. Review of reviews and world's work. hatthe appraisal still has weight, even after due dis-count is made for any elements of gratitude andaffection that may have been in it. If the wording of Professor Drummonds ap- between science and religion, and incidentally praisal is carefully noted, it will be seen that serving as confessor to intellectually perplexed it was just and discriminating. The biggest Protestant souls—to more of these, probably, human —which he did say—is quite a different than any man of this century. estimate from the greatest man —which he did Of these but three survive—Fa
. Review of reviews and world's work. hatthe appraisal still has weight, even after due dis-count is made for any elements of gratitude andaffection that may have been in it. If the wording of Professor Drummonds ap- between science and religion, and incidentally praisal is carefully noted, it will be seen that serving as confessor to intellectually perplexed it was just and discriminating. The biggest Protestant souls—to more of these, probably, human —which he did say—is quite a different than any man of this century. estimate from the greatest man —which he did Of these but three survive—Fairbairn, Booth. not say. That which Drummond and every other 164 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REI^IEIVS. discriminating observer saw raised to the «thpower in Mr. Moody was a profound solicitudefor the betterment of his fellow-men. His heartand his will were greater than his reason or hisconstructive imagination. Yearning for souls,he put forth unremitting effort to win themthrough the declaration of what he deemed to be. Courtesy of McClures Magazine. MR. MOODY AT SEVENTEEN. (At the time when he left the farm to go to Boston.) the truth, and to state that truth couched inhomely speech and in tones of pathetic and oftendramatic power—sucli was his chief function insociety. This solicitude found expression in so manydifferent ways during the years that intervenedbetween his birth of the spirit, as he calledit, in Boston in 1856 and his death in the placeof his birth. East Northfield, Mass., on December22, 1899, tha,t it is quite impossible to class himwith any evangelist of any prior epoch of theChristian Church. He had a ballast of common, sense which kepthim from emotional excesses such as Whitefieldindulged in. lie had an organizing executivepower which led him early in liis career to organ-ize the work of the inquiry-room as no evangel-ist before him ever had done. This led later tothe creation and equipment of three education-al institutions, the establishmen
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