The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-04
hOODYSAYS FAREWELL
Great Evangelist Ends His LabOrs
In Salt Lake.
AT THE PENITENTIARY
A PROFOUND IMPRESSION UPON
UNFORTUNATE PRISONERS.
The First Congregational Church
Crowded to the Doors at the Morn
ing Service-His Farewell Sermon
In the Afternoon-Review of His
Work. In This City.

! yesterday, and this morning at
o'clock he leaves for Chicago. TIL,
meetings have been attended b.
crowds that tested the capacity of tn,
buildings in which they were held, ant
! frequently there have been hundred.
unable to gain admittance to hear him
He has preached plain and simple
! Christianity, but, with the power giver
to few men, has made it more at.
tractive than the most finished picture:
of the most polished orators. al
classes have heard him and testified
to their appreciation of his efforts, ant
it is only fair to believe that he has
done a great and a good work.
He goes direct from this city to Chi
cago, accompanied by Mr.. Towner, the
singer, and Mr.. Tjader, the Swedish
evangelist, and upon arrival will al
once take up the work among the
Scandinavians of that city.
Yesterday Mr.. Moody preached to
three congregations, two of them alike
in good clothes and honest faces, but
one the grimmeSt assemblage that a
man could be called upon to face-17C
convicts, inmates of the state peniten-
tiary. There were few with Mr.. Moody
when he visited the penitentiary early
in the morning. Mrs. E. E. Shepard
and a few other good women were
there; Mr.. Axton, secretary of the Y.
M. c. A; Mr.. Towner and Mr.. Tjader,
with two reporters, made up the little
party. They were met at the prison
entrance by Warden Dow and at once
shown into the chapel, where the men
in the striped suits were waiting for
them, silent, but pleased at the pros
pect Of half-day's release from the
-nr-lYc nd L in jlx-
moriotony Of their lives, if for nothing
else.
AT THE PENITENTIARY.
The room was as cheerful as it could
be made; it was scrupulously clean,
and baskets filled with trailing vines
hung in the windows. A red geranium
made dash of vivid red in one win
dow, and a lily, white and spotless,
nodded in it's untried purity in another.
Behind the flowers, however, there was
the sinister suggestion of the bars, and
the sun shone with a sickly gold out
side, as though it belonged to another
world.
When Nj. Moody rose to begin the
service he faced the living illustration
of his sermon Easter Sunday, "As We
sow, We shall reap" There was no
rustic of silk on this occasion, and no
perfume of violets in the air, as on the
day before. The dominant colors were
black and white; black for the heavy
stripes on the suits, and white for the
pallor that comes of long confinement
Here and there face showed against
the monotonous background, clean-cut
and intelligent, but with lines about
the mouth that told bitter story; a
few seemed only weak - helplessly
criminally weak, to be sure, but not
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hopelessly SO. In the intense silence
that preceded the bars of the opening
hymn there was a suggestion of an
indefinable presence, some unseen,
hateful Thing that made its sneer and
irony and protest a part of those over
whom it brooded. The eyes of the men
were not nice to see; they We're in a
good humor and a few of them may
some day make good men; but mob,
hunting hungrily for a fellow being,
would have been pleasanter sight; it
would, at least, have lacked the ex-
preston Of cold, ironical indifference
that pervaded the assemblage.
Mr.. Towner and Mr.. Tjader sang the
duet Some day the Silver Cord Shall
Break" and they sang it well, better
than they did the day before in the
crowded tabernacle; but something had
gone out of it-there was nothing to
give way there, apparently, and the
notes beat helplessly against the walls
and back in the face, and sounded
cold. Mr.. Moody prayed then, fervent-
ly and eloquently, and it sounded
warmer than the song. And then, after
a solo by Mr.. Towner, he began his SER
mon. 1t was a good sermon; not ora
torical; very plain and direct, in fact,
but many Of the faces lit up as he
spoke, and he was followed with an
attention that spoke volumes for him
and his message. He took for his text,
1.-The Son of Man is come to seek and
to save that which was lost
DO you Know" he said, 81 consider
that the sweetest verse in the Bible?
The Son of Man Why, there are 156
titles given to Jesus Christ in the
Bible, and that is the lowest, but he
oftener used it, when speaking of him
self, than any other He came to seek
and to save as well; to save you if you
will ask for it, if you will pray for it.
Do you know what it is to pray? Do
you know how? Let me ask you: If
you could get a pardon by, asking for
it, you'd ask mighty quick, wouldn't
you?" A laugh of assent went around.
well, that's praying. Pray, and you
will be pardoned."
He then told of the blind man at the
gates of Jerico, who prayed and had
his sight restored to him; and of Zach
Gus, who climbed a tree to see the
Lord pass by, and who came down and
him joyfully. Did you ever
hear of man receiving him in any
other way?" he asked. Wont you
receive him?"
Next he told of a sermon in the
Tombs, when he couldn't see the men
who were kept in their cells, and how
after he had finished he went around
TO talk to the inmates, and in the whole
number found but one man who ac-
knowledged that he was guilty. Il
never saw such an innocent lot of men
before" he said, and his hearers
laughed this time in genuine enjoy
ment. They caught the point and ap-
preciated the irony. On that one guilty
man he dwelt at length and described
his remorse, and the comfort he got
from the healing hands of Christ, and
some Of the faces out in front softened
visibly. AT the last, however, he made
his most effective stroke. He asked
those who wanted to lead better lives
to raise their hands. and probably a
third of them complied.
''Raise them up" he cried; raise
them up: don't be a coward" While
he was looking to see if more would
not answer, he turned suddenly to the
left. L see a man laughing over
there. Don't do that. Don't laugh or
sheer at another man who is trying to
get UP. The man who will do that is
more devil than man" The shaft told.
and the man subsidized, and the others
looked as though they rather liked the
after all.
AT THE CHURCH.
Mr.. Moody was obliged to leave hur-
riedly to keep his engagement at the
First Congregational church, where he
was to preach at 1890 o'clock, but left
a goodly number of books to be dis
tributed by the warden.
When he reached the church he found