COMPRISING SERMONS, BIBLE READINGS, TEMPERANCE ADDRESSES, AND PRAYER-MEETING TALKS. Delivered in the Boston Tabernacle, BY D. L MOODY From the Boston Daily Globe Verbatim Reports, Carefully Revised and Corrected. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY REV. JOSEPH COOK. “Behold I bring you Glad Tidings of Great Joy, which shall be TO ALL PEOPLE."-Luke II. 10. NEW YORK: E. B. TREAT, 805 BROADWAY. L. T. PALMER & CO., CHICAGO: W. S. FORSHEE & CO., CINCINNATI: EBEN SHUTE, BOSTON. C 1291.47.25 ✓ THE BOSTON DAILY GLOBE. ANNOUNCEMENT. MOODY'S SERMONS in Boston have been reported in the Boston Daily Globe, and so many thousands of our readers have evinced a desire to have these complete and authentic reports brought out in book form, that we have made arrangements with Mr. E. B. TREAT, of New York, the well-known publisher, to bring out the Daily Globe edition of these Sermons. Mr. MOODY himself has said, in regard to the Daily Globe Reports, that he never had been so well reported in any part of the world by any newspaper. Mr. TREAT will be furnished with all of our reporters' notes. The few mistakes that may have occurred in the unavoidable haste, necessary to present those reports the next morning after delivery in readable shape, will be corrected, and omissions, for want of space on "crowded" days, will be given in this book. The general excellence and uniform accuracy of the Globe reports, have been appreciated by thousands of people throughout New England, and we feel sure all will be anxious to secure and treasure up a bound copy of these earnest, vigorous and effective sermons. BOSTON, March 27, 1877. THE GLOBE PUBLISHING CO. HARVARD UNIVERSITY. JAN 15 1935 COPYRIGHT, E. B. TREAT. EVANGELISM IN BOSTON. BY REV. JOSEPH COOK. IN the city of Edinburg the American evangelists who are now in Boston never had a hall that would seat over 1500. They reached the Scottish metropolis November 22, 1873, and left it January 21, 1874. They have now been here as long as they were in Edinburg. It will always be incontrovertible that a structure which holds from 6000 to 7000 people has been opened in Boston for religious audiences, and that week after week for two months, on every fair day, and often twice or thrice a day, when an undiluted Christianity has been proclaimed there, this Boston building has been filled to copious overflowing. What other cause would have filled it as often and as long? This is the large question which Edinburg and London, Chicago and San Francisco, will ask. As a help to an interior view of Massachusetts and its capital, it is not improper for me to state, what the evangelists themselves could not, perhaps, with propriety say publicly, that their opinion is that in Boston the average result of their work has been better than it was in Edinburg. Both the evangelists have expressed, with detailed reasons and emphasis, that opinion to me, and neither of them has asked me to state the opinion publicly. Harvard and Yale both strenuously opposed George Whitefield, and now both regret their opposition. Did you notice that the revered president of Boston University was reported as having silenced a group of critics at the obsolescent Chestnut-street Club the other day, by an invulnerable indorsement of the general character of the religious work now being performed in this city? This indorsement came from a scholar of whom it can be said, as I think it cannot be of any other New England president of a college, that before he finished his yet recent German studies he had written in German an elaborate work on religious science, abreast of the latest thought. Boston University, led by this incomparable scholar of the freshest and severest German training, is as cordial toward the American evangelists as the great University of Edinburg was. When Phillips Brooks appears in the tabernacle, the culture of Boston and the students of Harvard are there. Of course Harvard University differs from Edinburg University in its religious attitude; and for that fact there are reasons, prolonged, historic, adequate, but, thank God, of waning force! When James VI. was sixteen years of age, in 1582, Edinburg University was founded; and it was fed from the Scottish Universities of St. Andrews and Glasgow, which began their stalwart career before America was discovered. University life in Scotland had venerableness when Harvard was yet in the gristle. It has had a longer time than Harvard in which to judge creeds by the law of the survival of the fittest. It is wiser, therefore; but Harvard one day will be wise under that law. Are there any points of superiority in this religious awakening to that which occurred in Boston in the days of Whitefield? It must be admitted that there ! |