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The Life of Dwight L. Moody; by his son William R. Moody; illustrated with more than one hundred reproductions from original photographs, many of which being the exclusive property of the family, were reserved solely for this volume; The Official Authorized Edition; Fleming H. Revell Company, New York, 1900.
Dwight Lyman Moody (1837 ? 1899), also known as D. L. Moody, was an American evangelist and publisher connected with Keswickianism, who founded the Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts (now Northfield Mount Hermon School), Moody Bible Institute, and Moody Publishers. In Chicago, he built one of the major evangelical centers in the nation, which is still active.
During a trip to the United Kingdom in the spring of 1872, Moody became well known as an evangelist. Literary works published by the Moody Bible Institute claim that he was the greatest evangelist of the 19th century. He preached almost a hundred times and came into communion with the Plymouth Brethren. On several occasions, he filled stadia of a capacity of 2,000 to 4,000. According to his memoir, in the Botanic Gardens Palace, he attracted an audience estimated at between 15,000 and 30,000.
Speaking before thousands in the dark business suit, bearded, rotund Dwight L. Moody seemed the epitome of the "businessman in clerical garb" who typified popular religion in late 19th-century America. Earthy, unlettered, a dynamo of energy, the revivalist was very much a man of his times. Moody adapted revivalism, one of the major institutions of evangelical Protestantism, to the urban context. . His organizational ability, demonstrated in the great revivals he conducted in England, combined to fashion his spectacular career as the creator of modern mass revivalism.
Ten years after Moody's death the Chicago Avenue Church was renamed the Moody Church in his honor, and the Chicago Bible Institute was likewise renamed the Moody Bible Institute. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was born in 1890, was named after him. During World War II, the Liberty ship SS Dwight L. Moody was named in his honor.
This book, 590 pages is in near- fine condition. The book is bound in ½ leather and green cloth. If there would be a deluxe volume, this would be it.
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