Issue 25

How an awkward country boy with a grade-school education became the greatest evangelist of the Gilded Age.

Moody’s common sense and quick wit led to many pithy sayings. A sampling.

D.L. Moody faced a crisis at sea, and God confronted him with a life-changing decision.

Three great Bible truths were central to all of Moody’s preaching.

The five that people ask most often

The evangelist converted mass evangelism.

Moody was not an educational theorist or systematizer, but he was a popular educator par excellence.

He was the catalyst for two of America’s largest religious book publishers.

Excerpts from a sermon that Moody preached at least 183 times.

(Resources listed alphabetically, by title, within each category. with asterisks denote those still in print.)

She singlehandedly revolutionized the field of nursing, a mission that began with a call to God’s service at age 17.

Excerpts from Florence Nightingale’s letters and diaries.

Surprising answers from a variety of writers