. The great American book of biography . y and .Sankeys Gospel Hymns was compiled. Ior the past twenty years and more Mr. Moody has continued to livethe life of an evangelist, and has visited many cities and towns all over theUnited .States, he also has gone over into Canada, and again visited 1886 he invited the Colleges of the United .States and Canada to senddelegates to a .Summer School of College Students at Mt. Hermon, nearXorthfield. This and other conventions at Northfield have been attendedby many hundreds, who have been addressed by Mr. Moody himself, and b)distinguished a
. The great American book of biography . y and .Sankeys Gospel Hymns was compiled. Ior the past twenty years and more Mr. Moody has continued to livethe life of an evangelist, and has visited many cities and towns all over theUnited .States, he also has gone over into Canada, and again visited 1886 he invited the Colleges of the United .States and Canada to senddelegates to a .Summer School of College Students at Mt. Hermon, nearXorthfield. This and other conventions at Northfield have been attendedby many hundreds, who have been addressed by Mr. Moody himself, and b)distinguished and practiced speakers and workers from at home and the time of tin- Columl)ian Iair he organized a system of religious meetingsto be held in Chicago during the continuance of the exhibition. Hundreds ofthousands thus came under the influence of the ereat evaniielist. ■ 1 1 ^^H ^H^ l^ittfcJ.^AiS^PP^wiPIIP I 1 ^1 1 ^^^^^1 ^^^^^K^KL^. H IP B^^!^K^iti^£S^^^^^^^^B k -s; p WSK^^joJ^^^M 1 Hl2j^^^^_ JL. ^H 1 WILLIAM LLOYD WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, THE QREAX ANTI-SLAVERY AQITATOR. HE long struggle over slavery in the United States devel-oped two characters which were a curious contrast to eachother,—Calhoun and Garrison ; the man who believed that slavery was divinely right, and who would sacrifice thei Union to establish it, and the man who believed slaveryeternally wrong, and who would sacrifice the Union to de-stroy it. Calhoun died ten years before the great war bywhich the long debate was at last ended ; but to Garrisonit was given to see the final triumph of freedom. Historyrecords no more impressive scene than that which tookplace after the fall of Charleston, when Garrison stood besidethe grave of the great advocate of slavery. There were the victor and the van-quished. In these two men were embodied the opposing moral forces whoseconflict had brought about the great struggle. The cause to which Calhounslife had been devoted was overthrown at the cost of
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