Moody, Dwight Lyman

Dwight Lyman (1837-1899), an American evangelist. He was born at Northfield, Massachusetts, and died there. A farmer's boy, a shoe salesman in Boston, again a salesman in Chicago, he became interested in the mission work of the latter city. From 1860 on he gave himself up to holding revival services chiefly in connection with the Congregational churches. During the Civil War he worked among the soldiers. At its close he resumed work in Chicago, becoming associated with Ira D. Sankey, the singer, with whom he visited England and Scotland, holding immense meetings. Great meetings were held also in nearly every large city of the Union. An admirer estimates that Mr. Moody addressed in all no less than 50,000,000 people. Toward the close of his labors he made his home at the place of his birth, where he established an academy for girls, one for boys, and a training school for revival workers. He was a man of fervent, simple eloquence, whose sayings linger.