Moody, Dwight Lyman

Congregational layman; b. at North field, Eeb. 5, 1837; worked on a farm until seventeen years old, then became clerk in a shoe-store in Boston; joined a Congregational church; in 1856 went to Chicago during the Civil War was employed by the Christian Commi ion, and after by the Young Men's Christian A ociation of Chicago as lay mi ionary. A church was the result of his efforts. This was burned in the great Chicago fire in 1871; but a new one, accommodating twenty-five hundred persons, has since been erected. From 1873 to 1875 he and Mr. I. 1). Sankey (see title) held revival meetings in Great Britain, and they have since been a ociated in revival work upon an extensive scale there (again in 1883) and in America. Mr. Moody has published The Second Coming of Christ, Chicago, 1877; The Way and the Word, 1877; Secret Power; or, The Secret of Succe in Christian Life and Work, 1881; The Way to God, and how to find it, 1884. Several collections of his sermons have been published; e.g., Glad Tidings (New York, 1876), Great Joy (1877), To all People (1877); Best Thoughts and Discourses (with sketch of his life and Sankey's), 1876; also Arrows and Anecdotes (with sketch of life), 1877. *