Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-08
STORIES OF THREE OTHER EVANCELISl
The Ways and Works of Moody Gypsy Smith and ChapmannE
Methods Were Different Their Personalities
Bv WILLIAM RAIDER

DwIGHT L. MOODY sleeps on Round Top,
Lat Northfied, Mass few miles away,
in Swanzey, N. H., is a simple shaft which
marks the grave of Denman Thompson, OF
"The Old Homestead" 1t is probable that
the two men never met but they were not
unlike in appearance. Both were big, hearty
Americans with good appetites, warm hearts
and filled with loving kindness. The one
spoke fiction on the stage as if it were truth;
the other-to repeat a thought of GarrlcK-
spoke truth the pulpit as if it were fiction
When Moody was a clerk in a Chicago shoe
store he became interested in religion
through Dr. Edward N. Kirk and Edward
Kimball. Without college or theological train
ing, he began his great work and preached
the gospel throughout the English-speaking
world.
In the Old Pennsylvania r. X. Depot
One of his notable campaigns was in Phila-
delphia. The meetings were held in the
abandoned freight depot of the Pennsylvania
Railroad used afterward as the Wanamaker
store. The building was provided with seats
to accommodate $4,000.
A striking incident of Moody's Philadelphia
campaign was the meeting set apart espe-
cially for Incorporate men and women. His
tender appeal to that assemblage is still re-
membered by Philadelphians who heard him.
Singing helped the preaching of Moody.
The songs of Sankey grew to be as famous
as the sermons of Moody. A hymnal was
published which caused Moody and Sankey
much trouble, since it was reported that
they received royalties from the sale. Ger
tain watchdogs of the moneybag believe
that the blackest sin on the calendar is for
a preacher or evangelist to make money.
nlof, hat hh
is not a CRATER.
Mr. Moody the greatest evangelist
preacher of his generation. He did not use
the best grammar, but he had common sense.
Who could forget his sermons on Sowing
and Reaping," "The New Birth" and "Re-
pentance"P
Everybody Sing!
There was no claptrap in the Moody
method, no straining for effects. but convic-
ton point and directness, and irresistible
persuasiVeness. He did not shatter the icicle
of sin with wel-directed aim but melted it
with words hot with a passion for redemp-
tion.
The first time I heard Moody he did what
thought at the time sensational act 1t
was in fremont Temple, Boston, Anxious to
see him, as a student at AndoVer, l went
early and took seat near the front The
big choir on the platform was being trained
while the people gathered. An old gentle
man sat on one side of me- a lady on the
other. Moody soon appeared He was an
noyed by man reading paper in the audi
ence. and asked him TO put it away and join
in the singing. Everybody sng!" he shouted.
Everybody get bookl" He announced a
hymn, but the singing was very unsatisfac-
tory, and he had the people sing it over
eral times. Seeing had no book and showing
annoyance, he took fair aim and threw a
hymn book as straight bullet at me. It
took me in the stomach, and think 1t raised
me about two feet from the pew, but my con-
sternation was no whit greater than the
surprise of those who sat with me. We were
strangers, but we all sang out of the same
book, and Moody from that moment was my
acknowledged master.
He was man-fnder. He discovered Henry
Drummond and introduced him to the Ameri-
can people. He found great preacher in
Campbell Morgan, of London, and made him
at home in the American pulpit He took iAF
terest In liberal and conservative Nj
The NOrthheld conferences, which continue
to this day, furnished opportunity for
testing the mettle of promising men In Eng
land and this country, A number enjoy an
international reputation who owe their start
to the insight Of Mr.. Moody.
He was builder OF institutions. The Y.
M. c. A, work throughout the country was
assisted by him. He raised great sums OF
money for the work. The Mount Hermon
schools for young men and women are one OF
his memorials. His evangellstie work reached
its zenith in his British campaign ana at the
Worlds Fair in Chicago.
The Stolen oveTcoat
The last time 1 heard Moody he made an
impassioned plea in behalf Of criminals and
prisoners. and while he was making It an ex-
convict stole his valuable new overcoat Il
was a study in practical theology 10 observe |
the effect 81 this disappointment upon the
great preacher. who, while furious At arst