A full history of the wonderful career of Moody and Sankey . MOODY AND SANKEY IN AMERICA. 267 metes and bounds which cannot be disregarded in the presenta-tion of religious truths and the expression of religious sentimentsand emotions. Within these limits the advocate or exhorter isinvested with a grandeur of personal dignity which belongs tothe man who is saturated with his belief, and who, in utter .un-consciousness of self, is rapt in the contemplation of what heconceives to be the absolute and awful truth. These limitsoverstepped for an instant or by a word, and his power is p
A full history of the wonderful career of Moody and Sankey . MOODY AND SANKEY IN AMERICA. 267 metes and bounds which cannot be disregarded in the presenta-tion of religious truths and the expression of religious sentimentsand emotions. Within these limits the advocate or exhorter isinvested with a grandeur of personal dignity which belongs tothe man who is saturated with his belief, and who, in utter .un-consciousness of self, is rapt in the contemplation of what heconceives to be the absolute and awful truth. These limitsoverstepped for an instant or by a word, and his power is pathos and bathos the difference is less than of a letter •>the step is that one from the sublime. It should not be forgotten by the leaders in this revivalmovement that religion is by no means all emotional; that itrests on reason and common sense, which its ministers and mis-sionaries must not affront by lack of logic, or shock by shallowillustrations and weak appeals. The attitude and act of prayer are beyond all other thingsin life invested with so
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