. Christian herald and signs of our times . ed. On Sunday afternoonsCarnegie Music Hall, immense as it is,does not contain a third of the people. large church is crowdedfrom the overflow, and on Nov. 29. afterthat and the Central Presbyterian Churchhad both been filled, a crowd sufficientlylarge to fill another great church wentaway, unable to gain access to either ofthe three buildings. It is significant that there is nothing ofa sensational character in the services toattract such an enormous number of peo-ple. They come to hear the plain Gospel,presented by a plain man making
. Christian herald and signs of our times . ed. On Sunday afternoonsCarnegie Music Hall, immense as it is,does not contain a third of the people. large church is crowdedfrom the overflow, and on Nov. 29. afterthat and the Central Presbyterian Churchhad both been filled, a crowd sufficientlylarge to fill another great church wentaway, unable to gain access to either ofthe three buildings. It is significant that there is nothing ofa sensational character in the services toattract such an enormous number of peo-ple. They come to hear the plain Gospel,presented by a plain man making no pre-tensions to oratory, but telling the oldstory of the Cross in homely but mostconvincing fashion. Doubtless many aredrawn by the hope of hearing Mr. Sankeysthrilling solos, but in these, too. the Gospelof Christ is the burden of the song, andthe rapt faces and falling tears, which areseen in all parts of the Hall while issinging, are the response to thesame message set to music, which has presented in his sermon. A. WE WANT TO ILLUMINATE CHRISTIANITY. Tactical effect of Mr. Moodys preachingras given in a letter covering a $100 bill,eceived by Controller Fitch. The writeraid it rightfully belonged to the city, ande had been moved to send it by hearingIr. Moody preach. Among the illustrative anecdotes whichMr. Moody has used in the course of hisservices were the following: Preaching by Candlelight. When I was a young man and preachedout in the West—I was a commercial trav-eler then—I would go into a little townand hold a meeting in a log school-house,and some old gentleman would say: Thisyoung brother from Chicago will speakhere this evening at early the first person that came would bringan old dingy lantern and stick it up on abench—and even an old lantern with a lit-tle oil and a wick, you know, gives out con-siderable light after all on a dark night—and the next person that came, an oldwoman perhaps, would bring a sperm can-dle
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