REV. MR. SHELTON'S ADDRESS

Mr. Moody's Missionary Meetings have been a marvel in their
conception, in their remarkably large audiences and in the still
more remarkably able and interesting class of speakers--some of them
from distant mission fields. They show how broad and many-sided is
Mr. Moody's mind and heart.

At the meeting held August 8th, Rev. C.W. Shelton, the Financial
Secretary for Indian Missions of the American Missionary
Association, was invited to address the meeting. We condense from
the Springfield Union an outline of Mr. Shelton's stirring address,
and its effect upon Mr. Moody and others in attendance, with the
practical results.

The most stirring address of the morning was delivered by Rev. Chas.
W. Shelton of New York City, on the Indian problem. He stated the
problem with simplicity and dignity, but when he got worked into his
theme, he became eloquent in his description of the position of the
Indian people and their strong desire to receive the gospel. While he
was illustrating his argument with pathetic incidents in his
experience, there were many of his audience in tears.

The speaker described the Indians themselves; their first
characteristic was the deep religious nature which swayed their whole
life. They prayed oftener and more fervently than Christians,
worshipping everything that was unknown and mysterious; of which the
saddest thing was that the Indian's gods were all gods of anger,
involving sacrifices. To show the extent to which the Indians would
sacrifice themselves to appease their god's anger, a very touching