The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-25
A HONOLULU MAN GIVES HIS
"REMINISCENCES OF MOODY
Some Characteristic nCidents---A Tribute on
the Second Anniversary of the Great
EvangeIist's Death

thrown even the earnest VIM. Jennings
b. into helpless streak of laughing
COW SERMON
! Sometimes he became provoked with
us. though very seldom; for while We
were far from 400 saints, he loved US
and we tried to please him. But soma
boys teased the cows in the barn and he
heard about it. one day in chapel he
read the Bible, then abruptly said: Il
hear some one has been troubling the
cows. l don't want TO hear of that again.
cow is the most valuable thing a man
has. We sell her calf and get money
tin New England a common source of
ready money!; We drink her milk, some
We churn and get butter and buttermilk.
When she is old, eat her. make shoes of
her hide, buttons of her bones, glue of
her hoofs, and use of everything. When
my father died We were very poor. often
hungry, and an old COW helped mother
pull through. Now, l don't want TO hear
of any boys being cruel to cow" md
/ don't think any boy there would. 1t
is hard to analyze anything like that and
find where and how it laid hold OF ire
mendous power, but it did.
THE MOST POWERFUL WORDS
FROM HUMAN LIPS.
Il wish I could show you what sin is. e"
Mr.. Moody was preaching on Sowing
out on the lawn at evening time AT our
feet lay the Connecticut river that
treacherous stream which has robbed US
of many mates Waters which the Indi-
ans said We're haunted. And the mes
sage of the preacher was the treachery
of sin; how it deceived the sinner AMI
made him his own victim. Beginning
at Cain, with Jacob, and down. with the
shrewdness of Yankee and humor of
he
could not dodge sin. 1t was sharp it
was salutary. But the preacher was not
satisfied. He stopped abruptly and said:
Il viii come over tomorrow and finish
this. On the next day he began. Gone
was the humor gone the shrewd-
ness. gone the lightness. Now we were
shown the wheels of God, grinding slow
ly but grinding ever. on with unceasing
momentum they whirl, and their prey
can never escape; deadly serpent an
incurable disease; a remorSeless foe: a
pitiless doom is ones own sin. Like an
Elijah on Mt. Carmel transformed by
passion, the preacher paused from his
quiet speech and said: Il wish | couId
show you what sin is Then all was
stil for a minute. over him seemed to
go waves; out over the assembly ran
Ii was the most remarkable
transmission of power without utterance
I have seen.
WITH a SICK BOY.
My brother. now senior at Wesleyan
lay at deaths door in the school hospital
ar. Moody had been away and returned.
| was tending my brother, and one morn
ing while sleeping l was awakened by
the door slamming below and heavy
steps on the stairs, while putting breaths
We're heard ! went to the platform. Mr.
Moody with great effort. was climbing
the steep stairs How is your brother.
He is better Can / see him? -
quickly adding, without disturbing
him." Yes" l opened the door. There
on the bed lay my brother-an awful
sight. All swollen with erysipelas con-
racted by running the school water
works at night. to pay his tuition. Swift
~ a flash Mr.. Moody turned to me- with
ears running down his face Il did not
Know he was so sick; may l pray here
Yes He knelt by chair and prayed
Is he only prayed for the far off father
md mother. for the brother attending
him. for return of health TO the sick /
10Y. ] opened my eyes to see If Charlie /
leard, and there was my brother pull
ng his swollen eyel.ds apart, for the first
ime in three weeks. so that he might !
&c Mr. Moody pray pray well as /
lear him. And may | say that was
characteristic OF all Mr.. Moodys boys"
hey loved him. Everything he did and
i-u SteIueO good fOr / was bad I
over of the "Old Man" now as am
| have heard some of his sermons four
r five times. and never knew them 70
lip. As a business man he was prompt,
nergetic: as a neighbor, ueighborIy; as
he head of great school. inspiring: as
.ader of Mortified Conference. match
sss: as a speaker. unique; for he neyer
ried to be a speaker. He had peculiar
'ay of discussing things with gath
ring Yet | have heard him mock the !
orator and initiate vain little girls
Iuai to Russell Conwell; denounce hy- /
ocrisy as a Joseph Cook. portray hui
lorous scenes beyond Denman Thomp-
IN; reason and define with Lyman Alb
OFT: describe the march of Union sol
ers up Pennsylvania avenue with
oetry of vision beyond Robert Ingersoll:
each out his hand and grasp the masses
Ike Senator Hoar: toll like a Bryan in
religious campaign 1 have heard the
ratory of Talmage. Mcneil Larrimer,
larry a. Livermore: the wit Of Sam
ones. Small and Carswell: the spiritual
beech of Gordon. Myer Campbell. Nor
an. Speer; ! have seen and heard the
lightly men of today, but they all took
'ders from d. l.. Moody.
His life was earnest, his record pure,
IS gifts many. But above all he was
-eat. I thoroughly agree with the opin-
n which said: "Beecher was the great
Il preacher, Brooks the sweetest soul.
Ut Moody the greatest human. But his
was that of a preacher and his
over that of a sweet soul. The man
Est saint. the most original American,
le best loved man of my life.
JOHN D WALDRON.
One of his Hermon Boys. 81