Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1876 — The Chicago Revival. [ARTICLE]

The Chicago Revival.

life Moody and Sankey meetings are now half through; according to fee f S fee? & Boston the Ist of January. This mornfee managere make any display of tin state wife any accuracy fee number of persons believed to have been converted. Of course that wouldn’t be equivalent, to the dumber oftterSons really converted, but it would afford some basis of calcuhU been converted during the revival meetpersons. The meetings in the inquWy-i rooms at fee Tabernacle hape beep crowded every evening. Each evening there have been 200 or more Ihqdirers. Few persons go pften to fee iaquiiy-ropm, There is almost an entirely new set each evening, During fee Week not much, if spy, leas than 1,000 different have gone into the inquiry-rooms for religious conversation wkh Mr. Mbody, Mr. flapkev, city , clergymep, and lay workers of both sexes. Quite a number 6f persons are belieVed to have been converted who have pot attended fee inquiryoi persons nave professeu to have been converted. Among these converts have S. P Bomlof ShStSVSi of means and culture and social position. A prominent young business man, waa among fee converts Friday night Ofeeht have been from different conditioo* of life, Among those who avowed, their acceptance of Christ as their Savior and Mediator in Farweil Hah, Monday bight, prosecuted vigorously under the mad. agement of Mr. C. W. Sawyer, a ireformed drunkard who came here from New York to assist Mr. Moody. Best** fee noon, meeting on Friday, which Jf reg. ularly devoted to fee cause of temperance, three meetings a day have been held foe reformed or would-be roforaed inebriated The noon meeting last Friday was addressed by an elderly Board-of-Trede man who had for many yearabesnintem, perate, but who,, under Mr. Moody’s preaching, was converted and reformed. An overflow meeting was held Ui fee lower)udl/where several othe*reformed and converted men made addresses. . The attendance at the Tabernacle was interfered with Monday night by the CX a title si excitement. The attendance tea those evenings did not sass below 5,000 except Mchday night, When fee absence Of Mr; Moody and §OO persons at Farweil Hall brought the attendance down./ to * much tower figure. The last two services Of fee week wore attended by sudieaeee rising of 7,000. The audience changes noticeably every evenuur. The regular attendant becomes familiar wife a few, TaberaaclC services during fee wetetl The noon meetings at Farweil Bali large feat both the apper and lower halls been mafetained wife undimiakhed intey«Y( favorable reports Regarding rerival work have been received from Osh* from Uie first place and !0O from fee second.— Sunday Tim m, if re. It.

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