of the Philadelphia meetings, half-intoxicated, but, having still a sense of his need for help, he tried to rise for prayers. His condition was so evident that those who were near him pulled him down, thinking his conduct almost blasphemous; but he persisted in standing up, and as the drunkenness passed away, he persisted in seeking the Saviour. On his way home that night his soul was gloriously filled with the grace of God, of which his life thus far gives good evidence. And since that night he declares he has been entirely free from the appetite for strong drink.

The final meeting, at which Mr. Moody gave his farewell charge to the converts of the revival, was held on Friday evening, February 4, 1876. Three thousand persons of this class received tickets of admission, but it is impossible to estimate the number of those who had been blessed by means of the revival who lived out of the city, or for other reasons could not be present.

Before the sermon Mr. Moody took up a collection in aid of the new building of the Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association, amounting to one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. The cost of fitting up the building and of carrying on the meeting was about thirty-five thousand dollars, all of which was cheerfully contributed.

Some interesting statistics have been preserved of the meeting at the Depot Church. The aggregate attendance from November 21, 1875, to February 4, 1876, was one million and fifty thousand. On one Sunday twenty-eight thousand different people were in attendance. In a single week a committee of ladies gave out nineteen thousand tickets to women for afternoon, and men for evening Sunday services, all of whom gave their names and addresses as persons who were not Christians. The average daily attendance was twentytwo thousand people.

On Monday evening, February 7, 1875, Messrs. Moody and Sankey opened their memorable revival services in the Hippodrome, at New York. This immense one-story structure,

covering a whole square, was originally the depot of the Harlem and New Haven Railroads; then it became famous as Barnum's Hippodrome; later it was used for Gilmore's monster concerts. When Mr. Varley, from England, preached here, some time before, there was a menagerie in another part of the building, and the roar of wild beasts sometimes mingled with the sound of prayer and praise. The Executive Committee secured this place for the meetings at a weekly rental of fifteen hundred dollars, and the preparations cost about ten thousand dollars.

The chairman of the Executive Committee, Mr. William E Dodge, and his efficient helpers, had studied the requirements of the occasion, and by wisdom borrowed from the meetings elsewhere, and a liberal use of money and labor, they transformed the huge structure into a most complete revival tabernacle.

Before the close of the first week the aggregate daily at`tendance reached twenty thousand, and nearly two thousand inquirers were daily seeking the way of life. Mr. Moody preached the same sermons as at previous meetings, though it was noticed that he preached with more power than in Brooklyn. Then it was a momentous experiment; now it was and assured success.

One notable feature of the meetings was, the hold they took upon "the brown-stone-front people," as one minister called them; and another feature, not less notable, was their influence upon the lowest classes of society.

Among other mighty works of God in this revival was the conversion of a confirmed opium-eater, from whom the Spirit of God has driven out that horrible devil, leaving no traces of an appetite which is supposed to be unconquerable and the next strongest thing to death.

The Friday noon prayer-meeting at the Hippodrome was a temperance prayer-meeting, and the Rev. Mr. Hepworth, who had charge of the requests for prayers, says that more requests came in to pray for drunkards than for any other class of persons.

Among the striking cases of reformation was that of an Englishman, who described himself as having led a very fast life in London for ten years, breaking all the commandments, and being at length obliged to leave the country to escape punishment of the law. For several weeks before he had been under deep conviction of sin, and had resolved to turn moralist, with the hope of quieting his conscience. "I resolved," said he, "and failed. The appetite for drink was stronger than I was. At length I thought I would try an experiment, and speak the name of Jesus every time the appetite came over me; and the name of Jesus, though I prayed in no other form, saved me from my old enemy for several weeks." The man was soon after clearly converted at one of Mr. Moody's meetings.

A few days before the close of the services Mr. Moody received another “Thank Offering" on behalf of the Young Men's Christian Association at New York. There was no apparent effort, no persuading, no urging, but the money was. given as a privilege-bushels of it. Private subscriptions by thousands were made, one of them for fifty thousand dollars, the entire amount raised being about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which lifted the Association out of debt.

The record of conversions has never been made public; but at the farewell meeting there were about five thousand persons who came in with "convert's tickets," while the number of those from abroad who were blessed at occasional meetings and were not able to be present would give the evangelists almost another ten thousand souls for Christ."

CHICAGO AND BOSTON.

After a summer of rest Mr. Moody and his friend, Mr. Sankey, with a considerable band of trained Gospel workers, commenced, on the first day of October, 1876, the Chicago revival campaign.

The fact that these Gospel meetings have outgrown the church architecture of their times, and that, for the sake of securing them, it has come to be the custom to erect large