Chapter XX
1A fuller discussion of this topic will be found in Chapter XXIX of Music in Work and Worship, by the present writer.
2When Moody was superintendent of a Sunday school in Chicago, he had a vicious boy in one of the classes whom he had reprimanded again and again for disturbing the meeting. Finally one Sunday the boy was unusually fractious and Moody turned to his chorister and said, “When I get up and walk up the aisle, you start ‘Hold the Fort’ as vigorously as you can.” While the song was being sung with much enthusiasm, Moody dragged the boy out of the class by the collar, took him to an adjacent room, and punished him drastically while the school sang and submerged the boy’s cries. The boy grew up, became a minister, and often told with glee the story of how Moody started the work of grace in his heart.
Chapter XXII
Notes
1In regular services, single verse tunes may be played through, but only the last half of double verse tunes should be allowed, lest the momentum gained by the introductory comment be lost.