Identifier: liveslaborsofem00naso (find matches)
Title: Lives and labors, of eminent divines ..
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Nason, Elias and J. F. Beale, Jr. (from old catalog)
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ys, who were delighted with the simplicity of tinpi Baching and the sweetness of the songs, climbed upth 3 stairs, filled the pulpit, and hung as bees in questof honey around the speaker. So large was the attend-ai ce at the churches that the Crystal Palace was atle lgth opened to the eager multitudes; and, after seventh Dusand five hundred tickets had been distributed,hi ndreds applied in vain to gain admission. At onetime the crowd, amounting to about twenty thousand,filled the whole space between the Palace and theBotanic Gardens, intent on hearing the words of theAiierican evangelists. In his preaching Mr. Moody,ui like most revivalists, was business-like, unpoetical,oiten very blunt, but thoroughly in earnest; and hisp< wer was felt not only in every family in Glasgow,but, through the press and telegraphic wires, in everypi,rt of the United Kingdom. The writer was in Glasgow a year after the departureof the evangelists, when ample time had elapsed for FAREWELL AT GLASGOW. 109
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110 LIFE OF DWIGHT LYMAN MOODY. measuring the magnitude of the work of the evangelists.Noonday prayer-meetings were still sustained, in one ofwhich a Lutheran pastor from the South of Germanytestified that a year before he had been in Glasgow, andat tended the meetings. He had been wonderfully blessedof God; and, when he returned home to his work, theLord in an extraordinary manner poured out his Spiritupon the people. Many in the villages in the neighbor-hood of his church were earnestly seeking salvation ;and he had returned to Glasgow for the reception of anew baptism, so that he could the better lead his flock.In private conversation with several of the most distin-guished clergymen of the city, one of them remarkedthat at that time, or within a space of a single twelve-month, more than three thousand people had joined theevangelical churches, and many more were ready tounite with them; another said that Mr. Moody haddone more for the cause of temperance in Scotland thanall the le

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