Author

Dwight L. Moody

· American evangelist and revival preacher who founded schools and a Bible institute

About Dwight L. Moody

Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899) was an American evangelist, organizer, and founder of educational and publishing institutions. Rising from modest circumstances and limited formal schooling, he became one of the nineteenth century's most influential revival preachers. His campaigns with song leader Ira Sankey helped define modern mass evangelism.

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Selected Sermons

1870-1899 · 19th Century · Sermons

Moody's Selected Sermons represent revival preaching after the Civil War, in the age of railroads, urbanization, mass meetings, gospel hymnody, and organized evangelistic campaigns. Moody's style is famously plain.