Moody, DWIGHT LYMAN

Moody, DWIGHT LYMAN, evangelist, was born at Northfield, Massachusetts, 5th February 1837, was for a while a shopman in Boston, and in 1856 went to Chicago, where he engaged with remarkable success in missionary work. In 1870 he was joined by Ira David Sankey, who was born at Edinburgh, Pennsylvania, 28th August 1840. In 1873 and 1883 they visited Great Britain as evangelists; but the main centre of their evangelistic and educational work was Northfield, Mass., where Moody died 22d December 1899. A vigorous, striking, unconventional speaker, and a worker of extraordinary energy, he published some volumes of sermons and other works. The standard Life of him is by his son (1900).