|
D. L. Moody
1837 – 1899
“Someday you will read in the papers
that D. L. Moody of East Northfield is dead. Don’t you believe a word of
it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now; I shall have gone
up higher, that is all, out of this old clay tenement into a house that is
immortal – a body that death cannot touch, that sin cannot taint; a body
fashioned like unto His glorious body.
“I was born of the flesh in 1837. I
was born of the Spirit in 1856. That which is born of the flesh may die.
That which is born of the Spirit will live forever.”
D. L. Moody may well have been the
greatest evangelist of all time. In a 40-year period he won a million
souls, founded three Christian schools, launched a great Christian
publishing business, established a world-renowned Christian conference
center, and inspired literally thousands of preachers to win souls and
conduct revivals.
A shoe clerk at 17, his ambition was
to make $100,000. Converted at 18, he uncovered hidden gospel gold in the
hearts of millions for the next half-century. He preached to 20,000 a day
in Brooklyn and admitted only non-church members by ticket!
He met a young songleader in
Indianapolis, said bluntly, “You’re the man I’ve been looking for for eight
years. Throw up your job and come with me.” Ira D. Sankey did just that;
thereafter it was “Moody will preach; Sankey will sing.”
He traveled across the American
continent and through Great Britain in some of the greatest and most
successful evangelistic meetings communities have ever known. His tour of
the world with Sankey was considered the greatest evangelistic enterprise of
the century.
It was Henry Varley who said, “It
remains to be seen what God will do with a man who gives himself up wholly
to Him.” And Moody endeavored to be, under God, that man; and the world did
marvel to see how wonderfully God used him.
Two great monuments stand in the
indefatigable work and ministry of this gospel warrior – Moody Bible
Institute and the famous Moody Church in Chicago.
Moody went to be with the Lord in
1899
|
.htm_cmp_copy-of-arctic010_gbtn.gif){kind=small}
.htm_cmp_copy-of-arctic010_gbtn.gif){kind=small}
.htm_cmp_copy-of-arctic010_gbtn.gif){kind=small}
.htm_cmp_copy-of-arctic010_vbtn.gif){kind=small}
1.htm_cmp_copy-of-arctic010_vbtn.gif){kind=small}
.htm_cmp_copy-of-arctic010_vbtn.gif){kind=small}
.htm_cmp_copy-of-arctic010_vbtn.gif){kind=small}
.htm_cmp_copy-of-arctic010_vbtn.gif){kind=small}
.htm_cmp_copy-of-arctic010_vbtn_p.gif){kind=small}
.htm_cmp_copy-of-arctic010_vbtn.gif){kind=small}
.htm_cmp_copy-of-arctic010_vbtn.gif){kind=small}
.htm_cmp_copy-of-arctic010_vbtn.gif){kind=small}