Year: 1876

creasing they must break OF and come to New York,
where the committee are making extensive prepara-
tions for their reception These preparations are OF
three kinds-materal musical and instructive. The
Hppodrome is so far advanced that the writer, who
yesterday Informed that 1t will be ready In
week or So The arena in the centre where the
chariot and horse races run and which gave TO
the building the name OF Hippodrome, is ioored over
and thus several thousand seats added to the num-
Der formerly confined TO the galleries


But such audience would oil hall vast as
this would be beyond the effective reach of the OF
any man And for the purpose OF making the services
efficient the great building will be cut into two
large by two partition walls, twenty feet apart
through the midst of the halls This will leave each
side of this division a room seating 1000 people or
900 in all In the centre, and running through the
partitions into each auditorium, is the PLATFORM and
by doors connecting the rooms II is the work OF mo-
ment only TO pass from one platform TO the other
from the presence OF audience to that of another
BY this arrangement-the audiences being twenty feet
apart-the sound will not interfere with the enjoyment
OF two services at the same time, and the evangests
WILL both OF them come into contact with both classes
OF hearers saints and sinners every day and whatever
spiritual power there the words spoken sung by
either will be equally enjoyed by the audiences In both
OF these halls Of assembly The space OF 20 feet IN
width by 200 in length between these rooms Will be
utilized for committee rooms and vestries that all
the convenences Of well furnished church edince VIII
be combined under one roof Care IS being taken not

The Committee of Arrangements meets daily at the
Office, the Twenty sixth street side OF the building


The musical preparations consist OF large choir OF
volunteer singers from the severa churches OF the CITY,
some OF whom are even now rehearsing one or two
evenings in the week to be ready 70 take part in the
grand haleujah chorus that is TO fill this immense
building with praise The Moody and Sankey hymns
are, however, familiar TO the masses now
that they are sung and whistled the
streets and form important element IN many OF our
church services. Mr. Sankey's singing Is one OF the
acknowledged forces IN this revival work And 1t is
at once a privilege and duty of those Christians TO
whom God has given voices and skill in using them
TO concentrate their talents to this work as they have
opportunity.


But with two largo congregations to be mnstered to
day at the same time II Is expected tnat goody
number of inquirors will need instruction from day to
day Hence the pastors and churches OF the city are
working In accord training Christian workers TO oper
ate among such persons Every church Will contribute
its quota OF men and women TO go into the highways
and byways OF the city, among the outlying multi
tudes who rarely come to the place of preaching and
prayer and with gentle force will compel them to como
in. An invitation will be given, again and again, to
every accessible person within reasonable dis
tance OF the Hippodrome to hear the Gospel The
missionary agencies of the city will be employed to
bring the glad udings into the homes of those who
cannot go to hear and by every suitable exerton


the offer of eternal life by Christ will be carried to all
the neglected souls in this great metropolis. Dr. Or
mistons church has been filled every Tuesday and
Thursday evening for the past two weeks with such
Christian and women as design TO engage In this
work, and they have been instructed by Drs Tying,
Ormiston, Booth, Hall, Taylor Armitage Hepworth
and Tucker how to meet objections and doubts that
naturally fill the inqurer's mind. During the current
week or ten days Drs King, Vail Hastings, Anderson,
Crosby and Macarthur VIII continue those instruc-
tions.


Next Wednesday and Thursday Christian conven-
tion is TO be held in Philadelphia, over which Mr..
Moody will preside, and kindred topics will be consid
cred