I remember how often on many a night as well as day, that I was called or told to get ready come and go with Grandmother to church. Regardless of the weather or the dark nights or the distance whether long or short we were on the way to church.

She was ever ready and sure to fill a seat somewhere in her church or elsewhere in those days we didn't have the numerous electric lights and other conveniences that we have now - There were the old time lamp-posts, scattered about in the city. But the Hill was clothed in darkness and the street cars then were drawn by horses and mules. And whenever we wanted to attend some big meetings, or other affair of importance, the older people and the young grown-ups would sometimes get up a big party or crowd and we would walk back from the lower section of the city, arriving at our homes about eleven or eleven thirty o'clock PM. The cars in those days would

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only run up to the hours of eight, eight thirty and nine o'clock at night.

These parties would often hire carriages, sometimes buggies, and large two-horse wagons, and oh what a lively time they would have gossiping and sometimes singing beautiful sacred songs. Those mixed strong voices were good to hear out in the open air. Oh those were the days that will live long in the memory of my Childhood Days with my grandparents at home.

Many years ago, when the Evangelist Rev. Moody (white-) had visited our city he was there for several weeks, or more, holding great meetings in the various churches assisted by Saucke the Organist and Bliss the wonderful songster. They carried with them a small folding organ, and the two furnished beautiful music, both vocal and instrumental.

Rev. Moody was a fine gospel preacher and large crowds of white and colored were out each night to hear the splendid sermons and the beautiful singing by his choir of only two members, Rev. Moody was perfectly

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free and friendly as a man of God, with both white and colored. He extended a free invitation to one and all, to these services. The audience was sometimes mixed, the crowds were great and the Holy Spirit seemed to be in such control over the house that the color of skin was almost forgotten for the time being.

I was a little girl but I will always remember this wonderful man and his great meetings and how the people of the Hill would get together, some walking and some riding, to hear this great man of God. The beautiful songs in book form that he and his choir brought around and introduced will never be forgotten. They are still being used in the churches here and elsewhere, and many of these will never grow old. Many were converted and added to the churches during these great Moody-Meetings.

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