New-York tribune., 1896-11-19
WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
ANOTHER DAY GIVEN TO THIS THEME
BY MR.. MOODY.
THE EVANGELIST DECLARES THAT HE COULD

NEVER BE A PEssIMsT-DR. CHAPMAN
TO PREACH THIS AFTERNOON.
loo,.r r-rio, contained It's usual audience yes
.ardav 70 hear Mr. Moody and Mr. Sankey preach
and sing the Old Gospel. There were fe" vacant
seats In the morning In the extreme WING Oh '"e
hall but the people on the platform wouid nave
filled nearly every one of them. The afternoon
audience as usual, limited In size only oy t'le
seating and standing capacity OF the large nan
The meeting is advertised begin at 2:3o o'clock,
but at 12:l5 D. m. people began TO gather walthe
for the doors to open preferring 10 wait a' ''''
two hours before the service began thah 10 oe
sent TO the overflow meeting held in the Seventh
Street Methodist Episcopal Church where ''e i'e''
DIR. A. c. Dixon was heard.
Mr. Moody's central thought at the morning meet
ing yesterday that the Holy spirit i"par'S
love in the heart OF the believer In cohhec"o,
with this subject he spoke of the efforts put lor'h
by some OF the churches In this city to reach non
church-goers. and referred especially to the invi-
taton distributed In the hotels by the Marble Col
legate Church He said:
II / hadn't been so tuckered out with the Car
nege Hal meeting on sunday "ond cia haES etfor o 10
reach the guests Of the hotel where am stay s, ,
invitations: Welcome is the shibboeth that will
win the people" Ike that: don't you so 30 long @
viii be KEEP, standing in The yestibge Tha, r% sounds o
pretty good don't It? Welcome TO- or,y M ana ma '1w .
poor welcome there, lofty and lowiy. We,-
come old and young. That IS good 100 w, W..
VIII put that down. Tell me the Church does doesh j.,
want svsry class 10 al to 10 so and sec
that church. but was too much used up. ana , so l
sent Two men 10 sny out he & a"e n" tbars
Church full" or course. the church that wants
the people and will go after them VIII have them'
The Holy Spirit Mr.. Moody said. not only pro-
duces conviction and mparts love. but also nils me
Christian with hope and gives liberty 10 those who
receive Him. He said that people asked II they
trying to get up revival in New-iork To
this he replied:
No we are trying to bring down fire from above:
could never be pessmis II lived be thousand
years old We going to- win the world for Christ
earth as It is In heaven. when mans voice VIII
hc the echo Of Gods voice. The minister who has
the way and make roor for the next man You IKE
that down there. don't YOU? You NE 10 nave ne me
DO you abound In hope Are you iivng IN the valley
or on ine mountain DO yoI have ave, lioeriy IN your
par; liberty. DO you think that Peter would have
dscpics had all been cri,!cslng him? We are living
In OF grumbing. como.a ming age This
TOO logical or IL Il no, sufficiently srgumenia,i,e.
This one wants 10 have a sermon preached 70 his
heart ne has enough head work In the ak week days
laundering away at the heart. making the people cry
and expresses his dIsgus. In his own way. what
liberty preacher have when that feeling exists?
The lag; hing 70 b. fonnd in many church IS
people cri,icse. a. they would theatrical perform;
ance l. ia exactly IN" same ana many proleSsel
Christian never thinks of listening 10 what the
Of God has TO say. II s hard work TO preach TO
csrnaliy minded critics but Where the Spirit OF the
Lord ls there is liberty" Very often a woman will
hear hundred good things In sermon and there
may he that strikes her out OF place. and she
will home and 81, down 20 N. table and talk rlsht
out before her children and magnify tha, wrong
ihlng. and not say word abou The hundred good
things that were said. That is what people DO who
cr.tic.-e
In the afternoon Mr. Moody preached upon Grace
Enough to Work BY" THIS afternoon DR. Chapman
| u Philadelphia. Will speaE.