Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-30
Evangelist Moody Draws Vivid Pic-
 lures From the Old Bible.
NOAH AND HIS ARK VIEWED
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The climax in the Moody meetings, as far as crowds are concerned, came Sunday, when nearly 1000 people visited Winnie's wigwam in the afternoon and night. The size of these crowds was simply enormous, and there was nothing but packing and tanning for hours. The people began to arrive at the wigwan1- as early as two and half hours before the time for the services to begin. s#s..s .- rs's'.s.ssss f@~'.-
 After the wigwam had been filled to it's utmost capacity the doors were closed, and there must have been at both services 5000 people who Knocked, but the doors were not opened unto them.
 The excursions which were run into the city Sunday on account of these meetings were we'll loaded, fully 1000 people coming from the places along the different lines to hear this noted evangelist expound Gods words. All of the trainss carried four coaches and upwards, and all left after the afternoon service, except the one from Oneonta, which waited until after the evening services. This added largely to the local attendance. .ss4 When the doors of the great wigwam were closed and quiet reigned MT. Moody could be heard more distinctly than when they were open. Although he could not be heard in all parts of the wigwafn, the scope that his voice covered clearly was much larger than at any other service. There is also one thing to be said to the credit of these Sunday crowds, and that is they were the most orderly which have filed the wigwam during the past week.
 Not only were the meetings largely at- tended, but the success was also good, for the attendance at the after meetings, held in Seals hall, were largely attended and many took the pledge to lead better lives and to enter the fold of the good shepherd.
 yEsTERDAY MORNING.
 The service yesterday morning at the First Methodist church was largely at- tended and a successful meeting was made of it, there being many confessions.
 LAST NIGHT.
 The attendance last night was not near so large as on Sunday night, but there was as much good done, for there were hun- dreds of sinners, gray haired fathers, aged mothers and even children who stood up and asked for the prayers of the Christian people. .-
 A very poor feature of last nights ser vices was the singing of the choir, which fell far below what 1t has been.
 The meeting last night was for railroad men and their families, and the 5000 seats that were reserved were very nearly all filled. S
 Announcement was made that owing to the fact that space had been laid off for specific purpose it would be occupiee to- night by those who are not Christians. These seats will be reserved until 7:30 and it is hoped that they will be filled with all who are not Christians. E .}tsgsr s .. Announcement was also made that a mass meeting of children will be held at the Southside Baptist church at o'clock this afternoon. Dr. Morris will speak to the children. while MT. Towner will be on hand to teach the children how to sing. MT. Seals by request will also be there and render cornet solo.
 On Wednesday afternoon the mass meet ing of children will be held at the First Methodist church, and Dr. Curry will speak to them.
 MT. Moody took his text last night from Genesis, viii, l: "Come thou and all thy house into the ark.p
 He opened his discussion by referring to the commu nicatlon which Noah received relative to his ark. His Idea was that there never was such a communication as this one.
 He didn't believe that God smites with out warning, but that mercy always pre- cedes judgment. O.
 He followed up his theme by stating he could hardly realize what would happen if men of this day and time would live to be 1000 years old. He thought at the rate things were going few would own the whole of the world and the rest would be in bad fix.
 He scorched anarchy. socialism, nihilism and all other isms, and said if they pro- gressed for the next twenty five years like they have during the past twenty five that men wouldn't want to live for 1000 years; they would become tired of it, for life would be burden.
 He Illustrated how some men laugh at di- vine things, and stated when Noah re- ceived the com unication to build the ark that he knew men would laugh and scorn at him for listening to such a communica- tion.
 He believed in that day drinking and drunkenness prevailed throughout the land and that wickedness was rife. He be- lieved also there was violence in that day, there was violence.
 In the antedeluvian days he believed that wickedness prevailed all over the earth and that it was the cause of the flood.
 He imagined that all the pleadings of all of Gods people were sneered at by sneered at the idea of Noah building an ark, and that excursions were run, SO to speak, to see the thing which was built to stem flood which was to doom the earth and all it's Inhabitants.
 Here he drew beautiful picture of how he imagined tho food came; that it was in the spring time, when the birds were sing ing sweet songs; the earth was in beautiful condition; men seemed cheerful and happy and all the world merry. This spring was when the flood was to come and when Noah should gather up the fowls and beasts from the four corners of the earth. Noah knew the flood was coming and planted no crops. His people laughed at him and pointed him out as a coming panper and that he would have 10 stem the winter upon the charity of the people. All went well with the people and Noah went about telling them that the time had almost ar- rived, but they hooted at him. 1t was one bright spring morning when not a shadow Of q cloud was to be seen. Then during the day dark mist began to form and 6nally dark and heavy clouds filled the heavens,