MOODY AND SANKEY LONDON.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 192, 3 August 1875, Page 4

MOODY AND SANKEY LONDON.

HOWjTHE PRINCEBS OF WALES VISIffED THE REVIVALISTS. J A correepoodeDt of the Otago L aily spt»ie3 writes ; — As time elapses, tiie wonderful work of Messrs Moody and Sankey iD Loo don, far from decrea ing, shows a surprising and steady mc sase. Services are now held daily in her Majesty's Opera Houße, Hnymai ket; the Agricultural Hall, Islington; land in a large new wooden hall erected! for tf)Q purpose in the East End. Tlere are also several smaller pUces in qonejaat requisition for the same purpW, and the number of people thus daily brought under the sound of the GoeLrJ nieasoge must be about 50,000. U_!t the same time a gratifying increase Has taken pUce in the attendance at malty of the churches in the neighborhood bf the principal places where the evangelistic services are held. At the Opefla House Mr Moody has had crowds If fashiouahie hearers. Among them fc the Duchess of Sutherland, who goefe almost doily, and by special permission occupies ihe royal box. One day, beforl this, favor was accorded fo her, shl asked the Committee if they wouid reserve a seat next day for "a ladji friend" of hers. The request wa3 gladly acceded to, but somehow it oozed out that the Princess of Wales was thd * lady friend '* in question, and thf royal box was prepared. The Princes* came a full half-hour before the meet!ing began, and remained till the closJ. Mr M.oody spoke with great power oh the subject of "Grace," and the Pr ioceis at one part of bis address seemed to iL considerably affected. Mr Sanke/'a singing of " The Lost Sheep" also dppeared to go home to her he*t. Among6t the number of other exalied and famous personages who have gine to the meetings is Mr Gladstone, \jbo went on Suuday, the 25th April,! to the Agricultural Hall, and was accommodated with a seat on the platform. At the East End Hall Mr Moody Ld frequently complained of Cbristikos with leisure taking up all iho best sekte, while the working people had to but up with the farther otf eeate, whereAin cooßtquence of their hearing bertig deadened by working at ear-splittiig trades, many of them could not hear \t all. To remedy thie^ Mr Moody o«% day, to the surprise of everyone, madeS his appearance at the end of the half farthest from the platform, and spoke there. It is to be hoped the ieaaon was not thrown away. I cannot at. fcauapt to do more ih&u simply refer to

Messrs Moody and Sankey'a labors in London. To do more, I should require at least two columns of your apace. But the almost unanimous testimony of friends and foes is alike — that they are doing a great work, and it is therefore most gratifying to hear that, in spite of much opposition, it is steadily pro* greasing. Mr Moody, lam told, is quite awed at the rapidly-growing magnitude of the results.