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Dwight L. Moody
Biography of D.L. Moody
Conservative
Hall of Fame
Defender of America, Christianity or Freedom
D.
L.Moody Quotes
D.L. Moody was an American evangelist and publisher who
founded the Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in
Massachusetts, the Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publishers.
He may well have been the greatest evangelist
of all time. In a 40-year period he won a million souls, founded three
Christian schools, launched a great Christian publishing business, established
a world-renowned Christian conference center, and inspired literally thousands
of preachers to win souls and conduct revivals.
A shoe clerk at 17, his ambition was
to make $100,000. Converted at 18 and subsequently preached to 20,000
a day in Brooklyn and admitted only non-church members by ticket!
After the Civil War started, he was
involved with the U.S. Christian Commission of the YMCA, and ministered
at several battlefields. In Chicago, Moody worked to start a Sunday school
for children in the poorer parts of the city. He soon had over 1,000 children
and their parents attending each Sunday. In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln
visited one week.
It was in a trip to England that he
became well known as an evangelist, to the point that some have claimed
he was the greatest evangelist of the 19th century. His preaching had
an impact as great as that of George Whitefield and John Wesley within
Britain, Scotland and Ireland.
He traveled across the American continent
and through Great Britain in some of the greatest and most successful
evangelistic meetings communities have ever known. His tour of the world
with Ira D. Sankey was considered the greatest evangelistic enterprise
of the century.
Various sources
Compiled by Thomas George
editor@BoycottLiberalism.com
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