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SOUTHERN ILLUSTRATED AGE August 21,. -1875. ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICAN . EVANGELISTS IN NEW YORK. ItKCKlTlON OF MKSSItS. MOOPY AND SANKKY HY TIIK1R FKIEN1S-KKVIV-AL.S TO COMJIKNOE IN THIS COUX T It Y THIS FALL . The American evangelists, Messrs. Moody and Sankev, arrived in New . York by the steamer Spain on Satur day morning last ' The news of the arrival of that steamer in the lower bay was telegraphed to that city at 6:30 a. in., and those who had made preparations to receive the great re vivalists at once started to meet them. In that city were Robert McBurnie, Secretary of the Young Men's Chris tian Association of New York j L. P. Rowland, Secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia- ; D. W. Mc Williams, Super indent of the Rev. Dr. Cuyler's Sun day School; the Kev. G. C. Needham, Geo. H. -Stewart, of Philadelphia, and Joseph Hillman; President of the Round Lake Can.p-Meeting. The party received was com posed of Mr. Moody, his wife and daughter, and two young children ; Mr. and Mrs. Sankey, with their three children ; J. Sabine Knight, an English revivalist; John M. Denton, of London, Cana da, and Messrs. E. Elroydc and J. Witherley, of London, England. As the barge carrying the welcom ing party approached the steamer, greetings were exchanged between the evangelists and their friends. As soon as the deck was reached and hand-shakings were over, "Praise God, from Whom all Blessings Flow," was sung, Mr. Sankey leading. The Rev. Mr. Needham then offered a prayer, giving thanks to God for the safe return of the evangelists after their great and successful work abroad. The party was landed by a Government boat, which had been engaged for the purpose. Messrs. Moodj- and Sankey were detained for some time at Pier No. 42, North River, in selecting their baggage, they having several trunks to take care of. tjuiuc Ul U1COC VI Llll-ti-O, lU.It iU.UUUy DiilCl, were full of sermons which ' well meaning persons had spnt to the evangelists, thinking that they might have occasion to use them. Mr. . Moody was dressed in a grey suit and beaver hat. He is somewhat under the average height, stout in ibuild. andv weava , full . black wlraWrq L ifr, San&ey, vhols much taller oL rheatcT ler, wore a black coat, and wcSrVmore quiet m his demeanor. 1 Mr. Moody proceeded at once to the Grand Union Hotel, where he took dinner, and then, to the disap pomtment of many of his friends. took the 3 o'clock train for his home in Northficld, Mass. He said, in ref- c erenee to his future plans, that he and Mr. Sankey would hold revival meet ings in this country similar to those held in England some time next Fall The details had not yet been arranged. xie waniea nrst to visit ins new Church in Chicago. In England they , uau Deen treated with great kindness, and had done a great work, which lie hoped would have permanent ef fect. - Mr. Sankey and himself needed rest for a few weeks, as they had taken no holiday while abroad for two years. Mr. Knight, who accom panied Messrs, Moody and Sankey Hum juonuon, mienas to go amoner me ireeumen oi trie aouth to spread the Gospel there. During the voy age from England a spirit of religious iervor sprung- up on board the Spain. Mr. Sankey sang at the request of the passengers, and prayer-meetings, at wnicn aqaresses were made by Mr. Moody, were held on the ouarter. - deck. ';-.-;;;V-;- -'; .' Mr- Sankey was found on Saturday evening by a . reporter of the New York Tribune at the house of an old aaicuu. ui xiis in docKiyn, ne was at first averse to speaking about the work of Mr. Moody and himself in England, .pleading his weariness af- ter so long a voyage as a reason for not talking, but finally, in a courteous and enthusiastic manner, he gave some interesting facts about the great lengiuus revivals m which he had played so prominent a part. In per son Mr. Sankey is tall and somewhat inclined to obesity,- but straight and erect, with a broad, full chest. He has a rich, full voice, very melodious and . pleasing. His face is V square and somewhat massive, his eyes dark and bright, and shaded with heavy brows, and his hair and Bumside whiskers nearly black and closely cut, He has a ; slight British accent, and when interested, speaks fluently, with some strong gestures, while a good natured smile flits continually over his MR. SAEY S STOET OF THE WORK. 'iMiY. Moody and myself," said he, "do not wish to appear in public, through interviewers, as speaking much about our work. It is our de sire not to thrust ourselves forward as if we attached any personal merit to what we have done. Our work has been greatly successful, but we uo not ascriDe it to ourselves, as though we have done anything pecu liarly praiseworthy. We know and recognize that it is the Lord's work, and not ours, in which we have en gaged. We have merely gone right on and preached Christ to the people that is all. These two hymns in my collection, which my friend will give you, tell better than I could do in hours of talking what our objects, our work, and our experience have been : Rescue the perishing, care for the dying,: ' Snatch them in pity from pin and the grave ; Weep o'er the erring one, lift up the fallen, Tell them of Jesns, the mighty to pave. Though they are plighting Ilim, still lie is wait ing, Waiting the penitent child to receive ; Plead with tlfem earnestly, plead with them gen t- Ile will forgive if they only believe. Down in the human heart, crushed by the temp- ter, Feelings lie buried that grace can restore ; Touched by a loving heart, wakened by kindness, Chords that wera broken will vibrate once more. Rescue the perishing duty demands it ; Strength for thy labor the Lord will provide Back to the narrow way patiently win them 5 Tell the poor wanderer a Savior has died. There were ninety and nine that safely lay In the shelter of the fold ; But one was out on tha hills away Far off from the gates of gold. Away on the moun tains wild and bare, Away from the tender Shepherd's care. . "Lord, Thou hast here Thy ninety and nine ; Are they not enough for thee ? " But the Shepherd made answer, "This of mine Has wandered away from me ; And although the road be rough and steep, I go to the desert to find my sheep." But none of the ransomed ever knew How deep were the waters crossed ; Nor how dark was the night that the Lord passed through, 'Ere he found His sheep that was lost. Out in the desert He heard its cry, Sick and helpless, and ready to die. "Lord, whence are those blood drops all the way - --" V; ." ' :. -That mark out the moun tian's track " "They were shed for one who had gone as- ; tray "'. ','-:-' 'Ere the Shepherd could bring him back." "Lord, whence are Thy hands so rent and ". 'torn?'1' .y'.- : " And nil thro' lh ninifntiinc thn, ' I " -----.... lu. . kLiitiivt a intu, And up from the rocky 6teep, There rose a cry to the gate of heaven, -"Rejoice ! I have found my sheep ! " And the angels echoed around the' throne, itejoicei lor the Lord brings back His own!"- '. Mr. bankey then stated that he thought the public would be more in terested in what Mr. Moody and him sen proposed to do in this country than in the details of what they had done abroard, which had already been iuuy reported m the newspapers. KW7 V,l U., i- . tL .. o iio-vts uau, uo continued, a great many applications from virions towns and cities in the United -States to hold meetings and to begin at once; Dut we have made no arrangements yet. e need rest, and intend to take vacations of from six weeks to two months before beginning our work again. Mr. ALoody has already gone home to his family in North field, Mass., and I shall go Tuesday to visit my parents in jn ewcastle, Penn. After our vacation we shall go to our cinurcu in unicago, wnicn we are anx ious to visit, and we shall have some work to do there. In the Fall, I can't tell exactly when we will begin our work, on the same general plan which we pursued in in England. We have not determined where to begin, but it will probably be in one of the great eastern cities Jxew x or k, Brooklyn, or-Boston." The press in Great Britain treated us with marked respect. We uni formly dechneu to be interviewed while there, but were treated with great' fairness and consideration, and we have not had to complain of much misrepresentation, y The great lead ing English paper, The London Times, especially spoke of our work in a manner and spirit eminently fair and just" Of course, as public men, we are subject to criticism, and we can not fear that, for our only object has been to preach Christ. Still we do 1 to r t . not lite to nave our work misrepre-? sented. The character of our meetings is perhaps misunderstood. There is one fact that I should like to have the public hear, and that is that in our leetings there was no excitement. We distinctly discountenanced any hysterical excitement, confusion or noise. JLn an our meetings there was not a single case of hysterics. Some people have a wrong idea about this. Those who have never attended the meetings may think that we attempt ed to stir up religious excitement. On the contrary the exercises were characterized by the best possible or- uer. air. Aiooay wouia not 0:0 on without it. No church services were ever conducted more quietly and sol emnly than our great meetings in the chief cities of. Great Britain and Ire land. Our audiences frequently num bered many thousands, but they came, listened, and went away with surprising good order. Once in Lon don we held a meeting for men, from which women were excluded. There were 10,000 men present. Just think what a scene if that vast assemblage had once risen ! But they sat and heard us as quietly as a church con gregation. There was never any out side disturbance of , the meetings. The crowds outside were as orderly as those withim They were respect ful and quiet, and never greeted us with mockery or jeers. There was no sign of it in the meetings. "When we held them in Dublin and else where in Ireland we expected to be disturbed by the Roman Catholics, but we were not. The large meetings of Irishmen which we addressed were as orderly as any 1 ever saw. The reason was because we sought to ex cite no opposition from the Roman Catholics. We avoided offending them.-.'' ."v'"' We left controverted questions alone, and merely preached Christ, and that could give offense to nobody. Our business was not " to discuss ec clesiastical questions, but td preach the Savior to those who needed Him. In Scotland we had the same suc cess. pr great meetings in Glas gow were wonderfully orderly and effective. ' The people showed the utmost seriousness, and were solemn and attentive in their demeanor. HOW THE MEETINGS WEEE CONDUCTED. Our plan was sometimes to hold five or six meetings at once. In Liv erpool, for instance, we could not meet in one place all who wanted to worship with us. and so we divided them up and met in different places. Mr. Moody has preached four or five times in one evening, and I have sung as many as seven times. I would begin btf singing an opening hymn at the rf eetiner where Mr. Moodv was, ar hen drive, rapidly m a car n 3 . j . . -AT ' J " J i ' 1 exhaustion after such labor. I could r j. uia hol ieei frreat sing with perfect ease in Agricultural Hall in London, the largest hall in England which will hold 20,000 peo ple, and has seats for 15,000, 1 sang so that my voice filled the building without getting, tired. It was, very easy for me to do it- I never saw a better place to sing in. We were .disturbed only once in London, and I will tell you how that happened. It was in Camberwell Hall. That was a large building of corrugated iron, put up especially for our meetings. It yvould hold 10,000 people,' and under the high galleries which ran around the inner walls of the building, there was a separate place where we held prayer-meetings with converts after the great meeting was over. " All around the building a high fence Was put up to keep out the crowd after it was full. It happened that when we met in this hall the building was filled at an early hour. The floor was sprinkled with saw dust, and chairs wrere placed upon it as close together as they could stand, and the people coming in walked as noiselessly as on a carpet. That night a large delegation from the country had come in on the evening trains, and of course they w'ere anxious, having come "from a distance of 10 or 20 or even 40 miles, not to miss the meeting. , Vhen they arrived, bow ever, the hall was already full and the doors were closed. Mr. Moody, learning of the arrival of these coun try people, 'many of whom were poor and had bought return tickets in or der to go all the way home after the meeting, made a speech to the audi ence representing how matters stood, and asking them to crowd up a little closer, a d get three instead of two on a chairj in order to allow the coun try people to come in. They cheer fully complied. The Committee then went out i f open the gate; but w hen this was done, along with the country people, the crowd from the city out side began to rush in. The meeting had just been opened, I had sung; and Mr. 3 food v was becrinninsr to peak. Sitting on the platform I Could- hear ils roar outside sounding Hke the rolling in of the ocean on the shore. There was no sound of shout- ihf,ut only a heavy roar of the rushing multitude. Finding: that they could not all get into tho hall, they got from the outside into tho prayer room under the gallery. There were no lights in this place, and, being able to hear or see nothing, these people began a noise of stumbling and chattering as they crowded in, which interrupted the meeting." Mr. M"oody trnid we would not go on un less they retired. There was some thing in Ins decided manner which convinced them that he was in ear nest, and when he gave out a hymn, which we sang, during which he said they should go out, the interlopers quietly retired, and left the meeting to go on without disturbance. Had they not done so, we would eertainlv have gone away that would have been our next step. The papers next day misrepresented this and made a great stir about it, as if it had been a riot, whereas when the matter was once explained to the people there was no disturbance at all, and no at tempt at disorder. Mr. Moody s preaching was short and to the point. He wasted no words. It was just the kind of preach mg that business men liked. It also commended itself to young men, and they liked it. Business men and young people mades up a large por tion of our . audiences. Mr. Moodv has a very decided manner of speak ing, and people know that he means what he says. He never hesitates about making up his mind and acting on his decision. He would never en dure any interruption of the meet ings. ; In reference to the results of the Evangelists' labors in Great Britain, Mr. bankey asaid that one thing was certain, that the interest stirred ud had been universal and genuine, and had pervaded all classes of people. It was a serious interest, and not mere curiosity. The Duchess of Sutherland, and other persons of so cial rank, regularly attended their meetings in London. Invitations to hold meetings came to them from all quarters of England. Even the little villages were anxious to have them come. Three hundred Oxford stu dents sent them a written invitation to come to that university, but they could not go. They went by invita tion to Eton, another Vreat seat, of learning, and their, meeting there was one of the most Impressive that they held, m meetmgs. nut only this. bntrTTfi poorer classes of people were stirred . . . up, and they attendee! in great num bers, and evidently with an honest purpose of learning about Christ. All of their success Mr. Sankey uniformly ascribed to the Lord, who, he be lieved, directed, guided and sustain ed them in their labors, keeping them strong and untouched by dis ease. He also thought the effects of the work done would not soon be lost It had been left in charge of local committees, who would continue to push it. Mr. Sankey said he did not intend to take part in any public exercises until himself and Mr. Moody opened their work, which would probably be in October. - THE POWER OF THE PRE$S. There are but few people of any degree of intelligence who still cling to the antiquated idea that journal ism has no claim to rank with the learned professions ; that it is merely the resort of those whose inert dis positions and sedentary habits unfit them for the bustling arena of more active business pursuits. This is an exploded idea. ; Journalism, as it is now understood and conducted by those who have a legitimate claim to43ie title "Jour nalist," is something more than a mere vehicle of gossipy news, the mouth-piece of individuals, cliques or parties. It has a far wider field and much nobler calling. If true to its duty its mission is to enlighten the masses as 10 current events, and instruct them in the man-. ner of the discharge of their duties as good citizens. In the inculcation of healthy political sentiments, and exposure and proper denunciation of rime, it is the greatest conservator of law and order possible. It seeks to expose error and guide public opin ion into proper channels. It is also a powerful coadjutor of the pulpit: for in its encouragement of thrift ... - and enterprise, and efforts to enforce law, it educates men up to that stand-4 ard of morahty which makes it easy to bring -them under the influence and teachings of the Gospel. And again :. To what influence more than journalism can the won derful growth and material prosperity of almost all sections of our country be attributed? It is the first to herald and describe the discoveries in the field of science that contribute to the comfort or convenience of man. Its folnmns teem with iisrfnl inf- mation to all classes and callings minor mrlm yii "fnvmiY r4 a word.the benefits bestowed upon tho public by a properly conducted jour nal are too numerous to be enumer- True, there are some papers that fall ..v j tute their high calling to vicious per- -1 , ,i ti :.. t and vituperation, aprealinir to the w orse passions and prejudices of hu man nature, thereby perpetuating error, all for the sake of gaining a per- sonal end or achieving a transitory This is not pure and propor jour nalism. The profession of the law has its- dishonest practitioners and shysters,. snouid the wnoie proiession ue rated t A1..V.Q A 41. .. i : 1 iuh lui uiiio; iy muiiy iiiv xiifuit-Ui, profession are empirics, should all for this reason be classed as quacks. So it is with journalism, the unworthy should not leavrn tho. whnlp. The, power of the press cannot be overestimated. As an instructor of shapes and directs popular opinion.. From its columns the masses get all their knowledge of the political econ omy of their government. While tho lowly are educated, the higli in posi tion both respect and fear its power. .i iis suggestion cities, lactones, rau roads and canals spring intq exis tence where but a short time since the bare prairie or thick forest were. As an engine for good or evil it i& all powerful and happily, it can bo said, it is most frequently exercised for the former. This is no fancy sketch, thought written so discursively. Every asser tion made is susceptible of proof.. At another time it is proposed to say something of the necessary personal quahfications to become a worthy and reputable editor. PERSONAL NOTES. Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, of Mississip is traveling in Kentucky- pi healtli o Hon, JuH. fetcnlni: Gen. Crook has set out m earnest to expel intruders from the Black Hills re gion. ; Hon. M. W. Ransom, U. S. Senator of this State, and family, are at Buffalo Springs, Va. ; -- Ex-Gov. Holden, of this city, has: just returned from a visit to the moun tains of North Carolina. the superintendent 01 - i'uulic in stniction, Col. S. D. Pool, is cansshig: in the West in thecause of education . has been purchased by the AdministratiorB of Fine Aits for the new Opera House ir Paris. '.;!-:":v- The estate of the late ex-President Johnson amounts to $175,000 The report of 3the heavy amount of insurance appears to be untrue. The Buffalo Courier tmd Syracuse Courier (X. Y.) support Hon. S. S. Cox for the Speakership of the next House of " Representatives. , The Burlington (Iowa) Gazette don't want S. G. Randall to be Speaker of the next House of Representatives at, no price. It is thought that Hon. Jeffersorjr Davis will cancel liis engagement to de liver the annual address at the Fair or "7"5 r1 .n tr Til Garibaldi was recently entertained1 at a public banquet by the Cluunber " Commerce and the leading citizens .of Civita V eccliw. v Hon: A. G. Brown, ex-Governor oi' MissL-sippi, and a U. S. Senator before the war, is urged for the Congressional nom ination in the Jackson District. P. W. Seward is spoken of as the Republican nominee f or Secretary of State in Xew York, and Hon. Chas. O'Connor as the Democratic nominee for Attorney General. - : The Louisville Courier-Journal sug gests a list of names to Gov. Porter, of Tennessee, from which to select a succes sor to the late Andrew Johnson in the U. S. Senate, and amongst them is that of Jefterson Davis. Rev. Dr. Pritchard, Pastor of tho First Baptist Church of this city, and fam ily, are rtill at the Catawba White Sulphur Springs-; ' We are glad to learn that he i recovering from ''his recent 'severe attack of Illness. ;':.;. v '.'.;."'..-" The' "Alumni of the University of lichigau have raised a fund of $2o,000 for the support of Prof. George P.". Williams,'" who ha3 been connected with the institu tion since its origin, 31 years ago. After his death it ito go to the endowment ot . another chair.
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