Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-27
 SEVEN THOUSAND PEOPLE Listened to Evangelist Moody at
 the Wigwam. MEN AND WOMEN WEEP For Joy Over the Words of This Great Man-Dr. Hale
 Boasts Disturbers.
MEN AND WOMEN WEEP

i-oob HiS nt WdS buc LuO5t buCCoooAhA ddO telling of any since the series of Moody l meetings began.
 | His sermon was an able and touching | one and hundreds shed teaIs of joy. Men, women and children wept and left the wig
 wam thankful that they had listen ed to this | evangel propound the word of God with l force and power.
 Not single man doubts but that last nights meeting was worth much to the | souls of men in Birmingham. The great crowd began to congregate as early as o'clock, and for two long hours there was one inces sant stream of humanity pouring in the wigwam entrance. When the doors were closed at the beginning of the sermon no lees than 1000 people were seated in Winnie's wigwafn.
 praise service was held from O clock until 7:30 and resulted h much good. | The open air meetings last night were all | in all, quite as successful and prolific of | good as the ones formerly held. Dr. P. T. Hale made his usual speech l upon the disorder that went on all during | the sermons in the rear of the congregation. l He stated that he had policemen there and that they would surely make lesson of some one if talking and ''letter writing' was not stopped From the way he talked some lovers had been writing their musi ngs upon paper in order that It might be plain. He objected to this also and wanted it stopped, which, although silent, aroused the curiosity of the inquisitive. All these complaints came from the audience, he said, and they must be adjusted. He stated also, after he had paid his respects to | these disturbers, that the collection of the | night before had fallen off considerably and | he hoped this would also be remedied by l the congregation contributing more liber- ally.
 Mir. Moody mounted the platform after Professor Towner had ended e solo and stated that the doors would be locked and wanted no one to walk down the aisles. He asked the choir to sing hymn so as to give those an opportunity who had no seats | to fill up the ones in front, there being about fifty vacant. He read the following from the 10th chapter of Romans: 'If thou shalt consent with thy mouth and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved, for with thine heart man be. lieveth unto righteousness, and with thy mouth confession Is made unto salvation, for the scripture says whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed.o He discussed the text for some time and showed it's truth, and said that he did not believe there. were many people in the south who did not believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God.
 He believed they would corroborate this statement on the witness stand. His idea was that people believed such things all right, but that they were afraid to act. His belief u oon this was if a man, woman or child wants to follow God they must act and do so openly and not from the sight of his fellowsmen.
 He said men with false religions were always proud of it and were not afraid to let other people know it. He related so me instances of the fMohammedan creed and stated that every one was proud of it, and when the hour came for prayer, no matter where he was, he feL-upons his knees and offered thanks to his God. a-t.'ss
 :I never saw Chinaman, ,' said he, "who wasn't proud of being disciple of Confucius.' s,a,tt .ss
 AS to the Chinaman's progress in reli- zion he didn't think there had been much.
 He stated that in all his travels he had found that men who clung to false teachers were open in 1t and expressed their pride at being what they were
 The many failures in this life he attrib- uted to the fact that men were afraid openly to own that they believed in Christ and his teachings. They seem to b, afraid to come out openly and declare themseles for the Lord.
 He didn't believe that there was ever a man or a woman who confessed Christ but that joy came, and he didn't believe there was one within the sound of hls voice who would have joy and peace until he came out and proclaimed 10 the world that he was on the Lords side.
 Following this he read few verses from Luke and showed how man should take ashamed of where he stood. This he illus trated by asking question as to what one would think of policeman who was ashamed of his office and of a soldier who was ashamed of his uniform.
 What he was driving at was to get men to take a bold stand for Christ. He stated that he believed if every man and woman in the congregation would act up to their convictions they would have at least 500 converts in less than an hour. Courage of convictions was what he wanted to see.
 Public opinion, he argued, kept men from doing scores of things that they would do otherwise. He told the congregation to take care of the character and the reputa- tion would take care of itself.
 He scored the people upon the question of family altars, and said that many would be erected if the head of the families only had the courage of conviction to do SO.
 One of his delights was to get into crowd of sinful men and run up his flag, to show just where he stood. He could make them respect him and there do justice to God. He roasted the whisky shops again, and said that with the concentrated effort of all the Christians here every establishment of in 9 short time. The influence of all the Christians against this was all that was needed, and he said 1t was shame for any person to say that they had no influence.
 He charged that there was opposition In everything, and said if everything went right without any expedition that some- body had better look out, for there was something wrong. Evea Gods works had opposition, just as every other thing.
 He related an amusing incident about and billiard hall, and how he got the pro- prietors down on their knees in prayer and asked that the Lord might smash their business. This was the last invitation to a barroom opening that he had ever re- ceivsd. taf