After a flying visit to Scotland, Mr Moody opened on Thursday evening his third campaign in Newcastle-on-Tyne. Meetings were held in the Circus, seating between 2,000 and 3,000 persons. The arrangements had been made by a united committee working in connection with the Y.M.C.A., while a fine choir had been formed of 300 voices, and the mission had been looked forward to with hopefulness and prayer.
At the first meeting on Thursday evening the great building was crowded densely, and as one who was present wrote: Mr Moody has lost none of the old fire. It is eleven years since he last spoke in Newcastle, but time has dealt tenderly with him, and there was before the audience last night the same robust form, the same great individuality, and the same rugged eloquence that have so often charmed large assemblages in this and other lands. The evangelist took no text for his remarks. It was an address, as he avowed it to be, to Christian people, and it dealt fully and generally with the faults of both ministers and people. The quickened church, he maintained, was the greatest power on earth, for the quickened church possessed the Spirit of God, and it was the work of the Holy Ghost to convince men of sin. If they had to preach Christ they would require the assistance of the Holy Ghost, and with that assistance there could be no defeat. When the Holy Ghost convinced men and women of sin He shed abroad the love of God in their hearts, and they were blessed with a new creation, a new force, a new hope, a new joy, and a new love. It was not a natural love merely; it was something higher, broader, deeper: it was the love of God. This was the kind of love they required, and with it the Christian should be full of joy - the joy of the Lord, but to secure this they required prayer, they wanted the true spirit of Christianity to bring power to the people.
Two large meetings were held both on Friday and Saturday, while on Sunday Mr Moody spoke at no less than six meetings, beginning with the early morning Christian workers' gathering. In the forenoon, great efforts had been made to secure the attendance of non-church-goers, and the result was a splendid turn-out of working men. The remarkable gathering of the day was, however, the great open-air service, when from five to six thousand persons listened to the Gospel. The six o'clock service was for men only; while the final meeting in the People's Palace was crowded and enthusiastic, and accompanied by many tokens of solemnity and power.
Short as the mission has been, comparatively, it is believed by those who have shared the work and taken part in the inquiry meetings, that very real work has been done, and that many souls have been aroused from the slumber of sin and compelled to flee for refuge to the Lord Jesus Christ.
From, "The Christian," August 18th, 1892
I do not know where the Circus was situated.