The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-11
EVANGELIST MOODY TALKS
MIXES EFFECTIVE APPEAL FOR
 YORK AMONG PRISONERS.

Large Audience Greets Him at First Bap-
 tist Church-Attempt to Reach Every
 Prison Cell in tho U. s.-The Great Ex-
 horter Tells Some Interesting Incidents
 Out of His Personal Experience.
 MT. D. L. Moody, the great evangelist, lectured at the First Baptist church. last evening on evangelistic work among prisoners. The evangelist has changed little in appearance in recent years, a little more gray-haired, and a little more portly, perhaps but for all these signs of added years the same earnest, vigorous expounder of the Bible and active evangelistic worker he has always been. He is at present in the city on a visit to his son, Paul, who entered Yale college this year, and it was arranged to have him speak at the First Baptist church. His audience there was large and appreciative.
 He said at the outset that he had seen by the papers that he was to speak Oll pllSOll ItLOllll pl otCohSN Ahi9 bSs'sA ignorance of that subject He was. first interested in evangelistic work among the prisoners in the penitentiarties and jails by the statement of a woman who had heard that there were 750,000 pris- oners in the various penal institutions of the country, and this fact led him to getting eVangelistic books placed in every prisoners cell in the country. In ,nr,iSn CTS cell has been supplied with one of these little pamphlets and the work is being pushed in the United States. | 27 GOO have been placed in New York state institutions and 1S000 in Penn sylvania institutions. In all over 216OO0 | of these books have been distributed. As usual MT. Moody told several of | his numerous fund of incidents and stories which he has accumulated in his wide experience. "A lady told me that | she had seen a young man lying ill in | iail, He told her that he had been giv- | ing an assumed name because he was ashamed to have his parents know his | whereabouts Now that he was about l to die he had been converted and had | found peace for his soul and he was very anxious that his parents should 1 learn of his changed life. I told his story in the meeting that evening and there were many prayers for the poor | fellow. That night at the hotel many were the anxious inquiries after the poor fellow. I had to tell them that he was dead. We looked up his father and mother and broke the news to them. It drove the mother insane and the hair of that father was turned white in all | most a single day Don't you think these men are worth trying to save? You can put one of these little books for ten cents into prison cell. I hope there are many here tonight who will do that much at least and as much | more as possible.
 Tn the Toronto Y M. c. A. young man came to the secretary from an ad-
 joining county and asked him to assist | him to get work. The secretary told
 him that what work he had he felt hs l must give to those who lived in the
 county and sent him away. Repentins
 his action he went after him and
 told him he would give him work
 selling these little books. The ap-
 plcant for work blushed and appnare
 much embarrassed by the proposition
 Surprised at this, the sec:e ary asked
 him if he was ashamed to do such work
 No replied the young man, if it had
 not been for those little books I should
 not have come asking you for work
 Nothing would please me better thar
 selling those books. He went to work
 on the street selling these little books
 and was so active and successful that
 a prominent business man took him in.
 to his employment and he now has g
 position of importance" The speaker
 closed with an earnest exhortation tc
 try and help those in jail. A collection
 was taken for this purpose and many
 purchased the books which are gotter
 up for prisoners.