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THE AMERICAN EVANGELISTS IN LONDON.

OUR Christian friends in America are of course looking with the deepest interest at the reports from over the sea of the result of the visit of Messrs. Moody and Sankey to our metropolis, which all who hear them can witness are no less remarkable than those which had been month after month recorded in the provinces. An article in the Congregationalist, representing these results, by the Rev. R. W. Dale, of Birmingham, successor of John Angell James, seems to have given great satisfaction in New York, from which the "Observer" selects the following extracts; and as they represent the impressions that are also passing through the minds of many observers here, they seem to us worthy of still again reprinting as a chronicle of these never-to-be-forgotten times :

"How, indeed," says Mr. Dale, "is the great interest of our people in these Revival Services to be accounted for? The truest, simplest, and most complete reply to the question which I can give is, that the Power of God has been manifested in an extraordinary degree in connection with them; but there were concurrent circumstances which also deserve notice.

"1. As I have said, I attribute very much to the attention and expectation excited by the preliminary prayer-meetings; still more to the articles in the local newspapers, describing the impressions which had been produced by Mr. Moody and Mr. Sankey in other parts of the kingdom; very much likewise to the reports of revival work' which appeared for many months in 'The Christian' and other papers, reports which convinced large numbers of religious persons that the services of our American visitors have originated a movement more remarkable than any we have seen in England since the middle of the last century. Thirty thousand copies of 'The Christian,' containing an account of the services at Manchester, were distributed in the congregations of Birmingham a week or two before Mr. Moody and Mr. Sankey came to us.

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ing public worship, many of them never crossing the threshold of church or chapel-who have had deep religious impressions, which have not issued in a clear decision to serve Christ, but which have left a dull aching of heart for God. The sense of dissatisfaction with their condition never wholly leaves them; it sometimes makes them very restless. But when they listen to the preaching of most of us, they feel as if we were moving in regions which are inaccessible to them. If they come to our places of worship, they come without any hope of receiving any help. Many of them, having found that we do not help them, never come at all. When such people heard that within a very few months thousands of men and women had declared that, while listening to Mr. Moody and Mr. Sankey, they had passed from religious indifference or despondency into the clear light of God, they began to think that for them too there might be hope. I think it probable that many of the 'converts' will be found to have belonged to this forgotten class.

"3. Then there must have been large numbers of persons in Birmingham who had relatives and friends in the towns that the American evangelists had visited before coming to us; and I have no doubt that mothers, brothers, sisters, cousins, old schoolfellows, and old shopmates wrote urgent letters to them entreating them to attend the services. At one meeting for inquirers,' I met a young man who seemed quite careless about religious thought and duty, and I asked him how it was that he remained to that meeting. He told me he had promised his friends to go to the Moody and Sankey meetings;' and he seemed to suppose that to remain to the inquirers' meeting was part of the process to which he was pledged to submit himself.

"4. After the first day or two, the services were 'advertised' in a very much more efficient manner than by newspapers or placards every evening, at the 'after-meeting,' a considerable number of persons received Christ as their 'Prince and Saviour," and, judging from those with whom I conversed, most of them went home with overflowing joy. I had seen occasional instances before of instant transition from religious anxiety to the clear and triumphant consciousness of restoration to God; but what struck me in the gallery of Bingley Hall was the fact that this