DWIGHT L. MOODY (1837 - 1899) ***
American
evangelist Dwight L. Moody was born in Northfield, Massachusetts. His father
died when Dwight was four years of age. He left school at the age of seventeen
to find work. Moody was led to Christ by his Sunday School teacher, Edward
Kimble, and later began his own Sunday School class with thirteen street
urchins. The class increased its enrollment to fifteen hundred in a period of
four years. Moody did personal work with the soldiers during the Civil War.
After the war, he built churches and schools and started the Moody Bible
Institute. He travelled in Europe and America holding campaigns and personally
dealt with over seven hundred and fifty thousand individuals. His work continues today through the Moody
Memorial Church and the Moody Bible Insitute in Chicago.