Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-07
THOUSANDS OF MEN
Listen to Revivalist Moody in Con-
vention Hall.
TALK ON WEIGHED IN THE BALANCE"
A Remarkable Series of Meetings
Drawing to Close.
MUCH GOOD ACCOMPLISHED

MUCH GOOD ACCOMPLISHED
The great revival meeting at Convention
| Hall last night drew together one Of the
| largest audiences that has attended any of
| the meetings. It was an unusual audience
too, in view Of the fact that 1t was made
up almost entirely Of men. As the series
| draws to close. the meeting tonight
being the last of the series, the interest
has increased to such an extent that Mr.
| Moody and those who have labored with
| him decided that 1t would be best for the
accommodation Of the crowds to have the
women come in the afternoon and the
msn in the evening. Seats were reserved
| last evening for men up to 7:30 o'clock.
and at that time, as there were a few va
| cant chairs, a handful of the women who
were waiting outside in the hope of obtain
| ing admission were allowed to come IN,
but of the thousands and thousands who
were present only hundreds were Of the
gentler sex.
| A Remarkable Series of Meetings.
| 1t has been a most remarkable series OF
meetings in every way. Men and women
who are not churchgoers or Identified with
the cause Of religion in any way have
been constant attendants at these meet
| inSs. This was shown more clearly last
night than at any other time. A more
| conglomerate audience 1t would be hard
to imagine. There were men. Of all sorts
and conditions; there were members Of
! Congress, lawyers, bankers merchants
newspaper men, laborers, men out of en-
| ployment. men who would rather be Idle
| tran work, beggars and tramps. From the
platform on which Mr.. Moody stood could
be seen scores and hundreds of faces Of
men who, judging from their appearance.
1t were safe to say, have not been on the
inside of a church in many day. But this
class of people seemed to participate in the
services with quite as much interest and
| enthusiasm any. 1t would be hard to
imagine an audience that the speaker would
find more difficult to enthuse, it so
| thoroughly heterogeneous. Yet Mr.. Moody
held his hearers spellbound and they follow
ed his every word with the closest atten-
! ton. The singing was a marked feature of
| the evenings exercises, for many of the
/ hymns We're of the more familiar Sort and
! this great gathering of men let forth a vol
ume of heavy sound such as does not go up
often in sacred song.
What VIII he the Outcome!
What the outcome Of this series of meet
ings will be it would be idle to conjecture.
Mr.. Moody himself last night said that the
work could only be considered as begun.
He would watch for the outcome with the
| greatest interest. During the month that
| these meetings have gone on deal Of seed
had been sown, and IL was now time for
the churches of the city to go to work and
| see that the harvest was made ready for
the cleaner. You have done nothing but
listen so far" said Mr.. Moody last night. as
he gave out the notices of future meetings
| In various churches. Now il is your turn
to go to work. Washington is mighty good
city / am pleased with Washington. 1
| have known 1t for thirty years and in that
| time 1t has toned up great deal. Wash
ir1Grf OH anlS 1ofr
work. II you don't like them, go in and
make them better, but do not become a
grumbler. Keep yourself aloof from that
! class of people, for it is the easiest sort of
do that, but 1t takes smart man to make
things better. When man begins to
grumble and find fault, you can size him up
for lightweight right away"
Remarkable Sermon.
In many ways Mr. Moody's sermon last
| night was the most remarkable that he has
delivered during his stay In Washington
1t was based on the Decalogue and on the
sentence that Belshazzar saw burning on
the WALL weighed and found wanting"
| Mr.. Moody took up the Ten Commandments
one by one, showing that they were simple
| laws for the government of life explaining
each law in its true significance, and ASK
ing his hearers whether they thought they
had lived up to the letter and the spirit Of
the law; whether they were willing to go
| into the balance before their God and Maker
! and be weighed against His commandments.
There is quinine in this talk" said Mr.
Moody during the course of his discourse
1t is bitter, and you would not like it but,
just the same, quinine is good for a man
now and then, and 1 would like it very we'll
II could make you realize where you stand
and to what extent you live up to the laws
of God" His talk was severe arraignment
of people generally, and his conclusion,
reached after an eloquent and impassioned
| IA iS bn
| could enter the balance and not be found
wanting unless he has Christ Jesus on his
side; o., DO you think ! am preaching the
your" looking around In different directions
| at his hearers. "If you do think / am
preaching the truth, hold UP your hands.
! hand" The result was a remarkable spec
| tacle. All over the great hall was perfect
forest Of hands raised high in air. Mr.
Moody insisted on his hearers taking a
part In what he had to say. After he had
talked for some time. he turned about to
the ministers on the platform and asked
them If they thought any one of them could
be weighed and not found wanting unless
| not a sound In response. Then he called
for every man on the platform and in the
audience to say whether he could be saved
by his own unaided efforts and there was a
| perfect torrent Of mo, no."
The service Of the evening was formally
opened with prayer by Rev. II. NJ Whar-
| TON OF Baltlmore, IN winch ne invoked In
eloquent terms blessing upon the speaker
"Give him this evening the power of con-
viction," he prayed; and wilt Thou, o God
who didst speak out of heaven to Saul,
speak to the hearts of stone in this congre-
cation and make them hearts of flesh and
blood?"
Mr.. Moody Takes Charge.
Mr.. Moody stated In Convention Hall
last night that a large number of
requests had come in that Mr.. Jacobs should
sing HYMN No. III, HE Can Save Poor
Sinner Like Me-" And Mr.. Jacobs did sing
1t with an earnestness and sweetness
rarely heard in a mans voice anywhere and
not often even in evangelist meetings like
these. And his voice was powerful and
went ringing through the hall, up under the
great arches and fairly drowning the little
organ, upon which MIR. Percy s. Foster
played his accompaniment. There were
tears in many eye, for not many can
sing even such a hymn as this with the
heart-reaching tenderness that it had last
night. Then the choir sang hymn la. THE
Gospel CALI
AS the music died away Mr. Moody asked
that all should bow their heads and ask for
a blessing upon each individual heart pres
emit He trusted, he said, that for the time,
t,i nd oil af nipb no los