Notable Christian Born Today

Born in a blizzard, he fired people with Heavenly Zeal!

“Someday you will read in the papers that D. L. Moody of East Northfield is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now; I shall have gone up higher, that is all, out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal – a body that death cannot touch, that sin cannot taint; a body fashioned like unto His glorious body."

“I was born of the flesh in 1837. I was born of the Spirit in 1856. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit will live forever.”- Dwight Lyman Moody (February 5, 1837 - December 22, 1899)

D. L. Moody was born on his mother's 32nd birthday, at Northfield, Massachusetts, in the midst of a roaring blizzard. His father was an alcoholic, he was only four years old and the youngest in his family at the time of his father's death.

When Moody turned 17 he moved to Boston to find work. He worked with his uncle running a shoe store. One of his uncle's requirements was that Moody attend a church. He attended but did not establish a personal relationship with God. One April, his teacher talked to him about how much God loved him. Moody was then converted to Christianity at age 18.

His conversion sparked the start of his career as an evangelist. He left Boston for Chicago where he gathered boys and girls for Sunday school.

Moody's work in Chicago, Illinois led to the largest Sunday School of his time. He labored so abundantly that within a year the average attendance at his school was 650, while sixty volunteers from various churches served as teachers. It became so well known that the just-elected President Lincoln visited and spoke at a Sunday School meeting on November 25, 1860.

A great evangelist, in a 40-year period he won a million souls, founded three Christian schools, launched a great Christian publishing business, established a world-renowned Christian conference center, and inspired literally thousands of preachers to win souls and conduct revivals.

Comments

[Akinola Akinyede]

It is really encouraging and heart-warming to know that his amazing legacy to the testimony of Christ lives on today.

[Joe]

He was quite a man.

I worked for a while for the Moody Bible Institute at their radio station in Fort Myers, Florida, WSOR. The Institute carries on his legacy of consistancy with the gospel and integrity in Christ.