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Title: A full history of the wonderful career of Moody and Sankey
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Goodspeed, E. J. (Edgar Johnson), 1833-1881
Subjects: Moody, Dwight Lyman, 1837-1899 Sankey, Ira David, 1840-1908 Evangelistic work
Publisher: New York, H. S. Goodspeed & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ted men in theworld, and if you can get them to quit it, they make the bestChristians. Oh, if this evil has got hold of you, go down onyour knees and ask God to help you. He was followed by Mr. Warner, the President of the YoungMens Christian Association of Philadelphia, who spoke uponthe work going on in that city. He said, That man Moodygave us more work than we can do; the meetings continuedto be full and the interest was not dying out. The meeting was formally adjourned, but all who wished tohear a few words from two working men, reformed drunkards,from the Phelps Mission, were invited to remain, and the wholeaudience kept their seats. Perhaps no words had more effectthan those spoken by these two men, who had been through thewhole range of wretchedness and abasement which drunkennesscould create and still retained a spark of manliness on which tobuild hope for the future. There was an unusually large attendance at the noonprayer-meeting. There is no better indication of the great
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THE WORK OF GRACE IN NEW YORK. 505 interest taken in this revival than the fact that such numberscontinue to go at this inconvenient hour. One wonders thatthere are so many who think it possible to leave their worldlyinterests for an hour at midday, or so many women who do notfeel that their small duties at home are too imperative. Manyof them come in on the early trains from the country, carryingtheir satchels, and they are the ones, perhaps, who evince bytheir faces and eager manner the most vital interest in thesemeetings. Mr. Moody, who speaks as readily and impressively at theprayer-meetings as he does to the crowds who assemble in theafternoon and evening, made to-day an address on Thanks-giving. He said that after praising God, and praying to Himday and night for weeks, the time seemed already to havecome to give thanks for the evidence they had had, that theprayers had reached the Throne of Grace. Many instanceswere given of what seemed direct answers from God to theseprayersâ

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