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...porch, asks Mrs. Maurrant to come down and have a chat. ''Well, maybe I will," says Mrs. Maurrant. She withdraws from the window frame and while she is coming downstairs Mrs. Jones asks Mrs. Fiorentino if it isn't awful, the way Mrs. Maurrant is carrying on with that Sankey, who collects money for the Borden milk people. Mrs. Maurrant appears and there is banal chatter. Mr. (Third Floor) Buchanan, whose wife is in laboring pains, says a few words. Mrs. Jones admonishes him to give Mrs. Buchanan plenty of food, 'Remember, she's got two to feed...
...Next morning stagehand Frank Maurrant leaves for Stamford, a show is trying out there. Mrs. Maurrant tells Sankey, her lover. He goes upstairs. The curtains are drawn. Sammy Kaplan sees Sankey go upstairs, sees the shade lowered...
...lively, vibrant, domineering. Such are qualities religious chiefs since Mohammed have had. They stir their crowds; they tingle their emotions; they daze their thoughts; they get. adulation and money. Joseph Smith and Brigham Young did that with the Mormons, John and Charles Wesley with the Methodists, Moody and Sankey with the evangelicals, Mrs. Eddy with the Christian Scientists. Judge Joseph Frederick Rutherford is doing likewise with the International Bible Students, Mrs. Annie Besant with the Theosophists, Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson with the Four Square Gospellers. Theirs have been as much a profession of new business as a profession...
...without superfluous gesticulation. Said D. L. Moody, early in his career: "... I wouldn't let a day pass without speaking to some one about their soul's salvation . . . There will be 365 in a year that shall hear the gospel from my lips." With Ira David Sankey, who sang hymns, he toured the U. S. and England, giving his solution to the gigantic crossword puzzle of the universe. . Before he died, he wrote this beginning-..for his autobiography: "Some day you will read in the papers that D. L. Moody is dead. Don't you believe...
Pittsburgh, against which there had been no organized protest, had seemed to indicate that Sunday symphony concerts might be no more pernicious. Few Pittsburghers stopped to consider that a Beethoven symphony or even a Debussy suite might contain more of the stuff of the spirit than a Moody & Sankey hymn...