'We continue to receive gratifying accounts of the revival in the North.
In Edinburgh the interest in the work continues with little abatement. The
daily noonday prayer-meeting in the Free Church Assembly Hall is well attended,
never less than 1000 being present.
Dundee has been visited by Messrs.
Moody and Sankey, and the blessed results of the awakening which has followed
is felt in all the churches of that town.
They are now in Glasgow, holding
meetings there daily, and their services have attracted such congregations,
that even the large buildings where they were held have not afforded sufficient
accommodation. Each day at noon meetings have taken place in Wellington Street
United Presbyterian Church. Services have been held every evening in the Barony
Church, and the Barony Free Church; and there have also been meetings in
several other churches and halls in different parts of the city, and in the
suburbs.
The Rev. Andrew A. Bonar (Glasgow) thus describes a meeting held
one evening in the City Hall, which consisted wholly of men, invited by ticket:
"The very look of the meeting was solemnising - such a sea of faces, every face
looking at the speaker with fixed and intense earnestness. 'Except a man be
born again' was the subject. There had been much prayer offered in prospect of
this gathering of men, and it was answered. The Spirit assuredly was working,
so that from time to time the whole mass of souls seemed moved and bent down
under the truth. The hymns sung, too, appeared to have a wonderful power on
that audience of men. When at the close those were invited to remain longer who
were on the Lord's side, or wished to be, above a thousand kept their places;
and when, after four brief prayers had been offered in succession, they were
let go, a large number of anxious souls remained. Many of these last were very
deeply concerned. In short, it was one of those meetings that can never be
forgotten. ' The power of the Lord was present to heal.' "
In another
letter, Mr Bonar writes: " We heard in private many interesting cases that
cannot be published, but which will soon be felt. One, however, I may mention.
A man went to pay a debt long due; surprise was expressed at his coming on that
errand, but he explained all by saying, 'I was brought to Christ last week.' Is
not this a brother of Zacchaeus? (Luke xix. 8) We shall see speedily much more
of such fruits in all classes of society." '
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