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Show MOODY AND SANKEY. From all accounts the verdict of the London public is that Moody and Sankey have failed in their revival movement. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial wrile3 that they have- produced no religious feeling feel-ing or excitement of any kind; and that though a tow of the nobility and clergy have smiled on them, they have failed to attract the working classes, whoso attendance they made special efforts to secure. Their usual congregations aro reported to have consisted of ordinary church and chapel goers, clergymen, dissenting ministers and visitors from the country coun-try who were attracted by the novelty. Their mission has, however, revealed the lact that London can in no ordinary ordin-ary sense bo called christian. Thoir doctrines havo been met by the press with a steady storm of contempt and indignation. One writer notes the entire absence in their preaching ol any appeal to the higher feelings ot man; all the keen sensibilities of our nature were- blunted and destroyed by discourses full of the most absurd rubbish, calculated to degrade rather than to elevate. The writer adds very sensibly : Wo want a religion that bears heavily, n t only on tno uieeodiiiK aiutulue-as of sin, but on tho exeteumg niiojdny of lyiiK and st-aiing a religion that ban-islus ban-islus email oieMsiircs from tho counter, small tnitketi from the stail, pub bleb from the co'.tou bnjrs clay trom the paper, sand from tho sugar, chicory from colli e, alum from bread and water from tlio uiilk-cins. Tho religion that ig going to wve the world will uol put all th i largo strawberries on tho top and all tho small otitis at the bottom. A religion tint floes not coneidi r that forty shillibga return d for the hundred shillings giveu is according lu tue gospol, thougnt it may be according to law. It looks on a man who i. a, failed in trade, but coniinues to 1 -j in (usury, as a thiof. A writer in the London S!. James Mayazinc describes the personal appearance ap-pearance of Moody and the singing of Sankey as follows: Of Sankey 's singing it is diflku't to apeak lainy. It would not s-ooi probable prob-able that persons who can apprecia-.e 1 good singing would care to listen to a man whose voice is ULCuhivaled, and some of v.h"so notes are har-h. Yet thfiisands wuo could net patiently listen to the ringing ol a servant, sit entranced by Sankey s hymn-. Tho words are ,-o suange ad ii'.w, there is such earne-t-ncsi about the singir, that insensibly all who go ro atllcteil, and many who do not care for tho preaehing express themselves them-selves a.-toQ sh ti at the sinking. Ia Moody you see a minor short and stout man, with 'ittl) that is impressive or diguiiied. lie got a ttraight at Irs subject, sub-ject, a;:d continue it with euch rapidity that it is dillicmt to follow him. Ho makes countle-s digressions, and com-'-times leaves his subject utilimshixl. lie introduces long strings of anecdotes, occasionally oc-casionally groies'iue and al .t Oil irreverent, irrever-ent, but always eppo-sitj and elf- tive. llo keeps tho alte;.t on of i;0,nuu teople alive for thrce-quiirters of anhnu -, and when tho service is ovi-r every one wonders what there was eiriguUr or ' novel in wh.-tl he heard. Yet he goes Bgsin and again, slill : ciisining in doti1. t, though not able to d.nv tnt in |