New-York tribune., 1899-07-31
MOODY AND SANKEY HEARD
A BIG MEETING IN THE CHURCH OF THE
PILGRIMS AND A RECEPTION.
THE EVANGELIST REFERS AGAIN TO THE DEATH
OF COLONEL INGERsoLL AS LESSON
D THE NATION.

TO THE NATION.
Dwight L. Moody and Ira d. sankey. who twenty
years ago worked together effectively evan
gelists that thousands were drawn to their meet
ings, We're the principal figures yesterday morning
at of the largest summer religious services
by the people OF Brooklyn Heights in many years.
The Church OF the Pilgrims full, and the inter
est never tagged from 1890 o'clock until past
O'Clock, when the preacher and singer held sort
of reception and shook hands with old friends and
admirers.
The service yesterday morning was held under the
auspices of the Church OF the Pilgrims, the First
and Second Presbyterian churches and the Re
formed Church the Heights The collection was
for the benefit of the fund TO purchase Bibles for
the inmates of the penal institutions OF the city.
Mr.. Moody read Psalm xci. and chose Mary
OF Bethany" for his text. He said that Mary Of
Bethany was perhaps the best known woman in
history at the present time but at the same time
not told that she wealthy or beaut-
ful cultured There nothing to snow that
she was enthusiastic supporter Of women's
clubs womens rights She has not of the
Four Hundred, and during the lifetime Of Christ
she probably never once her name In print.
The first time looked into the Bethany home
confronted with family jar between
Mary and Martha. There nothing TO show
exactly how.it came about or who was most blame
able. but it matter OF record that Christ
rebuked Martha. while He never did Mary Martha.
the speaker said. was a woman OF bad temper and
fretful disposition Where find one Mary in our
everyday lives we find ten thousand Marthas.
Martha was OF those who kept the whole family
in hot water. These fretfu and bad tempered dis dis
positions having their effect on the home life
Of our people to-day just as they ala IN the Time OF
Christ
In a speculative mood the speaker said that per
haps Martha had been overworked just prior TO
the events recorded in the Gospel When the Apos-
ties and Christ visited the home In Bethany In a
domestic troubles and had to neglect her own
wants in order to attend to those OF the people
mi bar Mr. I'M Shtu lis
to take good care Of their bodies II they wanted
10 M good G worried s d h becn hy so
did not steep well and take proper care 3l Ihtir
Where to go fer comfort and strength we shall
indeed H.. BADLY off in time of adversely Then
DR.. Moody paused and grew unusually impressive
Il cannot imagine any home dark as that one
where death has been, and left no hope OF imm9r-
Nation during the last week il death ends all.
then there is not So xoa n or STe %0 do ye M any a 6nge
If | believed that death ended All would cultivate
love only TO have his hopes blasted when he came
to face death. The unbeliever lives in a long day
in comparative night and looks forward to a
glorious morning. No one can convince me that in
Reyertine to the subject Of his discourse which
OF nS tax than baS dn0 MI M qo@y S@G beaG s6
misunderstood. So II was with Mary and the box
of of be Masts %n she Was e and
proved by the Apostles.
at is not always safe" said Mr. Moody. "for us
10 take counsel Of Christs people. 1T is better for
us TO get close to God and let Him guide us"
The speaker said that Of the strange things
in the lives Of Christs disciples that they for
got the best things of Christs teachings. Christ
had told them that the third day He would rise
again The speaker thought this knowledge must
have been withheld from Mary. else she would
have been at the tomb. The greatest tribute ever
paid to a human being was that which Christ paid
TO Mary"She hath done what she could
DR. Moody's talk interspersed with anecdotes
aid stories One Of these about his first visit
to London a preacher in 1872. when he had Wis
tied the English metropolis primarily to sit at the
feet of the Biblical scholars there. The first Sun
day he was there a minister friend in the north
of London the pastor Of small church. asked
him to preach He did so. but the audience was
an unresponsive one Not until he was well through
his sermon did ne feel that he had done any good.
Then The conviction suddenly seized him that God
was going to do great things for that congregation.
Afterward he found that bedridden girl had
been praying that he might preach TO that congre-
CATION some time he had preached TO congre-
cation in the United States when conversions fol-
lowed sister OF the bedridden girl went home
and told her that stranger had occupied the
pulpit When asked who the stranger was the sister
said II was Mr.. Moody. The invalid began 10 fast
and pray for the salvation OF the congregation,
with the result that a great religious awakening
took place there soon afterward. The speaker said
il was all due to the faith and prayers OF the girl
in her bedroom at home. He doubted II he ever
would have been led to 60 to London at all that
year but for the prayers Of the bedridden girl