Dwight L. Moody

Dwight Lyman Moody was born in 1837 in Northfield, Massachusetts, one of nine children; his father died when he was four. He had little formal schooling, and at seventeen he went to work in his uncle's shoe store in Boston, where a Sunday school teacher led him to Christian faith. In 1856 he moved to Chicago, where he sold shoes successfully and started a Sunday school for poor children that grew into a large church. He worked with the YMCA and, during the Civil War, ministered to soldiers. From 1873 to 1875 he and the singer Ira Sankey held revival meetings across Britain that drew huge crowds, and they repeated them in American cities. Moody preached in simple, direct language and was never ordained. He founded the Northfield Seminary for girls and the Mount Hermon School for boys in his hometown, and in 1886 a training school in Chicago that became the Moody Bible Institute. He died at Northfield in 1899.

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Faith: Converted from Unitarianism to evangelical Christianity as a young man in Boston; a leading evangelist. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica