Self-made, and conscious of the absolute truthfulness of every Bible
declaration, Dwight Lyman Moody is today, perhaps, the most independent
and powerful of living evangelists. Man, rather than books, and God,
rather than man, have been his study, and made his life intensely
individual, and one which has constantly increased in good works. In his
thirty-five years labor for Christ, from his mission class of fourteen
scholars in a Chicago saloon, down to the ten thousand listening souls
in the Halls of Europe and Tabernacles of America, he has been the same
faithful, persevering, original, and pungent D. L. Moody, with an
unshaken faith in God, and a burning desire for the conversion of souls.
At home Mr. Moody is cheerful and happy; in the social circle he is
genial and companionable; in the pulpit he is Truth on fire. His native
town is Northfield, Mass., where he was born February 5th, 1837. He is
therefore now, (1896), fifty-nine years old.