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1837–1899
A farm boy from Massachusetts became one of the best-known evangelists of the 19th century, drawing huge crowds in the United States and Britain. His plainspoken style, energetic organizing, and lasting schools and publishing work gave his influence a long life beyond his sermons.

by Dwight Lyman Moody

by Dwight Lyman Moody

by Dwight Lyman Moody

by Dwight Lyman Moody, Joseph Parker, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

by Dwight Lyman Moody

by Dwight Lyman Moody

by Dwight Lyman Moody

by Dwight Lyman Moody

by Dwight Lyman Moody

by Dwight Lyman Moody

by Dwight Lyman Moody

by Dwight Lyman Moody

by Dwight Lyman Moody

by Dwight Lyman Moody

by Dwight Lyman Moody
Born in Northfield, Massachusetts, in 1837, Dwight Lyman Moody left school young and went to Boston to work before moving to Chicago. There he became deeply involved in Sunday school and evangelistic work, and his gift was not polished scholarship but direct, accessible preaching that reached large urban audiences.
Moody rose to international fame through revival campaigns in the United States and the British Isles. He is widely remembered as a leading American evangelist of his era, known for stressing practical Christian faith, Bible teaching, and the need for personal conversion.
His legacy also includes institutions that outlived him by many years. He helped found Moody Church in Chicago, the schools at Northfield and Mount Hermon in Massachusetts, Moody Bible Institute, and a publishing work that continued to spread his message after his death in 1899.