D L Moody (1837-1899)

A character sketch of D L Moody

Born in East Northfield, Mass., Dwight Lyman Moody was an American evangelist.

He founded the interdenominational Moody Memorial Church, the Moody Bible Institute, and the Moody Press in Chicago.

He also established a private high school for girls and another for boys near Northfield, Mass.

He left a job as a clerk in a Boston shoe store to become a shoe salesman in Chicago in 1856. He then devoted all his time to Sunday school and YMCA activities after 1860.

He conducted great evangelistic campaigns in the United States and Britain, appearing with Ira D. Sankey, a gospel singer and hymn writer.

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