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Show MOODY AND SANKEY. Tlie revival campaign has commenced com-menced in Brooklyn, under the auspices aus-pices of Moody and Sankey. A fiood deal of curiosity or interest, or both, appears to be manifested, and it ia not unlikely that a considerable excitement ex-citement may bo worked up. ' These evangelists, as they call themselves, are now the fashion, having the prestige pres-tige of a nominally success ml English En-glish season, and they have obtained also the influence and patronage of the resident clergy of Brooklyn. Moody's preaching ia altogether of the sensational order, and Sankoy is simply a powerful singer. Aided by a large and well selected chorus, the musical programme is probably the greatest attraction to tho majority of listeners. Moody seems to possess a certain degree of magnetism which enables him to carry the crowd with him in his exciting appeals. But after all, the success of Moody and Sankey rests not so much in their personal qualities or abilities, as in the moral and physical conditions which they are now able lo secure preliminary to their acceptance of an engagement in any locality. They require a union of the evangelical clergy and churches in behalf of their mission. They must have the public mind prepared for their reception, and their rules must be Btrictly observed. ob-served. They pull all the wires, while the religious community sustain them by their influence and aid. They would no more open revival exercises without thin preparation and support than a materializing spiritualistic spiritu-alistic medium would go before an audience without tho dark cabinet. Wo do not criticise this phase of the movement; only note it its a leading char acterie Lie. Of course there is more or less human machinery necessary neces-sary to carry on every religious movement; move-ment; but the question will ariao in the sceptical mind how far the results obtained are involved in and a part of this machinery. The World in a recent re-cent article on moJern revival movements move-ments says. A now prominent bishop in tho Protectant Pro-tectant Epifcoi a! church, who b gan his career as a Conregalional eluryitarj, and f.erwnrd took KpUcopal cnJera, has said that revivals w. re purely a matter mat-ter of manulactur", nd he knew, for lie had b'-eri a parlicpa criminiy in 'get-tingthem 'get-tingthem un." Tu essential rotjuUitea are, in part, aa follows: Cool, or cold weather (nearly all tho grt-at revivals have been in winter), kn immense crowd, and in the closest contact, in a well-war well-war mod church or hall. A recent writer in the (Jalaxy, who U a professor in a tho'-'logical seminary, thus describes one of Elder Knapp's gnthcrings: '"Ifio church was stuifed like a match-box. tho worshippers cmnming the aisles and erewding tho corridors." The bishop above quoted remirkpd that with tuch conditions a very ordinary orator might produce a revival, with "conve-sioinj," and even occasional cares of convulsions in a crowd, when with a thinly scait. rerl audienco in a odd and barn- ikn building, build-ing, lik aoin- o' Lli old country church os in Mew EngKnd, "St. Paul hiimelf might preach all dty without producing the east impression." The Dower of saying terrible things in an ek")uent wij is a great auxiliary. Kcvivansls present "iho urrors of the L-ird; the tempest, flro and smoke." Th'-y frighten unholievrs into an etlort to "take tbe kingdom of heaven by violence" vio-lence" :o choose the bolter way, not bo-cause bo-cause it u tho b'-Hur way, bnt Mjlitly to keep out of the roid lo hell. Their converts, con-verts, consequently, are o' various clnsmn; such, for in lance, as those who ro-olvo by a future lite of self-incrilice. morti fication ol th" Il-sh and tho avoidance of every wor dly pie iMire, to purchuso future hnppinesd. "Cliildo Humid" de-crib-B this clans a. Ih-n-.u "who hope to merit heav n by making i-arth a hell." Another class ure-"earrn d away by iheir fueling"," and generalJy it rMjuirea but a few davs or weeks to tiko tlie-'n bn k again. Tbon there the Urge and pe-riodicay,"convert':d' pe-riodicay,"convert':d' ' dus, who hnvo relijcitus "j-pells," and who, ns ilood putu it, "tiiink they are pioUu whun t-:ey areonly bilious. Hard times uro favonih'o to Iho ell'orts which Moody aid Sankey will make. SuU'eiing breftds lonijiv item in all but the ttou eat heart, nd wher whole coin-mnniti-s aro ui.aerg.iing lUri like that which tho present curron -y, tarilt' ai.d heavy tuxa ion aro inlliciinir upon tho people of tho Umt'd State, nieh'a hearu aro accessible to emotional appealo which they w uld bu steeled utaiiipt in pr.'ip-riiy. Wndifig through iho deep waUjra of aHliclioii Or adversity, they liitf-n eagerly to prom i 03 of Divine uccor. |