. Review of reviews and world's work. ublicspeaker ever lived, unlessit were Wendell Phillips,who was so solicitous of thewelfare and respect of thereporters of the daily press,or did so much in a properway to get and keep on theright side of newspapers,and this without abating inany way his criticisms ofwhat he believed to be someof the evils of journalism. In planning for an evangelistic campaign in anycity, one of his first instructions to the local com-mittee was to prepare the way in the press, andafter he had begun woik he fostered with deliberate device every means of preaching to the l
. Review of reviews and world's work. ublicspeaker ever lived, unlessit were Wendell Phillips,who was so solicitous of thewelfare and respect of thereporters of the daily press,or did so much in a properway to get and keep on theright side of newspapers,and this without abating inany way his criticisms ofwhat he believed to be someof the evils of journalism. In planning for an evangelistic campaign in anycity, one of his first instructions to the local com-mittee was to prepare the way in the press, andafter he had begun woik he fostered with deliberate device every means of preaching to the largermultitude who, if they could not enter his meet-ings, might be won to read about them. This hedid because he saw the force of the plan looking atit from the theoretical standpoint, and also be-cause he had known so many people to testify thatreports of his sermons delivered, say, in London,Boston, or Chicago, had been read by them in --p. f INTERIOR VIEW OF THE NOKTHFIELD AUUITOItlTM. 172 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REJ/IEW OF Copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch. PAUL D. MOODY. Copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch. WILLTAM R. MOODY THE TWO SONS OF THE L,ATE MR. MOODY remote country districts or on the frontiers ofcivilization, and that the reading had changed thetenor of tlieir lives. Mr. Moodys printed sermons probably comenext to Spurgeons in their total circulation, andthe demand for them is perennial and Colportage Library was one of his laterthoughts, and it already has listed nearly eightytitles of books by Mr. Moody, Spurgeon, F. , John McNeill, R. A. Torrey, AndrewMurray, and other evangelists. These little booksare issued in English, German, Swedish, and Dan-ish-Norwegian, and sell for a moderate sum. TheNorthfield Ecliocs carries to Christian workersthroughout the world the stenographic reports ofthe addresses delivered at Northfield each sum-mer. Mr. Moody did not pretend to be a writerhimself, but he knew how to utilize men whocould write, an
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