Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-01-11
MR.. MOODY'S VISIT
A Great Audience in the Court Room
This Morning Listened to the
Noted Evangelist.
APTPOWER OF ILLUSTRATION
His Text Was, BE Not Deceived, God Is
Not Mocked; As a Man Sows, That
Shall He Also Reap"

RHoi1 ~ I1lno 4bOup'
Evangelist ID. l.. Moody and wife, of
Mortified, Mass, and Professor Town
er, of Chicago, the choirmaster accom-
panying Mr.. Moody, arrived as schedul-
ed, on last evenings train from Las We
gas, where they have been holding
forth to largely attended meetings. The
party was mel at the depot by the
committee of three mentioned in yester-
days New Mexican, and escorted in the
Palace hotel bus to the hotel, where
Chief Clerk Strong speedily made the
visitors welcome, and gave them the
best quarters in the house. Mr.. and Mrs.
Moody retired after the former had
looked over the mail that had been ac-
cumulating for him here within the last
three days, while Professor Towner was
escorted by Mr.. Crichton to the Presby-
terrain church, where a union meet
ing was being held. Rev. w. H. Moore,
the pastor, conducted the meeting,
which was well attended. Professor
Towner at once took hold of the singing
and gave the large choir in attendance
excellent advice, by which they profited.
The choirmaster is a fine singer, and a
man of commanding presence. He un-
derstands his business, and the choir
were delighted with him.
Mr.. Moody was very much interested
last night in coming up town, in the
antiquities of the place, and this morn
ing he and Mrs. Moody We're escorted
breakfast by Rev. G.. S.. Madden, the
Methodist pastor. Rev. Mr.. Moore, the
Presbyterian pastor, Notwithstanding
his being an invalid, did most effective
work in looking after details and seeing
that nothing went amiss.
The court room was packed today with
people when 1890 o'clock came, and
there was a good choir present from the
Methodist and Presbyterian churches,
led by Professor Towner. Singing was
continued for Is minutes, and people
got seats wherever they could. District
Court Clerk Bergere was busy looking
after the general comfort, and a corps
of ushers seated the audience. The or
gan from the Presbyterian church was
used and Mrs. Warner officiated at the
instrument very acceptably. Rev. Mr..
Madden offered the opening prayer, and
Rev. Mr.. Moore the prayer introducing
the m When Mr.. Moody arose, it
was easy to see that he was the center
of attraction. The evangelist began with
a plea for assistance in Christian work
in the prisons, stating he had learned
that there We're $50, 900 persons who
were classed as criminals in this coun-
try. This had induced him to look into
the work to be lone among prisoners,
and he was convinced hat when a mar
was in Jail, away from his old haunts
reach him. There We're now 300, 900 cop
les of the Bible in the nations prisons
and of all the work the evangelist had
been engaged in he knew of no work
t1ldl Woulu give oucll quiCh icluiilo ds
this. Glow many of you are in sympa-
thy with this movement to help prison.
ers?" the speaker asked. Scores of
hands Immediately went up into the
air. "Now put your hands down into
your pockets said Mr.. Moody, and
there was a general good natured smile
as the audience saw the point. A gen
erous collection was taken up, which
will go to the p~enitentiary library after
the small amount required to pay local
expenses of the meeting has been sub
tracted.
The sermon was from Gal. vi, 7, s.:
"Be not deceived; God is not mocked:
as a man sows that shall he also reap"
The evangelist has often preached from
this text, and from the wide experience
of years knows just what to say that
will be most effective on his audiences.
He said the text applied to saint as
well as sinner, Jew as well as Gentle,
Here is a law thai meets every man on
the face of the earth. A man must reap
what he sows. For the last 5000 years
all have had to reap. You can't get
around it; it is a law. You have got to
reap whether you want to or not. Moth
ing is SC deceitful as sin, nothing so de-
ceitful as the human heart. For the
last eight months not "a hours have
passed without this expression being
heard: Remember the Maine!"
Now, less than 300 brave men persisted
in that disaster, while in every "a hours
300 men and women in this country fall
into ~drunkards' graves. Hadn't we bet
ter say Remember rum?" The speak
err divided his discourse into -four parts,
viz, the w expects to reap in this
world, he expects to reap the same kind
of seed, he expects to reap more than he
sowed, and ignorance of the nature Of
the seed makes no difference. Mr..
Moody illustrated each of these SUBJ
topics with the wealth Of homely illus
t~ration, with which his long career of
usefulness has so we'll equipped him,
and a number of his touching stories
moved the audience so that handker-
were seen before many a face. In
concluding, he urged a more hearty sup