| Show V MOODY IS HI The news or of the death ot of Dwight L Moody roody will be heard with the world am particularly among lie He and the thu late Inte amou preacher Mr C U 11 Spurgeon ina properly bo be called two witnesses whose testimony has teen been heard In sermon sonG in exhortation and anecdote loud louder er anti and clearer titan than that ot of any othet representatives ot of the ot of this thit can tury They Tiley dr both gone cone Dwight IJo T Moody Mood was born In Mass ot of February 1831 1537 Ills early education tion was that ot of ho average country lad at th that t time In he went to Chicago and became Interested In mla mis missionary work ork During the war he was WIlS employed to do mIssionary cervice er vice Iee shortlY before and tar duro Ing the war with Spain ho was ory ery active It was os his firm rm conviction that revivals nearly nearl always precede gr great at calamities and his observations ot of life lICe seemed to justify this The Chicago fire In 1871 took place In Inthe intire tire the midst ot of II a revival Mr Moody I used to say that ho he committed n a tern tile ble mistake at that time when ono one evening he told his audience to consid consider er until next day whether they would aCre orve the Lord tord or not The next day da Chicago was a smokIng ruin and some somer ot r his audIence had hod already been hurled Into nto eternity Mr Moody loodY obtained his greatest tamo famo famon In n 1873 when ho called to go tot London to start n a revival there In company with Ira D Sankey Sonke he visited England Scotland and Ireland and andreat reat d much religious Moody was n a unique character lie Ho tad had no conception apparently ot of n a church hurch with a divinely Instituted or or officers officer having divine dIvino Duthe But he was deeply m pressed with the reality ot of eternity and with tire the awful consequences ot of sin hero herond and nd hereafter lie Ho appealed to 0 his with nU all the fervor nt burnIng zeal zeat ot of a preacher ot of I to nee flee from the wrath to come Figures like those ot of Spurgeon nd Moody are exceptional In Q a world i or If levity doubt and When they disappear there Is some something thing bing missing and the vacuum cannot be to filled by Imitators Moody was Its ils tar far as ho he had light HIs trill bo be ample The world will egret his absence I |
