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Show GENERAL. Tho Evana:lieiil Seliro at Hie lAejirl or t lie l urcijeuerate HrooUly liiles. New York, 4. The usual throng filled tho Brooklyn rink tuia evening, and hundreds were, unable to get in. Alter singing by Mr. Sankey, Mr. Moody preached an clequent sermon: text, "tieek the Lord whilo he is near," oSth chapter of Isaiah. tLo rebuked the audience for want of earnestness; said he had grown tired of the hallheartedness which was exhibited. ex-hibited. He gave many examples of what men could do by being terribly in earnest. He closed his sermon with an account of a conversation of a young wile iu Newcastle, England, Eng-land, who at first said she didn't want to be a christian. She attended the meetings a week aud then said alio wanted to be saved, and was saved. He had received a letter from her husband telling him that she had I Bince died, and that she naci ucvoteu the last days of her lite to Jesus' I work. "When I read that letter," I said Mr. Moody, "I thanked God. that I had gone to England." Alter' ringing and tho closing prayer, the congregation was dismissed. Enquiry En-quiry meetings were afterwards held in Simpson M. E. Church. |