguish
ed audience that has ever assembled to hear
Mr.. Moody. The Vice President was there.
and with him a large delegation from the
Senate; the House lacked a quorum, and
while the Supreme Court of the United
States and the District Court did not have
a full bench, yet the representation was
large. Society was not absent. Official
society was there in Mrs Secretary Car
Isle, Mrs. Gresham. Mrs. Bissell and Mrs.
Proctor, while for the resident society the
Letters put in an appearance.
| While the audience may have been differ
crowd rcd
the Moody meetings, the Gospel preached
was just the same. Mr.. Moody has but
one message for all. and, like the great
preacher, John, whom he described with
| such graphic power in the course of his SER
mon last night, his theme is always and
| forever Repentance" 1t seems, if posi-
was felt by Mr.. Moody, and that he showed,
/ perhaps, deeper solemnity and earnest
ness in delivering his message.
| Solo and Chorus Singing.
The choir, as usual, occupied the first por-
| ton of the services. and then MIR. jacobs of
Chicago sang solo. Just before he be-
gan t. sing all the electric lights in the
| hall We're turned on, and the hall was flood
ed with brilliant light. During the song
which described the darkness and despair
of the sinner the lights were turned down.
and again flashed in brilliancy when the
voice of the singer rose in volume, as he
expressed the new found hope and Joy
Prayer was offered by Rev. DIR. Corey of
the Methodist Church. and then the choir
was asked to sing Hallelujah for the Cross"
The audience were much amused by Mr.
Moodys efforts to get them to sing the
chorus He was not satisfied with the fret
attempt, and asked them to repeat ii. He
was still not pleased, and so he called Mr.
Foster down TO the preaching stand to see
If he could not infuse some energy into the
singing. Mr.. Foster swung his baton and
finally the volume of male voices rolling
| out the notes of this stirring chorus seem
ed to satisfy Mr.. Moody, and the progress
of the meeting was continued.
Mr.. Moody led in prayer, and then an
nounced that Mir. Sankey. by request, would
sing " Ninety and Nine" and the singing
| "eviyalist seated himself at the organ and
! rendered the words of that familiar hymn.
Mr.. Moody read a Scripture lesson from the
twelfth chapter of Mark, and then made q
number OF announcements. He said that
| there would be one meeting today which
Will be held this evening. Tomorrow after
Econ and Wednesday afternoon the meet
| irgs will be for ladies. ON the evenings of
those days only men will be admitted
There had beel some complaint, ne laid
! that the wOrknCmen had not been given
chance to attend the meetings. owing to
the early hour which il was necessary for
them to come to the hall in order to get in
1t was partly on this account that the re-
naming evening meetings were reserved for
men. and as about two-thirds of the attend
ance heretofore had been on the part of wo-
men, 1t would be necessary for the men to
come out in order to take their places Seats
would be reserved for them until 100 and
after that time everybody would be ad-
mitted.
An Idea From This City.
Mr.. Moody was reminded Of reminis-
cence; he said he had not thought of it be-
fore, but he now recalled the first time he
had heard solo sung in a RELIGIOUS meeting
by man was at a meeting which was held
during the war in the House of Representa-
tives under the auspices of the sanitary
commission. Secretary Seward presided ap1
President Lincoln came in Philip PhilliDs
sang the solo, "Your Mission" and Praci
dent Lincoln sent him note asking him ia
sing II again 1T was at that time" said
Mr.. Moody, that ] got the idea of men
singing a my meetings and owe this idea
to my experience in washington" He
then advised that men who had a gift of
singing should cultivate 1t and offer their
services in Christian meetings. He believed
mat II was very important phase of
Christian work. He intended to ask Mr.
Sankey 10 sing Your Mission" at the meet
mS on tuesday evening. Mir. Moody Lad .
good word to say for the chorus. ana be-
heVed that there should be a permanent
organization here of this character.
Mr.. MOOdy's Sermon
MI Mooty's discourse was based on the
words Thou art not far from the kim
dom of God" as found in the thirty-fourtb
verse of the twelfth chapter of Mark. He
Hiu iedu from tne tWenty-eighth verse
and he spoke of the attempts made by the
Sadducees and the Pharsees to entrap
Him. as recorded in the chapter But
Christ had answered them wisely and then
scribe had questioned Him, and Jesus in
His answer had made use of the words of
the text He believed that that was a
description of a good many in the audience
before him.. They were not far from the
kingdom. There was a certain solennity
In connection with the closing of such a
series OF meetings had just been held,
EDUCATIONAL.