Dwight L. Moody

Dwight Lyman Moody ( February 5, 1837 *, † December 22, 1899 ) was an American revivalist.

Life

Moody came from a humble background and had a devout mother; He was a stocky, strong and very enthusiastic young man. He very soon came to Chicago to work as a shoe salesman, which he did with great zeal and success. Alongside he built - after his conversion - an evangelistic work after another. Together with the singer Ira David Sankey (1840-1908), he was one of the greatest evangelists of the 19th century. His gospel campaigns were strongly influenced by the revival. The primary feature was the direct evangelistic message and the accompanying singing of Sankey. Legendary is his first encounter with Sankey, which happened in 1870 at a conference of the YMCA in Indianapolis. Here Sankeys was calling for the later service as a gospel singer, and it started working one of the most blessed singer and evangelist pairs of revival period, or the Holiness movement. Moody worked primarily in Chicago, led together with Sankey but also gospel campaigns in other parts of America and in England. Moody's wife Emma was doing him the loyal support. Moody was one of the key figures in the emergence of Holiness. Moody also founded the Chicago Bible Institute, now named after him, Moody Bible Institute. His successor there was Reuben Archer Torrey.

In Switzerland and the German-speaking Moody was early on, inter alia, by his biography known, the first and later brought out Franz Eugen Schlachter in his journal crumbs from the Lord's table as a small book. He was also the translator of Moody font The way to God. He had already reported in the crumbs on a trip to England in 1884, heard preach in person at the butcher Moody.

Works

  • God is love, Dwight Lyman Moody, Kreuztal, Jung- Stilling -Verlag 1967
  • The sky, Moody, Dwight Lyman, Kreuztal, Jung- Stilling -Verlag 1968
  • The secret of blessing, D. L. Moody, Frutigen, Trachsel, 1984
  • The way to God, DLMoody, ten speeches, Basel, publisher of CSSpittler, 1887
  • The Overcomers the crown, D. L. Moody, Kassel, publisher of J.G.Oncken Nachf., 1897

Remembrance

  • December 22 in the Protestant calendar name
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