Dwight Lyman Moody (1837 - 1899), also known as D.L. Moody, was an
American evangelist and publisher who founded the Moody Church Northfield School Mount Hermon School Massachusetts Northfield Mount
Hermon School
Dwight L. Moody: Did You Know?
Moody left home at age 17 and
became a shoe salesman.
The first time he applied for
church membership, it was denied him because he failed an oral examination on
Christian doctrine.
When he first came to Chicago
Moody ministered to soldiers
in the American Civil War.
His engagement to Emma Revell
was formalized by the unassuming announcement that he would no
longer be free to escort
other young ladies home after church meetings.
Abraham Lincoln visited
Moody’s Sunday school, and President Grant attended one of his revival
services.
He chose to use theaters and
lecture halls rather than churches for his meetings.
Moody’s house in Chicago
raised funds for the
rebuilding each time.
D.L. Moody was never pastor
of the church that grew out of his Sunday school work and that today
bears his name.
At the Chicago World’s
Exhibition in 1893, in a single day, over 130,000 people attended evangelistic
meetings coordinated by
Moody.
D.L. and his son Will
survived a near-fatal accident at sea.
It is estimated that Moody
traveled more than one million miles and addressed more than one hundred
million people during his
evangelistic career.
Moody’s revivals often
elicited relief programs for the poor.
Moody once preached on Calvary ’s hill on an Easter Sunday.
Moody was personally
acquainted with George Muller, the orphanage founder; Lord Shaftesbury, the
great social reformer; and
Charles H. Spurgeon, the prince of preachers.
All three schools founded by
Moody in the late nineteenth century are thriving today.
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or Christianity Today International/Christian History magazine.
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