Eton itself does not seem to have been in much
danger of instantaneous conversion. At least the Mayor of Windsor had to withdraw his permission to use the Town Hall for the American Revivalists, on the representation of the police that Eton had been investing its pocket-money in eggs for the occasion ; so the meeting was actually held in the garden of Mr. Cayley, a Windsor linendraper who lives just opposite the Town Hall. Between 150 and 200 Etonians were present. Mr. Sankey sang one of his most effective hymns,—" The Wander- ing Sheep,"—and Mr. Moody seems to have delivered one of his least eccentric addresses, very earnest, and only a little quaint, as when he told the boys that they might never again meet him on the shores of time, but that they certainly would in a place where there was no parting, if they acted in accordance with the teaching of the Gospel. How much would an average Eton boy be attracted, we wonder, by the prospect of never-ending intercourse with Mr. Moody 4n the eternal world ? It is not in evidence that any Eton boy was converted, but it is pretty certain that none of them was rendered at all less fit for occupying eventually a seat in the House of Lords, by the solemnity.
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