The death of Mr. D. L. Moody, the famous American
evangelical preacher, was also announced last Saturday. Born at Northfield, Massachusetts, in 1837, he began life as a farm labourer, was engaged for a time as an assistant in a boot and shoe store at Chicago, held a preaching commission from an evangelical society during the Civil War, and in 1870 joined forces with Mr. Sankey, with whom he twice visited this country, in 1875 and 1884, Mr. Moody preaching to enormous audiences in the Agricultural Hall or Her Majesty's Theatre, while Mr. Sankey sang hymns to the accompaniment of an American organ. With little culture or refinement of thought—he used to describe the Prodigal
Son as the young man from "Palesteen" who amused hims in Egypt by driving a four-in-hand—and less theologic knowledge, Mr. Moody redeemed his intellectual shor comings by his sincerity and enthusiasm. There was, in fine, nothing of the Chadband or the Stiggins about Mr. Moody, who undoubtedly exerted a powerful and stimulating influence, not only on the masses, but on many of those who were his superiors in birth, breeding, or intellect.
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