MR MOODY AND YVETTE GUIL BERT.

Waikato Argus, Volume II, Issue 125, 24 April 1897, Page 1 (Supplement)

MR MOODY AND YVETTE GUIL BERT.

Mn Moody, the evangelist has written his opinion of Yvette Guilbeit , and Yvette Ciii'lbeit has written her opinion of }[r Moody, for the Journal of New York The dance-hall favourite visited one of the evangelist's meetings, and the evangelist studied one of her songs. In the course of her letter Yvette Guilbert says ■•-' 3lr Moody impresses inn &s a vigor >us husbandman sowing the good and healthy grain which can only produce in time an effioacio is intellectual nourishment. There should grow and come into bloom the realisation of the indispensable need that there is of making of one's conscience, oftener and more severely thm one doc now. a judre. Lit an apostle assume the mission of revealing to us our e m-tant betrayals of our neighbours and of ourselves. Let him teach us how to direct our hear s towards all that is beautiful, nob'o, generous, and good, and there shall oinu an era of pacifying sweetness. At the same time, let our s mis be <• ired for in the religious regard ; let our being be analysed and made bett-r.' She concludes with the sentinient, ' Lot all our smtiments be exposed, and let us be rescued from them.' Mr Moo.ly is much less complimentary. Hiletter" contains the following : * I have b fore me the official translation of a song that Yv.ttc Guilbert sing at the Press re-ll-jarsilto diy. A woman is supposed to say to a l-id : tin. In-Ill!; in mi u-.-t Tie mother's lii-til't for no .10-V meat. It skeins to me that the Devil himself oull not dev'.s; a more corrupting message t ) send to the city. It is hell let loose lftlurj is one thing unman that deserves t > be held sacred, it is a mother's love. And hcie we hava a French woman ciming among us with hardening and demoralisingpreft nuances, and she receives the applause of some of our leading citizeus.' Mr Moody thinks it cannot be wondered at that si many families have skeletons in their midst, when parents r.l'ow their e'lildivu to b.coaie 'sm-aied with such iniquitous tilth.'