Dwight L. Moody

Dwight Lyman Moody (February 5th, 1837 - December 22nd, 1899) was an evangelist and an editor who founded Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon in Massachusetts (maintaining the Northfield Mount Hermon school) the Moody Bible Institute and Moody Press.

His/her father dies alcoholic. His/her mother becomes widowed at 36 years with 7 children and of the twins to come. Dwight is youngest. it starts to work at 13 years. An uncle Pasteur comes to help them. He baptizes Moody. Moody becomes aware of God and starts to seek it.

It starts in the trade of the shoe in Boston in 1854 to 17 years thanks to a contact of his uncle. To profit from it, it must go to the church. It finds Pasteur annoying. Its meeting with the professor of Christian education in a park at the time of a conversation on the love of god causes in him a mystical experiment. Moody comments on: " It was a new world. The birds sang better and the sun was shining more clearly. I had never tried out such a peace. "

In 1856, at 19 years, it will work in Chicago in the trade of his brother. It feels a heart of evangelist and changes church. It distributes treaties of everywhere. Some are converted and the church is impressed. Inspired by a group of prayer for the alarm clock, it wishes to teach at the school of Sunday, but there are more professors than students. It will seek people in the street and in a few days, the number of the pupils doubled.

Two years later it starts to teach with children of the primary education. They meet in a small goods truck. It goes then in a saloon given up in a sector which one called " The Small Hell ". People came from everywhere to hear it, even the mayor. This one lends another room free to him. It is still in the trade at 23 years. It gains $5,000 per year whereas the majority of the churches make $300 of them. It leaves very for the ministry.

The school of Sunday grows quickly. In 1861, Abraham Lincoln (who were on her way to be made inaugurate president of the United States) visit the school and it says to the children: " Practice what you learn from your professor, some among you will become perhaps president of the United States. He works with the missionary team of the YMCA. (Young Men' S Christian Association - founded in England in 1844 for the biblical study and the prayer in the street).

In 1862 it Marie with Emma who comes to listen to her sermons. They have two children. In 1862 during the Civil war, it runs in the middle of the battle field and asks dying if they are Christian. With the popular request it begins a church. It burns a little later. It collects $20,000 and builds Illinois Street Church (today Moody Church). People all go almost in other churches because of the rebuilding. The church of 1500 places begins with 12 people in 1864. In 1866 J.H. Harwood becomes Pasteur and Moody a deacon. In 1867 it goes to England to meet an evangelist who tells him " The world did not see yet what God can do by means of a man who to Him is completely devoted ". Remembering this event Moody declared: " Whereas I crossed the Atlantic, the boards of the boat seemed engraved with these words, and when I arrived at Chicago, the stones of the paving stone seemed incrustées." about it; This had as a result that Moody decided that it was implied in too many ministries and it decided to concentrate on the evangelization.

In 1868 it urges Ira Sankey to be sung in its crusades.

It précha its last sermont on November 16th, 1899. He stated to have converted a million people.

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http://www.moody.edu/
http://www.moodychurch.org/

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