The record-union., 1899-03-11
MOODY TALKS ON THE BIBLE
THE GREAT EVANGELIST AT
THE PAVILION.
Thousands Are Stirred by the Fa-
nous Expounder Of the
Gospel.

Dwight L. Moody, the famous even
gelist. spoke to about 1000 people at
the Old Pavilion yesterday afternoon.
Inc song service preceding the old re-
waists meeting was conducted by d.
Is. Towner, the well-known composer
OF gospel hymns, aided by a choir.
The afternoon service was typical OF
Mr.. Moody's latter-day work-meaty,
conversational talks; there was nothing
of studied oratory and nothing like an
appeal to the emotions. The stout,
grizzled apostle still has his firm, dog
matte manner, his nervous, forcible
gestures, and often during his talk he
spoke with the commanding way OF an
old sea Captain.
Mr.. Towner'S deep, resonant tones
filed the pavilion, and his enumeration
was so perfect that the words or tue
songs floated on the harmony as plain
ly as if they had been mere. spoken
utterances.
When the singing had ended and the
last words of Rev. A. B. Banks prayer
had died away, Mr.. Moody stepped Tor
ward briskly and said: Wen take up
the offering in minute, and whle the
congregation sings l want everybody
who wants to leave to go; then shut
the doors and let the rest stay, for tbs
better for thousand to hear than Tor
1900 to be disturbed.
There was another song, then a
prayer by Rev. Silcox, after which the
meeting proper began. There was pro-
found silence when the weil-known ex-
FOUNDER of the gospel arose--stouter,
grayer, caimer than in the days of his
great revivals.
oh
lid" he said, land 1 believe in the re-
ligion. of orthodoxy, which accepts
Gods truths as a whole
That sounded like the Moody OF old
a believer to the core, blunt and simple;
and he followed it up for an hour and
a half in short sentences and plthy'
old-fashioned illustrations He said'
in part:
wien a man begins to cut out
mart of his Bible, he soon loses it all;
read ct with a. penknife, and you Il
soon cut out this leaf and that, until
Job is gone. Revelations is gone, Ec-
clesiastes is emascula ted, and the Hes
alone will be left It's a free country
and if one man can cut out one part
another can cut out another; but the
Lord said the Scriptures couldn pe
broken. The Old and the New Iesta-
ments are parts of one book; so you
must believe all or none, and II dldn
believe in all the Scriptures "a not
take my Bible back to the hotel To-
night. If the miracles recorded dioh
take place, the men who wrote THEM
lied: and if one man lied all hed' anu
the whole is false. I believe in MIRA
cles-Judges. Joshua, Chronicles ana
Kings are full of miracles, and De-
neve them all"
The speaker said some people pe-
lieyed in the New Testament, out mo-
in the Old. why, bless you, ne saia'
.there are 40 quotations In eighty -IouI
chapters of the New Testament all
from the Old Testament. How's tnat
for people who believe in the New
TO the exclusion of the Old! You must
believe it all whether you understand
it or. not; just as you beheVe IN u.s.
tronomy. though you don't understand
II The Bible has depths and nights
that are beyond me, but l peiieVe l.
all j,sstSthe same, and wonder at II
more and more daily. California needs
"a cot hack to the Old Book, or De
struction will overtake you. You VIII
find that YOU must not lower the stana-
ord. the Cod of this State must be the
same as the God of Pennsylvania
some say they don't believe lne
,oiracles-for example, that whaie
swallowed Jonah; they say whaie
throat is too small, and all that, out
saw that the Bible says God mace
great fish. and he could have made one
to swallow the Rocky Mountains ana
she Sierra. God on the scene changes
all the relations.
Some say the Bible is old-fashloneo,
Rless YOU. more Bibles were printea
during the past eight years than IN the
/ 500 before. Department stores sen
TONS of Baxter Bibles at 10 cents III
the East. and one store alone soii
110oOO in one year. The editor OF the
New York Sun said to me once.
Moody. are any more Bibles printed !.
or Is it out of date?' and when L got
the facts / was astonished.
..Rible CLASSES are popular IN Int
East. In Chicago 325 churches nave
an attendance of 5000 at Bible classes
But the United States need rehgion,
Tn the United Kingdom there were loo
murders in one year, but in America
there were $4,000 in four years, ana
1oI lynchings (never heard of in Eu-
rope) in one year. We need reilgioh
badly.
A Minneapolis paper calls me ora
Z fashioned: says my religion is thirty