Messrs. Moody and Sankey have begun their Revivalist cam- paign
in London at the Agricultural Hall, Islington,—which will hold, it is said, some 20,000 people,—for evening preaching ; and at Exeter Hall for noon-day prayer-meetings. We have given else- where our impression of the weak and strong points of these evidently sincere and devout, if somewhat narrow-minded men; and expressed our belief that at present they are attracting not the kind of people amongst whom they might do most good, but rather those who are already under influences as good or better, and probably more discriminating, than the in- fluence of the American Revivalists. It is said that Messrs. Moody and Sankey deal at times in very violent pictures of the agonies of the lost. If so, they carefully avoided that sort of blue-fire in their introductory services, and we hope they may be very frugal in their use of it in future. Mr. Moody harps very much on the theme that great as London is, God is greater, and can move it if He will,—a true view, but not one calculated to make him quite so confident as he seems to be of success ; for it implies, of course, that it may be possible to move London with- out moving it through God, but rather through influences by no means wholly divine. And we submit that the free use of blue-fire would be, whether successful or not, a method of this description.
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