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In downtown Boston, MA, you can see where Dwight L. Moody was saved. Two years later found him in Chicago.

When he wasn’t selling shoes, he ran a Sunday School class in an old saloon in a slum called The Sands, or Little Hell. In spite of his lack of education, he tried to teach the young children. He told an onlooker, “Reynolds, I have got only one talent: I have no education, but I love the Lord Jesus Christ, and I want to do something for him, and I want you to pray for me.”

In 1860, president-elect Abraham Lincoln stopped by Moody’s Sunday School, and told the children:

I was once as poor as any boy in this school, but I am now President of the United States, and if you attend to what is taught you here, some of you may yet be President of the United States.

Moody started the Northfield Schools in Massachusetts. He went after the McCormick family (of the Reaper fame) to invest in his Chicago Evangelisation Society to train Christian workers to minister in the slums. On February 5th, 1887, the CES opened, which after Moody’s death was renamed Moody Bible Institute. The Moody Museum at MBI is located in Smith Hall on the first floor.

While you’re in Chicago, head over to Wheaton and you’ll find more artifacts about Mr. Moody.

 

Featured Image Credit: Cooke, Tony, and Tony Cooke. “Visit to D. L. Moody Museum.” Tony Cooke Ministries | Articles for Church Leaders | Ministry & Leadership Resources, 16 Oct. 2023, tonycooke.org/articles-by-tony-cooke/visit-to-d-l-moody-museum.

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