The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-01-15
THE OVERFLOW MEETING.

THE OVERFLOW MEETING.
A Large Audience Listened to thu
Speakers at Calvary Baptist Church.
The overflow meeting held at Cal
vary Baptist church to accommodate
those who could not secure seats O.
standing room at the Hyperion wal
also attended by large audience near
ly filling the church. John T. Manson
presided The first speaker, Rev. Alex
ander f. Irvine, spoke especially Of
Mr. Moodys interest in Y. M. G. A
work and the appropriateness of the
Y. M. c. A. holding a memorial ser
| vice.
Rev. Watson l.. Phillips, d. D.. pastor
of the Church of the Redeemer, the
next speaker, spoke of Mr.. Moody's
work in the college in behalf of young
men. He said that Mr.. Moody had the
kenthusiasm and heartiness which al
ways appeals to students. 1t might be
said with truth, he thought, that nc
| one was ever more welcome at yale
college than Dwight l.. Moody. With
| his simple, honest words he touched
| their hearts. DIR. Phillips said that the
man who sees the possibilities before
| the youth of the country, who appreci-
ates the value of young manhood and
| young womanhood and sets himself to
turning young men and young women
into the ways of religion - was doing
more for the country than any man
could do in any other field of endeavor
Mr.. Moody consecrated himself to the
work of reaching them. He had shep-
herds heart and did not say, so and
be righteous. but, come with me and
be righteous. He taught how to do by
doing. He was a competent witness
concerning the truths that he brought
to men.
Rev. Gardner S. Eldridge said that
Dwight L. Moody was one of the master
spirits of the nineteenth century, not
in letters, in science or in theology. but
in life. He was a master spirit by the
grace of God. He was master of that
limited knowledge which he possessed.
He was a master of that rich humanity
that God graced him with. 1t is
grand thing to be a master of what we
know. He was also a master in the
popularity that God gave to him in this
world. We find the sublmest color
was a sayer of souls and his one pur-
pose vast to redeem man from sim He
made the possibilities of life wider and
grander and we to-day are the heirs of
the great work that he did, Mr.. Ed
ridge said that he believed that this
work would live on and on, not so much
in the institutions which Mr.. Moody es-
tablished, but in the grace of God
which he helped men to reach.
Rev. f. A. M. Brown, d. D., pastor
of the First Presbyterian church. said
that the most eloquent tribute to Mr..
Moody was not what was said at yes
terday's meetings, not what Is written
concerning him in secular and in re-
ligious papers, but in just such great
gatherings as those of yesterday. He
was able to place at Gods disposal his
whole self. He moved men by throw
ing himself on Him with perfect liber-
ty, the liberty of truth and the liberty
of God.
Rev. Frank Woods Baker, D. D., rec
tor of Trinity Episcopal church, said
that when a man devoted himself to the
upbuilding of his fellows he commands
respect when a man bends all his
powers u lIfe purpose Oh UldkIDB MS |
fellows better men. then men, indiffer- |
ent ordinarily in religious matters be- |
come enthusiastic over a man like that. |
Such man was Mr.. Moody. Not all |
agreed with his theology, but all adj
nire and uhold goodness and conse- |
Grafton of life wherever it is found In
the death of Mr.. Moody our national
religion has met with a severe loss.
Ira D. Sankey was the last speaker.
He said in part: For twenty-nine
years we travelled about the world to-
gether by land ana by sea. He mad
marvellous influence on my own life
since first we met in Indianapolis TWEEN
y-nine years ago. He was full of
brightness and full of joy. Sturgeon
vas much Like Mr.. Moody In this re-
pect and like him when he went to his
work was a great tower of strength. No
me influence was so great on Mr.
Moody and so enabled him to become
he man he was as his helpmate, Mrs
Ioody, calm, quiet, clear headed and
With no emotion. He was full of emo
ion, she calm and restful. | have Of
en- heard him say i will have to |
hange my course; ] see my wife shak-
ng her head at me- "
Mr.. Sankey then told of the last SOL