Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 2, 1876, Page 1

UME XXXI. ANK STATEMENTS. ~EEVENTY-SL quarterlyStatement . et et XTH & G0, HAVE OPENED TEEIR LHIGAGO HOUSE Wabash avenue Grings Tnstitntion, OF CHICAGO, Yonday Morning, Oct. 2, 1876, 2o Losns on Tteal Estato. S3,821.210.23 84,404.051.07 7. D. BPENCER, President. D. 8. 8MITH, Vice-President. A. D. GUILD, Cashiel A IFTY-NINTH QuarterlyStatement MERCHANTS, FARMERS', & MECHANICS’ Savings Bank. Condition at the Close of Business Sept. Washington.st., Where they will be pleased to see their friends and cus- tomers, and the public gener- . and Contlogent Fund., $1,048,028.84 INVESTMENTS. SHIRTS TO ORDER. Cooat Reduction 0 Priess, But NO CHANGE in QUAL- ITY of fabric or workman- WILSON BROS.,, 67 & 69 Washington-st, Moody and Sankey THE TABERNACLE, Monroe-at., corner Franklin, 81 ate and Office Fixtures, Loans and Demands secured D"fidh f1abl Mcv:’r‘;:’:(’: walsble i i ;Vl\l]l and subject to check, $1,048,028,84 Published for the Information of depoaltors, Culeago, Sept. 30, 1476, SYDNEY MYERS, Maosger. TO KENT. Irable Dilices TO RENT TRIBUN BUILDING. IRQUIRE OF WILLIAM C. DOW. foom8 TRIBUNE BUILDING CAGER| ‘We are selli 1 - ticed prlccse, N BE- ErEnty Xe LANDAUS, LANDAULETS, OLARENOES, COACHES, UOUPES, and 0OUPELETS, Our Patent Counterbalanced Front HT LANDAUS & F. T BERLIN COACHES ng Carriages of the day, auty of desi oroughnoss o urpassed, The Falling are nicoly counter- 8pring (which ar- ment 18 Patented®), and oan ooch bo lowored and raised uarantee our work to be OLASS, and to ploase in Preaching by Mr. Moody, Singing by Mr. Sankey. Every evening fipt Baturday) at 8 o'clock. Doora open at 7 o'clock, No Tickets Required ! Noonday meeting at 12 o'clock, canducted b }llcuurs. BOODY und SANKEY, st FARWEL MISCELLANEOY/S, THE 00DV AND SANKEY HYMN-BOOK I8 FOIt 8ALE BT W. G. FTOLMES, 77 MADISON-8T\, oppoaite dcVicker's. COME AND SEE What there is at STRICKLAND'S BIRD S8TORE, Mr, Strickland has just ro- turned from Europe with a large stock of Canarles, Parrots, Pigeons, Loultry, and Prizo Birds. 212 West Madlson-st. nts to both lanced by o ) JEWELRLY, &c» An elegant assortment of' WATCHES, FINE COLD JEWELRY, SILVER AND SILVER-PLATED WARE, HALF THE REGULAR PRICES Now being closed out at the BANKRUPT SALI, Cor. of Luke and Clark-sts, Every asticle Warrint ment of our rights under the above H. KILLAM & CO., iestnut-st,, New Haven, Conn. S— ur Agent in Chicag Eubcn’rmmu. nstitute for Young Ladies, [U3g Mudlnon-ny,, New Vork, eu Beptembor 20, “A fow preyiet forthe Harcard ksaminations o PresTon, Kean & Co., BANKERS. COPIMERCIAL ranclcs, FOREIGN EXCIANGE, Letters of Credlt, Gove SE LIKS, Pown, Coun City, Behool Bonds, aud other foeuriiios, " BT, Braunch—Cor, Washlngton T PER CENT, proved clty bustiess property B O. DA SILV.A ‘« (formorly Mrs. Ogdun ch,and German Boardiw tor young ladica and children, wit Thirty-cighth-at., Now Application may Do i . Alex Dradford's ') Enliah, Fren letier or porsonsily, KT, JOHNS NC| 2 ngas ol OUN'S HGHOOT 0 o 10 WA!hlll'XllT(L‘(- Yo llllfllllllvfl pleasant iy Felictoal Cholce large Joans on fm (CREVEN 10,000 a0 Tour aut1e of 83y SCUDDER & 3IABON, 107100 Dearbora st MONRY AT LOW RATES CHICAGO CITY CERTIFICATES, Tecelvable for Tazes, for sala by JOHN H, WRENN & CO,, LLPITA ADVERTISEN TS, LPHIA EXUIBITION, 4 T o Ty w3 (e (RossE & HLACKW ! FICKLES B v _\Il PICKLES 1o Mait Viaegar, _Rlul HAUCES for Fiah, Meat, and Game, POEG ST e FIBlT, (GENCINE MusTATD, S e s e = SPPERIOE NATT VINEGAL, e St B J OIS TELTTES, MIATIALADES, 50 oiher B D ] Yo thpeailon hTL: calers in drst-cleas e 80d Canuda: This weok we m;raduou mailed upon re- . BARNES & 00., 70 Madison-st, - kvery genuine art 1] V' 5QUARE, LONDON. NOODY AND SANKEY. Opening Services Attending the Great Revival at the Tabernacle. The Morning Meeting Attended by Fully Seven Thou- sand People. Over Eight Thousand Crowd the Edificeat the After- noon Service. An “Overplus Meeting” Organized at Farwell Hall and Largely Attended: To Aid the Cause of the Master, Unbelief, Prejudice, aad Sectarianism Must Be Banished. God Calling for Every One to Spread the Glad Tid- ings Throughout the Land. Encouraging Words to Ministers, Sunday-School Teachers, Par= ents, land Young Men. Some Thrilling Storics About the Conversion of Sinners. MORNING DISCOURSE. OPENING BERVICES AT THE TABERNACLE, In appolnting his first meeting ot 8 o’clock on Bunday morning, Mr. Moody was, In tho opin- fon of many of his brethren, putting the zeal aud plety of the good people of Chicago to o rather dangerous strain, but the result fully justified the measure, for whoeu he came to his preaching-desk exactly at the hour, hie found awaiting him an audience of 7,000 people, Everythiog was ready and in perfect order. The great tabernacle, which the evangellst de- clares to be the best yet erceted for his use, is decorated with texts of Scripture, painted in great red and bluck letters on the white walla and gallery fronts; on the cast, *I am the resurrcction and the life;' on the north, “The blood of Jesus Christ, ITis Son, cleanseth us from all sin;" on the south, * He that be- Heveth on the Son hath everlasting life;"” and ou the wall behind the platforin, with the em- phasis painted in, s tho text, ¥ NOW is the da; of snivation.” The building i8 well lighted, and the whole effect was chieerful, restful, do- votlonal, - C. G. Trusdel), General Bt&eflutcmlenc of the Chicago Relief and Ald Socicty, fillcd the {mu of chicf usher, aided by a large number of Lo leadiug men In our most t)mmlnentcny churches, whose ofilee was fudleated Dy a badge of ribbon, instead of the traditional long poles or wans so funiliar to the attendants of these meotings clsewhere, The accoustics of the hall had been teated on Baturday evening by the cholr, and were pronounced perfect. At a quarter before 8 Mr. Stebbing and his 000 slngers gave, with ringing effect, the hymn, We pralue Thee, 0 God, For the Son of Thy love, On the platiorm were the Rev. Drs. Goodwin, Edwards, Glbson, Mitchell, Willlamson, Thom son, Hiteheock, Anderson, Chamberiain, Wood Blshiop Clieney; Pastora Caldwall, Martin, Can- tine, Walker, Parkhurat; Cupt. Kitwood, of the Bethel; the vencrable Dr. Willlam Beccher, and i)thuni. Dr. Tiffany was in the reporters' gal- ery. l)n his blunt and straizhtforward style, Mr. Moody came fortvard and ‘sald: I want to mve you a’passage from tho Word of Gou ns & kind of watehword for theso meetings: “Not b{ might, nor by power, but by My Bpirit, sufth the Lord.” wears to west It must come from God. sing the hyn, Jay to the worldt Tho Lord is come. It i8 not In the buoks but It 1 In your hearts." After singing, the Rev. Dr. Goodwin offered rayer, s volee trembling with emotlon: and [’lm reat multitude felt that a mun was spenk- ing to Gud on thelr behalf on whom the Bplrit of Power had descended. Thon, after the hymn 4T Need Theo Every Hour,” Mr. Saukey sang the solo, * Only an Armor-Bearer," flrat, however, 1iftine up his voice for God's blessing upon the singing as well as upon the preaching in the mucllnFA which were to be held, und that the Gospel might be carried, on the wings of nolu:‘ into many hard and carcless hearts, *\Yhen I flrst camo {n hero,” safd Mr. Moody, * and saw thnt text, ‘I am the Resurrection and the Life," I sald to myself, that (8 just tho chapter to open with. We want the resurroc- tion power right hore fn Chicsgo,” Ho then read the account of the ralslug of Lazarus, In thu eleventh ehapter of Julin, . Anather son, Mr. Sankey. Iiark! the volce of Jesus crying, Who shall go and work to-day? Another hymnn was_sung by the whole con- grc:’,nllou, and thei Mr," Sloody announced his text: Jesus said, take yo away-the stone,—JoAn zi,, Now let us alt TN BERMON, Now, I haven't nny doubt that nearly all this congregation arc looking fur u blessing in Chi- cngo,—if you ure nut you ought to be,—and if thera I8 not u great blossing on thess moctings it will bo our own fault, God is always ready to bless. I know there are somo people wuo say, * We must wait God's time; thero is n set thmoe to favor Zion;" but I tell you, my friends, the sut timo to favor Zion is when we are ready. God wilt do His work if we will only do ours, Wihcnever tho dead arc raised, there must ale ways be sonicbody to roll awny the stone. Bome one might suy, * Why can't God roll it away Ilmsel1” “"Well, 0 lic could, but that {sn't His way, Ho might send down an angel to roll away the stono, but Ho docs not; that s & past of the work that man can do, and man must do it before God will do s, Muany people wonder why Gud does niot answer thelr prayers, Why docan't Ilo save my profll- eate sond \\'h{ doesn't Ho bless my druuken hushund? God delights to ralse the deads He dedights to save drunkurds, and great sinuers of every other sort, 1 have seen it 1 havo lved among such works of saving grace for tho last two years. I have seen the graco of Uod raisen druukund out of his grave uf sl put new Jife Into him, take the appetite for stroug drink away from him, and muke him a new, clean man, soul and budy, God can do these things, but man has someihing todo s, Thero are some stones to be taken away, Weure not ready to advance yet; thero must be u castlng dowi before there I3 aralslng up, ‘en’we re- gord folquity in our hesrts, the Lurd wlil not hear us,’ muck less will He answer us. Some people wonder thau thers are not more converslous. I wonder that thero are so inuny. 1 wonder how God can convert so many sluners With such Christians as Il hus to work with, Let those who are_anxious about the salvation ul, their sons and husbands ask themselves, What sort_of a Chrlstian am 11 What Is my Prlvuxu Ho? What do my family think of me! Tave they any confidency in iy piety? Itell you, my friends, thero's no uss of your golng to talk to your famlly or your ml}hboru about Clrist unless {ou are savod yourself,—not u bit of use, Whut would be tho uss of a man who bud the luml-Yux golug around mmoug his uelghbors fngulring sfter thelr health) They would say, *Get cured yourself before you cowne to leok alter us i How ds it with thai temper here i read that chapter out of the Acts whero Paul was shspwrecked ; and, as he wss putting 8 bundlc of sticks in the fir out of the hieat and fasten thosc barbariana sald be must be a hal man, a thief, or o murderer, or something tery bad, and ‘God will not suffer bim to le. Pau might have preached the Gospel Lo thoss barba rans for six months and not one of then would ‘The people wotched to sce him swellap or to watched a long while, and no harm ame to hiim, they changed thefr minds and said Hefan god! Then Puul could preach to tlem and W have got to take our minds off these lnrliu meetings and fix them on God, It have agreat blessing fu the North- You need not tatk to your husband I remember when Mr, Moorchouse was over there cane a viper on his tand, and bave helieved him, to his heast with that viper sticking haud. But he shook oI the into the fire and feit no harm. Iall down dead suddenly, and when ticy had make gome lmpressiou; but he might have preachied to them till doomsday and they would not huve been converted, till they had come ta be convinced that he was & good man 1imacll, ake off the vipersl Thers 18 pride which gets hold of some of you: you will be good for nolllluF til you get'rid of this. Shak: it off| There {8 that'awlul viper, covetousness. Peaplo come out Weat and lose sight of eveything clse for the sake of making money. Tley are after toney all the time; chasing met round corners to get some money at of them, It was the same wny down in New York. The other d“fi [ was down there; the buainess men had jist got lome from the sea-side, and they were lending all their new healtl and strength w¥cl noney, Everybody was looking tor o revival of trade; cveryhody was praying for it; and yet tlere arg some people who are 'ke‘}uml about arevival of religloint The first dnr ot hiere a ma met me on the street and sald, **Mr, Moody, . don’t belleve much in revivals, How longd you thinle this revival will Tnstf? 1 hopeit will luat forever,’ sald I It will never endf it Is God's work. Let us roll away the stons, aud then the Lord will say, “LAZARUS, COME YORTHI" 1 have been apending the swinmer nthe country, and I noticed that when it came laylog time and harvest time, the farmers waned to hire all the Lelp they could get. It takes agood many men to do the reaping after one nan's sowlug. You have been sowlng here in Clicago for a rood many years; now has come the eap- ing time, und (lod wauts everybody whe can handle tho Gospel slckly to go” right int the harvest. Now, I want to call your attentlon to tiree stunes—mountaing we_ miglit alinost call tiem, they are ko large—which it is needful for 1s to roll out of the way, First—Unbeliet. If I were to aek any ofyou, do you belleve God can come aud do”a freat work of saving souls hers In Chicago this season{ you would, pcrhzrs, Bay * Yes; . ve- leve He'van,” Well, my Irlends, I have ieen right there for fifteen years. I belleved Jod could rovive 18 work and save thousanas of sluners, but I didn't believo He would. Yow, roll away that stone, Let us take o step irad- vanee, let us stop saylng webelieve Gud can ave, mu‘ll ’tl';. us begin to gay we belleve He s ging todoit. % If youwere to go down into the saloons snd ask the drunkards there it they belfeve Godean save them, the most of them would say, ** lcs, Ia'puse 1o can.” Well; I say mor. 1 say ibe- tieve He fs going to do it. When we went dwn from Edinburg to Glasgow the skepties sid: “*Al! this revival {s all very well for womennd chiliren, but it doesn’t get hold of the me.” Sowe prayed thut God would give us men in Glasgow; “und when we came to look aer ,the reglstered list of 8,600 converts we found among them the names of 1,700 nen. Then the skeptics said, ** Ab, thess wereull young men, people who were good enoughal- ready "5 then we praved that God would swve bad men. The next place we went to the vy first wman converted was a gumnbler, the nex a drunkard, the next a thiel, and 8o the wok went on among thieves, and gamblers, and nr- lots, the vilest of people, and our prayer wis answered arain. *Bald T not unto theey If tha wouldst belleve thou shouldst see the salvathn of God?" Unbellef s the mother of all s, Away with 1! God (s ready nud willing to sae bad sinners, if you will oily wo down to then ‘é‘}d[z‘:ku thooi by the handand lead themto irist. 'I'hesccond atoneto be rolled awny is Prejudice, How many of you say, “I1 am prejudiced] ngafnst revivals?t? and yet you he- licve in’ revivals in trade, revivals'in nun- ufactures, revivals tn politica—ull vorts of revivils exeept revivals of relizlonl When s body begins to talk about revival meetings you say, a8 Nathanicl sald to Plllllp, “ Can uu[y good thing come out of Nazarethi' But vinflp wis o sensible man; he didn't begin to argue wity Nathanfol, but told him to *cume and see.” B we say to you, come and sec. Come to the meetings; do not comy to criticise; anybody cun do that; but cotne you with us for a week and walt upon God aud sec If He dock not pour ua out a blessing that thert shall not be room onough to recclve ft Ol, but_you say, * I have Kisown bad things iy rovivats,” 8o havo I I could tell you more thay you kuow about bad things that liave happened in revivals. The Devil I8 always busy counter. feiting what is g\ond. Y Bume young converts turn out bad.” “Well, somo people start to bo Democrats and they tarn out bad. People who were Republivans “sometimes turn out bad, Bomo men go luto businees aud full, but is thay o reason why nobody should ever go into busl- ness ngaind The Bible talks of rovivals, Tuka your Biblo and read sbout that revival at Pen- tecost; rovivals are just as Scriptural ns the doctrine of justification Ly falth, or regeners. tion, or redeinption. THE THID GTONE to be got aut of the way is this miserable sec tarjan splrit. ‘Tnank God, it is bezinning todis out; but the walls betweenthe different denom- inatlons used to he eo high that you could hard- ly seo over. Woused to have what we called union meetings, and a Mothodist would get up and sny, “ I am a Mothodist, but 1 condeacend to mect with these Baptistsund Preshyteriung and the Baptist would get u{n and suy, **1 am & Daptist, § don't want you to think | am any thing else, but I condescend to ncet with the. rest of yous” and soen, Thero was condescens slon enough about these meetings to kill them, What we want is to come up asoncinan sralng, tha devil, with u united front, and we shall have' victory in the nume of the Lord, The world used to look at the denoninations and sayi “8eo how they quarrel;” but a brighter day. begins to dawn, This meoting {s u typo of heaven, We are not here to plek holes In one another’s theology, The only question we nsk- about one anothier'is, What 1s ho trying to dot Chrlst was no partisan; if 1le had been, His party would havo stood by Illm, I He had taken sides with the Pharisces, the Pharisccs would hiave stood by Him; If Ho had cluimed to be aSadducce, thobadducees would huvemumls Hum their leader, But, noj Chrlst loved atl nes, and so should wo. 1T hud u drop of sectarian brood i my volns T would let ft out. Thery was no scctarlan feellug on tho day of Ponte casty they were ail ol onu accord: all fu ons place, When Isracl was down In the wilder ness tho Lord chose out seventy eliters, and they prophesicd fn the camp, bub thero were two named Eldad and Medad, who prophesied alse, and Joshun advised Moses to stop them be- cause they did not belong to the seventy. Hut Moses kiew better than Joshus.* No, said Mosce, lot them prophesy if thev can, 1 wish everybody fn the camp could prophesy. Oue day somu of the disciples found somebaldy cast- ing out devils with tho nane of Christ, and thuy tricd to stop liim ecause bu was not ono of thy twelve, No, sald Clriat, let him alono; i he fi. casting out devils in my nume that {s all right; ho must bo o friend of infne. We aro not dolng this work for the saku of this ereed or that creed, but for the sake of Chrlst, [ remember tho story of the missionary Mrs, Comstock, who was obliged to send her chibldren back tu her own country becnuse they conld not be educated in India, “8he could not gu; her work wis pressing, and sho must stay, o sho took hier ehildren o hoard the vesscl, and, Just as she was ubuut to go away umf leayo them, shie knclt down upon the deck, und prayed this prayer: “ Lond Jesus, I do this for lrlmu." Lt fhis bu onur spirit as wo euter upon this work. No sclf-secklug, but everythiug for the Lord Jesus. Lut us pray. Mr, Moody then offered thanks to God for permitting im to come back to Chlca#'lu ouey more, prylng for the blessing of tho Haly Spirit upon the mectings, and for the conversion, of the worst as well ustho best o those whu are out of Christ. i Mr, Bunkey sang * Iold the Fort," tho audi: enve joluing tu the chorus, aud uh\nop Chaney pronounting the benediction, 0 Both the vangelists scomed duurly impressed with a sulomn _joy at coming to their old honfl once more, und the many and hearty meo" greetings of miuliters and other old friend which were given them at the close of this tirsl serviee were proof that shey have a warm place iu the hearts of the foremost wen of God Iy Chicago. A person sald to Mr. Baukey, “I never heard MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1876. of yours! Therearcsome people who have sucha ::‘émpcr that there's no living with them In ace, shout becoming & Christian till’ you learn to control your temper. Jou sing 8o well as you did this mnmlag." ‘It muat be the Chicago air," replied tho Gos- pel singer, A¥TERNOON DISCOURSE. AN IMMENSR ATTENDANCE. Long before the appolnted hour for the after- noon service the Tabernacle was full, and there were peonle enough In the streets who had come to meeting to fill a dozen churches. The open- Ing prayer was by the Rev. Mr. Hitcheock, Mr. Sankey sang ** The Ninety and Nine " with good voice and effect. The great chofr sang in ex- cellent tune anid time after such short practice togethier, aud Mr. Moody preached one of his characterlstic scrmons to Cliristian workers and those who ought to be such Ina manner which may be described as a perfect torrent of sancti- fied common scnse. The rapldity of his utter- ance was so great as sometimes to almost con- fuse the car, THE SERION. e T want to call your attontfon to the text that you will find In the fourth chapter of the Gospel accordlng to 8t.Johu,—a part of the thirty-sixth verse. IT'want you toget thetext. It will be worth 8 thousaud times mnore than the thou- sand. 11T could only get the text down into {uur heart to-day, and the Spirit fastened it on be soul 80 that it will never be forgotten, this meeting would be more profitable than any held 1 the City of Chicago, 1 would glve more for one word the Lord saya than for 10,000 sermons, | Hear the words of the Lord Jesus, the Master: 4 And he that reapcth recelveth wages.” Now. 1 have been Iabortig In_the Lori's vineyard twenty-oue years, and I want to testify that He is a good "paymaster. He pays well. Mo {mya promptly. I see some of your faces ight 1p on hearing that the greatest luxury I have on earth is to work for the Lord and win souls from darkness to lzht. There i8 no sweeter labor than that of grulding some poor sinner up out of the pit on to the Kock of Ages. There is no luxury like it. The pay is also very good. The Lord gives you something worth more than ellver and gold. When & man gets into the Lord’s harvest-field, aud the blessing comes down Intu his own soul, he tries to make other people experience the blessing. And if a man goes out and works for aouls, the Lord God will bless his own soul, and that is worth more than slver and gold. Now, If the Mayor of this city came out with a roclamation that he would find work for 0,000 men, wommen, sud children, and would Yay $1.50 a day, you would think it very good; 0,000 tnen, women, and children would” rejolee and feal cxceedingly glad just for the oppor- tunlty of getting the material of life—Just for enough gold and sllver to pay thelr way for the preseot. It would be of no secount In n few 'xcnm, But here is a proclamation from the hirone of God that 10,000 mcu, women, and children can be used in God's vineyard, and o muceh better reward is given, and when they get through llfe they will enter fnto cternity with Christ. We will not boe straugers when we get to Heaven, There will be auiie one there thut will know us. Thero s work for 10,000 mea, women, and children, for the Lord cau uec the aldest and the youngest. Those lttle children Isee in front of me cou be used, Muny u father and mother have been led to Christ through thelr little children. God delighteth to use lit- tle things in His work. He will use a little chlld to bulld up Iifs cause. He will use that sged man, whose halr1s_sllvered, and who is tottering on the verge of the grave. In your dylng day, in the closing hours uf your life, the good Lord will use you more than duriug the whole of your life that has passed away. “He that reapeth recelveth wxrius." 1think it would be well this afternoon to have a fair understanding about these mectings, aud T will state whom we waut to help us, We liave come here to reap—nothing else. There lius been a great deal of eowing here the lust few years, and we now come to reup the harvest, and it will be u glorious harvest. Jolin Wesley's motto was, * All at It and yiweys at it," and that is just what we waut. We want every man, woman, and child to take this sickle and o into the field, and pralse God for the privilege of working In His vineyard. TIIE PINST CLARS that we want are the minlsters, There was onc thing that chicered e this morning. It wie not the thousands of the nudicnce that came out. It wus not the beautiiul building. That was not 1t. What cheered me so nieh was, when I got | through, to have the ininisters of this city who were present tuko me by the handa,—some of them with tears trickling down thelr cheeks,— and suy *God speed.” It cheered me very much,” T cannot tell Jou how much. You don't Know how much o Kind word in good season does cheer & man, .Some minleters come to these mcuflnfil aud get behind a post, as if they wore ashauied of us aud ashamed of the meet- fug, When the thing s over, they begin to critivise. Now, any one can criticise; it don’t toke strong brains to erit- {edse; the great question is to do bettor. We don’t want the ministers to critieise. Ono in this clty used to do me s good deai of good. Heo was uwn old nan, and_ho eame to me when I first begun to work for (God and encouraged me. 1 made a good imany wistakes sud blunde then; I know it now, dud Ikuew It. God us make blunders enough to keep us humble. Besides, o mun will never learn to work for God i1 he does not tey, and he cannot expect, to do sowell ut first a8 after some years® training. It aman f& going to learn any kind of o trade he must_expect to make somo wistakes, and you cannot go to work for God without mmklnfi some mistakes. Butone old godly man usc to come to me sind tell me of iy mistakes in o Kindly manuer. Thero weren't anythin, ho sald but what did e good and bound itsclf down into myself, We want th: mlnisters, but not to eritielse or find fault; i€ we nnls- et the mintsters united and of just one mind and spirit, there will boa flamu of fire break out in cvery church of Chi- cago, aud a current will arise and become so strong that it will sweep down fnto the vil- lages and towns of the Northwest. Quiten wimber sald to us this morning, * What can we do! They want us to sct them to work, We cannot do that. The Lord must teach us where the work {5, We cannot be sent out by thls man or that man; but every child of God, capo- clally ministers, who comes to these meetings and cries * Lord teach e what to do; let Thy blessing full upon theso scrvices”; and at the close of the inceting let him try aud find some person and converse with him about his soul's salvatlon, and the Lord will lielp hls efforts, What we want at thess mect- Iues is personal conversatlon—to get futo con- tact with souls und tind out what they want. This audienco {s all sick ana discased splritual- P". 110 doubt ubout that. If you were suffering rom some bodlly aflment, and a doctor came and Rava you ol 'the saine mediclne, you would say, " Wodon't care much about that doctor, I don't understand our slckuess. 1t fs Just the sume in the treatment ot the soul, Ono mun needs personal treatiient; you cannot gt at him through the pulpit, ‘and five min- utes’ conversation may do him more gowd thun ffty sermigns. There has been prenching cwough in Chicago to convert vvery niun in it. ~ But it fanot preach- ing that we want. o wunt Lo find the bitter uess of cuch beart and apply the remedy of Christ. Every family has got some story to «tell,—some peculiar temptation, aud lot us curry the Heht of the Gospel fnto thoss homes, and tel! them how Corist will deliver them and help them, Let the ministers come Into the Inguiry: room and help them there, In Glasgow I re wember one old an who used ta be at every meetlug; I used to soe his white hiair wherever we met, Somotimes he would bo euguged some- vhero clse, but hie wonld always mauage to at- tend nuur\v every ons of our meetings,—it nade no difference what church or vhat denominatlon {t was in, or what yart of Gluigow. He would come md talks with inguirers, and lead one soul after another into the fzht; und, after we got out of Glasgow, there were wmore that juined hls ssurch, which had Leen small, than any other futhe city, Thosa pauple whom be bad hetped, it they uid not belong to a chureh, sald, * Where sabacs this man proacht” And they would thid Joat, und unlte with his church, ~ Dr. Androw ABanuer was always remdy to win a soul to Chrlst, "Wo want 10,000 men, womes, and children that sars ready to lead souls to Christ; aud, if wo ‘hoven't ministers enough, let themm take the lead, and it won't be long before we have men and women by hundreds who are suxious for E'Tx’ fl:‘chw' blessing of 1ifu—the love of Jesus it ; TUR NBXT COLASS that wo want to reach are tne Sunday-school teachers, Noxt to thu mimster comwes the Suuday-school teacher, No ous can help us in this work more than they. In the citiea where we havo Jabored, we have had teachers come und ask us to pray for thulr Bab- bstli-sctiool class, andat the next meoting wo would sce thaf teacher with one or two of ber rcholurs, aud wll !llrousn the mecting she would 1ift up ber beart Lo God to blesy those scholars. T hiavo seen clasd alter eluss brought to Christ iu this way. [ kuew of one Buperintendent who uttended oue of our meetings. Ho said to hln- salf, I wn uot guthering souls futo thy Lord's ' . vineyard:"" and he went to his pastor and sald, “Let gome ono take my placd 1 am not fit to and I will resign.’” The minister sald, I3 the troublei " he replied, sign " and he got down on his knees and prayg with him, and the Lord heard the pra; c‘:'. and thefire of ralvation went into that Buperin- tendent's sonl. 1latold the teschers, and got them to stay after school, and they all rayel togetner, The Lord blessed his work, for 100 cang from that school into the church, The Lord blessed the Superintendent, and thencamo the bluasing an the whole school.. He can bieas in spite_of minlaters, in wllu of Superintend- ents and tenchers, but He don't generatly do so. The grace Nows from the Throne through those men; therefore { want every Sabbath-school teacher in Chicago In' sympathy with these mectings. Bring your classes with you, f rome sald, * Beforo these mectines are over I will try nnd lead mdy class to Christ,” what a blessing’ there would' be. Do not. say that the children are too small. That little boy before me may become a mighty Instrument in the Lord’s hands {n bringing souls to Christ, I onca saw a teacher, who was stopplng where I was, present at the aftornoon mecting. I sald: * How dld you come to the mceting this after- noon?" Shesnld: “I liave aclass, but there are only five small boya in it, and I thought it would make little difference if [ wasnot there.”” Bald I: * You aldn't get any other teacher” “No," she replicd. “Only five small boys, said; “don't you ever think what souls are worthi” In that lit- tle tow-hended boy there may be the Reformation,—he may turn out a Wesley, a Whitfleld, a Milton, or a Bunyan, who can u.-lll If you have five little bLoys committed to your care, pray for thetn, and talk with them, and try and make an impression that will follow them through Hfe, It may be, thatin after years the seed will spring up and bear fruit unto life eternal, Look and sce what that teacherdown here in Southern Illinols did a few yearsugu. A little glrl In the clnss was taught to love the Savior, aud she wanted to become a Christlan, The teacher tald, Cu'nnut.,ynu got your father tocome heret” He was hunting and fishing every S8ahbuth; ho wasa hacd-swear- fbg man, He had ‘a1 Impediment in his speech, and younger days the Dboys used to ugh ~at "him aud he never atttended school. He could not read. A driuking and awearing man, and that little ¢hild led bim to the Sabbath-school, and look at the result. | heard bim speak a little while ago. He had planted 1,180 schools in the Vestern country, and out of thoss schools has grown many a church. See how the Lord hicssed tho lubors of o llttle child! What a privilege it s to lead some soul io Christ; cternity alone will teli the result! Let every Sabbath-school teach- er in Chicago, by the help of God, try and lead cr class t Chirlst the coming scuson. THE YOUNG MEX. ‘Then I would like to speak to young men. It seems to me that they help usmore and do more real work thun the ola men. Old men are goud for councll, but when we want aggression we must lave young met. Chrlstianity has been on the defensive o long time. ‘These drinking -satoons, these billiard-lulls,ought to be vislted, Invite the men to come to these mectings and take o seat among you, and whenever a meeting {s lield don’t let ttiem 1o away without pressing upon them the claims of Christ. A sermon may not touch them, but o kind remark, a clusp of the hand, may touch them. Go into these biltiurd-halls and drinking-saluuns and nsk them 1n the name of Christ to come. Some of Jou will look at this in a scornful way and say: “You go in there und they will fnsult ly and cast you out.” I am able to contradivt that. Ot of the hundreds and hundrecs of sa- loons in this city that I visited, I don't know that I was ¢ver unkindly treated in one of them. Once fn a while | found a man under the influ- ence of liquor, and he ordered me out. Some of the best workers on the Norilt Side have been men found 1 the bilard-halls and drink- ing-saloons. Howme of these young meu ure hustenine to rutn, and need saving. The spirit of the Gospel of Jesus Chrlst is sent Lo men to- day, and, if thc{ won't come in here, let us go to them, If we open the doors nud thiey won't i1l the hall, lev's let the building alvite und go and sce those men, and if we can't et a multitude let's preach to oue and two. he best sermons Chrfst ever preached were to the o d twos,—that sermon to the women at the 3 that wonderful sermon of regener- atlon was preached to one man, Nicodemus. What o blessing it has been to the Church of God! If we can't get the multitudes, let's Pronch to one and ‘two, There was a man n Philadelphia that was broughe fnto our meeting, aud he was drunk, When they rose for prayers ho tried togetup. The first time be couldn’t aud tha sccond tlme he fell back, but the third time he says,** I will aslc f'uu to pray_for me,' and he has not drank a it sluce. Heis now a missionary, working in olphia. Let us not give men up, though we thing them beyond hope. There was a man in New York that'spoke in our meeting, and he thrilled the whole crowd. Said I to hii, “Tell ma l{our experlence,’ and he told ine o most wondoerful story. lle told me he hud been a DUUNKARD POR TWENTY YEARS, and he hud become what you cull u tramp. His wife cast lilm off and married some one else, and he hadu't seen his lttle boy for fifteen years. He met a Good Samaritan, who talked kinilly to hun and took hin to his house, and treated him kindly, and prayed witn him, and he was saved. lle said to me, “The Bon of God can destroy the power of strong drink, Ihuve uot dranka drop of liquor ~ since don't know any men that has nccomplished wny mors work in New York Cit; tlan that mun. A week ugo last Wednesday uight I sent to Now York to usk him to come up to Northtield, my fuative town, aud I got the ouny men to come up, He brought up a youny riend that was saved alx nionths ago In New York Clty. e had been a drunkard for thirty years. I don't know as I ever sttended such o neeting on earth. Iu scems to me us if the wmighty power of God rested upon thut meetlng. Drunkards tn that town were there—nien who lad never been to such u meeting, 1 never heard of such a thme. He told how he hud destroyed the works of the devil, and i there §s” any work the devil can do, it 14 to destroy men by strongdrink, God has got the power und Ho“ean break It up, Let our drayers 10 up, *Oh God, manlfest tids power in e work of thesscoming munths” One young man got up in one of my meetings and thritlod the meeting. He saldi “I want to tell you that nine months agoa young man came to my house, and he wanted mg to become a Clirlstin, 1 told him thore wus yo hope. o toldme thers wus, and he talked kindly, and in a few days I became # Chrlstlun, aud for ning wmonths I haven't drank any Mquor If I hud ssked any man_ among thent who = was the most hopeless case among them, they would Tiave sald that he was, (s wife and daughter ligd left him; s homo u wroek, his prosperity all gone. Toluy that mun 18 the Buperintends ent of o Sabbath-school, saved by u Christian man cominz to bim. Thero is anothier lttls bhistory 1 will tell you. Niue years ago I went to Buston. [ had o cousin there, bt he sald ho wanted to do wmore for Christ, He wanted to get more of wy oxpuericuce and wanted mo to Lielp bim all 1" could. He didu't know death was s0 ncar hiu. 1ls sat down one day and wrote to his brother down in Iy natlve town and spys, *Jolin, I um very anxjuus for your soul. I'wunt you to become u Christiun.” * Aud the letter was dirceted to the town adjolnlng by some mistuke, It {8 not known to-day hiow "It was that his brother sent that letter “to suother post-oflicy whure his hrother was not fn the habit of going. It lay in the office & whole month, and ono day lis Was pagsing through that town and some ung usked "bim 4 his name was not Joln, Ile sald it was, He told him there was a letter in the Post-Otlee for him. 1L wus the GUth - doy of March, v letter was written the $3th duy of Febsuury, o toak It out, aud Lo went on aud read it ° This lelter went ou tu state that on that very day hia brother was golng to pray for bis coiverslon. And bo sashed the fetter fu his hands oud waid, with tears runolng down his cheeks, # I will be a Chirlstian,” And on that very day tGod converted im there In the streetsof Noruitleld, ‘I'is was this man that led this drunken young mun _ to Christ, and be 18 new the Superintendent of the Babbath-schuol that that young wman belongs to, They had a neighbor who was & drankard for forty-one ¥ 1 heard him tell his cxperience.” The young man went to him and told him what God fml ons for bim, snd that man became a Chris- tiay, and is_now ouc of the brightest lights in tho towu, I tell you these things to encourngs you, my friends, (o bullcye that drunkards aud nbandonud men can be saved, L wo will only re- member thut Christ hus this power to savo. Youuy wen, there 18 work for you to do, and a biessed work, Let us be up and’about it, and don't walt titl the barvest will bo gone. Aund what a shout there wiil be when we gather thede souls inta the gurner and we hear the Muater say, ** Well done!” TIE MOTHERS. Now, let me say to you, inothers, we depend ®areat deal upon you. We want your symi \ Savaquyp (=] Superintendent x 5 be Superinter {Vlm_'-r= o who ou 41 am not right with God,'Z “Well," gaid the minister, **it {75 2 tnuch easler to get right with God than to r('% W7 AL It I8 reclalined. ithered Into the ark, after getting in yourselves, ers wh o et mn;wn:un. f and saved your family, ought not you 1 savo others! Isnot this the way o el ‘Ile:vant the rnthummnn;l mothern heir prayers upon the family altar, that ;’“" convert t‘l%)ruur}x‘ls. 2 a o rayer go up to tha throng of grace, that G may manifest His power here En n?\'vu And:#- swer prayer. of grace. In Philadelphia one day wo motlier's meeting together. many good most remarkable I wero from 500 to 800 mothera. inother with five sons; therea mother with two; there o mother with n wayward danghters hero a mother with a prodigal_ son, who was off in :&n;u distant lanid; sho didn't know whers ho bearts, and on that ver{ day the spirit of God began to move among ¢! quiry rooms werccrowded by luquirers, in answer ta praver, that had tvo way They had been off two_or three dn;a on what they called a spree. The mother! crushed and broken, ether to pray for her two boys, One night the oys made an appolntment” to incet on tho corner where our ‘Tabernacle was, They wero They didn' meeting. L:m “wrfler b strects where our building was. One had got there and walted o little ?vhua for hls hrnufcr. But he dldn't compand he went in and when ’Ll!;lu bt:}ldluf n ¢ other brother came and couldn’ fnd i brother. N e I nar mecting wan out, expecting hib brothers Whes I s k! in the bullding started tu wo men’s meeting, and the otlier,brother on ¢ vutslde went over too. selzed the younr man who went into the larga meeting and lald him under a deep conviction of aah)a tnc went into the Inquiry rooms and asked od to ¥ converslun of mauy otheraln London. and and 1 have lnid cursclves outas our priviloge to take nnew 10 the Agricultural Hal may wuy that without u night, thoag so braught have, after It, “under tha preach “hrist 88 n rejoleing in 118 love, general work [n the inquiry-room. give me n::l.-nllnnlng thig, 1o the praiec of God's rraco e Chicage Dailn Teibune, CHICAGO, RICE FIVE CENTS. 2 ‘K'c you fathers and mothers, It soems to i Gy U e n s witl »rk. You have got sons nnafl'flhm’m thlur: Tive after you, and even if theyara Christians will be much better for them to Jivo In this '{)'u yunrhfimtldr&n |re, all | ¥ou ougl 0 bo anx! et othera fn, You ought not to be uelfi:l: here remaln oth- o need to'be saved, others that are not If God has hod merey u n you to unita Oh, let. onc wave of Then thero will be a mighty work e called a There wero a great. mectings, but that was tha over attended. Thera Here was o They Just met together to pouront their ¢ congrezation. Thein- Lut me !olrldyou about ono mother ward boys in Philadelphia. s heart was 8he got some fricnds to- mbling. ut the- %h{k:: to spend the nl?ht in know anytiling ol Tho{ were meetin, ol ‘Thirteenth and was filled they closed the door. He walted and waited until rhiape, to find he young men over 4o tlts youy e 1L wag out, The 8pirit of God had HAVE MERCY UPON HINM, and there prayed that God would save him. He then started” and went home, and found his mother fu her house, on her knees, prayin; her oy, Ho says, *Mother, your prayers have been answered. mather could hardly believe what she heard. ““1¢'s true, mother; I liave been saved,” said he.” They ot for I have been saved.” Thno down there and prayed while they Rayh od, ~ an wers praying and praising God, the other brother camo from the young men’s meeting, bringing tidinga that he had been converted. these men had been saved fn one meoting and in one nlgl thelr experience, and I never saw a mecting so thrilted us that ‘when they told what the had dona for them {o answer to prayer. Let me tell you another fustance that eucournged mo very much. don who had s good mother, und he said to her, “Mother, I am not your prayers any Amerles, “to get away ence.” maother can reach you by the Throne of Graze, and your mother's pruyers will follow yot; and, it you go to America, you will find God upon tho sea, and in America.” He said he thought Lie could ahake off his mother's counsel, and he left and came to this country. When he was nearing New York, and the shlp sailed up the harbor, he heard that o wers having meetings In the Hippod not understand whut they were, but, the mo- ment he ot ashiore, he started for the Hippo- drome, and fuund us, and _found God re: receive him, ITe became a Christian, and is now one of the best workers In New York very night he landed he found Christ, and, be- fure he went to bul, he sat down and wrote 1o s mother and told auswered and his soul was gaved. My friends, lct us have faith [n prayer. Mothers and fathers, 1ife up your liearts (n prayer that thero mn¥ bo hundreds and thousands saved 1o Chicaco theso cotning months. the Both of t. 1 heard themn the next week tell There was o wayward boy in Lons oinyg to by bothered by oggers I am golog to from your influ And she says to him, “Yomr rayers and. rome. Ho could y to City. The d her her prayers wero When 1 was In London,—we went up there & little while before we commenced our meetings, to consult with the ministors,—there was ono lady in the g:llcrlv. Wwihlls all the rest prescnd were iminlaters, I notlved that she was dressed in black, an when the mecting was over, she camo down an spuke to mo and said: **Mr, Moody, do yuu TE. member 5 member you by name.” Iresh to iny mind. north of Scotlaud, at Dundee, mother, who came, 1 remembered, from London with her tivo boys, twins, 17_years old, aud she stald there n week or two, the meeting wondered how that could bo., mel"” your “No" I sald, I ree face, but I counot call Shealso told e, and It camo When [ was T’ o frst night after AIZ CAME TO MB and sald, “Mr. Moody 1. want yvouto talk to one of my boys.” There wore a good man; inquirers,—more juguirers than workers,—and asked lier, ** Will you talk to some of these ne quirers while 1°am talking to bim{" She shrank back, ond says, *1 am not qualis fied.” “ltow long,” sald 1, ‘huve ?'uu been a Christlunt” “nr_zct what ghe said, but it was n very long time; and I sald to her, * Not qualifled to go and tell { 1ifei” She said she didn't think sho was pre- pared, sud I told lier Teould not talk to her boy. The next night shoe wna there agatn, and wanted me to talk work with others, and the Lo The next week we left for Glasgow, and she started back to Londdon with her boys. And this was the lndy that came to mo tficro that nizht in the ministers’ meetiug, and she says: #Mr, Moody, three weeks ago one of thoss deay boys died. You cannot fmngine how glad 1 :m that I took them to Dundee, 500 nlles, 0 to<lay hundreds and thousands of mothers ig Chieago were that carnest for thelr childrenl But now she says, * You are coming to LondoT, and I want to work for Christ. Can {on give me anything to doi” Bays I, *“You about our work. room and work,”” The first night I spoke Ix Agricultural Hull she was there. Ono of thosg b‘u s waa misafug, but another was seated at heg elde. but shie had o friend; snd every night I spoke in Agricultural Hall that woman was thero with a friend. ter from her. courage you: Iln%x B)l'll. Monpy: For months I have never wtarted Into & day's work uniess {‘nu and your work Tiad been wpecially prayed for, i continually moroand more, tneasure we have found has no doubt been the hap- men the way o to hier son, und she went to rd biessed her som et God's blossing.” Would to God thal oW You can’ go into the inguiry One had been stricken down by death, Along toward the close I got this let thought I would read it to en Now it pralsed What in onr little My hus- roatost d friends one by ane nd 1 thank God that I glo excoption, up to last fog from your lips, distinctly accopted present’ Savior * and “are This has nojreferonce to the You will Delleve mo ever your truu and faithful' iend, :§on' thot lady was a lndy of wealth and posi- tlon, Iittle outstle—sha took a cab and When we got to "London—she lved s LEPT ILER BRAUTIPUL ILOME, and came down and took her friends to Agricul- tursl Hull wnd worked all the thne we were there, When we weat to thoe Opera-House she was thers; when wo went to the Eust End of ILnn;lun she was thero snd when wo wereabout eaviy thut she had the names of 150 she was corrc- spondin, tiucts, that had all acceptod Christ in tho tn- quiry-rooms wuers she had been at work, Go to her and ask f the work in London was & faflure, She will tell you, A firent many critie cise it and say it was a fnilure; 5 ‘Wae lave como to Chicago to work, and if wo have help we will lift Chicago out of its dark- nesd and sin, und we will havo such a reforma- tion here as tho wvorld and talk to the people, wnte cote to the meutings, and then pray for them, What a privilegel little time, The eternal ages are gliding on and the days are gliding rapldly by, Beup and about it Suwe may say, “I would goout if T had the time.” Tuke thne. That la the wuy todo it. teen or twenty minutes o day to God. You don't know what ths yesult will be. (o among men. They are waiting for you to come. Talk to them shout Chriat. aud lead whose locks are tinged with gray may say: 41 should like to belp fu the harveat, bat what, London I got a letter fromgher, saying with, and sending them bouoks and ut the munwho 18 into the currcut of the work will confess 16 not a failure. has never seen, o out your friends to y frlends, we have but a ‘Work for God. You van take time. Give At~ Take them by the hand them to the cross. Bome of you s e e e S AT R AT RS