D.L. Moody - A Life: Innovator, Evangelist, World Changer
He burst upon the fusty corridors of Victorian spirituality like a breath of fresh air, regaling the prime minister with his sense of humor, and touching the lives of seven presidents.
Who was this man? A sterling philanthropist and educator, D. L. Moody was also the finest evangelist in the nineteenth century—bringing the transformative message of the gospel before 100 million people on both sides of the Atlantic in an age long before radio and television. Thousands of underprivileged young people were educated in the schools he established. Before The Civil War, he went to a place no one else would: the slums of Chicago called Little Hell. The mission he started there, in an abandoned saloon, in time drew children in the hundreds, and prompt a visit from president-elect. Abraham Lincoln in 1860.
But all this is just to begin to tell the life of D.L. Moody. Drawing on the best, most recent scholarship, D. L. Moody – A Life chronicles the incredible journey of one of the great souls of history.
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He burst on the fusty corridors of Victorian spirituality like a breath of fresh air, regaling one prime minister with his sense of humor and touching the lives of seven presidents.
Who was this man? A visionary educator and fundraiser, D. L. Moody was also a renowned evangelist in the nineteenth century. Long before radio and television, he brought the transformative message of the gospel before 100 million people on both sides of the Atlantic. Thousands of underprivileged young people were educated in the schools he established, and before the Civil War, he went to a place no one else would: the slums of Chicago called Little Hell. The mission he started in an abandoned saloon drew children by the hundreds and prompted a visit from President-Elect, Abraham Lincoln, in 1860.
Drawing on the best, most recent scholarship, D. L. Moody--A Life chronicles the incredible journey of one of the great souls of history.
Preface – McKinley, T.R. and Wilson
Ch. 1 – From Home to Boston
Ch. 2 – Young Man About Town
Ch. 3 – West to the Windy City
Ch. 4 – A Sunday School Drummer
Ch. 5 – Camps and Battlefields
Ch. 6 – Emma
Ch. 7 – The Pickpocket’s Gift
Ch. 8 – The Chicago Fire
Ch. 9 – The Mission to Great Britain
Ch. 10 – Golden Days
Ch. 11 – Northfield
Ch. 12 – Mount Hermon
Ch. 13 – A School for Chicago
Ch. 14 – The Lands of Faith
Ch. 15 – Deliverance at Sea
Ch. 16 – The World’s Fair
Ch. 17 – Moody in His Prime
Ch. 18 – The Banner of Heaven
Ch. 19 – Yale and the Coming of Summer
Ch. 20 – No Place Like Home
Ch. 21 – The Last Campaign
Ch. 22 – To the Westering Sun
Afterword
Appendix 1 – Paul Dwight Moody’s Tributes to His Father
Appendix 2 – Passages from “Dwight L. Moody,” by G.P. Morris
Acknowledgements
Product Details
- Title : D.L. Moody - A Life: Innovator, Evangelist, World Changer
- Author: Belmonte, Kevin
- Publisher: Moody Publishers
- Publication Date: 2014
- ISBN: 9780802491206