MODEY & SANKEY'S REVIVAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 109, 7 May 1875, Page 4

MODEY & SANKEY'S REVIVAL.

I don't think (writes the London of the Auckland Star) have said anything before about ||3fcoody and Sac key, but no London would now be complete without fllome account of these extraordinary and the business they are en||jg#ged in. When these two men came l&oyer -from America some 18 months |||fgo, no one knew anything ahout them |fc&&d they were received coldly. Since gibat time, however, they have made pfi^ucQ a reputation that tbeir names are in feeyeryonb'e mouth, their photographs are pin. every booksaller'a window, and on p^eyery drawing-room table; their hymns |£iftte sung in every household, and they fJißtt amongst the lions of the season. 'y£^Lnd yet two more modest men do not live. They avoid every appearance of §| distinction, they decline society, they ||^are careless of money, they live indeed and plainly, and think, talk, and |> act about nothing but their Apostolic S^work. I say "Apostolic" advisedly, they are doing exactly what St. |s:iPaul and the early Apostles did. They If 89 about from place to place, preaching j |\-ta the largest crowds they can collect, j sf eaking individually, whenever I |^ they are able to do so, with persons who/ |£, are desirous of holding converse with! ||them. • At their meetings there is no/ If'Bhdw of excitement, no frothing at tha pjlbouth and convulsions and Bh,rieks or |s|ahy of those etupid eyraptoraß so often with revivals. Everptbii ; tir ?a quite orderly. Mr Moody, who is a fatherly. looking man, pra rs '^and gives an addres3 with imtnen le ||;ferVour and wonderlul power, and tb n "ifpMje Sankey, a very handsome fello ■, fe (Strikes up one of his hymns. Most If these are original and new to Euglisl '■■? ; eors., They are not to bo called poetry! £: ;t»,ot they are mellifluous, and jingle wefl\ if.and they are adapted to tunes of thei Miniatrel order, with choruses. ; would be astonished to hear .an |. 'immense congregation of several thou;v sands "wiring iu " to one of these chorußes, It is really most splendid, -f; and these men have splendid voices. i-: : vEyery word they utter can be heard, and 'although it comes W<ih a slight Yankee ' .twang, it *' fetches " people sooner thau v any Anglican orthodox sermon. Of the Church is awfully down on L the reviyalisjs; almost all sects seem to •■f^bbjectto them, bul — ooly where they |; ;are not known. In all places where Byithey have held meetings they have won £ respect and support. Aa for their l^'hymu tunes, they are whistled in the /;/ street?, on omnibus knifeboards, in V ; Raily/ay Stations—everywhere. What,..e>er the result of Moody and Saukey'a '■h /work may be, there iB no doubt they )'? :Jiaye done a lot of good among people J 'who uever see a paraon s face from C year's end to year's eud. In London are going to holii-a three months' \ ojmissiou. They will hold meetings in : the Agricultural 'Hall, the Italian Opera, House, and indeed in all the biggest* iV.p ; laces they can get hold of. They havrf : won the respect of tbe people, if thej „' have , not that of the bishops, prieata and deacons, and the other diy at Dub-\ lib, a rather significant circumalauce .occurred in connection with them which I will relate. — At a pantomime in that city, before a full house, Punta- , loon was made to say to Clown: — «' Howtlo y°u feel?' To which the > Clown replied, " Rather Moody and : ' Sankeymoniouß," and Pantaloon added, ;■';•'! with a grimace, "Hold tho Fort." ";^"Js was received with groans and -'hisses, and the audience on tbe moment , Btruck up the hymn of the revivalists, "Hold the Fort," and sang it uproariously right up to the end of the performance.

A rather unpleasant finish to a marriage ceremony took place (says the JSallarat btar) the other day in the :, city. The bride bad been ailing for a : few hours previous to ihe time ap- :, pointed fb&thß most interesting part of the ceremony — the tying of the connubial knot. Directly this was accomplished the fair one complained of sickness, and she was at once put to bed, and medical advice obtained. The doctor announced to the assembled \ guests at the marriage feaet that the bride was suffering from a bad, attack of measles. A letter from a miner on the Palmer diggings has recently been published in the Wakatip Mail. This is one of the cheerful iiems it nHrrates : — " One person here cleared £500 by following up the rush, digging giavea at £1 per grave. Dheetly a man diea (a common Y occurrence) there are lots of people to A l rbp;"seen hurrying towards the deceased ' "man's teat to try and find any gold ; that he might Jmvejef'. Id nioe cases - out of ten the dead body is thoroughly searched," ' A singular story of jealousy and re- * vetfge cornea to us from Sicily. A beautiful young girl named Fiorina, wlio was the belle of a travelling circus, in which she figured as the lion turner, 'had bsen for some time receiving the attention of an athlete in ihe' same troupe. By eomo means she ascertained that he was not faithful to her, but bad another lady-love. No signs, however, of her painful discovery were allowed to escape. She still smiled sweetly upon him, but responded coldly .. to his ardent caresses. Iu her own r bosom she planned a terrible revenge. One evening recently, when the ptrformance had been unusually brilliant, Rafter . Fiorina had whipped the lionk |^ndl:for.ced them to lie, at her feet, shte o§ssod ''her recreant lover aside, and saio\ Do ;. 'you still love uae?\ fe§^|jj|^''|ho^ |iißfi|ered. . "Do you

know that I should die if you. should devote yourself to another woman -?" " What an idea !" " But I should first kill you," said Fiorina. " And how would you do that ?" " Thus," cried the girl, at the same instant pushing him violently into the cage of the lions. They attacked the unfortunate man at once and tore him to pieces, while Fiorina urged them on with blows of her whip.