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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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eology of the movement, and in astubborn refusal to recognize the manliest fruitsof Gods Spirit apart from the formulas and proc-esses through wliich converts had arrived atthe truth. And another form of this vice wasthe unwillingness to see in Scripture any factssave such as might be used to confirm a verynarrow view of inspiration. But later in hiscareer Mr. Moody recognized Christian characterwherever he saw it, and his heart often made himaccept the cooperation of men whom his theo-logical opinions and ecclesiastical principles, if r 1 1 i c. 1 w^ ^ p^./-^^Bml B ^^^^■MHM^^K^H&lfl jK^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^Hfc^^-J ^n ^M hA ^^^^^^^^^^ ^«i B^^B SNAPSHOT OF MR. MOODY. (Taken in May, 1899, while driving to Mt. Hermon.) carried to their logical extreme, should havecaused him to spurn. He did this often despitethe protests of some of his lieutenants, who, ifthey could have had their way, would never havepermitted Henry Drummond or George AdamSmith to speak at Northfield. His catholicity of
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GENERAL VIEW OF NORTHFIELD SEMINARY BUILDINGS. (From the west bank of the Connecticut River.) 176 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REJ/IE(V OF REVIEWS. spirit and sincerity, in turn, won for him theloyal cooperation of some men of the Anglicanand Protestant Episcopal churches and the re-spect of those in other churches who believe inChristian nurture and who distrust revivals. If Mr. Moodys life was remarkable for itsfaith in God and its hope of immortality, his man-ner of leaving the world was no less so. Strickenlow with heart disease at Kansas City, he wastaken to his home in Northfield. For a time itseemed as if he might recover sufficiently to actas an administrator, if not as an evangelist. Butother bodily defects appeared, and on December22, 1899, he died. Coming out of a sinkingspell early that morning he said : If this isdeath there is no valley. This is glorious. Ihave been within the gates and I saw the chil-dren. Earth is receding. Heaven is approach-ing. God is calling me. Later he g

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