Life and work of Dwight L. Moody, the great evangelist of the XIXth century, the founder of Northfield seminary, Mount Herman school for boys and the Chicago Bible institute

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Preface

The world's final judgment concerning its great men will always be based upon the moral influences which they have incarnated.

Whether estimated by the moral qualities which go to make up personal character, or by the extent to which he impressed himself upon the life of his generation, the verdict given by Professor Drummond some years ago when he said: "There is, perhaps, no more truly great man living than D. L. Moody", will be confirmed by the tribunal of the ages.

With the closing of the century, the most remarkable man who lived in it, one whose name will live with that of Washington, the father of his country, with that of Lincoln, the savior of it, one who preached to more millions of men the gospel of the grace of God for the salvation of a lost and ruined world, who won more souls to Jesus Christ than any other man who ever lived, the mightiest evangelist, save the great Apostle to the Gentiles, ever sent to call men to repentance, the iron-hearted, the grace-refined, the glory-crowned man of God — Dwight L. Moody — passed on to his rest and his reward.

This volume is but a modest tribute of praise to the work and worth of one who never sought and little cared for the praise of men, whose best memorial is being built up out of the living stones he quarried from many a pit of sin. More impressive and imperishable than any shaft of marble, or statue of bronze are the granite foundations laid at Northfield, Mount Hermon and in the heart of Chicago. Of him it may be truly said: "That mighty works do follow him." His name shall be had in everlasting remembrance.

As the mysterious and marvelous beauty of the sunlight reveals itself when falling on the polished facets of a priceless

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gem, or on broken bits of glass lying on the sands; when flashing in the spray of some water-fall in the glen, or when shining clear and strong through the departing rain, it throws upon the eastern skies the rainbow's mighty arch: so the glory of the Sun of Righteousness reveals itself as it falls upon and irradiates Dwight L. Moody and the multitudes of precious souls redeemed through his labors by the wondrous power and love of Jesus Christ our Lord.

In the hope that this record of the life and work of Mr. Moody may be a source of interest and profit to all who read it — an echo of the evangelist's voice which shall prolong his extraordinary ministry, and a means of saving many souls, it is committed to the pleasure of the public, and to the favor of Almighty God. A. W. WILLIAMS.

Philadelphia, January, 1900.

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By Mrs. A. W. Yale (One of the girls.)