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Clutha Leader, Volume 1, Issue 52, 8 July 1875, Page 3

Aitho' a large number of the home papers write approvingly of the work carried on by Messrs MoodieandSankie, not a few take exception to " free and easy" and irreverent manner in which things and names hitherto regarded as sacred, are being treated. Others regard the whole movement as sacreligious and,, fanatic. \ For example, the ' World ' writes :- — We ask in the name of common sense and of religious decency, whether an bffort- ought not to be made to prevent; the contagion of fanaticism from spreading, or whether we are; without a struggle,- to resign ourselves to the spiritual rule of men who would replace the sober, reverential religious services wtich have satisfied us until now by orgies which befit rather a lunatic -asylum, than a place of Christian worship, arid .who would have us believe in therri because, at some future day, they will perhaps work miracles. The plague is raging through- ' .out,the country. , In Liverpool, we are told, quite a numberj of tne telegraph boys are enquiring the ways to Zion. Manchester is being visited from house

• - • \ r^~- — r~— : — t -—- — .. .. ;. . ; " to house,... ,^ ; eyan^list^,^iiffHi|liJ!: 71}01|.5f65th7,7; ITn.1 Tn. Dublin |k pweetsiy" meeting' ii ilield.;i yJlerkenwell%Ned' addresses , Jftrge pongregatipns ;; JBendigp, ihe^e^ . champion, roams rfijpmr to wpt^tjOsrtoKn.-i In Deptford,/a:bja^^^ be^Mi ttirnea out. of every public house 1 in the' place,.! a converted prize-fighter^ an old man,. | San s an old woman'. /oyer, .'eighty,, a; working woman, who bursts ;intp.,tears .as^shej requests .prayer -for her unsaved : and a yoking 1 man, who, cori-l' fessei: to h'avihg> -been -the drunkard^nd blackguard in the, east of,] Lpndqn^tell' how ■ they have 'been .brought io'tho Lord./' As. usual, appeals ; for alii in the good work are numerous. , Emily Judson, Wall asks fpr f tbß prayers,, of the; elect on. behalf of the beggars of ;Rdme, to/whom. she.gi,ves,four. sows, each, on 'condition' that they listen to, ottr expositions. George; M. Dowkoutt- wants 7 a fund to be entrusted to: him in order to minister to the sfpiritua;! }Wants of the \ sailors' starting in u the Arctic Expedition. ; Agnes B. Weston,,, who is engaged in the good work/at Devonport, has always 'had. r.H&Y • "wants supplied without being obliged to incut .debt, and now.rebuires ?;L500. ; . This.practicaL lady says' llrat/ sh<B does not believe in the conversion of a man \ unless \ his' pocket is converted.- The Moody and Sankey Committee, which .already has received £12,000, asks fpr £6000 more. Perhaps one pf the most '.absurd incidents in the revival has been the notification on the part of the.solicitpr/s of thcevangelists, that anyone -venturing to publish a. verbatim report of their' speeches would be prosecuted for an infringement of , This, gives the measure of/tJie essentially commercial character of the movement. The idea pf a clerk in a Boston boot store arriving in England, to ..convert its inhabitants with a copyrighted assortment'of prayers, a "sweetoned" organ and a ".friend who can sing," is. exquisitely ludicrous.