New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-02-18

and there were nearly two hundred converts.
On the fourth day Mr.. Alexander, with waving
arms stamping foot, crouching body and genial
byplay had become u subordinate figure; and
DR. Torrey had mastered the acoustic difficulties
of the great hall and learned how 10 appeal to
the hearts of men and women.
The mission congregations are described by
critical observers unresponsive, and so they
are in comparison with meetings of the
Salvation Army, where General Booth is well
coined with blare of trumpets and continuous
chorus of amens and hallelujas The preaching
is also referred to as disappointing, since there
are no eloquent passages, no thunders of de-
nuncation, no moving appeals to the emotions;
and certainly II is markedly different from the
impassioned oratory and dramatic action of
Miss Eva Booth, by which large audiences were
thrilled not long ago. The American revivalist
does not affect any of the devices of oratory,
nor have recourse to any of the professional
mannerisms. He speaks fuently. uses the
plainest language and employs the simplest
and most direct arguments. He pauses fire.
quently and repeats d short sentence with in
creased emphasis. He is a man of force, with
a practical businesslike way of delivering his
message; and while the auditors are neither
swayed by excitement nor fired with enthusi-
asrn. they are compelled to listen to him. 1t is
the old fashioned Professionalism which he ham,
mers in with one blow after another. Il cannot
tell you, he exclains what it means TO perish.
But take that moment in your own life whose
sorrow was greatest. whose agony was keenest.
whose shame was blacklist, whose despair was
most overwhelming; multiply it by intinity'-
here the revivalist pauses until every eye is
riVeted upon hirl-''and you viii have some
faint conception OF what it means TO perish.
With cumulative power he explains the three
leading words of the text, He shall save soul
from DEATH and quickening his delivery until
his words are fairly running away With him'
illustrates soul winning by two thrilling Amer"
lean stories, one of the rescue OF laborer from
a quicksand by the united efforts of a township.
and the other of the saving OF seventeen lives
from the Lady Elgin in Lake Michigan by
brave college boy who moaned and fretted in
his sick bed because he had not delivered one
more fellow creature from death. The climax
is rounded out when. with arms upiifted. the
revivaIist exclaIms that helping in the saving
of souls is the passion of his life, and that he
would be willing TO fall dead on the platform
the next moment If he could know that one
more had been rescued from eternal death.
When 1nissioner's heart is in such white
heat of energy and zeal for doing what he con-
siders the greatest work earth it does not
matter whether he lacks the highest graces OF
oratory. and still less whether he comes from
"Anurrika" and has a nasal twans. his earn
estness is the best possible equipment for his
work in London and it convinces thousands
whenever he breaches that he is in the right
place in the centre of London, whatever may be
the limitations of his knowledge about the
inertia of English conservatism and the dignity
of the ritual of the Established Church fester-
day was dreary. rainy afternoon. but Albert
Han was filled to the top gallery with men,
women and children, who fairly hung on MS
words and were too deeply affected to interrupt
him with amens and halleluJahs' AFTER ths
Salvation Army manner. 1t was his fourth oay'
aud those who listened to him could have had
no misgivings respecting the benencial results oA
the two months mission which ne mad unoel-
taken. The newspapers have shown oy their
records of half filed churches ana their Columns
of correspondence respecting the decadence or
religious belief that there is urgent need OF
sreat Videspread awakening OF the metropolis;
and who will venture to say that the staid Ola
town will be any the worse for nearing tne
...;Iory song" "Ohi It Is Wonderful" and the
other catchy tunes: OF for witnessing re-
r,orkah,e display Of American energy and power
of organization in the conduct Of reviva!T
Mr. rrodrick is under censure by the press OF
h,s own party for reprimanding Colonel Young
husband who carried out in Tibet the policies OF
Lord Curzon and succeeded In obtaining better
terms from the lamaS than had been consloereu
nossibla Old Parliamentary hands are adding
the characteristic comment that a glutton for
nubiio work ia invariably a nischievous ano
troublesome official who does more harm than
rood Mr. Brodrck Is industrious and conscien-
t,ou. and takes serious view OF his official re-
snonsiblIities Instead Of leaving Lord Curzon to
Govern India and of taking his cues from the
nernanent officials OF the department. he per-
stats In plodding through ell the papers and
rnaster3nK the details. II his critics are TO Do
hepevsd he ought 10 have been content with
drawing his salary and remaining In the back
g,ound. With his passion for Blue Book read
inc he flung himself into the routine Of the de-
nartment. and now they complain that after
suneyhciai examining process he considered him.
cal, coupetent to discipline statesmen. soldiers
end oolcisIs who had been making Indian
a nsirs tho special study OF lifetime Lib
srals who never liked the Tibet campaign sp-
bland him for his fearlessness and canoor'
INIT men on the government side accuse him
N, hurting out superiuous truth ana med
dune I'm an affair which had reflected credit
upon British diplomacy and Indian administra-
t,on. Az the case is worked out from the Blue
Books Colonel Younghusband obtained larger
Indemnity than the India Office considered neces-
sarv although IL did not cover more than one
half of the cost OF the expedition; and he also
occurred occupation OF the Chumbi Valley until