Moody, D.L. (Dwight Lyman) (1837-1899)
Place of Birth: Born in Northfield, Massachusetts
Description: Evangelist
Early Employment: Little education; went to Boston seeking employment, became a shoe clerk
Salvation Experience: Led to Christ by Sunday School teacher
Life of Christian Work: Went to Chicago (1856); gathered children for his Sunday School class; organized a Sunday School of 1,500; left secular employment at 23; sought after by Sunday School conventions; worked among Civil War soldiers; influenced Y.M.C.A. and became its president (1865); erected church building (Illinois Street between La Salle and Wells) which was destroyed by Chicago fire (1871); new building at Chicago and La Salle forerunner of Moody Memorial Church (North and La Salle); founded Northfield Seminary for girls (1879), Mount Hermon School for boys (1881); started first Bible school (1886), Chicago Evangelization Society, later Moody Bible Institute; inaugurated summer conferences and student conferences in Northfield (1880-1886)
Evangelism: Wide-spread evangelistic work – Moody-Sankey campaigns (England, Ireland, Scotland, America—hundreds of thousands brought to Lord by Moody's preaching and Sankey's singing); founded Colportage Association to distribute inexpensive Christian literature (1895)
Death: Became ill and died in midst of Kansas City campaign
Biographies: W.R. Moody, The Life of D.L. Moody (by his son), New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1900; James F. Findlay, Jr., Dwight L Moody: American Evangelist, 1837-1899, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1969
