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Show The Brooklyn revivalists must bo particularly careful to avoid such expressions, ex-pressions, figures of speech and illustrations illus-trations as are oflen-dvc to true taste or reverential feeling. In his discourse dis-course of Tufcj-d.iy morning. Preacher Moody labored to show that tho Almighty Al-mighty "keeps all Ids best things locked up," so that they can only be had by "knocking;" aud in so doing these words were u.-td: "He liudj keeps the Holy Ghost locked up, and when vc want hinp wo h-vu got lo knock nnd knock and knock. And if we will keep knocking, knock-ing, we will gi t b.iiii." Now, this tui't of language can not he tolerated by right-thinking people. It reduces to pttliuoos one ol the nt'-.-t awe-inspiriucr invsterii a 'f thn ancient chnrch. Itulwid of inducing solemnity, solem-nity, it leads to levity bypulting the Godhead in a grotesque altitude. The statement its. -1 f, as made by Mr. -Moody, we would rather nut argue about. New York .Vioi, |