Moody
Moody names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Moody WILLIAM VAUGHAN, dramatist and poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM VAUGHAN, dramatist and poet; born Spencer, Ind., in 1869, he studied at Harvard, and was instructor in English there for a couple of years, leaving in 1895 to teach English and rhetoric at the University of Chicago. His first published work was "The Mask of Judgment," which appeared in 1900, while he was still instructor at Chicago. In the following year he brought out "Poems," and in 1904 "The Fire-Bringer." These works attracted immediate attention by their original note. Three years passed before the appearance of his next work and the interval was well employed, for "The Great Divide " which appeared in 1907 ranks high among American plays. In the same year appeared a " History of English Literature, " in which he had collaborated with R. R. Lovett, and a year before his death appeared "The drama of a merit Faith-Healer," a almost equal to that of its predecessor. Died in 1910. MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CHI- CAGO, a school founded by the famous evangelist Dwight L. Moody in 1886 for the purpose of training students in the knowledge of the Bible, and in the practice of Bible teaching and missionary work. As it is not an endowed institution but is supported by gifts from Protestant evangelical churches, the college students spend part of their time in remunerative work to enable them to pay the tuition fees and support themselves. The enrollment in 1914 for the day and evening classes was 1,266, while 1,567 were taking correspondence courses. The institute has trained over 700 students for the foreign mission field.
Moody DWIGHT LYMAN, an American evangelist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
DWIGHT LYMAN, an American evangelist; born in Northfield, Mass., Feb. 5, 1837; received a common school education; ucation; united with the Mount Vernon Congregational Church in Bos- 298 MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE ton in 1850; settled in Chicago, Ill., in 1856, and there built up a mission Sunday - school with more than 1,000 pupils. He subsequently built a church in Chicago, which was destroyed in the great fire in 1871. In 1873 he began, with Ira D. Sankey, the evangelistic_work which soon made him famous. He met with unparalleled success both in the United States and Great Britain. In 1879 he founded a school for poor girls at Northfield, Mass., which later grew into the celebrated Northfield and Mount Hermon institutions. His publications include "The Second Coming of Christ" (1877); "The Way to God, and How to Find It" (1884); etc. He died in Northfield, Mass., Dec. 22, 1899.
Moody WILLIAM H., an American statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM H., an American statesman; born in Newbury, Mass., Dec. 23, 1853; was graduated from Harvard in 1876; was district attorney for the eastern district of Massachusetts, 1890-1895; was a member of Congress 1895-1902; when he was appointed by President Roosevelt to succeed John D. Long as Secretary of the Navy. He held this post until 1904, when he was made Attorney-General, and in 1906 was appointed an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He died in 1917.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's 1921 ranked William Vaughn Moody's "The Great Divide" (staged 1906) "high among American plays"; it is now almost never revived, and Moody survives mainly as a name in anthologies and in the University of Chicago's Moody Lecture series. Dwight L. Moody's schools at Northfield merged with Mount Hermon in 1971 and consolidated on the Mount Hermon campus in Gill, Massachusetts, in 2005, so the Northfield site the entry describes no longer holds classes. The Moody Bible Institute, credited with 1,266 day and evening students in 1914, is still in Chicago and now runs a national radio network alongside its degree programs. Justice William H. Moody, whose death in 1917 is all Collier's records, had in fact been driven from the Supreme Court in 1910 by crippling rheumatism after barely four years on the bench.
Written for this edition, 2026.