Excerpt from Early Recollections: Of Dwight L. Moody I learned some facts from Mr. Edward Kimball, who was the means of Mr. Moody's conversion when a boy, after leaving home for Boston to enter his uncle's store, with very little knowledge of the Bible. In one of the Sunday School lessons, Moses was the subject and when Mr. Kimball had ended his remarks, the boy said, "That Moses must have been what we call a smart man." After his conversion he applied for membership in Dr. Kirk's Church and was refused because of his limited knowledge of the Scriptures. He persisted however and was finally admitted. This experience must have been a wonderful stimulant to Mr. Moody for Bible study ever afterwards. It was my privilege to hear Dr. Kirk preach for Mr. Moody in his Illinois Street Church some ten years afterwards. My first acquaintance with Mr. Moody was as a young man, and a late attendant of a nine o'clock morning class meeting in the old Clark Street M.-E. Church - coming in a little before ten o'clock. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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No one can claim to understand the American social and religious mind of the last half of the nineteenth century who does not understand sympathetically what evangelist Dwight L. Moody and his career represented. Moody was an entrepreneur, a self-made man, a living expression of much that was hearty and some of what was crass about religion in his day. This is the first biography to place him fully within the context of the broad social, theological, and cultural developments of his time. Most of the existing biographical literature about Moody is either simplistically eulogistic or sarcastically hostile. These polar views reflect the split that occurred within the Protestant church between fundamentalists and modernists during and after Moody's career. It is with an objective overview of these divergencies that the author has prepared his biography. Mr. Findlay demonstrates how Moody's outlook evolved from the small-town framework of early nineteenth-century New England and developed into the mainstream of American evangelicalism. In the rising cities of Boston and Chicago, he concentrated his efforts to urbanize revivalism as part of a general struggle to adapt a traditional faith to a rapidly changing external environment. After his triumphant revival crusades of the 1870s, the impact of his style and message faded before the progressive liberal approach to religion that was to shape twentieth-century Protestantism. The present biography of this great evangelist is far superior to any other, both for its scholarly approach in determining the place of evangelicalism in American social and religious history and for its portrayal of the overpowering impact of Moody's personality. It will be particularly fascinating to those interested in American social history and the history of evangelism, the man and the movement.

God's Generals Who Shook Nations Roberts Liardon chronicles the compelling spiritual biographies of some of the most powerful preachers ever to ignite the fires of revival. Follow the faith journey and life of Dwight L. Moody, friend to the fatherless, who fed and clothed Chicago's orphans, planted Sunday schools throughout the city, and saved more than million souls.

He burst upon the fusty corridors of Victorian spirituality like a breath of fresh air, regaling the prime minister with his sense of humor, and touching the lives of seven presidents. Who was this man? A sterling philanthropist and educator, D. L. Moody was also the finest evangelist in the nineteenth century—bringing the transformative message of the gospel before 100 million people on both sides of the Atlantic in an age long before radio and television. Thousands of underprivileged young people were educated in the schools he established. Before The Civil War, he went to a place no one else would: the slums of Chicago called Little Hell. The mission he started there, in an abandoned saloon, in time drew children in the hundreds, and prompt a visit from president-elect. Abraham Lincoln in 1860. But all this is just to begin to tell the life of D.L. Moody. Drawing on the best, most recent scholarship, D. L. Moody – A Life chronicles the incredible journey of one of the great souls of history.