Issue 25 : Dwight L. Moody: 19th c. Evangelist
Originally published in 1990

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Table of Contents
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How an awkward country boy with a grade-school education became the greatest evangelist of the Gilded Age.
David Maas
Moody's common sense and quick wit led to many pithy sayings. A sampling.
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D.L. Moody faced a crisis at sea, and God confronted him with a life-changing decision.
Vinita Hampton
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Three great Bible truths were central to all of Moody's preaching.
Stanley N. Gundry
The five that people ask most often
Stanley N. Gundry
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The evangelist converted mass evangelism.
David W. Bebbington
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Moody was not an educational theorist or systematizer, but he was a popular educator par excellence.
Virginia Lieson Brereton
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He was the catalyst for two of America's largest religious book publishers.
Allan Fisher
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.)
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She singlehandedly revolutionized the field of nursing, a mission that began with a call to God's service at age 17.
Mary Lewis Coakley
Excerpts from Florence Nightingale's letters and diaries.
Ted Olsen
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Surprising answers from a variety of writers

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