MOODY AND SANKEY.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 389, 10 September 1875, Page 2

MOODY AND SANKEY.

The following letter is extracted from The World, a weekly London journal, which is making no small stir in England : Franklin Square, Washington (D.C.) Sir, That dead-beat Colonel Moody, being played out on this side of the water, and finding it was no use fooling round here any longer, has, I find, gone to England, where he seems to be doing a good trade. Perhaps the enclosed extract from the Capitol, a journal published in this city by Dom Piatt, one of our best editorial writers, will interest your readers : " The Rev Colonel Moody, who is at present engaged in the cheerful pursuits of making a corner in brimstone by saving English souls by the acre, is a full-stomached gentleman of immense lung power. And yet his "head, being larger than common, o'erbalanced the rest of his fat," which means that his skull carries more adipose than intellect.

Moody—Colonel Moody, D.D. figured largely in the late war. Being an humble follower of the Christ of peace and goodwill, he roared for blood, immediate blood, and a good deal of it. And to prove his siucerity, he volunteered himself, not as a chaplain, but as a colonel of a regiment. We saw him at Camp Denison, Ohio, where the humble follower had a huge silver plated sabre at his pious side, with two immense navy revolvers, and the reverend colonel carried more loyal religion to the square inch than any swashbuckler and hot-gospeller combined of that troublesome time. It was loyal religion in the scarlet fever. His training consisted of firing his revolvers at imaginary rebels, and when his revolvers were being loaded he would " swear a prayer or two," and then to war again. It was understood by the 74th Ohio that the colonel would do all the fighting, and that he would eat all he killed, and convert to the Union and God's grace all the wounded and prisoners. When the regiment got into active service, so long as the Rev Colonel Granville Moody led, retreats were eminently successful. When fight came to be a necessity the reverend colonel would turn the command over to his lieutenant-colonel, and, retiring to some quiet spot, try tho officacy of prayer. Whenever the reverend colonel was observed retreating to the rear for a better communion with the Lord, the men knew that pounding would be the order of the day, and, inspired by patriotism, commissary whisky, and prayer, the 74th Ohio gave a good account of itself. After the war the Rev Moody divided himself between the pulpit and the stump, if indeed he made any marked difference between the two. He exacted pay from both, charging from three to five dollars for a stump speech from the pulpit, and as much money as he could get from suffering committees for an exhortation from the stump. The two articles differed only in there being fewer dirty stories in the pulpit, but the lies, denunciation, and sound were the same on all occasions. And now Granville is in England, where he is not known, pouring out theological perspiration and eternal brimstone, scaring the female Bulls into hysterical salvation. Where the corpulent old expounder is known he is regarded as a selfish, sensual, hypocritical variegator of facts. Yours, &c, AN AMERICAN.