Publisher's Synopsis
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Dwight Lyman Moody, an American evangelist, was born on February 5, 1837 in East Northfield, Massachusetts, and died on December 22, 1899 in Northfield, Massachusetts.Dwight Lyman Moody He was the sixth of Edwin and Betsy Moody's nine children. His father, who was a Mason, died in 1841 (at the age of 41) and the family remained in precarious circumstances for years. His mother died in 1895, at the age of ninety. Moody received his first spiritual influences in the unitary church of his locality, being his first task to get students for the Sunday school, which he attended. His schooling lasted as far as the school in his district reached, having to make a living in his youth. In 1854 he determined to try his fortune in Boston, where he was hired by his uncle, Samuel Holton, as a clerk in his shoe store. One of the conditions of his hiring was that he would have to regularly attend his uncle's church, the Mount Vernon congregational, and also his Sunday school. This promise was faithfully fulfilled, being so impressed by the truths that he heard there that in 1885 he applied for membership. But his exam was not considered satisfactory and his request was delayed one year, when he had made some more advances in doctrine. In September 1856 he went to Chicago and quickly found a more lucrative position than his uncle offered him,
