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DWIGHT LYMAN MOODY (RYTHER) (1837-1899)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 802 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DWIGHT LYMAN MOODY (RYTHER) (1837-1899)  ,
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American evangelist, was born in the
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village of East
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Northfield (Northfield township), Massachusetts, on the 5th of
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February 1837 . His
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father died in 1841, and young Dwight, a mischievous
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independent boy, got a scanty schooling . In 1854 he became a salesman in a shoe-store in Boston; in 1855 he was " converted "; and in 1856 he went to Chicago and started business there . Beginning with a class gathered from the streets, he opened (1858) a
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Sunday school in North Market Hall, which was organized in 1863 as the
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Illinois Street Church, and afterwards became the Chicago Avenue Church, of which he was layman pastor . In 186o he gave up business and devoted himself to city missionary
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work . He was prominent in raising
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money for Farwell Hall in Chicago (1867), and in 1865-1869 was president of the Chicago Young Men's Christian Association . Ira David Sankey (1840-1908) joined him in Chicago in 187o and helped him greatly by the singing of
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hymns; and in a series-MOON of notable revival meetings in England (1873-1875, 1881-1884, 1891-1892) and
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America they carried on their gospel
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campaign, and became famous for the Moody and Sankey Gospel Hymns . In 1899 Moody opened the Northfield seminary for young
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women, at Northfield, Mass., and in 1881 the adjacent Mount
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Hermon school for boys; in each a liberal
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practical
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education centres about Bible training; the boys do
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farm-work and the girls house-work . In 1889 he opened in Chicago the Bible Institute, and there trained Christian workers in Bible study and in practical methods of social reform; at Northfield in 1890 he opened a Training School in domestic science in the Northfield Hotel, formerly used only in summer for visitors at the
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annual conferences, of which the best known are the Bible (or Christian Workers')
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Conference, first held at Northfield in 188o, and the Students' (or College Men's) Conference, first held in 1887 . Moody died at Northfield on the 22nd of December 1899 . His sermons were colloquial,
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simple, full of conviction and point . In his
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theology he laid stress on the Gospel and on no sectarian opinions—he was, however, a pre-millenarianite—and he worked with men as much more " advanced " than himself as Henry Drummond, whom he eagerly defended against orthodox attack, and George Adam Smith .

Moody's sermons were sold widely in

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English, and in German, Danish and
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Swedish versions . See the (official)
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Life of Dwight L . Moody (New York, 1900), by his son, W . R . Moody (b . 1869), and the estimate in Henry Drummond's Dwight L . Moody: Impressions and Facts (New York, 1900), with an introduction by George Adam Smith .

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