Dwight Lyman Moody (1837 - 1899)
D. L. Moody was born in Northfield, Massachusetts, into a very poor family. At seventeen, he went to Boston to work in his uncle's shoe store; and it was in Boston that Edward Kimball led him to Christ. Moody arrived in Chicago in 1856; he prospered as a shoe salesman, but more of his time was devoted to Christian work. Finally in 1861, he went into full-time ministry. His trip to England in 1873 was the beginning of an evangelistic ministry that would influence both Britain and America. During his ministry, Moody travelled more than a million miles and preached to more than one hundred million persons.
