President Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton, gives this incident of Dwight
L. Moody:
Whenever I came into contact with Mr. Moody I got the impression
that he was coming separately into contact with one person at
a time. I remember that I was once in a very plebeian place; I
was in a barbershop, lying in a chair, and I was aware that a
personality had entered the room. A man came quietly in upon
the same errand that I had come in on and sat in the chair next
to me. Every word that he uttered, tho it was not in the least
didactic, showed a personal and vital interest in the man who
was serving him, and before I got through with what was being
done to me I was aware that I had attended an evangelistic
service, because Mr. Moody was in the next chair. I purposely
lingered in the room after he left and noted the singular effect
his visit had upon the barbers in that shop. They talked in
undertones. They did not know his name. They did not know who
had been there, but they knew that something had elevated their
thought. And I felt that I left that place as I should have
left a place of worship. Mr. Moody always sought and found the
individual. (Text.)
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